News archive for 13th January 2017

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More than 20,000 university students buying essays and dissertations as Lords call for ban on 'contract cheating' - Telegraph Choppy waters ahead for international student demand - University World News Moderate screen use 'boosts teen wellbeing' - BBC Ofsted watch: Poor start to the year for FE colleges - FE Week How Falmouth University is helping to inspire the next generation of British filmmakers  - Telegraph Amanda Spielman is wrong. Ofsted should never be seen as a 'force for improvement'  - Telegraph These are the hardest degree courses in Wales to get a place on - Wales Online Higher education trends to watch in 2017 - University World News Africa: research excellence - beyond the buzzword - University World News The rise of research universities - University World News Kenya: university commission wins accreditation battle - University World News Fewer higher education students in colleges, new figures show - Times Educational Supplement | TES Halfon denies picture ‘bleak’ for adult education in ‘night school’ debate - FE Week Justice minister opens Timpson’s training academy for female prisoners - FE News North Africa's research universities on the rise - slowly - University World News Halfords open first Training Academy for female prisoners - FE News Africa: students hard-hit by campus closures - University World News Indicators show flagship African universities on rise - University World News Record numbers of students now leave university with top degrees, but employers think it’s irrelevant - Huffington Post Zimbabwe: government funds unlikely to meet campuses needs - University World News Africa: school of law to start year without foreign students - University World News Festschrift - Celebrating a friend and a research field - University World News No easy way out of the higher education 'trilemma' - University World News Binge-watching feeds a home-grown TV revolution - Financial Times Internationalisation in 2017: any room for optimism? - University World News Record number of university students graduate with first-class degrees - Independent Ofsted should be congratulated for admitting its mistake - FE Week Teachers' pay, sex education and Amanda Spielman – the TES podcast - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cap on international student visas could cost UK economy £2bn a year - Independent Numerical GCSE grades create confusion - BBC Vast majority of heads oppose 90 per cent EBacc plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tristram Hunt uses resignation to urge Corbyn to back abolition of GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Increase in free nursery hours at risk, warn Scottish councils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bournemouth University student dies in halls of residence following 'chemical incident' - Huffington Post Bournemouth University student dies in halls of residence following 'chemical incident' - Huffington Post Teachers 'frustrated and angry' as watchdog fee rises - Times Educational Supplement | TES NUS VP caught in undercover sting hits out at 'hatchet job' report - Huffington Post NUS Vice President Richard Brooks caught in undercover sting hits out at 'hatchet job' report - Huffington Post Talking their language: how London's university-school partnerships are helping to tackle the MFL crisis - IOE London Blog Lessons from the A47 (and the university bubble) - Wonkhe Security qualifications fraud 'public safety risk' - BBC Cheats shouldn’t prosper: time to tackle the essay mills - Wonkhe Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 13 January 2017 - Pearson Apprenticeship standards: list of occupations available - SFA Letters to academy trusts about poor performance - DfE Apprenticeship standards in development - SFA Chinese school allows students to borrow marks from 'grade bank' to pass tests - Guardian British University launches UK's first Brexit Studies Centre to examine EU withdrawal - Express Now a quarter of students achieves a first: Proportion getting top degrees up by 8% in just five years - Mail Most parents and students don't understand new numerical GCSE grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government unwilling to take action on qualifications fraud fears - FE Week Revealed: Stark pay gap between teachers and leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Increase in students from US and China boosts Scottish universities - Herald Scotland Tackle qualifications fraud, awarding body tells government - Times Educational Supplement | TES School languages fear as teacher numbers plummet - Herald Scotland Give colleges £90m and we’ll back budget, say Lib Dems - Times Further Forces: ex-soldiers targeted to retrain as FE teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES The £53 million bill for ‘related party transactions’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES