News archive for 16th January 2017

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Teacher and Scottish exam board relations ‘near breaking point’ - Scotsman Language exchange trips ‘killed’ off by safeguarding worries and costs - Schools Week Teenager turns Oxford University rejection letter into abstract artwork that goes viral - Telegraph The Guardian view on schools: the cuts are hurting - Guardian Ban unpaid internships that penalise working-class young, say MPs - Guardian Is Theresa May really serious about mental health provision for students?  - Telegraph Parents plan 'days of action' in campaign for more school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Does Oxford have a Celtic culture gap? - Telegraph Future of the French exchange threatened by terrorism and 'increasing bureaucracy' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cash threat to expansion of nursery policy - Herald Scotland Success of BME students limited by lack of diversity among lecturers, claims SOAS student union - Huffington Post Plumbing lecturer saves Moldovan primary pupils from sub-zero temperatures - FE Week The Government is championing new university providers - but where's the evidence to prove they're fit for purpose? - Telegraph 'Shocking' number of children with hidden language difficulties in primary school - Times Educational Supplement | TES School support staff 'tired and stressed' - BBC School staff struggling to keep up standards amid cuts, says union - Herald Scotland Campaign against cuts forcing schools to ask pupils’ parents for cash - Evening Standard Black SOAS students 'uncomfortable being taught by old white professors' - Evening Standard Daily roundup 16 January: Language disorders, school funding, and screen time - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government gives L&D professionals inadequate time to comment on the new IfA - Training Journal Manager and deputy appointed to lead development of second Research Excellence Framework - HEFCE Major new review into children's speech and language - Nursery World ‘Fair funding’ must also mean sufficient funding, say education unions - NUT ILR data: check that it meets standards and quality requirements - SFA Open academies and academy projects in development - DfE Primary school accountability - DfE Why universities (and nearly everyone else) are rubbish at predicting the future - Wonkhe ESHA Conference – Maastricht 2016 - NAHT NAHT releases ‘Breaking Point’ survey of school finances - NAHT School leadership podcast January 2017 - NAHT Year of the Rooster 2017 - NAHT The 2017 Governance Handbook - NAHT ‘Fair funding’ must also mean sufficient funding, say education unions - NAHT Schools short-changed by new funding formula proposals - ASCL Apprenticeship funding bands - SFA This much I know about...the School Funding Crisis and the National Funding Formula. - JohnTomsett How we challenged an Ofsted report and won - FE Week Ministers confirm sugar tax will be ringfenced for school sports - Schools Week Sixth form funding ‘tight’, admits Nick Gibb - Schools Week Funding shake-up risks cuts in most schools, say unions - BBC Education secretary's constituency to lose out in funding changes - Guardian Row over £180,000 posts for Glasgow colleges' board - Herald Scotland Review launched after ‘more than half’ of primary school pupils with language disorders not identified - Schools Week School reforms will divert focus from pupils, say council chiefs - Times Schools set to lose hundreds of pounds per pupil, union research reveals - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Literacy Trust - January 2017 newsletter - UCET