News archive for 18th January 2017

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Donald Trump's education pick Betsy DeVos blames "clerical error" for years as VP of anti-LGBT foundation - Independent Labour MP's launch Adult Education campaign to bring back night schools - FE News A university is offering people the chance to be the first ever Lego professor of play - Independent Working class officers to be appointed at Manchester University to represent less well-off students - Huffington Post Lord Nash: Fifth of sixth form colleges have begun official negotiations for acadamy status - FE Week 1 in 5 sixth form colleges starts academy conversion process - Schools Week From dinner lady to head teacher in just nine years - BBC Greening’s £3.5m research hub fund open to ‘opportunity area’ schools - Schools Week University cleaners claim they live in poverty on just £7.20 an hour - Wales Online The Department for Education is seeking experienced industry professionals to help shape the future technical education system - FE News IfA director role like ‘hand grenade with pin removed’, AELP warns - FE Week Billionaire offers biggest education prize - BBC There's trouble with transparency in the UK's academies - Guardian Minister strives to lift student success rate - University World News Five ways Theresa May’s Brexit strategy is terrible for students - Guardian Britons 'should learn Polish, Punjabi and Urdu to boost social cohesion' - Guardian Authorities reopen Axact fake degrees investigation after US arrest - University World News Primary assessment: 5 reforms proposed by experts today - Times Educational Supplement | TES £1.5m to boost nursery staff numbers in deprived areas - Herald Scotland 20,000 pages of advice for teachers largely necessary, says education chief - Herald Scotland Italian school puts cap on foreign students as there is ‘no alternative’ - Express Scrapping primary school levels 'has made teacher training harder' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents left in the dark about education system, MSPs told - Herald Scotland Investigation into University of Sussex lecturer unearths further reports of alleged harassment and sexual abuse - Telegraph Only 1 per cent of parents understand Progress 8, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES If you’re a tech-savvy female student you’re probably being targeted by the security services - Huffington Post Consider scrapping KS2 teacher-marked writing tests, says Ofsted director - Schools Week GetMyFirstJob partners with National Citizen Service to boost young people’s social and professional skills - FE News Is this Hackney nursery the future for London’s childcare industry? - Guardian Former Ofsted chief Wilshaw to work with schools in India - BBC Donald Trump's education secretary pick Betsy DeVos fails to answer basic question about education - Independent The facilitating subjects at A-level – vital if you have aspirations to study at leading universities - Montrose42 The secret university - BBC Sir Michael Wilshaw to advise international schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES End tests for seven-year-olds and bring back Reception baseline assessment, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Implementation of the Prevent duty in the higher education sector in England: 2015-16 - HEFCE Charity calls for compulsory sex and relationships education in Wales - SecEd Resources released to support schools’ involvement with Safer Internet Day - SecEd Number of language teachers in Scotland is down by more than 200 - SecEd Today's students more anxious about life - SecEd Young teens willing to do ‘whatever it takes’ to look good - SecEd Grassroots network focuses on increasing number of Black, Asian and minority ethnic school leaders - SecEd Don’t hide your accents, students tell their teachers - SecEd Mental health pledge welcomed, but funding fears remain strong - SecEd MPs targeted as unions step-up school funding campaign - SecEd Rising 15 to 19 suicide rates spark a focus on self-harm - SecEd ‘Research schools’ planned to boost social mobility - PoliticsHome France attracts 310k int’l students, but may be missing market share - PIE News Strong progress on preventing terrorism - HEFCE ‘Resource pool’ shows the best of outreach in higher education - HEFCE Hundreds of apprentices enter challenge to be best in the country - SFA SFA update: January 2017 - SFA Education Secretary announces 6 new opportunity areas - DfE School census 2016 to 2017: COLLECT term-on-term queries - DfE School census spring 2017: infant class size validation - DfE Earn while you learn with a Dstl Apprenticeship - GOV.UK Primary assessment: accountability measures and impact examined - UK Parliament Pupil confidence high as research shows independent schools' focus on mental toughness - Independent Schools Council | ISC Teacher pay restraints damaging education, say NAHT - NAHT Nominate for the teaching leaders programme - NAHT School funding is in crisis - It's time to take a stand - NAHT Social mobility - NUT NASUWT comments on Education Secretary's speech - NASUWT Sell-out over teachers' pay and conditions at Senedd - NASUWT New school performance system is flawed - ASCL Pupils in independent schools mentally tough, study reveals - GSA Stern times ahead for REF game players - Wonkhe Geoff Barton: Head; Teacher; Leader. Vote #ASCLBarton - Teacherhead Why families and communities hold the key to improving education in Wales - Wales Online Schools put in special measures at ‘top-performing’ WCAT - Schools Week Friends 'key to fewer school dropouts' - BBC 'Research schools' for social mobility zones - BBC Golden idea - BBC Social-media savvy teenage girls targeted for recruitment by security services - Telegraph Private school children are tougher than their state educated peers, study finds - Telegraph Schools in six more areas to get ‘opportunity’ funding - Schools Week College of Teaching officially opens its doors for members - Schools Week Teacher pay: School staff face £3,000 real terms pay cut by 2020 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents are key to academic success, study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government unveils six new 'opportunity areas' to target schools in 'social mobility cold spots' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chartered College of Teaching opens its doors - Times Educational Supplement | TES