News archive for 20th January 2017

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Eton College seeks to hire clinical psychologist to toughen up boys with resilience programme - Telegraph One in five students regret their choice of university, new study shows  - Telegraph Funding cuts, Progress 8 and ed tech – the TES podcast - Times Educational Supplement | TES In this week's TES Further: Why struggling colleges should come out fighting - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cheshire East schools 'could face four-day week' - BBC Forty per cent of small rural schools set to lose funding under new formula, official figures show - Telegraph The Guardian view on education: it’s not all in the genes - Guardian Kings College London admits to monitoring its students's emails in bid to root out potential extremists - Telegraph China: officials announce plans for 16 new top universities - University World News MPs 'filibuster' proposal to make PSHE compulsory in all state schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are career colleges working two and a half years on? - FE Week Minister Halfon pays a visit to London's first ever career college - FE Week South Korea tops the charts in research and development - University World News Lords call for ban on 'contract cheating' - University World News Brexit studies centre opens at Birmingham university - University World News Egypt: two universities start religion-blind admissions - University World News Africa: education institutions to adopt villages for development - University World News Examiner awards scheme launched to lure teachers amid growing demand - Schools Week Examiner awards scheme launched to lure teachers amid growing demand - Schools Week Suicide attack hits University of Maiduguri - University World News Minister Halfon pays a visit to London’s first ever career college - FE Week Digital arts take centre stage - Guardian Online courses: your passport to a new career - Guardian Dickens degrees: a tale of two cities - Guardian This year's exam results shows girls' schools are producing pupils who aim for the sky - Telegraph Bomb squads perform almost 600 controlled explosions at schools due to ‘dangerous’ chemical - Huffington Post Kenya: massive audit set to shake up universities - University World News Ofsted watch: Two grade crash to inadequate for independent training providers - FE Week What’s a postgrad worth to employers? - Guardian Kenya: drop in student numbers rattles private universities - University World News Research guild calls for radical improvements to H2020 - University World News Do foreign universities just serve the global elite? - University World News The next big thing in HE country groupings? - University World News Gove slams Scotland's 'dumbed-down' school system - Times Educational Supplement | TES A new way of planning international student recruitment - University World News It’s official: Schools to employ apprentices, but BBC and Parliament let off - Schools Week It’s official: Schools to employ apprentices, but BBC and Parliament let off - Schools Week The challenge academic libraries face in an era of fake news - University World News USA: 'uncharted waters' for higher education in Trump era - University World News London university tells students their emails may be monitored - Guardian Thousands of teachers needed to mark new GCSEs and A-levels, says report - BBC Government to create 200,000 new apprenticeships - Telegraph ‘Zero’ black academics employed by UK universities for top management roles, figures reveal - Huffington Post Teachers lack training to keep pupils safe from online radicalisation and exploitation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Seven thousand more markers 'needed to cope with exam reforms' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 20 most influential people in education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Concerns over Institute for Apprenticeships readiness justified - FE Week Red flags, rulers and ropes: creative approaches to teaching gender equality - Guardian Ofqual to discuss conflict-of-interest concerns with NSAFD organisation - FE Week The Government has put teachers back in charge – what should we do with this freedom? - Telegraph Thousands could miss out on free childcare, warns lobby group - BBC ‘Shambles’ IfA on course to launch with temporary leadership - FE Week The Institute for Apprenticeships is a shambles - FE Week Thousands of apprentices set to transform the public sector - FE News Underestimate of eligible parents could cause 30-hour 'capacity crisis' - Nursery World DfE 'underestimating' demand for 30-hour places by 100,000 - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Why changes to the local health economy matter for universities - HEFCE Facilitator role for HEA in sector-led project to strengthen UK HE external examining - HEA Six more social mobility opportunity areas announced - Nursery World £50m development pot shared out - Nursery World Apprenticeship training agencies - SFA Apprenticeship standards: list of occupations available - SFA Education Development Trust sponsors the Education World Forum - Education Development Trust | EDT New programme to develop employer partnerships - AoC | Association of Colleges US PE firm invests £120m in UK student housing - PIE News China eases post-study work for foreign graduates - PIE News Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 20 January 2017 - Pearson National Apprenticeship Awards 2016 winners announced - SFA Apprenticeship standards: list of occupations available - SFA Apprenticeship standards - SFA Apprenticeship training agencies - SFA Thousands of apprentices set to transform the public sector - DfE School workforce planning - DfE Schools financial health and efficiency - DfE Convert to an academy: guide for sixth-form colleges - DfE Week in news: 20 January 2017 - UCU Breaking Point: A report of the school funding crisis in 2016/17 - NAHT All eyes on tonight’s National Apprenticeships Awards - FE Week NASUWT comments on GTCS subscription hike - NASUWT NASUWT President celebrates second year of Jersey education partnership - NASUWT Fair funding for colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges “Every school has different challenges”; united by funding pressures? | Vic Goddard - Headteachers' Roundtable Why my friend’s dog will never be Professor of Economics at Oxford, and other problems with TEF - Wonkhe Compulsory schools sponsorship must not distract from effective widening access efforts - Wonkhe Breaking the class ceiling - Conor's Commentary I'm an academic but I took a corporate job. Should I be ashamed? - Guardian At least 1,100 small rural schools facing cuts despite minsters' funding protection pledge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Revealed: ‘Paused’ academy trusts are ducking their ban - Schools Week Academy chain leader ‘won’t rule out’ expansion of grammar streams - Schools Week Grammars profit from sales of ‘mock’ 11-plus exams - Schools Week New boss at England's biggest academy chain to consider converting schools to grammars - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free childcare plan faces places pinch, warns lobby group - BBC Schools may try to 'lose' vulnerable pupils because of Progress 8 - Times Educational Supplement | TES It’s official: public sector apprenticeships target set at 2.3 per cent - FE Week School consultation spotlights detractors and the confused - Herald Scotland Halfon unveils 200k public sector apprenticeships target - Times Educational Supplement | TES First sixth-form college to reopen as academy within weeks - Times Educational Supplement | TES