News archive for 23rd January 2017

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New Start: @TeacherHead - Headguruteacher DfE says £3bn savings for schools 'doable' without larger class sizes - Guardian Catholic school prompts uniform row by banning Muslim girl from wearing a headscarf - Telegraph National Apprenticeship Awards 2016: Meet the winners - FE Week Top DfE civil servant says schools can make savings without harming performance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching apprenticeship will be ready ‘within two years’ - Schools Week Rhodes Must Fall activist accepts £40,000 Rhodes bursary to study at Oxford - Telegraph Britain's universities must change to survive. Higher education reform is the way forward - Telegraph ‘I’ve cut teaching to the bare bones’ – heads tell MPs of agonising cuts - Schools Week Institutes of Technology are the right idea; now we must make sure they deliver - FE Week More post-16 free schools planned to aid maths A-level take-up - Schools Week Esol funding falls by £100m - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student nurse horror stories: the reality of working within an NHS stretched to breaking point - Telegraph Why sex and relationships education needs to become compulsory in all schools - Telegraph Oxford University to face landmark trial over Faiz Siddiqui’s ‘appallingly bad’ teaching allegations - Huffington Post Oxford Theological College Wycliffe Hall denies it told students to use gender neutral pronouns for God - Huffington Post Awards, Hockey sticks and the end of the Age of Innocence - FE News Could our obsession with exams lead to long term failure? - Telegraph The future is online - FE News Industrial strategy green paper explains plan for Institutes of Technology ‘in all areas’ - FE Week RateMyApprenticeship launches Top 70 School Leaver Employers Table 2017 - FE News Staff achievements celebrated at annual B&FC awards - FE News OneFile is recognised as a Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer - FE News Fewer than two in five teachers can get help for pupils' mental health problems - Times Educational Supplement | TES The NUS’ survey boycott is rash and destructive – it should reconsider or risk betraying its members - Telegraph Do I need to go to a good university? - Huffington Post Don't forget that some of the best training takes place in the workplace, government told - Times Educational Supplement | TES New Industrial Strategy Green Paper to provide £170M in new Government funding for Institutes of Technology - FE News Theresa May to launch £170 Million technical schools for teens who don’t go to university - Huffington Post How our school is using Virtual Reality to prepare pupils for a future dominated by technology  - Telegraph Scottish sector warns of funding gap - Nursery World Overseas investors turn UK nurseries into hot property - Nursery World Digital Apprenticeship Service will go live in February - FE Week Schools facing 'unsustainable' costs, say head teachers - PoliticsHome Schools face financial ‘breaking point’, as government cuts bite - Independent Theresa May to seek new ‘credible alternative’ to universities - Times Higher Education | THE UKIP on HE today is less nostalgic but still dangerous - Wonkhe Prudence and privilege in the HE Bill debate - Wonkhe Financial sustainability of schools discussed - UK Parliament Residential special schools and colleges: a call for evidence - DfE Apprenticeship funding: how it will work - DfE Post-16 maths participation: 2014 to 2015 - DfE Views sought ahead of review into residential special education - DfE Adult education budget: funding rates and formula 2017 to 2018 - SFA SFA funding claims - SFA SFA: funding rates and formula - SFA UCAS responds to the launch of the Industrial Strategy green paper - UCAS The ancient argument, royal charters and universities - Wonkhe Recreating the American dream: wealth creation for the 21st century - HEPI UCU response to government technical education plans - UCU Free EAL Assessment Framework for Schools - NAHT How schools can save money on new computer equipment - NAHT Education Endowment Foundation: Making the best use of teaching assistants - NAHT Promise on 25 pupil limit on infant class size broken - NASUWT London's further education diversity gap - AoC | Association of Colleges The big funding question …. Will we be better off or will we be worse off with the government’s new proposals for a National Funding Formula? | Sally Hamson - Headteachers' Roundtable MillionPlus responds to the launch of the modern Industrial Strategy Green Paper - MillionPlus The industrial strategy and universities - Universities UK The industrial strategy and universities - Universities UK Industrial Strategy Green Paper 2017 - Russell Group Claim our college - Voice Too much damage has been done to pastoral care and support for children - ATL Initial AELP response to Industrial Strategy - AELP What are Institutes of Technology and how could they work? - Wonkhe Lenehan review of experiences and outcomes in Residential Special schools and colleges - NAHT NUT Cymru response to class size investment - NUT Ofsted reports require improvement - FE Week Movers and Shakers: Edition 196 - FE Week Kenya's tech startups trial digital classrooms in drive for literacy - Guardian New £36m fund aims to reduce infant class sizes and raise education standards - Wales Online Excellence...I know it when I see it - HEA Policy Exchange welcomes Government’s Industrial Strategy - Policy Exchange Scottish universities left short after catalogue of blunders at funding body - Herald Scotland Internal inquiry highlight errors and confusion at heart of Scottish Funding Council - Herald Scotland School budgets near breaking point, say head teachers - BBC Maria Miller: Brexit hindering compulsory sex education plans - Guardian Heads claim school budgets will be ‘untenable’ in two years’ time - Schools Week School budgets will be 'unsustainable' by 2019, warn heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES AELP Parliamentary Newsletter #22 - AELP