News archive for 25th January 2017

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School funding 'crisis' warning - BBC EU applications for UK university places down 7%, MPs told - Guardian Tory MPs grill education secretary Justine Greening over school funding plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES College funding cuts 'causing big holes' in effort to widen access to education - Herald Scotland SFA forced to delay publication of 2015/16 achievement rates as “technical issues” ongoing - FE Week College placements for trainee teachers 'could boost recruitment' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Industrial strategy? FE needs proper funding - FE Week Why high flyers are swapping the boardroom for the classroom - Guardian Brexit exodus: EU academics 'already pulling out' of UK universities, MPs warned - Independent One in ten nursery schools facing closure, hears APPG - Nursery World Mayor of London introduces childcare loans and urges employers to follow - Nursery World Rankings direct US postgraduates’ UK study choices - PIE News How schools can make the most of their 'digital champions' - Times Educational Supplement | TES TEF provides opportunity to rebalance relationship between HE teaching and research, HEA-HEPI seminar hears - HEA Nicola Sturgeon praises Scottish universities’ internationalism - Times Higher Education | THE Students 'given dose equivalent to 300 coffees' in botched test - Guardian First Minister launches campaign to welcome international students to Scotland - Herald Scotland Grammar schools could ask parents for ‘hundreds of pounds a year’ due to budget cuts, say headteachers - Huffington Post 'Learner number' suggested to better track children's education - Herald Scotland Cardiff medical school 'blacking up' play 'led to feeling of segregation' - Guardian World-class universities project faces steep cuts - University World News Skilling up young people for the future - Huffington Post Cardiff University race review reveals segregation and ‘rugby culture’ after student ‘blacks up’ for play - Huffington Post Grammar schools may ask parents for donations to cover funding cuts - Guardian Ministers review incentives and consider ‘toughening Ofsted’ over school career advice - Schools Week Number 10 appoints former teacher as head of education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Debts of £4.5m threaten future of academy trust sponsored by grammar school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why teachers in London’s most diverse schools believe Brexit threatens British values - IOE London Blog Parents: are you worried your local nursery school might close? | Rachel Obordo - Guardian Russell Hobby to step down as NAHT general secretary - Schools Week Russell Hobby to stand down as NAHT general secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Loans, scholarships and grants: how to pay for your postgrad degree - Guardian Grammar schools may ask parents for cash to plug funding shortfalls - Times Educational Supplement | TES Northumbria University to be sentenced over caffeine experiment that left students in intensive care - Huffington Post Grammar schools could ask parents for up to £40 a month to make up funding shortfalls - Telegraph Register of training organisations - SFA SFA: register of training organisations - SFA Qualifications: eligible for public funding - SFA SFA update: January 2017 - SFA LRS: web services for management information system developers - SFA Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - SFA UCAS publishes 2016 data for individual universities - UCAS Brexit impact on higher education: UCL hosts Education Committee session - UK Parliament MPs debate prisons and school funding - UK Parliament UCU tells MPs that Brexit and anti-immigration rhetoric are damaging UK higher education - UCU School funding debate - NUT Children with speech and language difficulties not getting the support they need, says NAHT - NAHT Public Accounts Committee on the sustainability of school funding - NAHT School budgets are becoming unsustainable, say school leaders - NAHT Number of Scots in further education falls by 150,000 - Scotsman Schools offered free diabetes resources - SecEd Just one piece of fruit and vegetables a day - SecEd Schools will be included in plans for public sector Apprenticeships - SecEd Statutory PSHE Bill falls victim to ‘filibustering’ in House of Commons debate - SecEd Researchers propose 'Goldilocks' theory for amount of screen-time - SecEd Opportunity areas – more details emerge - SecEd Funding crisis: The number of schools running deficits doubles in just one year - SecEd Warning! Treat new Progress 8 league tables with caution... - SecEd Pupils must receive three specific types of work-related learning, research reveals - SecEd Wanted urgently: Around 6,800 more examiners - SecEd Police were called after a medical student blacked up to impersonate a lecturer - Wales Online It all started with puppy rooms… - Wonkhe Grammar schools 'may ask parents for hundreds of pounds a year' - BBC College courses falling short of tough new gender equality targets - Herald Scotland School walking bus tackles lateness and absenteeism - BBC South African e-learning to reach excluded - BBC Middle and low attainers at GCSE perform worse under a grammar school system, study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities reject medals scheme for teaching - Times The journeyman years still happen for 35 traditional German trades - Times The big four in pursuit of potential - Times Swap classrooms for a boat and start on £31k - Times More high-level apprenticeships are on their way - Times Why university isn’t always the answer - Times The lowdown on starting out as a higher apprentice - Times The rise and fall and rise again of apprenticeships since 1563 - Times