News archive for 26th January 2017

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Scotland’s anti-bullying policy failing, say teachers - Scotsman Rich students 4 times as likely to go to uni as those from poor background - Scotsman The Institute for Apprenticeships board members are announced. Strong employer presence on the board, but no independent training providers represented. - FE News Cable delighted with industrial strategy commitment to adult education - FE Week Girls believe brilliance is a male trait, research into gender stereotypes shows - Guardian Curriculum board review call issued by committee of MSPs - Herald Scotland Apprenticeship Delivery Board – 12 months on - SFA Further education and skills: January 2017 - SFA Statistics: further education and skills - SFA SFA: early termination of funding agreement - list of organisations - SFA FE data library: apprenticeships - SFA Annual report of the Chief Schools Adjudicator for England - DfE Nick Gibb: the evidence in favour of teacher-led instruction - DfE OFFA comment on UCAS data for individual universities - OFFA Lords examines Higher Education and Research Bill - UK Parliament School funding reform: Department for Education questioned - UK Parliament MAC report fails to recognise full-blown teacher recruitment crisis - ASCL UCAS admissions data - 2016 - Russell Group Leading academic calls for schools to be more flexible when setting pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy trust that owes £4.5 million paid PR firm £78,000 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parent co-op nurseries may be the answer to low-cost quality childcare - Nursery World 'Patchy' local offer restricting SEND children's access to childcare - Nursery World UK 'class pay gap' explained - BBC Millennials who chose an apprenticeship over university are just as happy with their lives - IOE London Blog New research uncovers 'class pay gap' in Britain’s professions - IOE London Blog Families with disabled children left in the dark on childcare - Coram Family & Childcare Institute for Apprenticeships appoints first director - FE Week 40,000 people from UK benefitted from Erasmus+ in 2015 - British Council The Sutton Trust responds to the Social Mobility Commission’s research into the class pay gap - Sutton Trust Government to bring in easier immigration route to fill teacher shortages - PoliticsHome The industrial strategy: what does it mean for skills and education? - EPI My advice for other introverts starting uni? - Guardian 'I got locked in the gym at lunch' – what (not) to do when experts visit - Guardian DfE bottom of the class for information request punctuality - Schools Week Universities must do more to tackle the unfair, elitist admissions system - Guardian Dramatic drop in numbers wanting to teach science and technology subjects - Times Educational Supplement | TES LGBTI pupils will have safe space in all Catholic high schools, MSPs told - Herald Scotland Overseas teacher recruitment drive revealed - BBC Sector response to the provisional apprenticeship figures - FE News Science teacher shortage spreads, forcing government to relax immigration restrictions - Independent School admissions inadequately policed, adjudicator warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government on track to hit 3 million apprenticeships target - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hand back school admissions control to councils, says OSA chief - Schools Week Seven out of ten academies operating with financial 'losses', accountants warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Northumbria University students given equivalent of 300 cups of coffee in ‘life-threatening’ caffeine study - Huffington Post Moving toward a better global understanding of literacy - Huffington Post Computing, Mandarin and general science teachers added to official job shortage list - Schools Week Universities monitored your emails long before Prevent - don't believe the NUS's fake news - Telegraph Teacher shortages spread to computing and general science - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship starts rise despite fall in vacancies - FE Week Tech level qualifications and access to HE – a factsheet - UVAC Winners, losers and trends in the last recruitment cycle - Wonkhe The crisis of young carers: ‘Going to school is a break’ - Guardian Science teacher shortage spreads, forcing government to relax immigration restrictions - Independent Families with disabled children 'missing out on childcare' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Majority of young carers take time off school - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Apprenticeships and skills minister called to give priority to lifelong learning - Training Journal SEND pupils losing more than £100m due to funding 'cap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES India's start-ups face recruitment hurdle from universities - BBC Social mobility: Class pay gap found in UK professions - BBC Universities ‘let down’ students from college - Herald Scotland Black students still struggle to win places at UK universities - Guardian Schools should introduce 'grammar stream' for bright students, Ucas chief executive says - Telegraph FE students just as happy as those who go to university, study reveals - Times Educational Supplement | TES The chances of disadvantaged pupils going to Oxbridge and four other key points from new uni admissions stats - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND: Nearly half of speech therapists lack time and resources to support pupils with language disorders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary pupils to be given online lessons as teacher recruitment crisis bites - Herald Scotland Teachers must get out of their ideological rut - Times