News archive for 30th January 2017

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Trumpism and universities - Advantage China? - University World News Trump's travel ban orders will harm US high education - University World News NCS 'will not proactively recruit' 18- to 25-year-olds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Education Minister launches UCL and Arsenal literacy initiative - IOE London Blog Free consultancy support for principals, CEOs and leaders - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Childminders feeling the heat over the 30-hour childcare offer - Nursery World New debate over UKRI’s remit gives universities an opportunity - Wonkhe Vocational education should not be removed from other pathways - Wonkhe US educators rush to reassure students, faculty in wake of Trump’s immigration ban - PIE News Parents could be criminalised for keeping sick children off school, father to argue at Supreme Court case over term-time holidays - Telegraph John Blake appointed education chief at Policy Exchange - Schools Week UCU general secretary Sally Hunt to speak at Downing Street Trump travel ban protest - UCU UCU statement on Trump executive order banning travellers to US - UCU Physical and verbal attacks on teachers cause union concern - NUT Making a difference for autistic girls and women - NAHT NASUWT members to start second wave of rolling strike action - NASUWT What’s happening to Functional Skills? - ATL Apprentice welcome letter - SFA Education Secretary visit to Arsenal football club - DfE Target of 3 million apprenticeships and new funding system risk poor value for money - FE News Former NUT activist is new education chief at Gove thinktank - Times Educational Supplement | TES Detention director sought to bring 'tough love' to the classroom - Telegraph Primary school encourages students to wear slippers in lessons in bid to improve grades  - Telegraph Teachers call for the government to #BaccDown over the EBacc - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should academics boycott Donald Trump's America? - Guardian Institute for Apprenticeships silent on learning difficulties and disabilities - FE Week Harvard-bound sisters stranded in London by Trump ban - Financial Times Plans for controversial 'blended learning' academy thrown out by councillors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poor careers advice due to spending decisions by school leaders, skills minister claims - Schools Week Health or education? The daily dilemmas of a student with sickle cell anaemia - Guardian Apprenticeship funding rule requiring 20 per cent off-the-job training ‘not going away’ - FE Week Improving happiness levels for socially excluded young people - Huffington Post UCAS' response to the recommendations contained in the Sector Agency Review - UCAS Why I'm grateful I was a loser at school - Huffington Post Why university students need support now more than ever - Huffington Post Teenager: So lonely 'I wanted to die' - BBC Considering a year abroad? Here's what you should know - Huffington Post #LiteracyWorks campaign launches today - Unionlearn Halfon: Careers advice at colleges ‘state of the art’ but schools not good enough - FE Week Tory MPs rebel over cash for rural schools - Telegraph Michaela School advertises for 'tough love' detention role - BBC Unionlearn launches #LiteracyWorks - FE News What you need to know about the curriculum reform - FE News Oxford University leads Europe for $1bn business start-ups - Telegraph Latest school league tables show where you live affects your child’s education - The Conversation Parent anger over Daventry UTC closure - FE Week 'Alarming' number of teacher attacks, NUT Cymru says - BBC Extra time in schools for 'poor children' would 'cut inequality’ - Herald Scotland Businesses get the lowdown on Apprenticeship Levy and funding reforms - FE News We are failing poorer students – school careers advice must step up - Guardian Lord Storey: 'Lifesaving' defibrillators in schools must be a legal requirement - PoliticsHome Treasury withdraws money for schools - NUT Training provision must adapt to demand - FE Week Vocational education in an advanced economy should not be removed from other pathways - Wonkhe Accounts Watch: Academy trust chief gets £85,000 severance pay-out - Schools Week EFA paid £16m for £5m Hackney free school site - Schools Week 'Unreliable' Sats data used to deny teachers pay rises - Times Educational Supplement | TES Councils accuse ministers of undermining apprenticeships in row over £25m fund - Herald Scotland