News archive for 12th June 2017

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How to develop an apprenticeship standard: guide for trailblazers - FE News Two new ministers appointed as DfE team takes shape; Lord Nash stays - Times Educational Supplement | TES KS1 moderation: Delay in scaled score conversion tables - NAHT Register for your free CPR kit - British Heart Foundation - NAHT UVAC HEI/Employer contract – event slides & template available - UVAC The DUP in power: What it means for UK universities - HEPI LRS: schedule for uploading ILR/NPD achievement data - Education & Skills Funding Agency Nick Gibb - the minister behind Spag tests and harder Sats - reappointed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nick Gibb stays as schools minister in May reshuffle - Schools Week Who gets the skills post? Two junior ministerial appointments confirmed - FE Week Two new education ministers in May reshuffle - Schools Week Oxford University dons lose new vote over retirement age - BBC A-levels online quiz: Can you pass the test? - Express Don't call students 'genius' because word is associated with men, Cambridge lecturers told - Telegraph More students are dropping out of university because of mental health problems - The Conversation Halfon loses apprenticeships and skills ministerial role in reshuffle - FE Week Lilac Sky Academy Trust 's catalogue of 'irregularities' - BBC Nearly half of public don't know whether parents should back teachers or pupils over misbehaviour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge students 'missing periods due to stress' - Independent Further blow for grammar schools plan as Ark boss speaks out against selection - Times Educational Supplement | TES AQA English language exam teaches GCSE students an unexpected parenting lesson - Huffington Post Going to university 'could slash risk of heart disease among women' - Express Norway to ban full-face veil in nurseries, schools and universities - BBC Who is Justine Greening and what has she done as Education Secretary? - Independent FE sector welcomes Justine Greening as education secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES School life of gifted pupils subject of new BBC documentary - Times Educational Supplement | TES English college group wins applied engineering Saudi contract - FE Week Rose Gentle to receive Glasgow University honorary degree - BBC Teaching union votes for LGBT to be taught in Scotland’s schools - Scotsman Head teacher pays tribute after girl's death in Cowcaddens - BBC Fashion's class of 2017 – in pictures - Guardian PVI sector's voice not heard on schools forums - Nursery World How to crack the arts as a BME student - Guardian Marketing and student recruitment - what the FE sector can learn from the commercial world - FE News ‘New approach’ called for after principal quits - FE Week Justine Greening retains education role - Nursery World Rose Gentle to receive University of Glasgow degree - Scotsman Barbara Taylor Bradford searches for next generation of literary bestsellers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford University accused of sexism over claim sitting exams at home 'will help close gender gap' - Independent Students voted in droves for policies that offered us a better future - politicians must take heed - Huffington Post More than 47,000 teaching days were lost to stress in Wales last year - Wales Online Schools don’t prepare children for life. Here’s the education they really need | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - Guardian Let’s build on passions unleashed in the election to blast apart the market in schools | Fiona Millar - Guardian A beginner’s guide to Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data - Wonkhe RSCs made key decisions on academy trusts they later joined - Times Educational Supplement | TES BAME teachers need to be ‘endorsed’ by white people to get promotions - Schools Week The virtually impossible task of overturning an Ofsted verdict - Times Educational Supplement | TES Strikes threat returns as colleges say they can’t afford pay deal - Herald Scotland Steve Hewlett scholarships to support students from low-income families - Guardian Call for Holocaust education to be mandatory in Scottish schools - Herald Scotland Nurseries flock to food share scheme - Nursery World Tax-Free childcare costs top £35m - Nursery World SEND fund kicks in - Nursery World Let students take a Rolls-Royce degree - Times Universities must be taught a hard lesson - Times Oxford changes history finals with ‘take-out’ exam - Times Cambridge builds cut‑price housing to lure academics - Times Private schools given £520m tax break - Times Harris Federation academy chief says Theresa May’s grammar school plans are the wrong approach - Times Holiday hunger leads to five-week learning lag - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish teachers set to strike over wages if negotiations fail - Express