News archive for 13th June 2017

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Scottish teachers at ‘breaking point’ over workload hike - Scotsman The Guardian view on public sector staff shortages: losing the numbers | Editorial - Guardian Open University overhaul risks job cuts - BBC Exam board AQA apologises after error in A-level chemistry exam - Times Educational Supplement | TES Biology A-level students mark down exam board after yet another error - Guardian I’m determined to make the education system in Wales a source of national pride - ATL What part should schools play in encouraging pupils to engage with politics? - ATL Education and childcare must not be pushed down the political agenda to 'any other business' - Voice It's more important than ever to be in a union - Voice LEO data - Russell Group General election - Russell Group What does the Longitudinal Education Outcomes data tell us? - Universities UK ASCL Code of Ethics Project: What values may be assumed in an evolutionary system? - ASCL Comment on new graduate employment and earnings statistics - Universities UK What school leaders took away from Inspiring Leadership 2017 - NAHT Ofsted publishes updated complaints guidance - NAHT Phonics check risks distorting learning, says NAHT - NAHT General Election 2017: school funding issue struck a chord with voters - NAHT NUT comment on super broadband investment - NUT Greater strategic oversight of school places is needed, says NAHT - NAHT NUT very proud to have Amanda Brown elected onto ILO’s governing body - NUT Protest at Darlington College in row over pay cuts - UCU Union says Open University must come clean over future plans - UCU Graduate data highlights problems with the Teaching Excellence Framework, says UCU - UCU From Jexit to Jemain – Jo Johnson stays as universities minister - Wonkhe Real internationalisation: thoughts after the gold rush - Wonkhe ESFA: early termination of funding agreement - list of organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies accounts direction - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Performance tables: approved qualifications and discount codes - DfE Secondary and primary school applications and offers: 2017 - DfE Graduate outcomes for all subjects by university - DfE Statistics: school applications - DfE Statistics: higher education graduate employment and earnings - DfE Women should study English to earn more than men, official data shows - Telegraph Who is Anne Milton? 11 facts about the new skills minister - FE Week Four things schools can do to help tackle extremism and radicalisation - The Conversation Anne Milton announced as the new Skills Minister - FE News Proportion of children missing out on first choice secondary school highest since start of decade - Telegraph Anne Milton to be new skills minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish university's controversial New York campus plan secures provisional licence - Herald Scotland New Deputy Chief Executive appointed - AoC | Association of Colleges Ireland: social class a powerful influence on student immobility - PIE News New minister for apprenticeships and skills revealed - FE Week Anger as OCR exam board makes third mistake this summer – this time in biology A-level - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lessons earned – winners and losers from LEO - Wonkhe Let’s talk PoLEOtics – Like it or not, graduate salaries matter - Wonkhe Teacher workload said to be worse since John Swinney’s pledge to staff - Herald Scotland Term 'genius' alienates women, says Cambridge lecturer - BBC Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data published - HEFCE Scottish FE minister launches first college improvement programme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Open University jobs at risk in £100m 'root and branch' overhaul - Guardian Higher proportion of pupils fail to get top choice of secondary school - Guardian More than 150,000 children in England denied first choice of school - Independent Rise in proportion of pupils not getting top secondary-school choice - Mail Ministers considering 'all the options' for increasing school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES School places pressure hits secondaries - BBC First outstanding Ofsted rating for FE college in 14 months - FE Week Robert Halfon sacked by Theresa May in reshuffle - Nursery World Ability is the consequence not the cause of what children learn - The Learning Spy USA: Teacher who used stories to tackle gang violence: 'People are fearful of talking about inequality' - Guardian Revision of inspection framework cost providers £12m - Nursery World Edexcel Maths GCSE leaves everyone making the same 420 joke - Huffington Post I shunned studying medicine to become a nurse. Here's why - Guardian Population bulge prompts fall in proportion of pupils receiving first choice secondary place - Times Educational Supplement | TES Robert Halfon sacked as skills minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils less likely to get first choice secondary place as ‘baby bulge’ moves upwards - Schools Week How careers information can direct people to the right training and redirect them to better career options - FE News Cambridge University examiners told it is sexist to use the word 'genius' to describe students - Independent Cambridge University tutors warned not to call students 'geniuses' because word is 'associated with men' - Evening Standard How can universities hang on to their students? - Guardian Young people have spoken: will they be heard over university fees and grants? - Guardian Elite private headteacher: ‘The children we educate will create a fairer society’ - Guardian Ireland: Cuts may force cap on Irish (but not foreign) students - University World News Aidan Smith: Holy mackerel, Batman, kids are being overloaded! - Scotsman Google's opening a huge new tech hub in London for training the UK in digital skills - City AM Hannah Wilson, headteacher of Aureus School - Schools Week Can a mile a day improve your health? (video) - BBC Fresh school building fears over quality of council inspections - Herald Scotland Schoolchildren are more alert and have quicker reaction times in the afternoon - Guardian Pupils more alert in afternoon, study finds - Schools Week Extra £2m to help solve bitter college dispute - Herald Scotland How schools can get excellence back in the curriculum - Times Heriot’s head attacks Scottish curriculum for failure - Times Sleep study suggests literacy lessons should be left until after lunch - Times Educational Supplement | TES