News archive for 15th June 2017

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London fire: Survivor sits GCSE day after tower disaster (video) - BBC Education reforms a step in right direction - Scotsman The Welsh Government has ditched its improvement target in the international Pisa test rankings - Wales Online Oxford University’s reputation catches up with Cambridge for first time due to 'positive image' created by appointing first female Vice Chancellor - Telegraph Headteachers win more powers in Scottish schools shake-up - Financial Times Top university under 'ransomware' cyber-attack - BBC Minister expected to oversee relationships education reform opposed same-sex marriage - Schools Week 'Sweeping' new powers for Scottish head teachers - BBC Outrage as national leadership role threatened over discredited 2016 Sats results - Times Educational Supplement | TES What does a no-majority government mean for education? - Schools Week Has the SNP succeeded in ‘dumping the debt’? - Wonkhe Policy and practice in research commercialisation: Forging good partnership agreements - HEFCE Daily roundup 15 June: Social mobility, shotgun case and risk taking - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Autonomy: Sweeping new powers announced for Scottish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers to be handed sweeping powers under new plans - Scotsman Sweeping new powers for headteachers in bid to close attainment gap - Herald Scotland HE leavers and the labour market: some lessons from LEO - HEPI Teenage girl takes GCSE in pyjamas hours after fleeing Grenfell Tower fire with revision notes - Telegraph EPI to host launch event of new OECD early childhood education report - EPI City & Guilds Lion Awards winners announced - FE Week Five steps to getting the right people around the table - ASCL ASCL backs rethink over short inspections - ASCL GCSE entries show bleak state of curriculum - ASCL The school inspection system must be shaped to benefit schools, not administrators, says NAHT - NAHT A message from NAHT regarding the West London fire - NAHT Investment in early years the key to social mobility, says NAHT - NAHT Workload is "unacceptable", say 6 out of 10 primary teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keane Wallis-Bennett FAI: wall ‘could’ have been pushed over - Scotsman Teachers as 'guides': inside the UK’s first Montessori secondary school - Guardian Good practice in research commercialisation: Request for evidence - HEFCE Social mobility barometer exposes pessimism among young people and stark geographical divide - FE News Schools told by Ofqual to expect 'more variability' in exam results this year - Times Educational Supplement | TES 2017 exams: Progress 8 driving drop in languages, and 4 more findings - Schools Week Robert Halfon MP, ‘Champion of working class workers'? - FE News Are you struggling to pay back your student loan? - Guardian Ofsted seeks views on changes to short inspections - Nursery World Participation in adult education continues to fall - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK student loan debt soars to more than £100bn - Guardian Early years minister Dinenage moves to DWP - Nursery World Heads' leaders split over Ofsted changes to short inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why just speaking English isn’t going to cut it anymore - The Conversation Boggle Trump to Trumplestiltskin: Donald inspires new children's slang - Guardian Ann Gravells discusses the impact of deregulation of teaching qualifications in FE & skills - FE News Falls in language and science GCSEs: five key points from today's exam entry figures - Times Educational Supplement | TES AS-level exam entries plunge by 42% after government reforms - Schools Week Beyond growth mindset: two videos. - Headguruteacher Removal of iGCSEs from league tables prompts surge in English GCSE entries - Schools Week Entries to EBacc subjects peak as fewer pupils take creative subjects - Schools Week Emotional wellbeing focus of infant mental health awareness week - Nursery World Half of Britain’s prisoners are functionally illiterate. Can fellow inmates change that? - Guardian Delayed 2015/16 provider achievement rate tables published - FE Week Ofsted reveals plan to give schools up to 15 days’ notice of inspections - Schools Week What should I consider when buying a laptop for university? - Guardian It's official! Anne Milton confirmed as the new Skills Minister - FE News Social mobility barometer poll - Social Mobility Commission Poll: half of Brits believe background determines success - Social Mobility Commission 'Trump' children's word of the year - BBC Improving teaching and learning: Are we asking the wrong question? - FE News Young deeply pessimistic about social mobility, survey says - BBC Councils fire opening salvo in battle over future of schools - Herald Scotland More than half of skilled workers may leave UK before Brexit, research suggests - City AM ‘Trump’ announced as children’s word of the year - Times Young people feel social mobility is getting worse but think education will improve - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Trump' is children's word of the year, analysis shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sir Peter Lampl responds to the Social Mobility Commission’s Social Mobility Barometer - Sutton Trust NCTL: Teacher Bulletin (June 2017) - UCET