News archive for 19th June 2017

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University of Dundee to fight epidemic of addictive drugs - Scotsman Grammar schools, the DUP and the West Lothian question | Letters - Guardian The self-serving myths peddled by selective and private schools | Letters - Guardian Sprinklers in schools: Has the expectation been downgraded? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Investigation: Only 1 in 3 new schools has sprinklers – and ‘expectation’ to fit them due to be removed from DfE policy - Schools Week Calls for IT qualification to be saved as computing take-up stalls - Schools Week Instructus Skills are reviewing the Interpreting National Occupational Standards (NOS) - Skills CFA Why should I care about the teaching excellence framework? – explainer - Guardian Private equity firm pay £700 million for major provider - FE Week Two ETF trustees awarded OBEs in Queen’s Birthday Honours list - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Talking Teaching: Becoming a HEA Principal Fellow – by Professor Martin Weller - HEA Children's rights expert made dame in birthday honours - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Undergraduate degrees are not the only pathway through higher education, but awareness of other routes is lacking - UCAS DfE monthly workforce management information: 2017 to 2018 - DfE DfE: monthly workforce management information - DfE Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in schools - DfE Academy conversion: important dates - DfE FE data library: apprenticeship vacancies archive - Education & Skills Funding Agency FE data library: apprenticeship vacancies - Education & Skills Funding Agency Conference to explore gender and physical education - Leeds Beckett University Ofsted’s consultation on short inspections of good schools - NAHT TAs, teachers and training are all at risk from battered school budgets, warn school business professionals - NAHT Former vice president of NAHT Colm Davis to receive an OBE - NAHT Moving on up? What the Social Mobility Barometer means for UK higher education - HEPI Short inspections change would put schools on the front foot - ASCL Brexit negotiations - Russell Group Manchester Metropolitan University strikes over jobs cuts this week - UCU Protests at Birmingham Metropolitan College over job cuts - UCU The trials of evidence-based education - Education Media Centre | EMC Queen's Birthday Honours 2017: Full list of great and the good awarded for services to their country - Mirror Students praise LSE LIFE as it celebrates its first year - London School of Economics | LSE Rise in young people using smartphones leads to ‘safe WiFi’ symbol awareness campaign - FE News Double US win in prestigious Carnegie and Kate Greenaway book awards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Historic violin lent by Oxford University to Syrian refugee - BBC The (real)ity of life after university - Huffington Post Working on networking - Unionlearn Talking terrorism - BBC Syria / Germany: What Nujeen Mustafa did next: 'As a refugee I feel I'm in a constant test' - Guardian Nursery owners recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours - Nursery World DfE blames lack of resources for loans figures suspension - FE Week Colleges, employers and boroughs take action to tackle London’s Skills Crisis - FE News Leeds conference to shape national agenda on mental health in schools - Leeds Beckett University Academics fear the value of knowledge for its own sake is diminishing - The Conversation Carnegie and Kate Greenaway children's book award winners about to be revealed (video) - Times Educational Supplement | TES David Russell discusses the deregulation of FE teaching qualifications - FE News Apprenticeship vacancy adverts plummet in May - FE Week University of East Anglia data leak sees hundreds emailed about students’ mental health issues - Huffington Post Brian Monteith: Our children paying price for SNP failures - Scotsman Why not put music at the heart of education | Stephen Moss - Guardian Ofsted review highlights urgent quality improvement at employer providers, says Mesma - FE News Exam standards need standardisation - Times Higher Education | THE Strong and stable apprenticeships that are for the many and not for the few - FE News LEO shows how graduate pay has been squeezed - Wonkhe A beginner’s guide to the Teaching Excellence Framework - Wonkhe £1.3m to expand school computer coding clubs in Wales - BBC Music project will help disadvantaged children in Scotland - Scotsman Should we base education policy on evidence or values? - Schools Week Small sixth forms are no longer viable - FE Week Teacher interventions in pupil fights cost thousands in compensation - Schools Week ‘No marking, no planning’ – could this be the best teaching job ever? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Computing in schools - alarm bells over England's classes - BBC Ofstedwatch: the latest Ofsted reports for FE and skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Get on with Brexit talks, plead Russell Group academics - Times Motion for schools to favour clergy - Times Schools are failing adopted children, says charity chief - Times Ofsted ITE inspection clarification - UCET