News archive for 20th June 2017

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Music education must be properly funded | Letters - Guardian FE champion Vince Cable bids for Lib Dem leadership - Times Educational Supplement | TES Africa: How technology is giving hope to millions of African children who have never been to school - Metro DfE ‘must drop’ £5 million inspection funding for faith groups - Schools Week Outrage after schools exclude pupils for refusing to wear blazers during heatwave - Express How tablets transform the classroom - Edmodo UUK outlines priorities as Brexit talks begin - PIE News NFER Trustee recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours list - NFER Keeping up with the Jönses: European mechanisms for evidence-informed policymaking - NFER TEF - Russell Group Capita FHE and Collab Group announce partnership - Collab Group Protest at Darlington College over pay cuts as merger collapses - UCU Six reasons why higher education and local growth have converged - HEFCE Upcoming UK-wide survey on the delivery of funders’ open access policies - HEFCE Grenfell tragedy prompts call for DfE assurances on school fire safety - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 20 June: Dubs scheme, coding, and blazers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now A ‘made in Wales’ approach to education regulation - Wonkhe May ‘drops’ plans to axe free meals for infants from Queen’s Speech - Schools Week ‘Maximum disruption’ criticism of strike picket line planned for enrolment day - FE Week GCSE new grading scale: factsheets - DfE Now that’s what I call an honorary graduate §7 - musical chairs - Wonkhe Teachers’ pension scheme - DfE Teachers' pension scheme payments: 2017 to 2018 - DfE Scottish Government’s education record under fire - Scotsman NUT, FBU , ATL warn Government of current fire risks in schools - NUT #GreenforGrenfell - wear something green on Friday to fundraise for victims of the disaster - NAHT A round-up of SBM conference 2017 - NAHT Strike at University of Leeds over new sacking rules - UCU MP and former Manchester Metropolitan student says university must halt redundancies - UCU David Laws: Government would struggle to drop funding formula - Times Educational Supplement | TES Challenge the impossible in the North West - Teach First The geeks are inherent at birth: older men have geekier sons, study finds - Guardian Exam board Edexcel launches investigation into alleged leak of economics A-level paper - Times Educational Supplement | TES School-based research organisation EEF 'held back by dangerous reliance on research companies' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Religious organisations are being paid to inspect their own schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES How a smack of jellyfish helped win a £5,000 book prize - BBC Jeremy Corbyn’s shock general election success driven by high young voter turn-out - Huffington Post Unions demand ‘urgent reassurances’ on school fire safety after Grenfell blaze - Schools Week 'Just 15 minutes of your time could change the FE sector' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools turn to teachers and snub DfE for education technology advice, survey finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unions call for 'urgent' clarity on fire-proof cladding and sprinklers in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Degree apprenticeship for police constables launches - Times Educational Supplement | TES Last few days to book for our conference on international approaches - Nursery World Higher education students not prepared for digital workplace - Jisc Tracking what your students really think about your organisation’s digital environment - Jisc Pupils lack information about alternative routes through higher education, teachers warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Does enjoyment go down as achievement goes up? Findings from TIMSS on how pupil attitudes to maths and science have changed over 20 years - IOE London Blog USA: Funding cuts pit US university leaders against states - Times Higher Education | THE Defiant pupils who refused to wear blazers in 30C heat 'sent home for breaching school uniform policy' - Mirror New Zealand: No classrooms, lessons or homework: New Zealand school where children are free to roam - Guardian Manifesto promises must deliver for early years - Voice ‘We’re told we’re anti-Welsh bigots and fascists’ – the storm over Welsh-only schools - Guardian You messed with schools, Theresa May, so you messed with half the electorate | Laura McInerney - Guardian Poll finds public support for music school at old Royal High - Scotsman Universities are failing to equip enough students with digital skills - Wonkhe Connecting the dots: How digital credentials can bridge UK’s soft skills gap - FE News NUT staff at London school to strike outside DfE - Schools Week Staff cuts a 'large cross to bear', say stressed school business managers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding 'precipice' warning as DfE picketed over school where third of teachers quit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ireland: Coding on the curriculum as education goes digital - Times Scotland: Colleges Scotland spent £1,000 a week on PR during row with union - Times Scotland: Teacher-training charity Teach First defends itself against Scots sceptics - Times Good news if Theresa May is forced to ditch grammar schools - Times Girls left out of ‘techno-nerd’ computer science revolution - Times Oxford’s fine fiddle for Aleppo violinist Aboud Kaplo - Times