News archive for 28th June 2017

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Scots universities check buildings after Grenfell tragedy - Scotsman HEA launches a new Transnational Education toolkit - HEA Research England is seeking members for its first Council - HEFCE Family and Childcare Trust appoints Chief Executive Ellen Broomé - Coram Family & Childcare 'Double early years pupil premium' to close poverty gap - CYPN | Children & Young People Now NUT, FBU and ATL Call on Government to strengthen fire safety in schools - ATL More needs to be done to improve social mobility, says ATL - ATL ATL comment on Ofsted’s FE and skills inspections and outcomes - ATL Social Mobility Commission - "Time for Change" report - Russell Group Tuition fees architect Andrew Adonis predicts end to university charges - PoliticsHome Qualifications: eligible for public funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA update: June 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Adult education budget funding rules 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - Education & Skills Funding Agency Non-levy apprenticeships growth requests - Education & Skills Funding Agency EYFS learning and development requirements: exemptions for providers - DfE Additional GCSE, AS and A level grounds for appeal - Ofqual 'Employer skills' and 'Employer perspectives' surveys: review - DfE Department for Education reports gender pay gap - DfE Employer perspectives survey 2016 - DfE EYFS learning and development requirements: exemptions for children - DfE Academy chain reprimanded for chief executive's 78 nights at four-star hotel - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers at school in Walsall strike over fears for safety from pupils - Guardian Edexcel apologises to heads over exam leaks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities are checking student accommodation following the Grenfell Tower tragedy - Wales Online Schools in England cut back on teaching hours to save money - Guardian Non-levy apprenticeships growth requests - FE News Fresh fire safety checks on schools urged - BBC ESFA weekly round-up - Issue 360 - FE News Celebrating colleges and their students - AoC | Association of Colleges ASCL comment on Social Mobility Commission report - ASCL NASUWT comments on mental health proposals - NASUWT Ambition School Leadership case study - Becoming a great head teacher - NAHT Primary assessment consultation 2017 - NAHT The Government must lift the public sector pay cap now, says NAHT - NAHT Social mobility - NUT NUT, FBU and ATL call on government to strengthen fire safety in schools - NUT Durand Academy Trust to have funding terminated in 12 months - Schools Week Tory peer questions academic curriculum focus - SecEd UTCs facing key recruitment and accountability problems - SecEd Worrying drop in full-time secondary teachers - SecEd The chaotic swing of the computer science pendulum... - SecEd The Ultimate STEM Challenge 2018 - SecEd Scottish regional reforms under fire - SecEd Trump – as a name, verb or adjective – is word of the year - SecEd Sharp rise in reports of children suffering emotional abuse - SecEd TEF: what does a recent graduate think of the framework? - Times Higher Education | THE AEB contracts extended as tender results delayed further - FE Week Area review ignored as central London set for second mega-college merger - FE Week Advice for law students: how to moot - Guardian Oxbridge 'must do more to recognise potential in poorer applicants', says universities tsar - Independent Schools get right to appeal GCSE and A-level ‘marking errors’ - Schools Week Durand Academy served with formal termination notice - Times Educational Supplement | TES Recipe for confusion concern as IfA seeks up to 150 expert advisers - FE Week Schools to have second chance to challenge GCSE and A-level results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two girls' bid to stop daily prayers in schools wins support of AMs - Wales Online University accommodation across UK investigated over Grenfell cladding fears - BBC Canterbury: 'We made a difference. You don’t have to accept things as they are' - Guardian London junior school fails Ofsted rules because it doesn't teach girls about homosexuality - Express Turkey bans teaching of evolution – but science is more than a belief system - The Conversation Government to review 1% teacher pay cap - Schools Week Students need support in order to build skills for the future - IOE London Blog Primary school attempts to change its name to sever ties with slave trader - Telegraph The new apprenticeship standards: why you should get involved - FE News Confusion over reports that 1 per cent cap on teacher pay rises will be lifted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers at every school in the country to receive special training in mental health issues - Telegraph Social mobility: Call for radical reform on 'divided' Britain - Nursery World 'Time for change' - sector response - FE News Children as young as nine branded 'terrorists' by bullies following UK attacks, Childline reports - Huffington Post Menus to be brought in for early years settings - Nursery World Learndirect : One in ten staff could face redundancy at nation’s largest provider - FE Week Regional growth and universities – a link that's more than academic - Guardian Exam chief's 'profound regret' over A-level leaks - BBC DfE civil servants have a 6 per cent gender pay gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools over four-storeys high to have cladding tests - Schools Week Department for Education discloses gender pay gap - BBC Danemill Primary School proposes lunchtime finish on Fridays to cope with annual budget cuts - Huffington Post Teaching for distinction @OldhamCollege - Headguruteacher Government 'quietly goes back on promise to fund 10,000 new nursing degree places', claim universities - Independent School improvement ‘failing’ at Academy Trust of Melksham, says Ofsted - Schools Week Top DfE civil servant appointed as new East of England RSC - Schools Week School buildings more than four storeys high to undergo cladding checks - Times Educational Supplement | TES A new minister has landed…. - FE News DfE official named as regional schools commissioner for the East of England - Times Educational Supplement | TES Music removed from school's curriculum - BBC Report shows that government policies over the last 20 years have delivered little progress on social mobility in Britain - FE News DfE becomes the first Government department to publish its gender pay gap and bonus pay gap - FE News England's Tory education minister accused of trying to 'demonise' Wales - Wales Online `Hunger for change´, says Social Mobility Commission chairman - Mail Sir Peter Lampl responds to the Social Mobility Commission’s ‘Time for change’ report - Sutton Trust Social mobility policies between 1997 and 2017: time for change - Social Mobility Commission An analysis of 2 decades of efforts to improve social mobility - Social Mobility Commission A brief history of higher education data - Wonkhe John Swinney urges rival parties to back education reform - Scotsman Rise in racial bullying calls to ChildLine after terror attacks - Scotsman Chasing social media shares harms public trust in science - so stop it - Guardian Gap between UK rich and poor widening - Scotsman Strike today at College of North West London - UCU Divisions in society leading to 'sour mood' - BBC Secondary school attainment gap still ‘stubbornly large’, social mobility study finds - Schools Week Progress on social mobility too slow, commission report warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social mobility: radical reform urged to repair divided Britain - Guardian Ofstedwatch: the latest Ofsted reports for FE and skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Near full-scale riot' - BBC GCSE pass levels causing confusion over university entry - BBC Councils fight back over SNP school shake-up - Herald Scotland 'No prospect' of GCSE gap between rich and poor closing, warns damning report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Charity that backs Times Table Rockstars to invest £1m a year in education in the North of England - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hipster parents branch out into ‘green’ learning - Times Fire-risk cladding discovered in hospitals and student halls - Times Uniform headscarves not modest enough, say pupils - Times Families furious as school head in Enderby, Leicestershire, plans to give pupils Friday afternoons off - Times Poor children said to be 40 years behind better‑off classmates - Times Tuition fees are being killed off by university greed - Times