News archive for 3rd March 2017

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'Shocked' staff sent packing as huge apprenticeship training provider goes bust - FE Week Tories call for ‘root and branch’ review of Scottish education - Scotsman Policy Eye: highlights of week ending Friday 3 March 2017 - Pearson Academy chains could establish grammar schools for disadvantaged students, proposals suggest - Telegraph Sex education finally gets an upgrade for the smartphone generation - Financial Times Preliminary hearing held ahead of schoolgirl death probe - Scotsman CPD postcode lottery, a new teaching 'super union' and revision - the TES podcast - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish lecturers vote in favour of strike action - Times Educational Supplement | TES College lecturers back industrial action over lack of progress since pay deal - Herald Scotland David Laws warns of added pressure on schools due to GCSE reforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nursery qualifications U-turn 'huge relief' say campaigners - BBC Muslim Council defends church schools in admissions row - Schools Week Compulsory SRE is a massive step forward for gender equality - Huffington Post University leader advises patience as Trump era dawns - University World News In this week's TES Further: The apprentices working at Windsor Castle - Times Educational Supplement | TES Careers guidance is pushing students down a narrow path before they have chance to explore their options - Telegraph Higher education - the key to greater freedom - University World News South Africa: is higher education for the public good? - University World News Russia: internationalisation of HE must not be imposed - University World News Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s Classroom Hero: why World Comic Book Day is next | JA Micheline - Guardian New student mobility figures show Erasmus Brexit risk - University World News Active lessons can boost children’s learning and health - The Conversation What’s on during National Apprenticeship Week 2017: Climbing the ladder of opportunity - FE Week Early years educator apprenticeship requirement u-turn confirmed - FE Week Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee report - AoC | Association of Colleges Your definitive guide to HE sector pronunciations - Wonkhe NUT/CPAG figures show Government school funding proposals will hit schools with the poorest children hardest - NUT Bangor University student back on campus as deportation threat still looms - Guardian Three in five people are in favour of a 'Free to Families' scheme to create up to 10,000 new places a year at independent schools - Independent Schools Council | ISC How will Brexit impact British universities?  - Telegraph Should we give teachers the ‘benefit of the doubt’? - The Learning Spy College governors brand SFA’s new apprenticeship contracts ‘ludicrous’ - FE Week University bans 'sportsmanship', 'mankind' and 'forefathers' to make language inclusive - Express Birmingham councillor resigns over pupil-headscarf row - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cardiff Metropolitan University accused of censorship over ‘gender neutral’ language policy - Huffington Post Postcode lottery in CPD 'could inflict terrible damage on schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES TUC Education Update February 2017 - Unionlearn Rich foreign families rush to send children to UK private schools since Brexit thanks to falling pound - Independent Banned subcontracting hidden through widespread ‘associate partnerships’ - FE Week AELP strengthens its capacity with two senior appointments - FE News Shocking associate partnerships need to be tackled - FE Week Proposed SNP law could see parents in court for 'constantly criticising their children' - Mail New research publication about the development of literacy skills - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Blended learning: what’s in it for the learner? A Digifest debate - Jisc New EYFS Statutory Framework published - Early Education Response to the Workforce Strategy - Early Education Apprenticeships on the rise - but not for everyone - FE News ERSA responds to BEIS Committee report on Industrial Strategy Green Paper - ERSA What does the decline in part-time degrees mean for lifelong learning? - HEFCE Daily roundup 3 March: school funding, free childcare, and child death - CYPN | Children & Young People Now GCSE requirement for early years trainees scrapped as workforce strategy is unveiled - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Schools with the poorest children set to be hit hardest by future funding cuts - Nursery World Revised EYFS updates Level 3 and first aid rules - Nursery World GCSE Level 3 rules scrapped as Early Years Workforce Strategy is released - Nursery World Government’s Industrial Strategy – seemingly significant shift from 40-year orthodoxy but little evidence of a long-term strategy - FE News The value of technical education - FE News Performance tables: approved qualifications and discount codes - DfE Early years workforce strategy - DfE Early education and childcare - DfE Early years benchmarking tool - DfE Ofqual conference 2017 - presentations from the day - Ofqual New GCSE 9 to 1 grades coming soon - Ofqual SFA: course directory - SFA NAW 2017: templates - SFA ATL ballots members over forming a new union with NUT - ATL New research project: early years inspections. Could you help? - Voice NFER undertaking major new analysis to improve understanding of teacher retention and workforce turnover - NFER MillionPlus welcomes the BEIS Committee’s Industrial Strategy: First Review report - MillionPlus If the government were to move to a joint-funding model, many independent schools would be happy to ‘top up’ state provision with bursary resources - GSA In the news: 3 March 2017 - UCU 'The maths of everyday life' - Our trustee, Wendy Jones, in Teach Primary magazine - National Numeracy I wish we could talk more openly about mental health in academia - Guardian IPPR: Tory spending pledges on police, education and childcare 'at risk' - Guardian Parent facing three-hour round trip to school blames grammars - Guardian Mum slams school 'bullies' who made fun of son's World Book Day outfit - Mirror 'You'll be famous as famous can be' Melania Trump reads to sick children on World Book Day - Express Young Palestinians start to lose faith in two-state solution - Financial Times Oxford University can't save deprived white kids – the problems begin much earlier - Telegraph Academy chains planning 'pupil premium grammar schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES New teaching superunion a ‘game changer’, leaders claim - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland’s education mismanaged, says May - Financial Times Fact Check: Is Brent Council the ‘first’ to allow multi-belief assemblies? - Schools Week Council launches investigation into benefits of private schools - Schools Week DfE funds £1m for Ofsted illegal schools taskforce - Schools Week Campaigners say funding plan will hit poor pupils hardest - BBC Scotland: private nurseries 'ignored' in trials, campaigners warn - Herald Scotland Schools with poorest pupils to be hardest hit by funding cuts, study finds - Guardian Schools face action over exam ‘games’ - Times May takes aim at ‘obsessed’ Sturgeon for failing pupils - Times Schools with most disadvantaged pupils face biggest cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Public back subsidising private school places for the poor, poll suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minorities are missing out on apprenticeships, research shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Apprentices to MPs go on to great things’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Richard Morrison: the Hallé Orchestra’s plan for a free school in Stoke is the way forward - Times Crayon costumes draw complaints on Book Day - Times Michael Gove: silencing dissent will blight our universities - Times