News archive for 6th March 2017

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Budget 2017: £536m for refurbs and new free schools, but doubts over 500 target - Schools Week Budget 2017: Free transport for grammar schools up to 15 miles away - Schools Week Budget to lift spending on schools by £500m - Financial Times Theresa May paves way for new generation of grammar schools - Guardian Parents outraged after primary school children quizzed over parents' smoking and drinking - Express New sexual harassment claims at Goldsmiths spark calls for inquiry - Guardian Launch of the 10th annual National Apprenticeship Week 2017 - FE News Calls for action by universities on ‘epidemic’ of harassment on campus - Guardian Embattled Durand Academy heading to Downing Street for 'explosive' documentary - Times Educational Supplement | TES No more separate boys' and girls' toilets at primary schools in Glasgow to help pupils who are 'confused about their gender' - Telegraph Senior council official appointed regional schools commissioner for East Midlands and the Humber - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leading critic of Ofsted's reliability admits watchdog now 'doing well' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual ramps up publicity amid 'confusion' over numerical GCSE grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council education boss appointed new RSC for East Midlands and Humber - Schools Week Third largest awarding organisation pulls out of apprenticeship market - FE Week The Guardian view on sexual harassment in universities: taking it seriously - Guardian Oxford University Student Union introduces 'smart drug' workshops for students - Telegraph Head teachers take school funding anxieties to Twitter - BBC New junior schools in Glasgow to scrap separate loos for boys and girls - Express More to industrial strategy than picking winners - Financial Times 'Russia's soul is monarchic': tsarist school wants to reverse 100 years of history - Guardian Why I chose an apprenticeship - Huffington Post Two-year degrees - is that the ideal length of a bachelor’s course? - Huffington Post Independent schools are already working to help disadvantaged students - we don't need Government supervision - Telegraph Why completing an apprenticeship was the right thing for me - Huffington Post Sexual harassment by university staff at ‘epidemic levels’, investigation reveals - Huffington Post 'Delighted': FE sector welcomes additional funding for T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools with solar panels face £1.8m bill due to business rates rise - Guardian Sexual harassment at universities has reached record-levels, new research reveals - Telegraph Why internationalisation matters in universities - The Conversation International students generate almost £26 billion for UK economy - Huffington Post 'What would you cut?' Schools challenge MPs over funding squeeze - Times Educational Supplement | TES The ladder of opportunity: an apprentice's story - Skills CFA 11 activities you have to try at SkillsCymru Carmarthenshire - Wales Online PPE: the Oxford degree that runs Britain – podcast - Guardian Call for researchers to highlight negative 'side effects' of methods like phonics - Times Educational Supplement | TES What to expect at UK's first vlogger masterclass academy - BBC Premier League clubs to be charged £9.5 million under Apprenticeship Levy, study shows - Telegraph Now sex education is compulsory, it is time to prepare students for real life - Telegraph Higher education – the key to greater freedom – University World News - IOE London Blog GCSE resits: 'I'm 18 and in a class with 15-year-olds' - BBC 10 skills modern teachers need - Edudemic Government defeated in the Lords over TEF and fees - Wonkhe NewDLHE model close to full assembly - Wonkhe Early years research programme to plug 'analysis gap' - Nursery World Making sense of the plans for T-Levels - FE Week PACEY Workforce survey finds childminders more confident than nurseries about the future - Nursery World MillionPlus comments on Universities UK international students research - MillionPlus UUK international students report - Russell Group Welsh government consultation on school workforce data collection: NFER response - NFER AELP welcomes Chancellor’s new investment in technical education - AELP The anti-princess - BBC Union calls on peers to 'stand up for quality' by amending higher education bill - UCU Help Coram Life Education design a Migrant Children Toolkit - NAHT Data and its use in schools - NAHT All families should have access to early years education - NAHT ASCL launches #whatwouldyoucut campaign on Twitter - ASCL Let's make our voices heard in the global struggle for the right to an education - ASCL Pressure on Home Office as universities reveal bigger cash boost from foreign students - PoliticsHome High needs strategic planning fund - DfE New RSC appointed for East Midlands and the Humber - DfE SFA funding allocations to training providers: 2016 to 2017 - SFA Launch of the 10th annual National Apprenticeship Week 2017 - SFA Budget to include plans for new wave of grammar schools - PoliticsHome Trump’s revised travel ban threatens to ‘adversely impact’ HE - PIE News Mixed response to DfE's new model agreement - Nursery World Training Needs Analysis: Four key FE and training bodies collaborate on workforce needs - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Latin America: Mapping mobility and higher education report - British Council Degree apprenticeships on the eve of the levy - HEFCE Improving student information: Unistats 2017 and Guide to good practice - HEFCE Timpson announces £215m to improve school SEND facilities - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Volunteer school mentor numbers top 1,300 - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The TEF: an idiot’s guide to the arguments for and against - HEPI International students now worth £25 billion to UK economy - new research - Universities UK Devil in the detail as the Bill enters final stages of scrutiny - Wonkhe Sainsbury’s Delivery: Technical education, employer leadership and careers guidance - Wonkhe By working together, we can persuade MPs to act against school cuts - ATL Government faces Lords defeat over registration of student voters - Guardian School meal review is welcome - Scotsman Nine myths about a career in teaching - explained - Wales Online How Teach First helped a Welsh college in its challenge to be taken out of special measures - Wales Online 'Challenge the Impossible' - Could you take up teaching and help children get the education they deserve? - Wales Online Movers and Shakers: Edition 201 - FE Week The chancellor must back #SaveOurAdultEducation - FE Week To increase social mobility, invest in adult education - FE Week Delayed review of older teachers requests extra evidence - Schools Week Wealthy academy sponsors safeguard school trips amid funding squeeze - Schools Week Lifelong learning is key to economic growth - FE News The resit cycle - BBC Premier League clubs to pay £10m towards apprenticeship levy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Serve local food, Swinney urges schools - Times