News archive for 8th March 2017

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Training Needs Analysis: FE and Training bodies to cooperate - FE News Local authorities must consult schools and parents when spending £215m SEND fund - SecEd What will the relationships and sex education curriculum look like? - SecEd Crucial Pupil Premium guidance – from Ofsted and the students themselves - SecEd Teachers braced for Brexit impact, says INTO - SecEd Lift Off initiative supports students with the transition to secondary school - SecEd Dramatic rise in children with complex disabilities – and many are not being given proper support - SecEd NUT-ATL merger decision due on March 22 - SecEd The gap between school work and ‘real work’ - SecEd Resources released in bid to challenge asylum-seeker and immigration myths - SecEd Free schools costs rise three times to £1bn - Financial Times Progress on technical education is overdue - Financial Times An education system rigged against the poor | Letters - Guardian Grammar school asks parents to help pay off £100,000 deficit - Guardian £500m earmarked for technical education - Financial Times Halfon: number of female Stem apprentices 'has got to change' - Times Educational Supplement | TES College student: the budget puts business before our education - Guardian More than half a billion extra for free schools, budget small print reveals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Milo Yiannopoulos hits back at student protestors over Glasgow University nomination - Huffington Post SFA unveils ‘mystery shopper’ scheme to test how ready providers are for apprenticeship reforms - FE Week Apprentice Assessment Organisations – a step forward for apprentices - FE News Budget 2017: Sector hails Hammond’s ‘breakthrough budget’ for skills - FE Week A round-up of key events happening during National Apprenticeships Week 2017 - FE News Budget: T levels will raise the status of technical education, says chancellor - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'On their knees schools ignored' by chancellor - BBC Budget 2017: £320m for new free schools 'fails to address majority needs' - Independent Important historical women have been sidelined at Cambridge - it's time for that to change - Telegraph Providing external assurance on subcontracting controls - SFA SFA update: March 2017 - SFA Sector response to the Chancellor’s Spring Budget 2017 - FE News Budget 2017: The 5 things schools need to know - Schools Week World university subject rankings 2017: new stars emerge - Guardian Head teacher criticised for 'naming and shaming' pupils who fall behind in class - Telegraph Budget: No new money for schools facing £3 billion funding squeeze - Times Educational Supplement | TES At some British universities, free speech comes at a price - Huffington Post Milo Yiannopoulos nominated to become rector at University of Glasgow, sparks huge row - Huffington Post Levy confusion: Final SFA apprenticeship allocation meeting cancelled - FE Week Is it ethical to apply the apprenticeship levy to charities? - FE Week Schools just want to have funds, Twitter teachers say - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar schools: why academic selection only benefits the very affluent - The Conversation When’s a green paper a white paper? When it’s called schools that work for everyone - Montrose42 Why universities can't see women as leaders - Guardian Taking a fresh look at retention - Guardian Increasing the representativeness of REF panel membership - HEFCE Are you getting ready for degree apprenticeships? - HEFCE Interdisciplinary policy and practice: Conference report published - HEFCE Prof Dianne Berry to chair REF equality panel - HEFCE Hold on – there’s a hitch in the £500m promise - FE Week Budget: Critics attack lack of action on free childcare funding - CYPN | Children & Young People Now As a headteacher, I fear the return of grammars will bring back sink schools too - New Statesman 21st century rail apprenticeships: How to attract millennials - Training Journal UCL Institute of Education remains number one for Education in QS subject rankings - IOE London Blog Chancellor accused of 'ignoring' early years sector in favour of pubs - Nursery World Spring Budget 2017: Tax-Free Childcare to start from April - Nursery World More than half of UK outbound exchanges are through Erasmus, says report - PIE News Sir Peter Lampl comments on Spring Budget 2017 - Sutton Trust Bill please - Higher Education waits - PoliticsHome Does the 2017 Budget help extend opportunity to all of our young people? - EPI International Women’s Day: we cannot take progress for granted - IOE London Blog MSPs vote against SNP over ‘failing’ Scots education system - Scotsman Labour to raise motion criticising SNP education performance - Scotsman NASUWT comments on education post-16 Budget measures - NASUWT Investing in the teaching workforce - NASUWT NASUWT comments on the 2017 spring budget - NASUWT Call for Action following The Big Shout – Girls on the Autism Spectrum Conference - NAHT Spring Budget 2017: a missed opportunity for schools - NAHT Budget speech - NUT UCU responds to Budget report - UCU ETF Bursary fund 2017 - AELP Schools that work for everyone? - Voice Spring budget 2017 – response - Russell Group Institutes of Technology and the family of education providers - Universities UK MillionPlus comment on the 2017 Budget statement - MillionPlus Spring Budget gives rare prominence to technical education - AoC | Association of Colleges Budget fails to address education funding crisis - ASCL Postgraduate doctoral loans - DfE Part-time undergraduate maintenance loan - DfE National Apprenticeship Week 2017 - as it happens - SFA SFA: business update - SFA OFFA comment on introduction of part-time maintenance loans - OFFA Grammar schools will improve the education system, writes Chris Roycroft-Davies - Express What the TEF is going on in the Lords? - Wonkhe Regulator validation is essential for a high quality independent sector - Wonkhe I can't imagine a better potential doctor – but she didn't get the marks for medicine | Ranjana Srivastava - Guardian Aeronautical apprentice encourages Welsh youngsters to compete in UK’s largest skills competition - Wales Online Credit where its due on figures - Scotsman Enter more female apprentices for skills competitions – it’s worth it! - FE Week What Budget 2017 means for universities - Wonkhe National Apprenticeship Week: three things to remember when preparing for the levy - FE News Dutch university sees post-Brexit fall in UK students - BBC Calling the tune: the first female professor in the UK - BBC Singapore: More than exams - BBC West coast schools are top of the class in latest Higher results - Herald Scotland Autistic pupils ‘need specialist schools’ - Times Student block stalled by fears for art school - Times