News archive for 10th March 2017

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Toby Young: Government should scrap 11-plus for new grammar schools - Independent Our education system is failing. It’s time to give grammar schools a go | Letters - Guardian 'All schools making difficult choices' - BBC Ofsted watch: College bounces back from inadequate to good - FE Week Headteachers heckling, academy secrecy and the funding crisis - the TES podcast - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will the Institute for Apprenticeships succeed? - FE Week Parents in catchment for Cardiff's best high school have failed to change admission rules - Wales Online Algeria: concerns raised over spate of violence at universities - University World News Don’t take decisions which harm other trusts, Carter warns academy leaders - Schools Week Citizens of nowhere? It's time we recognised the vital contribution made by EU students - Telegraph Zimbabwe: US$2bn bond to plug higher education facilities deficit - University World News Somalia: call to ensure more women access higher education - University World News Moray primary school in YouTube plea to recruit head teacher - Scotsman How to teach sex education to young offenders - The Conversation Some videos of me saying stuff about education - The Learning Spy Apprenticeship frameworks could be discontinued without SFA approval - FE Week Education Secretary Justine Greening heckled by head teachers over grammar school claims - Telegraph Funding terminated from failing academy trust - BBC Ofsted chief warns ministers' plans for more selection send a 'difficult message' on social mobility - Times Educational Supplement | TES It’s time to back T-levels - FE Week Heads look at cutting teaching hours as budgets are squeezed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cherry picking ministers threaten the careers strategy - Montrose42 Good luck to schools teaching sex and relationship education – I’m still learning - Guardian Education Fellowship Trust becomes first academy chain to give up all of its schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education secretary heckled by angry head teachers - BBC More loans misery as provider goes under - FE Week Technical education: going beyond parity of esteem - IOE London Blog Cuts could mean schools close early two days a week, say teachers - Guardian ASCL 2017: Justine Greening heckled by heads over grammar plans - Schools Week Greening jeered over grammar school plans (video) - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Fellowship trust gives up all 12 schools over poor performance - Schools Week Pay off student loans to encourage graduates into teaching, heads' union demands - Times Educational Supplement | TES SFA blasted over ‘mystery shopper’ scheme - FE Week Bringing science to life: the benefits of schools teaming up with researchers - Guardian GCSE and A level courses axed amid schools funding crisis, headteachers warn - Huffington Post Unison: First4Skills collapse ‘could have broken the law’ - FE Week National Apprenticeship Week is unlike any other week - FE Week The introduction of Progress 8 - EPI Lords vote to cut link between TEF and fees - a win for students and the movement that we must build on - Huffington Post What kind of learning do we need to make the most of the new technological revolution? - IOE London Blog Gordon Marsden MP: Chancellor's Budget proposals are a 'soufflé of jargon' - PoliticsHome Are you ready for the Apprenticeship Levy? - Training Journal Can lesson study work in the UK? - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Apprenticeships – what goes around comes around? - HEFCE Develop your people, shape the future – Degree Apprenticeships at Northumbria University - HEFCE UK children from jobless households more likely to experience poverty and be out of work as adults - IOE London Blog Huge response to join cyber security apprenticeship scheme - GOV.UK Ofsted chief cool on grammars as Justine Greening heckled by headteachers - PoliticsHome Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 10 March 2017 - Pearson More than a fifth of academy transfers involve potential conflicts of interest - Times Educational Supplement | TES EEF toolkit 'more akin to pig farming than science' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE declares ceasefire in war on university teacher-training departments - Times Educational Supplement | TES Football club’s free school to close with £500,000 debt - Schools Week £215 million to adapt building for SEND pupils won’t go to most needy - Schools Week Pension row delays Bright Tribe free school takeover - Schools Week Ofsted drops letters praising ‘exceptional’ heads - Schools Week Justine Greening: teacher development key to school improvement - DfE Education Secretary addresses ASCL conference - DfE Apprenticeship opportunities on A14 scheme pave the way to career success - GOV.UK Education's role in children and young people's mental health examined - UK Parliament Lords examines Higher Education and Research Bill - UK Parliament ESF funding rules - SFA The 10th National Apprenticeship Week 2017 ends on a high - SFA Apprenticeship training agencies - SFA Apprenticeship standards - SFA Amanda Spielman's speech at the ASCL annual conference - Ofsted New HMCI vows to make sure Ofsted is regarded as a force for good - Ofsted National Apprenticeship Week 2017 - as it happens - SFA Brexit must not jeopardize outward student mobility - Wonkhe Yet more forgotten bands of higher education - Wonkhe In the news: 10 March 2017 - UCU Survey finds class sizes are rising as a result of funding crisis - ASCL We must not deter international students from studying in the UK - Universities UK Executive headship – practical guidance for leadership teams - NFER Why does the Office for National Statistics fail to measure the UK’s educational exports? - HEPI Government sets up £1billion fund for controversial free schools - but rest are forced into cuts - Mirror Green Spring Academy: Intimidation and exam-fixing claims - BBC Heads 'cut exam courses amid funding squeeze' - BBC Headteachers' anger as secondary class sizes swell to 35 - Mail Schools try to 'game' league tables, says new Ofsted chief - Mail Chinese toy factories open summer camp for migrant workers' children - Guardian Ofsted to investigate schools 'gaming system' to move up league tables - Guardian Cash-strapped schools axing classes and cutting back on trips, headteachers say - Independent Colleges could be out of pocket despite £500m funding boost - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government's bid to reduce workload has made things worse, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Class sizes rising and SEND support cut due to funding crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted launches investigation into 'scandal' of schools gaming the system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish universities record worst drop-out rates in UK - Herald Scotland Parents says ‘failte’ to third Gaelic primary school in Glasgow - Herald Scotland NAW Supplement 2017 - FE Week Schools which cheat system by entering children for easy exams face crackdown, new Ofsted chief to announce - Telegraph Design and technology GCSE axed from nearly half of schools, survey finds - Telegraph Get off your phone, school tells parents - Times Ofsted announces school curriculum investigation amid gaming ‘scandal’ - Schools Week Progress 8 still too similar to old GCSE measure – and 5 other findings from EPI report - Schools Week Class sizes pushing 40 as cuts bite, union claims - Schools Week