News archive for 13th March 2017

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School in Swinney’s constituency asks parents for maths help - Scotsman Pupils 'hosed down' for asbestos and four other key points on school buildings heard by MPs today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Full Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers finally published - FE Week Learning styles and their place in the classroom | Letters - Guardian Jubilation for some as results come in for new Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers - FE Week Stop treating international students like migrants, Lords warn - Mail Christian school group to hold talk on ‘danger’ of ‘challenging homophobia’ - Schools Week UTC joining college-backed multi academy trust after Ofsted blow - FE Week Government went ‘hell for leather’ on free schools, admits DfE top boss - Schools Week Parental snootiness over practical courses must be shelved if T-Levels are to succeed - Telegraph Guildford UTC becomes latest university technical college project to be abandoned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why I want other apprentices to enter skills competitions - FE Week The UK needs to demonstrate global skills standards - FE Week How Toyota uses skills competitions to develop its workforce - FE Week Studio school to stop recruiting from 14 and become sixth form - FE Week Tory councils warn on school funding - BBC Mother who couldn't afford private school fees had council worker forge forms to get daughter into top state school, tribunal hears - Telegraph Rye Studio School to convert to sixth form - Schools Week Revision App customers complain of unexpected payments - BBC Formula creates 'double funding' for deprived pupils, councils warn Theresa May - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Too much paid' to build free schools - BBC Universities and colleges receive £2.45 million to tackle sexual harassment - HEFCE Creative writing teacher began sending pupil suggestive texts after reading 50 Shades of Grey together, court hears - Telegraph How can we tackle the thorny problem of fraudulent research? | Mike Marinetto - Guardian Teacher was sacked after forging documents to help a child gain a place at a primary school - Wales Online Protests over Milo Yiannopoulos being nominated as rector at Glasgow show the divide still between ‘free speech’ and ‘hate speech’ - Huffington Post Malala has conditional offer from top UK university - BBC Research round-up 13 March 2017 - NAHT Why is there so little social diversity in medicine? | Zara Aziz - Guardian Justine Greening speaks to school and college leaders about the teaching profession and the recruitment and retention package - FE News Oxford leaders urge Government to guarantee rights of EU workers - Telegraph Top academics to leave UK over Brexit uncertainty, Oxford University leaders warn - Huffington Post Utopian thinking: why not put children in charge of their schools? | Rachel Roberts - Guardian Children as young as eight to learn mindfulness, breathing and relaxation techniques - Mail The pervasive and persistent impact of being bullied in childhood - Social Market Foundation | SMF You can’t teach wisdom... - HEA Science and Technology Select Committee endorses HEFCE's support for university research commercialisation - HEFCE Major National Citizen Service provider goes bust - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The rise of the robot in education - Digifest speaker and Jisc futurist, Martin Hamilton - Jisc Netherlands one step closer to full degrees overseas as TNE bill passes - PIE News Parents missing out on free places because councils failing to follow guidance - Nursery World No decline in educational achievement of graduates entering teaching and health jobs, despite squeeze on public sector pay - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS No drop in recruitment standards despite public sector pay squeeze - IFS - PoliticsHome Brexit will cause flight of EU academics, say Oxford leaders - Guardian 'I absolutely loved the challenge' Teacher enjoying success after signing up with Teach First - Wales Online Movers and Shakers: Edition 202 - FE Week The simple literacy and numeracy questions that 600 Australian student teachers failed to answer correctly - Mail Are governors responsible for sub-contractors? - FE Week Teachers still convinced Ofsted grades their lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are school buildings fit for purpose? - UK Parliament RoATP support webinars - new dates - UVAC Improvements needed to the commercialisation of university research - UK Parliament Government funds school resource for drug and alcohol prevention - GOV.UK Schools need more funding, not a revised new funding formula - ATL The ERC - A European success story - Russell Group European Research Council Week 2017 - Russell Group HoC Sci&Tech committee - Tech transfer - Russell Group Girls’ schools encourage fathers to take ‘unconscious bias’ test to mark the first National Dads4Daughters Day - GSA NASUWT Supply Teachers Conference - NASUWT Conference Round-up: Special Schools, Specialist and Alternative Provision Conference 2017 - NAHT Sixth form students can win a chance to study in Hong Kong - NAHT One-way ticket to New DLHE - Wonkhe Higher Education and Research Bill enters another uncertain week in the Lords - Wonkhe Teenagers who are written off as maths failures must be offered another route, says education charity, as it draws up proposals for a new numeracy benchmark for all young people - National Numeracy Is Euratom the biggest Brexit science problem you’ve never heard of? - Wonkhe No decline in teacher’s average A-levels, despite squeezed pay - Schools Week Teachers must ditch 'neuromyth' of learning styles, say scientists - Guardian Rebecca Slater: the sums on creative writing degrees don't add up. So why do we do them? - Guardian Why Strathclyde Business School is a firm favourite of enterpreneurs - Herald Scotland £40m Port Talbot school will be officially opened today by Wales's Cabinet Secretary for Education - Wales Online Dry stone walls to be built by ex-prisoners in £10 million drive to preserve traditional British skills - Telegraph Parents 'stuck' in disputes over cross-border nursery funding - Herald Scotland The Dyson institute will fill a vacuum in education - Times