News archive for 15th March 2017

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Arts versus sciences - BBC Fox attacks student inclusion in migration stats - Financial Times Uncertain future for 900 learners as Chesterfield provider calls in administrators - FE Week Winning the schools and youth lottery - Guardian Who's been approved to deliver apprenticeships? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Trojan Horse' governor appeals against school ban - BBC Sporting school life - BBC Excessive workload drives more teachers to become private tutors, study shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Being able to educate has transformed me' – Brazil's candidate for Global Teacher Prize speaks out - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher training changes to attract 'very best' to Wales - BBC Teacher gives last emotional lecture before passing away from MSA - Metro What is the sector response to the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (RoATP)? - FE News Leeds girls are missing school because they can’t afford tampons and sanitary towels - Huffington Post Company shuts down just days before SFA gives them green light for apprenticeship delivery - FE Week Student stabbed outside College of North West London - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales' universities will be worst hit by a hard Brexit, warns major report - Wales Online More teenagers in parts of Wales are applying to Oxbridge - Wales Online Colleges delivering hundreds of apprenticeships ‘surprised’ to be left off new provider register - FE Week Judge rules boy must be taught in Islamic faith school against wishes of father - Independent Average public sector pay 'to fall by £1,700 between 2010 and 2020' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Harold Rosen’s 50-year-old revolutionary message: children bring a wealth of culture, language and experience to the classroom - IOE London Blog The final pieces of the new apprenticeship jigsaw fall into place - FE News The video game industry has a diversity problem – but it can be fixed - Guardian Teachers: have you bought sanitary products, food or clothes for students? - Guardian What’s so great about making mistakes? - The Learning Spy 2VCs: How do we win back anxious international students? - Guardian Who is research-active? – A key question for the future of research assessment - HEFCE Budget 'leaves thousands of grammar school places unfunded' - PoliticsHome The highlights of my time as a Chinese University of Hong Kong student - Times Higher Education | THE SFA & DfE Publish Apprenticeship Training Providers Register - Collab Group Liam Fox lays bare Cabinet splits as he says foreign students should not be included in migration stats - PoliticsHome Theresa May slaps down Liam Fox over foreign students - PoliticsHome Is digital technology changing learning and teaching? The big debate from Digifest 2017 - Jisc Trump rhetoric hitting hard in the UK, says NUS president - PIE News Ultra-wealthy drawn to UK schools - PIE News Government refusing to reveal details of work by childcare taskforce - Nursery World Compulsory CPR training for young people could save thousands of lives a year - SecEd Students head to Russian Space school - SecEd Scottish MP denies ‘plan’ to end faith schools - SecEd OECD expert calls for ‘new type of teacher’ in Wales - SecEd Spring Budget: ‘A dereliction of duty’ - SecEd Ofsted reliability study is welcome – but limited - SecEd Education secretary promises action on recruitment and retention - SecEd Ofsted review to investigate narrowing of the curriculum - SecEd What difference does a year make? Part 1 - Education Datalab John’s journey from apprentice to running an £85 million business - ERSA Bringing about change – the challenges and opportunities for academic leaders! - HEA When it comes to local growth, no one sector holds the ring - HEFCE Mothers’ depression more harmful than poverty for children’s mental health, study finds - IOE London Blog Daily roundup 15 March: Child refugees, school places and job readiness - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Top Ofsted rating should reflect good mental health support, say experts - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Advanced learner loans funding rules 2016 to 2017 - SFA SFA update: March 2017 - SFA Lords examines Higher Education and Research Bill - UK Parliament SFA growth request - SFA Designating qualifications for advanced learner loans - SFA Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - SFA Maximum loan amounts for advanced learner loans designated qualifications 2017 to 2018 - SFA Advanced learner loans funding rules 2017 to 2018 - SFA SFA: funding rates and formula - SFA Martin Crewe: Education alone will not close attainment gap - Scotsman Next steps for IoTs - AELP Funders and universities must work together to build international partnerships - Universities UK Brent teachers to strike - NASUWT Model articles of association for academy trusts – do they work? - NAHT NUT Cymru comment on new teacher training changes - NUT SFA: current notices of concern - SFA What do men really think about sex? This is why we need better education | Michele Hanson and Clare Moynihan - Guardian SFA/UVAC new provider workshop - UVAC A degree is no guarantee of work skills - Scotsman May’s international student clampdown is a mystery - Financial Times Academic freedom is holding back fair access to the professions - Wonkhe Sign of the times - BBC Should hearing children learn sign language? - BBC Who lost the most marks when cheating was stopped? - BBC Charities ‘vital’ to close school attainment gap - Herald Scotland