News archive for 16th March 2017

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Adorable dog called Brian being used by primary school to help children learn to read - Mirror National College fails to make Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers - FE Week What do teachers believe? - The Learning Spy £55m cuts to support services 'incredibly unfair' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Everything you need to know about the English schools funding row - Guardian How Swedish class reacted to migrant visit - BBC George Osborne raises concerns over school funding formula - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why is there no appeals process for the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers? - FE Week The scheme teaching teens in Scotland to spot bullying in schools - BBC Never mind free tampons – what schoolgirls need is education about periods | Chella Quint - Guardian ‘Don’t call us lazy!’ Students call for activity tracking apps to be let loose on the education sector - FE News Student digs in Britain giving first-class returns - Guardian 'Our school has cut to the bone. Our teachers are on their knees' - Guardian School report: Students read BBC sports news - BBC What are your experiences of mental health at university? - Guardian Supporting student funding applications for colleges - FE News Scotland's exam body promises living wage after £6 hourly rate revealed - Guardian Why May wants foreign students in migration figures - Financial Times A-level attainment gap revealed in new ‘disadvantage’ measure - Schools Week Ofsted email scam asks people to ‘confirm’ Paypal details - Schools Week Free school A-level dropouts among highest, and 3 more findings from 16-18 league tables - Schools Week Threat of cuts to staffing and subjects in £3 billion schools funding crisis - Evening Standard FSM pupils half as likely to get three As, and three other key points from today's A-level data - Times Educational Supplement | TES We don't have the funds to provide legally required school services, councils warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why teaching philosophy could help combat extremism - The Conversation Relationships ‘hit the rocks’ due to head teacher workload - Scotsman Industry partnerships are key to closing the skills gap - FE News Move over The Apprentice... these Welsh students are the real deal - Wales Online Senior figures resign at David Ross Education Trust – including David Blunkett - Schools Week School funding cuts will put five million children ‘at risk’ as councils unable to afford to protect them - Huffington Post Disabled apprentices – forthcoming guide for union representatives - Unionlearn Daily roundup 16 March: Free transport, youth custody incident, and 'Trojan Horse' case - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Self-assessment report published - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Approved apprenticeship training providers list published - Nursery World Exercise levels for both boys and girls decline 'long before adolescence' - Nursery World Reasons to be cheerful: postgraduate loans give enrolments a bump - Wonkhe Theresa May’s grammar schools project must not come at a cost to other schools, industry leaders warn - Independent A level attainment by pupil characteristics - DfE 16 to 18 completion and attainment qualifications: 2016 - DfE School performance tables: about the data - DfE Independent special schools and colleges - DfE Early years national funding formula: allocations and guidance - DfE Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - SFA Spam email alert - Ofsted CBI supports launch of Industrial Strategy Commission - CBI CBI welcomes last week's Budget as a breakthrough moment for skills - CBI Further budget cuts will cripple schools - NASUWT Cuts to the Education Services Grant must be reversed, says NAHT - NAHT A revised funding formula for schools is essential but needs additional investment to succeed, says NAHT - NAHT Team Culture is King. And that’s not necessarily good. - Teacherhead UK visa curbs to hit ‘squeezed middle’ immigrants - Financial Times Grammar schools: Tories could delay vote on ban until after 2020 election - Schools Week More grammars 'will open up jobs in professions' - Mail Nashville's Career Academies - music city's greatest export? - FE News Schools must do more on mental health, say School Reporters - BBC Schools inspectorate under fire after sending staff on 79 foreign trips - Herald Scotland School funding cuts 'will leave councils unable to meet legal obligations' - Guardian