News archive for 18th March 2017

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Schools urged to face facts over Finns’ superior results - Scotsman Cross-party alliance takes on Theresa May over grammar schools - Guardian Exclusive: new Ofsted chief 'worried' about apprenticeship register - FE Week Migrants have raised school standards in London, says Gove - BBC Autocar's car industry awards for women open up to apprentices - FE Week Michael Gove: Immigrant children improve results and drive up school standards - Independent Michael Gove says immigrant children help boost school results - Mail 'Girls relied on me for sanitary towels': teachers on child poverty in schools - Guardian Teach First head criticises 'depressing' grammars and says free schools don't work outside London - Independent Michael Gove: Immigration has had double-edged impact on education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Less than 50 per cent of inspected UTCs ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ - FE Week Sandbach school funding protest by parents - BBC Five things we learnt at Primary Rocks Live - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pisa boss: Pupils 'should be taught to recognise fake news' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tory rebels threaten to derail school funding shake-up - Mail Nigeria: don't forget us, says Chibok schoolgirl as third year of captivity approaches - BBC No funded qualifications for over a third of approved standards - FE Week Kidnapped Nigerian school girl calls on world to help her classmates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Netherlands: universities may soon offer full degrees overseas - University World News Ireland: education department moves to prosecute essay mills - University World News USA: survey indicates a drop in foreign applicants at some colleges - University World News Higher education in Bihar 'on verge of collapse' - University World News Turkey: nearly 15,000 Syrians studying in Turkish universities - University World News Oxford University leaders call for EU citizen guarantees - University World News Malaysia: university lecturers to learn about disruptive technology from CEOs - University World News New Zealand: university entry change unlikely despite literacy and numeracy concerns - University World News Secret Teacher: My school sees pupils as a funding formula – we're failing them - Guardian Deborah Orr: fighting ‘unfairness’ is no justification for this school funding disgrace - Guardian Government under fire for 'cash for cabs' school transport plan - Guardian Maths teachers left 'demoralised' by exam changes that make it harder for pupils to pass - Herald Scotland Schools should teach pupils how to spot 'fake news' - BBC Andreas Schleicher: school children 'should be taught to recognise fake news' - Independent Teach schoolchildren how to spot fake news, says OECD - Guardian Schools ‘should teach children to spot fake news’ - Times School pupils 'should be taught to recognise fake news' says educational expert - Express Briton up for million dollar teaching award says digital age pupils fear missing out - Express Teach children about fake news to stop them becoming extremists, OECD says - Telegraph