News archive for 22nd March 2017

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England alone with end-point assessment-only apprenticeships - FE Week Warning over segregation in England's schools - BBC Inverness pupils on flight home after terror attack - Scotsman Catholic primaries more ethnically segregated than other schools, study shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Quarter of English state primary schools are 'ethnically segregated' - Guardian Faith schools and grammars the most ethnically and socially segregated in UK, warns charity report - Independent Brutal Tory education cuts could lead to new teachers' 'super union' to help them cope - Mirror 'You went to a grammar school!' commons erupts as PM destroys hypocritical Corbyn - Express PMQs: May gets personal with Corbyn over grammar schools - BBC Glasgow University refuses to award students their degrees over non-academic debt - Huffington Post Government recommits to long-term support for science - University World News School funding: Fundraising to keep schools running - BBC 'Suck it up, cupcake': no-nonsense grammar school warns pupils that feeling low is not an excuse to take the day off sick - Telegraph Theresa May defends school funding reforms during stormy PMQs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers' unions merge to make super-union - BBC NUT and ATL vote to merge into National Education Union - Guardian Your quick-and-easy guide to the new ‘National Education Union’ - Schools Week The new Register of Approved Training Providers – just what happened? - FE News Corbyn accuses May of breaking Tory pledge on education funding - Guardian Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn clash over education – video - Guardian Two of the UK’s biggest teaching unions merge - Financial Times Delegates flood to Birmingham for FE Week’s Annual Apprenticeships Conference - FE Week Milo Yiannopoulos hits out at Aamer Anwar after Glasgow University rector loss - Huffington Post School funding row: MPs make last bid for plans to be scrapped amid fears children will suffer from cuts - Evening Standard Students enjoy science at school, but most still don’t see it as a career option - The Conversation UK's largest jobseeker support programme closes to referrals with over 800,000 helped into work - FE News How dogs could make children better readers - The Conversation Government may give out free sanitary products to poor pupils - Metro School governors point to 'diabolical' budget squeeze - BBC NUT and ATL members vote to form new ‘super union’ - Schools Week ATL and NUT to merge and form a new education super-union - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Apprenticeship Week initiative helps young people 'See Things Differently' - FE News Why playing rugby can improve pupils' behaviour and learning - Wales Online Research project aims to find secrets to teacher retention - SecEd Scheme supporting Black Oxbridge applicants expands - SecEd Web filter study raises concerns - SecEd Maths teachers lament changes to Nationals - SecEd Draco lizard inspires STEM award winners - SecEd Student wellbeing: Teachers urged to sign open letter to PM - SecEd Axing of the £600m Education Services Grant puts key services at risk, councils warn - SecEd Four million children now live in poverty – and as such are at a higher risk of entering child protection system - SecEd Funding latest: Secondary schools face £291,000 real-terms cut - SecEd Research reveals affect of poor education about periods and puberty - SecEd Survey finds exchange students think US high schools easier - Mail New funding formula could imply further cuts to per-pupil spending of 7% for around 1,000 schools after 2019–20 - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS DfE launches website ahead of tax-free childcare launch - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Solving the teaching crisis has to start with treating us like professionals - New Statesman 2017 National Reference Test successfully completed - Ofqual Acceptances to teacher training programmes in England and Wales down 6.9% - UCAS Slides available: subcontracting - UVAC SFA update: March 2017 - SFA Everton FC: The football club that teaches troubled children - BBC Schools funding shake-up `will create significant winners and losers´ - Mail ATL and NUT merge to form new education union - Nursery World 30 hours free childcare: eligibility - DfE New Childcare Choices parents' website goes live - Nursery World IFS cites ‘significant winners and losers’ from schools funding formula reform - PoliticsHome Theresa May attacks Labour frontbenchers for sending their kids to private school - PoliticsHome UK considers education exports in response to ‘tumultuous times’ - PIE News Body cams for teachers cannot be dismissed, union says - BBC Government is right that a new funding formula for schools is needed, say education unions - ATL Historic step forward: ATL and NUT to form a new union - ATL Funding formula must not go back in ‘too-difficult’ drawer - ASCL Increased school investment must accompany revised NFF - NASUWT Teachers' pension schemes 2017 - pension increases - NAHT School transport issues: A new Local Government Ombudsman Report - NAHT Government’s muddled thinking on social mobility encouraging more challenge to their plans, says NAHT - NAHT Historic step forward: ATL and NUT to form a new union - NUT UK business needs its foreign language speakers - Financial Times Invigorating the industrial strategy with new digital meaning - FE News School funding is 'fair' but too little cash, say governors - BBC Everton Football Club's free school for troubled kids - BBC Schools face 7% budget cut after 2020 election - Financial Times About 1,000 schools in England 'at risk of cuts well in to next decade' - Guardian Unions demand more school cash as IFS warns of funding formula uncertainty - Schools Week Universities warn students: pay debts or there’s no degree - Times May must stick to her guns on reform of school funding - Times One thousand schools could face further 7% funding cut after 2020 - Times Educational Supplement | TES