News archive for 27th March 2017

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An extra £10m is being given to schools to help Wales’ most disadvantaged pupils - Wales Online New school proposals - DfE National Apprenticeship Awards 2017 - SFA Culture Minister discusses theatre industry skills - UK Parliament Lack of Welsh admissions to Oxbridge examined - UK Parliament Lords debates Technical and Further Education Bill - UK Parliament Applied General qualifications to remain - AoC | Association of Colleges Are disciplines the best for education? - HEA Global collaboration for film and media students - Times Higher Education | THE New GCSEs: 'Only two pupils in England will get all top marks' - Guardian Scottish educations experts find five areas of improvement - Scotsman Could kindness, not lateness, be the key to improving pupils’ behaviour? - Guardian Nobody talks about it, but too many rich kids are at university who shouldn't be there - Telegraph Representing school leaders for 120 years - NAHT Current vacancies on the DfE's Star Chamber Scrutiny Board - NAHT Data summary: Appeals for GCSE and GCE summer 2016 exam series - NAHT Should students be free to register with different doctors for home and away? - HEPI T-levels and the Skills Plan: how the NEU will fight for the education of all young people - ATL Ofqual should not have double standards - FE Week The National Apprenticeship Awards 2017 kicks off today, when the application site opens for entries. - FE News Scottish pupils 'not guaranteed a high-quality education' - Times Educational Supplement | TES North-South divide will be widened by new £2bn-a-year apprenticeship scheme, finds think tank - FE News Teachers: what do your students bring in for lunch? - Guardian Only two pupils will get straight top grades in new GCSEs, DfE adviser predicts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why is the NHS London Procurement Partnership charging fees to apprenticeship providers? - FE Week Removal of apprenticeship frameworks - FE News Training provider receives top accolade for their investment in employees - FE Week Neath Port Talbot 'needs more Welsh schools' than anywhere else in the country, campaigners claim - Wales Online Glasgow medical students to resit exam after 'collusion' - BBC Academic warns middle-class special needs children are getting more support - Herald Scotland FE Choices Learner and Employer Satisfaction Surveys 2015 to 2016 - FE News Just over 50 per cent of North Lanarkshire schools reach exam benchmark - Scotsman Glasgow medical students to re-sit exam amid cheating fears - Scotsman Whole FE sector backs #SaveOurAdultEducation campaign - FE Week Music education is now only for the white and the wealthy | Charlotte C Gill - Guardian If the government is serious about cracking down on "safe spaces", it should begin by looking at the example it sets - Telegraph New apprenticeships funding system will widen training and jobs gap - Nursery World Scotland assures EU fee status for 2018/19 enrolments - PIE News Government missing opportunities to tackle childhood obesity, say MPs - Nursery World Bridging digital skills gap could cost government £244m a year, says NAO - Public Technology Call for NCS to utilise youth services to boost participation levels - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Take a step into the classroom with Teach First - what you need to know about applying to the programme - Wales Online Educating a nation of careless tea-drinkers: archive, 27 March 1958 - Guardian Looking fair and wide on university access - Wonkhe Widening access now has a business and social imperative - Wonkhe Technology in education: top marks or room for improvement? - Cambridge Network Schools under fire for putting rape victims in classroom with alleged attackers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Movers and Shakers: Edition 204 - FE Week The chaos of apprenticeship reform - FE Week MPs criticises government for 'missed opportunities' in child obesity strategy - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government is missing important opportunities to tackle childhood obesity - UK Parliament If Oxbridge is the only solution, we’re asking the wrong questions - Wonkhe Degree apprenticeships are not just a local phenomenon - FE News Greenwood Academies Trust set to lose two schools - Schools Week Deliver sex education as part of compulsory PSHE say subject leaders - Schools Week Nearly half of schools fail to offer work experience to SEND pupils - Schools Week Term-time holidays: Where most children were absent - BBC 'Fake research' comes under scrutiny - BBC Apprenticeship levy will deepen north-south divide, IPPR says - Guardian Bringing WW1 battlefields to life with virtual reality - BBC