News archive for 28th March 2017

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GCSE grading goes ga-ga - Headguruteacher Welsh medium education is 'missing out' on capital funding - Wales Online Study UK: Discover You: How a UK education can inspire - British Council Infographic: How much do you know about the levy? - Training Journal Students inspired by Rhodes Must Fall campaign demand Bristol University change name of Wills Tower over 'slave trade' links - Telegraph Department for Education launches property group - Financial Times Government decides to retain Applied General qualifications - FE Week GCSE pass grade confusion deepens: EBacc requires grade 4 for pupils but grade 5 for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Major international education summit hosted in Edinburgh - Scotsman 'A step in the right direction': FE sector responds to GCSE resits U-turn - Times Educational Supplement | TES China sees 11% growth of international student enrolments - PIE News Schools quango chief to step down - Herald Scotland DfE will scrap forced resits for GCSE English and maths - FE Week DfE introduces two-tier GCSE pass rate: ‘standard’ and ‘strong’ - Schools Week Government-owned property company launched to buy land for 500 new free schools labelled 'obscene waste of money' - Independent Teachers 'disempowered' by highly-scripted lessons delivered on tablets - Times Educational Supplement | TES University tuition fees in England now the highest in the world, new analysis suggests - Independent New GCSE ‘pass’ lowered from grade 5 to 4 in DfE U-turn - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits will not be required for a grade 4, Greening announces - Times Educational Supplement | TES New DfE property company will 'operate at pace' to deliver 500 new free schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chief executive appointed at DfE’s new £2bn free school property company - Schools Week Sector response to the new Education and Skills Funding Agency - FE News SFA and EFA merge to become the Education and Skills Funding Agency - FE News Goodbye, Education Funding Agency. Hello, Education & Skills Funding Agency - Schools Week DfE seeks to lift debt millstone from 'untouchable' schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Overworked’ Dumfries High teacher falsified pupils’ results - Scotsman EFA and SFA to merge, Department for Education confirms - Times Educational Supplement | TES SFA and EFA merger confirmed and Lauener retiring - FE Week American University reopens, defying threats of attack - University World News Hundreds of University of Glasgow medical students forced to resit exams amid cheating allegations - Huffington Post Analysing the way children sleep could help us to understand autism - The Conversation Exam boards drop Israel-Palestine from syllabus as schools fight shy of conflict - Guardian Please, Sir – sit! The tale of a learning support dog - Guardian Fast-track social work scheme opens for applications - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Later school start time 'not the solution' for tired teens - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keeping it European - Wonkhe Will T-levels follow the important role of BTECs in widening HE access? - Wonkhe Private fat cats have got rich on the sale of our schools | Michael Rosen - Guardian Jill Stephenson: We need foreigners to teach kids English - Scotsman Teacher encouragement 'gives pupils long-term boost' - BBC National Apprenticeship Awards: apprentice categories - SFA National Apprenticeship Awards: employer categories - SFA Apprenticeship standards - SFA Apprenticeship funding bands - SFA New agency to provide joined-up education and skills funding - SFA GCSE 9 to 1 grading: Justine Greening’s letter - DfE Government launches company to create more free schools - DfE Talented graduates wanted for career in social work - DfE FE funding agencies to merge - AoC | Association of Colleges New GCSE 9-1 grading expectations - AoC | Association of Colleges Greening announces merger of education and skills funding - Nursery World MillionPlus Chief Executive - MillionPlus ASCL welcomes clarification over GCSE grading - ASCL Creation of single funding agency is a good move - ASCL Welcome clarity provided on reformed GCSE grading system - NAHT Free schools - NUT ATL comment on launch of LocatED - ATL ATL comment on benchmark ‘pass’ grade for the new GCSEs - ATL Quality and improvement in Scottish education 2012-2016 - Voice Research integrity - Russell Group comment - Russell Group MillionPlus comment ahead of the triggering of Article 50 - MillionPlus Universities for a modern era - MillionPlus Reducing gender inequalities in engineering apprenticeships - FE News Schools North East launches mock disciplinary hearings amid dwindling LA support - Schools Week Inspectors: Teacher and headteacher shortages 'damaging' pupils' education - Herald Scotland Children missing out on education at risk of abuse and exploitation - Guardian Serota sets up commission to explore benefit of arts for children - Guardian MSPs debate whether inclusion policy is failing pupils - Herald Scotland Urgent government action needed on children outside education, charity warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES University’s modest plans for £10m US campus - Times Hundreds of medical students to resit exams after collusion claims - Times ‘State sector must learn lessons from private schools to improve’ - Times Top universities accused of hiding rise in fake research - Times