News archive for 29th March 2017

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School inspections just don’t work - Scotsman SFA update: March 2017 - SFA LRS: monthly headline report - SFA 2018 performance tables: technical and vocational qualifications - DfE Decisions about A level class sizes - DfE Apprenticeships in England by industry sector - DfE Encouraging people into university - DfE Local skills case study - DfE Ministers questioned on education and children’s mental health - UK Parliament ASCL response to PAC report: DfE has buried its head in the sand over funding - ASCL Dropping ECDL is unfair and disruptive - ASCL New dawn for AoC Annual Conference - AoC | Association of Colleges Article 50 - open letter - Russell Group Is it the Departments for Education's role to set up a property company? - Voice ATL comment on Public Accounts Committee report on financial sustainability of schools - ATL AELP responds to latest insights from MPs on apprenticeships for young people - AELP School funding in crisis - Voice Government to drop forced GCSE resits - National Numeracy Universities must be clear about their own Articles of faith - Wonkhe Lords amendment to extend child benefit entitlement for apprentices - FE Week UK educators react to triggering of Article 50 - PIE News Lords vote in favour of more financial support for apprentices - Times Educational Supplement | TES US-linked top university fears new rules will force it out of Hungary - Guardian Children struggling to concentrate at school due to lack of sleep, MPs told - Guardian 'Schools won't be able to afford teaching assistants': Minister hears London heads' funding fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES School leaders call again for action as UCAS reveals falling teacher training figures - SecEd Speech, language and communication needs going unmet - SecEd National Education Union set to become fourth largest trade union in the UK when it launches in September - SecEd Arts & Minds 2017: Students invited to stand up for cultural diversity and equality - SecEd This is how to get into Oxbridge - according to admissions tutors - Wales Online Wales' Education Secretary Kirsty Williams sets out her plans for schools - Wales Online The harrowing stories behind the thousands of pupils who are missing education - SecEd Sending letters to sixth-formers boosts chance of attending top university - Schools Week How animals can help autistic children - The Conversation Oxford University to run FE leadership programme - Times Educational Supplement | TES First major principal leadership programme unveiled since LSIS closure - FE Week Edinburgh University students asked to grade their lecturers - Scotsman A level class sizes and their cost efficiency - FE News Hungary university backed by Soros 'is facing closure' - BBC Can Bristol University’s Wills Memorial Building escape its legacy of slavery? - Guardian University of Bristol students demand name change for Wills Memorial Building over ‘slave trade links’ - Huffington Post Liberate new youth employment programme from Universal Credit - sector response - FE News Government study reveals minimum A-level class size - Schools Week 42% of Leave voters back return of caning post-Brexit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wellbeing measures, missionaries and Spanish porn: nine mental-health recommendations - Times Educational Supplement | TES Researchers tell DfE: 'Reducing the range of A-levels could tackle funding cuts' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rhodes Must Fall-inspired students call for Bristol University tower name change over slave-trade links - Independent Schools won't be judged on fast-track ECDL IT qualification from next year - Times Educational Supplement | TES ECDL dropped from 2018 league tables – 12 months earlier than planned - Schools Week South Africa: Universities pay tribute to struggle icon Ahmed Kathrada - University World News 2017 National Apprentice Awards launched this week - Unionlearn New, alternative providers are the face of change in higher education  - Telegraph Behaviour in schools: The common factors behind success and failure - SecEd Sub-Committee to publish Apprenticeships report - UK Parliament School standards at risk from significant financial pressures - UK Parliament Government 'deluded' about impact of school spending cuts - MPs - PoliticsHome Public Accounts Committee’s damning report on school funding - NUT Universities UK statement on the triggering of Article 50 - Universities UK Does higher education have a retention problem? - Wonkhe Encouragement from teachers has greatest influence on less advantaged children - Cambridge Network Scott Macnab: Lessons to be learned on education - Scotsman Approaching Article 50 - London School of Economics | LSE Announcing the FE Strategic Leadership Programme - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Institutional reviews of HEA accredited CPD schemes highlight contribution - HEA New further education programme for Chief Financial Officers - Education & Training Foundation | ETF 'Ministers are not learning lessons from NHS cuts': Four education funding warnings issued by MPs today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Helen Hayes MP: London schools put at risk by Tories 'disproportionate' school funding formula - PoliticsHome Climbdown on shake-up of GCSE grading: Education Secretary softens mark for a 'pass' after critics complain new scale would create confusion - Mail Now students at the University of Bristol want 'offensive' building renamed because it commemorates founder with links to the slave trade - Mail Cash cuts 'threaten school standards', say MPs - BBC University lecturers ‘judged’ by student questionnaires - Herald Scotland Test fewer pupils on more subjects: campaigners offer alternative primary assessment plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Public spending watchdog: 'Desk-based DfE officials do not understand the budget pressures faced by schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education quality in English schools at risk from funding cuts - Guardian Looming spending squeeze for schools will create an 'NHS crisis' in education system, report warns - Telegraph MPs: Government showing ‘collective delusion’ over funding cuts - Schools Week Garda College ‘kept secret bank accounts’ - Times