News archive for 31st March 2017

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SNP accused of 'failing Scotland's children' as school budget is slashed by £1billion - Express Spending on Scottish pupils falls by over £1bn in 7 years - Scotsman USA: Trump's company ordered to pay £20m to settle university lawsuit - Express Education secretary backs TV anti-bullying campaign - Nursery World UK HE finances at substantial risk if overseas tuition declines – HEFCE - PIE News Sub-Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy report on apprenticeships - AoC | Association of Colleges Apprenticeship levy is a 'blunt instrument', MPs say - Nursery World Government sets up new company to create more free schools - Nursery World Rochford review - NUT Unions accuse Cheshire colleges of "reckless behaviour" putting 90 jobs at risk - UCU Horizon 2020 - latest statistics - Russell Group How can universities better support local and regional businesses? - Universities UK Recruitment, budgets and accountability - Headteachers' Roundtable How you can use enterprise to improve your college - AoC | Association of Colleges Removal of elected governors in maintained schools - NAHT 2018 performance tables: technical and vocational qualifications - NAHT Grammar schools are now giving priority to disadvantaged pupils, new study shows - Telegraph What's worse than being a teacher in this system? Being a child at the mercy of it - ATL We need to broaden the debate around primary assessment - ATL ATL comment on Government’s apprenticeship policies - ATL In the news: 31 March 2017 - UCU Promoting student electoral registration - HEFCE Daily roundup 31 March: Social mobility, apprenticeships, and mental health - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Wales: job cuts announced at a second university as applications fall - Wales Online Ofsted considers using social media to monitor schools - Guardian Wonkhe won’t do April fools this year, but if we did… - Wonkhe Girls opting out of voicing opinions while still at primary school - Scotsman Rio Ferdinand: 'I'm all for adult education' - Times Educational Supplement | TES SFA: Inform - SFA Ofqual unveils corporate plan 2017 to 2020 - Ofqual Pupil premium: allocations and conditions of grant 2016 to 2017 - DfE Job cuts have been announced at a second university in Wales as applications fall - Wales Online A school has been rated ‘excellent’ in all five categories - a rare highest mark from inspectors - Wales Online Energy Coast UTC handed financial notice to improve - Times Educational Supplement | TES In this week's Tes Further: How to survive a college merger - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities fear Trump indirect research payment cuts - University World News Guardian University Awards 2017 – video - Guardian The strangling of a democratic student movement - University World News Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in March 2017 - Pearson Global: do national qualifications frameworks work? - University World News Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 31 March 2017 - Pearson Taiwan: low birth rate challenges higher education - University World News Lambeth school to offer parents advice on pollution face masks - BBC Ireland: Brexit is an opportunity for Irish universities - University World News Netherlands: foreign university student total doubles in 10 years - University World News Saudi Arabia: school guard uses a cane and a snake to round up female pupils - Mail USA: Iranian graduate students wait in limbo - University World News India: students protest cut in research seats - University World News Scotland: free tuition for EU students in Scottish universities - University World News Ofqual omits ‘strong’ grade from new GCSE guidance - Schools Week ‘Financial challenges’ at David Ross Education Trust prompt staff cuts - Schools Week José Mourinho and Theo Walcott to promote maths in primary schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to consider 'snooping' on pupils' and parents' Facebook pages to monitor school performance - Independent Ofsted watch: ‘Requires improvement’ for K College successor - FE Week Scottish lecturers' demands 'could boost pay by up to 46%' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10 things every child with autism wishes you knew - The Conversation 'I don't want to be education secretary again,' says Michael Gove - Times Educational Supplement | TES A silk scarf and coffee with Peston: ministerial meetings and gifts revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Deaf young people not achieving same FE qualifications as hearing peers - FE News Grammar schools scramble to change admissions policies to prioritise poor pupils ahead of government push - Independent Sub-Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy report on apprenticeships - AoC | Association of Colleges Ofsted will treat this year's writing assessment with 'caution' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How easy is it to predict the judgements of REF panels? - Wonkhe Working while studying: how can I get my social life back? - Guardian Flagship apprenticeships policies will not fill growing skills gap - UK Parliament Wearable tech in HE: fad, flop or flourishing? - Wonkhe Dear anonymous peer-reviewer, your criticism made me a better researcher - Guardian Cognitive biases can hold learning back – here's how to beat them - Guardian Kennington school votes to give pupils pollution face masks - BBC Why study a PhD in English literature? - Times Higher Education | THE Why study a PhD in English literature? - Times Higher Education | THE RateMyApprenticeship’s data shows a positive outlook for apprenticeship growth - FE News Drop in international college students blamed on UK's 'unfriendly' image - Times Educational Supplement | TES 2nd Report of the Sub-Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy - Apprenticeships - UK Parliament More than third of grammar schools change admissions policies to prioritise poor pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES New teachers 'untrained to tackle safeguarding issues' - Times Educational Supplement | TES David Carter: There’s no such thing as an ‘untouchable’ school - Schools Week Ofsted considers tracking Facebook and Twitter to check on schools - Schools Week A fifth of school breakfast clubs fail to reach all needy pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teach 'problem solving' to produce engineers, schools urged - BBC Flagship apprenticeships policies will not fill growing skills gap, MPs warn - FE News Influential group of MPs demand action over lack of apprenticeship assessment organisations - FE Week Judge apprenticeships by outcomes not starts, say MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Teens' science understanding could be improved with juggling and origami' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leading universities still failing to attract the poorest students - Times Apprentice levy ‘doomed to fail’ - Times Tests at age 7 scrapped to lift burden on pupils and teachers - Times 12-minute lessons best for pupil memories, study finds - Schools Week USA: Voicing difference - BBC