News archive for 10th May 2017

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Shadow education secretary and another radio gaffe - Mail USA: Trump's education secretary relentlessly booed at university ceremony 50,000 people petitioned against her attending - Mirror Tom Peterkin: No hiding place from damning school report card - Scotsman Scottish trainee teachers not getting the right skills - Express UCU comment on Labour pledge to increase funding for lifelong learning - UCU Over 900 jobs at risk at University of Manchester as university announces major cuts - UCU Manchester University denies job cuts 'due to Brexit' - BBC Liberal Democrats general election school funding pledge - NUT Labour Party education funding promise - NUT UCU welcomes colleges' role in major new apprenticeship contract - UCU School funding should stay on top of the General Election Agenda, says NAHT - NAHT Colleges want more opportunities for students from the next Government - AoC | Association of Colleges Advancing Access: Support for teachers will boost access to leading universities - Russell Group The young people who don’t fall NEET-ly into the picture - NFER ATL comment on Labour Party’s education plans - ATL UK's largest academy trust's caretaker cuts pose serious risk to pupils - ATL The future of UK higher education: What should the manifestoes say? - HEPI LA and school expenditure: 2015 to 2016 financial year - DfE Postgraduate master’s loans: equality analysis - DfE The benefits of university spread far beyond financial gain - Wonkhe 'I haven't got the numbers' Labour politician flounders in car-crash interview over pledge - Express 'A lingering sense of unreality' - Jeremy Corbyn on the stump - Times Educational Supplement | TES Theresa May slams Corbyn's plans to scrap university fees - Mail Labour hinting at major policy announcement on university tuition fees - Mail John McDonnell: Labour would scrap tuition fees once and for all (video) - Mail Leaked Labour draft manifesto reveals national pay bargaining for teachers - Schools Week University of Manchester to axe 171 staff amid Brexit concerns - Guardian The Association of Colleges publishes its General Election Manifesto - FE News Mum: Why I'm teaching my kids about voting (video) - BBC AoC manifesto calls for employer levy funding restrictions - FE Week Universities must do more to tackle use of smart drugs, say experts - Guardian General election 2017: Labour pledge £20bn for English schools - BBC Trainee primary teachers 'lack' basic literacy and numeracy skills - Herald Scotland Manchester University to axe up to 171 jobs in cost-saving drive - Huffington Post Corbyn needs to find £10bn a year to make good on tuition fee pledge | Phillip Inman - Guardian Manchester University job cuts 'due to Brexit', union claims - BBC University staff: VCs are too 'far away from the day-to-day reality' - Guardian Education reform 'imperative' in Scotland after slump in pupils' writing scores - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can we improve school interviews Part 2 - The Learning Spy USA: Some Yale teachers are refusing to eat in protest of the university. I'm one of them | Lukas Moe - Guardian Babies with involved fathers learn faster, study finds - BBC Labour hints that it will pledge to abolish university tuition fees - Guardian Labour would 'scrap tuition fees once and for all', John McDonnell announces - Mirror GCSE grading changes mean trauma and chaos for pupils, Labour claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK's best-paid primary headteacher suspended amid fraud inquiry - Guardian John McDonnell reveals Labour will abolish tuition fees if elected - Huffington Post Trainee teachers graduate ‘without skills to teach P7 maths’ - Scotsman Instead of pouring money down the Brexit black hole, let’s invest in Britain’s schools - Huffington Post Labour Party officially launches its ‘National Education Service’ - Schools Week Angela Rayner can't say how many kids would be helped by Labour's class sizes policy in awkward interview - Mirror Angela Rayner: 'Labour will end the historic neglect of further education' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour corporation tax hike could help schools but dent economy, says IFS - Guardian Town planning degree apprenticeship approved in principle by Government - FE News Holidays and games consoles – how parents reward pupils for passing exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Angela Rayner hints Labour party will abolish tuition fees if elected - Huffington Post Philanthropist leaves Napier university £750k to support classical music - Scotsman Learning Rep - Summer 2017 edition - Unionlearn Adecco Group finds that one in four UK employers have never considered employing apprentices - FE News Liberal Democrats pledge £660M funding boost for FE - FE News What are the Labour Party plans for FE? - FE News Labour spells out plans to drive apprenticeships quality to FE Week - FE Week Corbyn plans to fund £20bn education overhaul by scrapping corporation tax cut promise - Express Labour promises to spend £5.6bn on 'NHS for education' - Guardian A Labour government will transform education to help every person reach their potential - Huffington Post UNISON event focuses on the Apprenticeship Levy - FE News Canada: ‘Improve diversity or lose funding’, Canadian universities warned - Times Higher Education | THE Manchester 'blames Brexit' for 'enormous' job cuts - Times Higher Education | THE Marshall Dallas: Teenagers offer bright future for Scotland - Scotsman Pity our children – they’re being turned into grammar robots at school | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Welsh schools mental health scheme to 'tackle stigma' - BBC Schools told not to plan for budget deficits - BBC John McDonnell confirms Labour government would axe tuition fees - PoliticsHome Angela Rayner hints at Labour manifesto pledge to scrap tuition fees - PoliticsHome Liberal Democrats would boost education funding by £7bn, says Tim Farron - PoliticsHome EU: European educators caught short in humanitarian crisis, ESU says - PIE News Liberal Democrats announce education pledges - AoC | Association of Colleges Colleges call on the next Government to invest in more opportunities for students - AoC | Association of Colleges Labour Party announces education pledges - AoC | Association of Colleges Labour and Lib Dems promise billions of pounds for schools - Nursery World Labour unveils plans for national education service - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Educating students to be work ready - FE News The 11-plus is ‘like rolling a loaded dice’, researchers say - SecEd The world wide web goes on trial - SecEd So, how ‘competitive’ is your teaching salary? - SecEd Mental health education petition hits 100,000 target - SecEd Online reading and numeracy tests in Wales - SecEd Concern over the thousands of pupils being excluded from sitting GCSEs - SecEd Charity launches campaign for 140-hour paid internships - SecEd Teenagers pitch ideas for the future - SecEd Net Aware guide gives insight into trends and risks on social media - SecEd News at a glance: May 11 - SecEd General Election 2017: Politicians urged to place social mobility at heart of next government - SecEd Exams risk from teacher shortages - SecEd We'll block Theresa's grammar school revolution, warn the luvvie elite - Mail General election 2017: Labour and Lib Dems pledge school cash - BBC #PMfortheday: Teens on voting, tampon tax and farming (video) - BBC The Left's campaign against grammars will pull up the ladder to a chance of success - Mail One in four UK firms never consider recruiting apprenticeships, despite a new industry levy - City AM Corbyn plans to hike corporation tax to 26% to fund spending spree on schools and grants for college students - Mail Lib Dems commit to defending 16 to 19 funding - FE Week Brexit Britain mustn't lose £2.4 billion investment in people - FE News 'Mesearch' - when study really is all about me - BBC Liberal Democrats pledge £7bn education funding boost - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lib Dems promise £660m boost to FE funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney calls for lessons to be learned from bad experiences of trainee teachers - Herald Scotland Leadership ‘weak’ at controversial school - Herald Scotland Liberal Democrats promise to ‘protect’ school funding - Schools Week Scotland: Troubles of trainee teachers will be ‘a lesson’ for Swinney - Times Scotland: Migrants ‘put off Scotland by higher taxes and schools’ - Times Scotland: ‘Shameful’ figures reveal decline in school literacy - Times Corbyn to tax business and spend £30bn on education - Times AELP Briefing Paper No 47 Apprenticeship levy: questions and answers (May 2017 update) - AELP