News archive for 13th November 2017

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USA: Talks begin to rewrite rules protecting students from fraud - Mail Oxford college drops plans for a gender-balanced University Challenge team amid fears it will be seen as 'tokenism' - Telegraph Teach First to pull out of bid to run new Scottish fast-track course - Herald Scotland The Guardian view on homophobia in church schools: let a thousand tutus bloom | Editorial - Guardian Corbyn warns Brexit could make teacher recruitment crisis worse - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Guardian view on school funding: pay fair | Editorial - Guardian Plymouth University launches inquiry into bogus students  - Telegraph David Hughes and the AoC are wrong about degree apprenticeships - FE Week Register of end-point assessment organisations: how to apply - Education & Skills Funding Agency ILR data: check that it meets standards and quality requirements - Education & Skills Funding Agency LRS: registration documents - Education & Skills Funding Agency LRS: schedule for uploading ILR/NPD achievement data - Education & Skills Funding Agency LRS: LRB user guide and learning providers list - Education & Skills Funding Agency Individualised Learner Record (ILR): check that data is accurate - Education & Skills Funding Agency Healthy eating guidance published for the early years sector - DfE Work placements – capacity and delivery fund from April 2018 to July 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency How to teach children about abuse - BBC Dyslexic students 'discriminated against' in allowance assessments - BBC Murdered teacher Ann Maguire 'stood absolutely no chance' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School removes board displaying pupils' GCSE progress scores with emojis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government launches early years healthy eating drive - CYPN | Children & Young People Now IOE appoints Director for new Centre for Education Improvement Science - IOE London Blog Adopted children '20 times more likely to be excluded' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How can sports facilities help shape the future of teaching and learning at higher education institution? - HEA Teaching Excellence in 21st Century Higher Education Institutions - HEA New data regulations are coming – is your widening participation project ready? - HEFCE Daily roundup 13 November: Restraint, drag queens, and palliative care - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government rejects call for change on end-point assessment - The Staffroom The student finance system needs shaking up – for the sake of poorer students - The Conversation US hosts record high 1.08 million international students - PIE News More than half of Warwickshire’s children’s centres to close - Nursery World Dads must engage more with children’s education, research suggests - Schools Week EU science collaboration - Russell Group School budget allocations in Northern Ireland - ASCL Part-time working in schools - NAHT Union calls for stricter regulation of for-profit colleges - UCU Data guru Becky Allen to lead new research centre on education policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Workload increasing for independent school staff - NEU poll - National Education Union Brexit - it's about the people, not the money - Russell Group Budget 2017 - Russell Group National Numeracy responds to functional skills consultation - National Numeracy Student loans fraud exposed by Panorama - BBC Awkward romance for beginners: what will a school run by the makers of Love Actually teach? - Guardian Europe is first choice for US mobile students - PIE News Oxford teacher faces action over 'misgendering' pupil - BBC Phillip Schofield infuriated by 'utterly abhorrent' comments during fierce interview with teacher who misidentified transgender student and Christian guest - Mirror Dr Becky Allen to lead new Centre for Education Improvement Science - Schools Week The Sun and Daily Mail accused of putting transgender kids at risk with LGBT+ stories - HuffPost Share your experiences of gender-based bullying – and your solutions - Guardian Anti Bullying Week: over a third of UK women who were bullied say it affected their mental health - FE News Dolly Parton's Jolene hit used in college funding plea - BBC Work placement capacity and delivery fund: DfE to invest £50m - FE News What qualities will future teachers need? - Schools Week The Daily Mail’s ‘boys in tiaras’ story is designed to manufacture rage | Suzanne Moore - Guardian Here's what to consider before choosing an online degree - Guardian Canna school closed after its only four pupils leave the island - Scotsman The pushy parents and unmanageable workloads at private schools - Schools Week Research round-up 10 November 2017 - NAHT Scotland universities to lower entry requirements for children from poor backgrounds - Express Ofsted: Too many pupils underachieving at David Ross Education Trust - Times Educational Supplement | TES How FE colleges can encourage research - FE Week Two-thirds of school leaders believe teacher recruitment crisis will deepen over next two years - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE practitioner research movement gathers pace - FE Week FE and skills inspections and outcomes. Management information from December 2015 - Ofsted David Ross Education Trust told to improve after Ofsted visits 13 schools - Schools Week Unionlearn SkillCheck is go! - Unionlearn Scottish universities to widen access for students from deprived areas - Scotsman Assessment: Reducing children to numbers - Nursery World Childcare minister claims 30 hours success but ready to listen - Nursery World 30 hours: How nurseries are making ends meet - Nursery World A therapeutic trip to the AoC - FE News Level 3 apprenticeships standard ready to go in February - Nursery World The conversation we’re not having about investments - Wonkhe What sort of TEF do students really want? - Wonkhe Research subsidies: universities’ (other) dirty secret - Wonkhe Government investigates severance payouts in academy trusts - Schools Week Top ten tips for making money from learning - FE News Targets for universities to recruit more disadvantaged students "push institutions into competition" - Herald Scotland Let girls and boys wear tiaras, says Church - BBC Boys will be allowed to wear tiaras and tutus in school from age five under new Church of England guidelines - Mirror Let little boys wear tiaras: Church of England issues new advice to comabat transgender bullying for teachers - Mail Boys should be free to wear tutus and tiaras, says Church of England - Guardian More than 60 per cent of UK school staff have witnessed racist bullying - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Special consideration’ in GCSEs and A levels: What you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let children dress up as boys or girls, CofE tells schools - Times Teacher suspended for calling transgender pupil a girl - Times Failed academy trust still runs a dozen schools - Times Scotland: Sir Anton Muscatelli: ‘Give EU students free tuition after Brexit’ - Times Scotland: Universities agree to two-tier admissions system - Times Scotland: ‘Sexist’ uniforms harm pupils - Times