News archive for 20th November 2017

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Kent grammar school plans 'unsafe space' including Mein Kampf - Guardian Calls for Bath University vice-chancellor to resign after damning report - Guardian It is absurd and prejudiced to suggest that hijab ‘sexualises’ girls | Letter - Guardian Scotland urged to give university students a ‘living wage’ - Financial Times Improving digital skills will boost UK economy, study shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils at girls' schools 'more confident' to call out sexual harassment, says president - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted should 'oblige' state schools to work with independent schools, urges head - Times Educational Supplement | TES Did you solve it? This apple teaser is hard core! - Guardian Sheffield College chief executive resigns - FE Week Grammar school establishes ‘unsafe space’ for sexism and gender discussions - Schools Week Recent graduates concerned that degrees offer poor value for money - Edge Foundation US: Survey of admissions staff shows enrolment outlook varies widely - PIE News Apprentice pay – sticking to the rules - Learning & Work Institute Whitehall must create a regional industrial strategy - Financial Times A plan for Britain? The role of a smart skills system in a modern industrial strategy - IPPR Independent review of financial support for students in Scotland - IPPR Celebrating advancing access - Russell Group Staff say Bath vice-chancellor must resign following damning report - UCU Theresa May vows to increase R&D spending by up to £80bn over next decade - PoliticsHome Chancellor urged to means test tuition fees and restore grants - The Staffroom Fairer fees – an overview – Sutton Trust - The Staffroom LRS: information for learners and parents - Education & Skills Funding Agency Urgent question on the Student Loans Company - UK Parliament Welcome, Eileen Milner, ESFA’s new Chief Executive - Education & Skills Funding Agency Campaigners condemn 'ludicrous' hijab questioning - BBC University of Southampton advertises for chauffeur after putting 75 jobs at risk - UCU SEND - what's in a number? - NAHT Small school - NAHT Council should be ashamed of its aggressive stance against teachers - NASUWT DfE guidance: literacy and numeracy catch-up strategies - NAHT The four pillars of great assessment: Value - ASCL Research investment - Russell Group Teachers stop marking work with grades A-E because it 'damages pupils' confidence' when they get low scores - Mirror International students don’t see value in two-year degrees - PIE News University fundraising - Russell Group 17,942 schools face budget cuts, say education unions - National Education Union Schools should be wary about using 'neuroscience nonsense' in classroom, academic says - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Serious investment' required to make major shake-up of student support a reality - Herald Scotland Childcare website glitch leaves families struggling - BBC Calls for Scottish students to have £8,100 yearly income - Scotsman Cambridge student died in fall after taking legal high, inquest told - Guardian ‘Teaching is brutal’: Now Teach founder reflects on first months in the classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES The business of literacy - HuffPost Eileen Milner starts her new role as ESFA’s new Chief Executive - FE News Daily roundup 20 November: Children in Need, child obesity, and RSE - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Most councils face 30-hour funding rates freeze - CYPN | Children & Young People Now More than nine out of 10 schools set for budget cuts, warn unions - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Girl begs ‘please hear my voice’ in emotional letter about being bullied - Metro Government to announce new National Retraining Scheme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Smacking has no place in modern Wales, says minister - BBC Minimum student income proposed for Scottish college students - Times Educational Supplement | TES £288k-a-year university boss bravely comes out as bisexual in email to all staff to help those feeling 'invisible' - Mirror Review recommends student income of £8,100 a year - BBC £76m available for adult retraining in digital and construction - FE Week Stop stressing out our kids – why children’s mental health is as important as academic achievement - Metro New ESFA boss admits levy ‘challenges’ - FE Week First-time headteacher took one of the worst schools in the country and transformed it in an incredible way - Mirror Government faces legal action on pupil nationality data - Schools Week ASLEF and Virgin launch driver apprenticeship scheme - Unionlearn Institute for Apprenticeships announces full membership of new route panels - FE Week A gold star for the nurseries that have stopped being glitter bugs | Jules Howard - Guardian Full list of IfA members revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Budget 2017: £100m National Centre for Computing to train 8,000 new teachers - Schools Week Institute for Apprenticeships appoints industry experts to lead approval of new apprenticeship standards - FE News OECD: give adults free lifelong learning in key sectors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vice-chancellors, add your voices to the call for a second EU referendum - Guardian Can you solve it? This apple teaser is hard core! - Guardian Soas is bottom of the class when it came to my £340 refund - Guardian Apprenticeships need equal billing with university study - FE News Graduate wages slump as minimum income plan proposed - Scotsman Can we learn from boarding schools to help commuter students stick? - HEPI The social model of disability - ATL Most non-academies 'likely to convert by 2022' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cardiff Uni boss: 'Why I told colleagues I'm bisexual' - BBC Is there really a record number of disadvantaged students in HE? - Wonkhe The big Budget choices that the Chancellor faces - Wonkhe Validation arrangements continue to be risky business - Wonkhe Leading MATs have far more pupils with English as additional language - Schools Week The future is digital, our children are analogue. We’re betraying a generation | John Harris - Guardian Pupils on ‘SEN support’ fare worse than pupils with EHCPs - Schools Week Six steps to create good volunteering programmes - Schools Week London primary becomes first state school to top rankings - The Sun Childminding in "crisis" despite Scottish Government expansion of free nursery care - Herald Scotland Top universities are ‘hiring investigators to snoop on millions of ex-students in donation drive’ - The Sun Primary school inspectors to quiz kids as young as 4 if they wear hijabs - The Sun University head is slated for her £468,000 pay deal - Mail Theresa May to promise extra £2.3bn for research and development - Financial Times University fundraising under scrutiny after data breach allegations - Guardian Pregnant at 14: 'I proved myself by getting good GCSEs' - BBC Girls as young as four to be quizzed on why they are wearing hijabs in primary school - Mirror Private girls’ schools 'should embrace apprenticeships’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES School funding and the autumn budget: What you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Almost half of trans pupils have attempted suicide – schools must do more to challenge gender stereotypes - Independent My industrial strategy will build a Britain fit for the future - Times Text speak helps English rather than harms it, insist academics - Times I became a teacher at 57. I am learning the hard way — it is brutal - Times Scotland: Pay students £8,100 living wage, says review - Times