News archive for 29th November 2017

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Vice-chancellor says she is 'not embarrassed' by £468k pay controversy - Guardian Can grammar teaching improve pupils’ writing? - The Learning Spy Is this the end of the 'fat-cat' university bosses? - BBC Using the register of end-point assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA update: November 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency College accounts direction - Education & Skills Funding Agency Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - Education & Skills Funding Agency EYFS staff:child ratios - DfE approved qualifications - DfE Open academies and academy projects in development - DfE Check early years qualifications - DfE Bath resignation shines light on university governance - Financial Times All post-16 pupils should study a vocational course, former Eton head says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spending on supply teachers rises to £1.3 billion - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former pupils tell inquiry of sexual abuse by priests at Ampleforth College - Guardian Wilshaw: Colleges should 'get off their backsides and work harder' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head and deputy of 'secret shopper' school resign - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heriot-Watt claims podium place in Amazon artificial intelligence competition - Scotsman Interest in study abroad weakening amongst UK students, British Council survey says - British Council Headteachers’ Charter shake-up still an unknown quantity - SecEd Inspirational work with special needs children wins Rebecca HLTA honour - SecEd Funding for children with high needs is insufficient, says NAHT - NAHT Universities must listen to what international students think about value for money - HEPI University of Bath vice-chancellor to leave post - UCU Reception year is critical - but policy must be evidence based, says NAHT - NAHT A school leader's guide to British values and how to apply them - NAHT ISC statement following the Education Select Committee hearing on integrity of public exams - Independent Schools Council | ISC Budget reaction: Redunancies warning, funding rows and maths confusion - SecEd Wellbeing stronger in higher education graduates - HEFCE The reform of technical education in England - IOE London Blog In the December edition of CYP Now: PSHE education; local safeguarding; and mental health support for children in care - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 29 November: Domestic violence, loan sharks, and knife crime - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK: Willetts states support for more post-study work - PIE News Cumulative compensatory assessment in engineering education - Learning Scientists Interest in study abroad declining among UK students - Times Higher Education | THE Schools and education organisations secure £50,000 University research fund - Leeds Beckett University Aberystwyth University has approved a £12m upgrade to the historic Pantycelyn student hall - Wales Online Strategy is needed to make schools ready for the future - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted urged to change policy that allows schools breaching SEND code to be rated 'outstanding' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Industrial strategy: what’s missing is what matters - FE Week UK’s new industrial strategy is a breakthrough moment - Financial Times Hijabs are none of Ofsted’s business - Schools Week Ofsted: ‘We won’t single out Muslim pupils for wearing the hijab’ - Schools Week Bath University students furious over 'golden handshake' for boss amid row over £470,000 salary - HuffPost Early Excellence not in running for new baseline tests - Schools Week Four kids with SEN: It's made us better people - BBC Rise to national minimum wage threatens nurseries' survival - Nursery World Boss of Bright Tribe leaves - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early Excellence pulls out of bid for 'unworkable' Reception baseline test - Times Educational Supplement | TES Six reasons why Baseline the sequel will be a harder sell - IOE London Blog Academy 'destroying our futures' say pupils - BBC Head breaks down in tears as he describes how his predecessor faked test scores - Wales Online Bright Tribe chief Mary McKeeman resigns - Schools Week Loan sharks 'hang around the school gates' - BBC £10m anonymous donation to Edinburgh University’s Futures Institute - Scotsman Will apprenticeships halt decline in sub-degree higher education? - FE News The industrial strategy is ambitious—now the hard work begins - FE News Using the register of end-point assessment organisations - FE News Further education outcome-based success measures: 2014 to 2015 - DfE Guardian Public Service Awards 2017 learning and development winner: Swansea council - Guardian Guardian Public Service Awards 2017 health and wellbeing winner: Highgate primary school - Guardian Financial support for students in higher education: England 2017 - Student Loans Company Children’s social care data for the Ofsted Annual Report 2016/17 - Ofsted Financial support for students in higher education: Northern Ireland 2017 - Student Loans Company 'If she said no, he would hit her': stories of sexual harassment in schools - Guardian Students with BTECs do worse at university – here's how we close the gap | Angus Holford - Guardian A positive moment of uncertainty for universities? - Wonkhe Why Budget 2017 did so little to help students - Wonkhe Dirty air is killing our children. Why does the government let this happen? | George Monbiot - Guardian The UK’s highest-paid university vice-chancellor is leaving Bath and pocketing an extra £700k on her way out - The Sun Eton headmaster admits his teachers helped set seven exams sat by his own pupils - Mail Major report says areas provide young people with thriving education institutions and good jobs - Mail Students at Oxford college vote to rename room named after classical scholar accused of sexual harassment - Mail University team rejects prize because of 'sexist' awards ceremony - Guardian The nursery in Amsterdam's red light district - BBC Number of British students studying abroad plummets, report finds - Telegraph Bath University chief Dame Glynis Breakwell quits with six-figure golden goodbye - Times Eton masters set national exams sat by their pupils - Times Nursery children spend 8 hours a week online - Times Oxford votes to drop name of ‘sex pest’ Eduard Fraenkel - Times Oxford University after a first with bonds - Times Scotland: Professor linked to Russian ‘dirt on Clinton’ quits Stirling university role - Times Ireland: Trinity starts afresh as word for undergraduates goes stale - Times