News archive for 2nd October 2017

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School open days: Eight things to look for - BBC Maths teacher bursaries rise £10,000, but they’ll get less upfront - Schools Week UK spending watchdog to probe Learndirect funding - Financial Times Students displaced by Hurricane Irma make Preston their new home - Guardian New National Institute of Education set up to help schools use apprenticeship levy - Schools Week National Audit Office to investigate Learndirect and the DfE - FE Week 'Tories lie consistently': students on Theresa May's tuition fee plans - Guardian Primary school bans Sikh pupil from wearing Kara bangle - Daily Mail Student loans: educated guesses - Financial Times Social mobility isn’t about behaving like the middle class - Schools Week Conservative conference: Manchester students on tuition fees - BBC Midlands' top apprentices and apprentice employers announced - FE News AEB contracts boost will be paid from unspent £200m - FE Week Teachers will get last year’s student loan payments back under pilot - Schools Week Otley primary school spend half-hour 'inspecting lunches' - Daily Mail Why we're adding Black Mathematician Month to our calendars - Guardian New education and skills measures announced are a boost for degree-apprenticeships - FE News Sussex Downs College offers free courses - Unionlearn College joins European drive to get women into STEM - FE News Somerset provider reopens courses after major AEB increase – but it’s still £1m short - FE Week Cardiff and Vale College students take part in Two Player Games – an award winning BBC film - FE News Forget tuition fees: cost of living is the key issue facing students | Josh Salisbury - Guardian Social capital: the new frontier in widening participation at universities - Guardian Progress 8: What you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pearson merges Edexcel exams and textbooks publisher – but insists staff won’t mix - Schools Week Entering SEND pupils to pre-key stage standards ‘too subjective’ - Schools Week Six organisations win a slice of £75m Teaching & Leadership Fund - Schools Week Nearly 5,000 prospective teachers fail QTS tests 3 times - Schools Week Gold Standard Colleges: how can institutes improve satisfaction? - FE News Number of children with anxiety about gender identity quadruples in four years - Herald Scotland St Andrew's University suspends students amid bullying row - Daily Mail Growing numbers of young children face being “parked” on readily available drugs - Herald Scotland Headmasters' chairman: Don't sneer at private schools - Daily Mail Tory conference: Party freezes student fees in £11bn drive to win youth vote - Times Private schools are vital to state education, says head - Times Short-term study abroad ‘better for building teamwork skills’ - Times Higher Education | THE Graduate employment tracking set to be rolled out across Europe - Times Higher Education | THE Sixth forms will close without more cash, heads warn chancellor - Times Educational Supplement | TES Quarter of young people admit to bullying someone online - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads gathering to discuss 'unreliable' exam grading - Times Educational Supplement | TES End 'hostilities' against independent schools, urges HMC chair - Times Educational Supplement | TES New education and skills measures announced - GOV.UK Theresa May pledges to freeze tuition fees as Tories seek to win back young voters - PoliticsHome