News archive for 3rd October 2017

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Student loans should be renamed 'graduate contribution' tax, universities minister suggests - Telegraph Children are having their careers blighted due to 'inaccurate' exam grades, leading headteacher warns  - Telegraph Nick Gibb: Policymakers 'put too much pressure on heads to pass floor standards' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Admissions season: What parents should really be looking for in a school - Telegraph Women-only Cambridge college to allow students who simply 'identify as female' for first time - Telegraph Murray Edwards' decision to accept transgender students threatens its very purpose: to provide a unique space for women to flourish - Telegraph Frugal students won't need help from their parents, says Jo Johnson - Guardian Ex LeSoCo principal steps in at troubled Totton College - FE Week Controversial fast-track teacher training course put out to tender - Herald Scotland Chartered Teacher programme pilot open for applications - SecEd Education Scotland embroiled in transparency row - SecEd How do we secure HE’s role as a public good? - IOE London Blog Treasury letter signals end of one per cent teacher pay cap - SecEd This much I know about…the importance of teaching students the skills to broaden their vocabulary - JohnTomsett College Support Serves Up Irish Food Success - FE News South West top apprentices and apprentice employers announced - FE News B&FC welcomes first students at new Lancashire Energy HQ - FE News Tuition fee changes 'to save students £15,700' - BBC Tuition fee changes to cost taxpayer £2.3bn a year - Financial Times Tory universities minister tells struggling students to 'live frugally' - Mirror Education is a market. But who’s buying and who’s selling? - FE Week NHS takes action against Learndirect Apprenticeships - FE Week Halfon: ‘Cut pupil premium for schools that don’t promote apprenticeships’ - Schools Week Record gender gap in university places - BBC Is the FE sector ready for GDPR? - FE News It’s time to rebuild the AEB process - FE Week Implementing an inclusive approach to apprenticeship support - Unionlearn Removal of apprenticeship frameworks - FE News How to develop an apprenticeship standard: guide for trailblazers - FE News Expansion of undergraduate medical education places: Invitation to make submissions - HEFCE Bath College sports student Katie Robbins wins Target Sprint national final - FE News Teenager charged over alleged assault at Ellon Academy - Scotsman It's time to dispel the myth that creative arts degrees are cheap to run - Guardian From a homeless hostel to vice-chancellor of Lincoln University - Guardian How to improve the school results: not extra maths but music, loads of it - Guardian Pupil roll at Edinburgh’s Gaelic school set to treble - Scotsman Never mind the students, tuition fees are a bad deal for the taxpayer | Martin McQuillan - Guardian Teaching apprenticeships will work if used wisely - Schools Week The secret to recruitment and retention? The invisible student - FE News Jeremy Hunt vows: We will train 25% more UK nurses - Daily Mail Neuroscience should be taught to all teachers to help pupils learn, academic says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dad's fury after school bans Sikh boy, 8, from wearing religious bangle he hasn't taken off since birth - Mirror Catalan: Opportunity and risk for Catalan research in independence debate - Times Higher Education | THE New Cambridge v-c calls for global agenda in 'age of anxiety' - Times Higher Education | THE Student finance reforms raise questions over sector funding and TEF - Times Higher Education | THE Nobel Prize in Medicine 2017 won by 'biological clock' scientists - Times Higher Education | THE Schools in dozens of areas 'will see funding cuts for looked-after pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Struggling schools need an extra £2bn a year, heads tell Hammond - Times Educational Supplement | TES