News archive for 5th October 2017

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Oxford apologises for IT blunder which revealed names of students on hardship bursaries - Telegraph SATs test which was 'too middle class' has been criticised by the exam regulator  - Telegraph Yemen: unpaid teachers on strike - BBC Children increasingly disillusioned with social media, survey shows - Independent Two universities to provide teacher 'degree apprenticeships' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Motivation, preparation and training: how to win a Tes FE Award - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to fix degree apprenticeships - FE Week RNN Group Colleges secure National Lottery funding with Sport England to encourage student health and fitness - FE News Teens 'rebelling against social media', say headteachers - BBC Details of new degree apprenticeships revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I didn't say no, but I regret that' - BBC More playing field land sacrificed to meet childcare pledge - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to improve your Ofsted grade by supporting learners with additional learning needs - FE News The cure for student debt isn’t frugality – it’s reforming the unfair loans system | Poppy Noor - Guardian Babington Group receives national accolade for high standards in safeguarding - FE News Pendleton Sixth Form College launch their Centre of Excellence in Science - FE News Sats should be scrapped, says best-selling author Lauren Child - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do UK students compare with their worldwide contemporaries? - Guardian Leeds Trinity and Hertfordshire University to create teacher ‘degree apprenticeships’ - Schools Week Let's stop tinkering round the edges – university funding needs a total rethink - Guardian WomenEd invites flexible working ideas for schools - Schools Week Four things we've learned about the apprenticeship levy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anne Milton to speak at AoC Conference - FE Week Ofqual rules 2016 SATs reading test was ‘unduly hard’ - Schools Week Sats reading test was 'unduly hard' says exams watchdog - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tough new targets for schools to get more disadvantaged pupils to pass Highers - Herald Scotland Educating Greater Manchester head: what I've learned at school - Guardian Best of both: Are 'diamond schools' the future of education? - Telegraph A degree is not necessarily for all individuals - FE News Fast-track teacher training pilot targets minimum of just 20 new recruits - Herald Scotland Girls go along with sex acts, says teacher - BBC Teenagers are growing tired of social media - Daily Mail Growing social media backlash among young people, survey shows - Guardian Pupils 'increasingly turning to brick phones' in backlash against social media - Times Educational Supplement | TES Demand for data is ‘overwhelming’ teachers, report warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outrage over Oxford student’s sentence was misguided - Times Graduate denies City pub crawl rape - Times World Teachers' Day: Top 10 facts about schools - Express Survey results confirm UK university staff's deep dissatisfaction - Times Higher Education | THE BPP shuts dental course as regulator raises safety concerns - Times Higher Education | THE Subject cost data add fuel to England's variable fees debate - Times Higher Education | THE The week in higher education – 5 October 2017 - Times Higher Education | THE Ireland: students protest against fee rises and loans - Times Higher Education | THE Netherlands: University of Amsterdam creates Europe’s first ‘body farm’ - Times Higher Education | THE India: students charged as anti-harassment protest turns violent - Times Higher Education | THE