News archive for 6th October 2017

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Sex dungeon head teacher jailed for four years after swindling £100,000 - Express Cambridge college apologises for 'welcome service' pamphlet adorned with Auschwitz slogan 'work brings freedom' - Telegraph York University launches investigation after students boast of freshers' week 'ambulance chart' - Telegraph Teacher jailed after 'full blown' sexual relationship with 15-year-old boy - Telegraph ‘Fastest school ever built’ opens for pupils displaced by Grenfell Tower fire - Guardian Matrix Academy Trust ordered to review governance after ESFA investigation - Schools Week Policy Eye: highlights of week ending Friday 6 October 2017 - Pearson How Schools Week complained about a job advert and uncovered a strange situation - Schools Week MBA students become unlikely beneficiaries of UK apprenticeship levy - Financial Times Ofsted watch: a good week for FE as providers maintain grade twos - FE Week School discipline: how strict is too strict? - BBC Universities try to transcend Brexit - Financial Times Dad paid £6-a-week by taxpayers to drive daughter to school after she missed out on place at nearest one - Mirror No need to fully fund level two apprenticeships - FE Week Team UK all set for WorldSkills 2017 in Abu Dhabi - FE Week Salford College launches Centre of Excellence in Construction and Engineering - FE News New Chair sets out ambitious plans for South Staffordshire College - FE News Subject choices are guided by enjoyment and usefulness over difficulty, Ofqual research finds - Schools Week Ofsted plans to recruit staff with more experience of workplace training - FE Week Milton in the middle - FE Week Suffolk provider successfully contests Ofsted grade 4 - FE Week What every teacher should know about ... memory - Guardian Harris academy chain to build 100 homes for teachers - Schools Week Schools can invite Katie Hopkins to speak, says Prevent expert - Schools Week Government delays land valuations — leaving schools to foot the bill - Schools Week Failure to find sponsors raises 'serious' questions over academisation law - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford University student found dead on roof - Daily Mail SATs reading test 'so tough it left pupils in tears' - Daily Mail Give pupils with hearing loss more support with reading, urge experts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils 'failed' by lack of mental health training for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three-year Esol waiting list caused by 'chronic underfunding' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school Sats too hard, says watchdog - Times Cash offer to Scottish teacher trainees - Times I’ll not admit poor students just to hit targets, Aberdeen University chief insists - Times School heads lack local support - Times Ireland: Cork college questioned over €13,000 leaving event - Times Funding for top students in London boosts cancer battle - Evening Standard Jobs boss: Talented teens don’t all need university - Evening Standard ClassDojo: the social network linking up schools with parents - Evening Standard As a state-school kid from a council estate, I experienced Oxbridge privilege differently - Evening Standard UK universities’ estate spending tops £3 billion for first time - Times Higher Education | THE