News archive for 10th October 2017

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Race Disparity Audit - DfE Former polytechnics should lose university status, says Adonis - Guardian Oxford University students reprimanded after banning Christian Union from freshers' fair - Evening Standard Plenty of ways to bring an end to plagiarism in university essays | Letters - Guardian What are we doing to our children?    - Telegraph Oxford University’s college system is in need of reform, vice-Chancellor says  - Telegraph Bursaries for primary teacher trainees to end next year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher who said gay people 'have a disease' barred from teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disadvantaged children from ethnic minority backgrounds in London perform best at school, report finds - Evening Standard Prime Minister launches world-leading project on impact of ethnicity on everyday life - DfE RSC pushed to rebroker WCAT schools nine months before official announcements - Schools Week Northern schools more likely to be rated 'inadequate' or 'requires improvement' by Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Revealed: New sponsors for WCAT's schools - Schools Week SNP Conference 2017: Education shambles as teachers working double contract hours - Express Kensington MP lends weight to college survival campaign - FE Week The IQ test wars: why screening for intelligence is still so controversial - The Conversation ParentPay website unavailable for school meal payments - BBC Lord Adonis, Lord Willetts and Paul Johnson questioned by Committee - UK Parliament Wakefield City Academies Trust schools to be split between eight sponsors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Global: What do student mental health services look like around the world? - Times Higher Education | THE Multiple-choice testing: are the best practices for assessment also good for learning? - Learning Scientists Taxpayers ‘pay more for university student’ now than before £9,000 fees - The Staffroom North East, Yorkshire and the Humber top apprentices and apprentice employers announced - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: course directory - Education & Skills Funding Agency Education services grant (ESG) transitional grant 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency New school proposals - DfE How a local school in Whitby hopes to save Britain's fishing industry  - Telegraph Longfield calls for action on 'shockingly poor' children's mental health treatment - CYPN | Children & Young People Now May vows to tackle disparities affecting children's life chances - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 10 October: Childcare, ADHD, and body issues - CYPN | Children & Young People Now BAE Systems: Apprenticeships safe from mass job losses - FE Week Workload and its impact on school leaders - NAHT NASUWT comments on racial disparity audit - NASUWT Taking action on mental health - AoC | Association of Colleges Making staff wellbeing your number one focus - ASCL World Mental Health Day – graduate wellbeing in the workplace - Universities UK A cautious welcome for the government’s ethnic outcome audit - Policy Exchange IOE professor amongst ‘most influential’ in British schools and universities - IOE London Blog Hungary in language dispute with Ukraine over schools - BBC WorldSkills 2017: Team UK given send-off at Parliament - FE Week IPPR report into school exclusion - National Education Union Statement on World Mental Health Day - Universities UK Labour and Conservative conferences focus on need to build an educated, skilled workforce - PoliticsHome Men get most of the research funding – it’s a serious problem for women and science - The Conversation Prime Minister urged to address under-funding - AoC | Association of Colleges We need compulsory sex education in primary schools to tackle child-on-child abuse - New Statesman Grammar heads say poor pupils are losing out as DfE delays transport pledge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Selective schools left in limbo over £200m capital funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private tutoring: time well invested - Telegraph Morgan: No character education means schools do 'half a job' - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC urge Prime Minister to address under-funding - FE News Hundreds of maths GCSE students 'double entered' in summer 2017 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Soft power brings concrete benefits, say Scots academics - Scotsman Government pledges to tackle ethnic inequalities in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland’s teachers ‘on their knees’ due to extreme workload - Scotsman Teachers' high workload is 'iceberg' of education system, union warns - Herald Scotland College leaders beg Theresa May for more 16-to-19 funding - FE Week Government approves new teacher apprenticeship - Schools Week Sixth-form students being 'short-changed', argue college leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents fighting rural primary school closures thrown a lifeline - Herald Scotland DfE to review ‘disproportionate’ exclusions of certain ethnicities - Schools Week The face of every pupil has been added to a mural to celebrate a school's golden anniversary - Wales Online Greening opens National College for High Speed Rail - FE Week ‘You want to shout: Stop saying that! Look at your own school funding figures!’ - Guardian Let’s free education from the hands of the stale, pale male | Fiona Millar - Guardian Badly behaved children might not have ADHD — they may ‘just be immature’, study claims - The Sun University poacher turned gamekeeper sets sights on vice-chancellors’ pay - Guardian Train teachers on exclusion to spread best practice, think tank urges - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Making the difference: Breaking the link between school exclusion and social exclusion - IPPR Farewell TEF, hello TEaSOF: Year 3 digested - Wonkhe New ways to tackle the essay mill cheats - Wonkhe OfS must dig deeper in its attempts to listen to students - Wonkhe Headteacher outcry after £7m SEND pot assigned to academy expansion - Schools Week A rise in the number of pupils being expelled from school is costing the taxpayer over £2billion each year - The Sun Tuition fees will be frozen at £9,250, confirms Universities Minister - The Sun Group of top girls' schools scraps the 11-plus because the exam puts too much stress on children - Mail I was an idiot looking back, says excluded boy - BBC Leading girls' schools scrap entrance exams amid mental health concerns - Telegraph Nicola Sturgeon to promise childcare provision 'unmatched' in UK - BBC School exclusions data in England only 'the tip of the iceberg' - Guardian Private schools deceive parents with their 'slick marketing machines', Eton headmaster suggests - Telegraph Oxford college bans 'harmful' Christian Union from freshers' fair - Telegraph Excluded pupils twice as likely to have unqualified teachers, report finds - Schools Week Schools are meeting more careers-advice benchmarks - Schools Week Excluding a pupil 'costs taxpayer up to £370k' - Times Educational Supplement | TES New charity aims to reduce link between school exclusion and social exclusion - Times Educational Supplement | TES Balliol College Oxford bans Christians from freshers fair - Times Youngest children in class more likely to be labelled hyperactive - Times Half of expelled pupils are mentally ill - Times Scotland: SNP’s £420m extra for childcare part of ten-year power plan - Times Nicola Sturgeon to spend a billion on childcare - Express