News archive for 20th October 2017

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University chief faces prison over £500,000 fraud - Mail UK schools teach maths Singapore-style to boost standards - Financial Times Former Edge Hill dean defrauded university of more than £500K - Times Higher Education | THE Primary pupils as young as 7 to ‘inspect’ their school - Scotsman UK schools teach maths Singapore-style to boost standards - Financial Times Oxbridge 'failing to address diversity', David Lammy says - Guardian Childcare costs rise seven times faster than income - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 20 October: Smacking, obesity and child bereavement - CYPN | Children & Young People Now If Oxford colleges exclude black students, the university should intervene - New Statesman £24m up for grabs to run breakfast clubs in 1,500 schools - Schools Week Childcare costs have risen four times faster than wages - Nursery World Watch our new QTLS videos - Education & Training Foundation Further education area reviews: funding to restructure colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency National professional qualifications: frameworks - DfE GCSE and equivalent results: 2016 to 2017 (provisional) - DfE Professional development for school leaders - DfE Employer ownership pilot round 2: process evaluation - DfE Edge Hill University managers found guilty of fraud - UCU Shadow education secretary backs striking University of Manchester staff - UCU In the news: 20 October 2017 - UCU Teachers from across Wales gather for the NASUWT Cymru Conference - NASUWT Skills Plan - how will the new plans for technical education impact on you as providers of technical education? - AoC | Association of Colleges Are teacher pay reforms having an impact on schools? - NFER Latest government-commissioned employer survey should kill off ‘too many poor quality providers’ myth once and for all - AELP The Guardian view on Oxbridge admissions: race, place and class matters | Editorial - Guardian Race, class and Oxbridge’s stranglehold on British society | Letters - Guardian Weekend read: Is Ofsted's legal win a seismic step forwards for equality – or a storm in a teacup? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes podcast: Assistant heads, primary leaders' pay and parking problems - Times Educational Supplement | TES Black students on Oxbridge: 'we need to change the narrative' - Guardian Primary pupils to ‘inspect’ their schools - Scotsman GSE: Teachers’ top tips for designing meaningful PD programs - Edmodo Oxford is accepting more state school pupils – in the South East at least - New Statesman Why should we design student interactions for diverse cohorts into our learning and teaching? - HEA Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 20 October 2017 - Pearson The General Data Protection Regulation and what it means for cyber security - Jisc British Accreditation Council new scheme for offshore ELT - PIE News A reply from a Muslim woman who had a segregated education - Huffington Post 5 reasons why project based learning will get your school ahead of the curve - Edmodo WorldSkills 2017: Full medal tables published - FE Week CofE to train hundreds of aspiring headteachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thirty providers to offer new qualification for academy trust leaders and executive heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edge Hill's former dean of education convicted of fraud - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales school cash reserves drop 'should ring alarm bells' - BBC Policy Eye: highlights of week ending Friday 20 October 2017 - Pearson Uganda condemns sex education for 10-year-olds as 'morally wrong' - Guardian School open days are all about business. They put my teeth on edge - Guardian Ofsted watch: Two colleges improve to ‘good’ rating - FE Week Scientists bust myth that academic productivity declines with age - Times Higher Education | THE Colleges lose £1.2 million under controversial condition-of-funding rules - FE Week Review of new qualifications must be 'accelerated' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Budget 2017: Non-levy funding looms large - FE Week Rt Hon Justine Greening MP questioned on the work of her Department - UK Parliament Cash-strapped college wastes £3m on development plans - FE Week End point assessment crisis – apprentices who can’t complete - FE Week Revealed: Damning Ofsted findings on 'gender segregation' school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford and Cambridge University accused of ‘social apartheid’ due to pitiful levels of diversity - Metro Lack of EPA is a disaster for apprentices and government - FE Week Oxford and Cambridge universities accused of 'social apartheid' over failure to offer places to black students - Independent Team UK win 20 Medals and finish 10th in the medal tables at the Abu Dhabi WorldSkills competition - FE News Universities demand 'urgent clarity' over Brexit visa rules - PoliticsHome Labour MP David Lammy slams 'social apartheid' of Oxbridge admissions - PoliticsHome WorldSkills 2017 – Team UK Souvenir Supplement - FE Week Catherine Gee: What sort of world are we making for our kids? It’s time we thought about it - Scotsman Campus security on sexual health week: 'we'll be as frank as our contracts allow' - Guardian Seven years has changed nothing at Oxbridge. In fact, diversity is even worse | David Lammy - Guardian Oxbridge uncovered: More elitist than we thought - BBC Recruitment crisis causes explosion in number of assistant heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES If millennials are wary of free speech, who can blame them? | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Pregnant? Offender? What the government wants to know about AP pupils - Schools Week MAT employees asked to relocate 100 miles away after not reading small print - Times Educational Supplement | TES £53m MAT growth fund open to trusts without proven record - Schools Week Freedom of speech phobics are wrecking our university campuses – and Jo Johnson was right to tell uni’s to open students minds - The Sun Oxford and Cambridge Universities accused of "social apartheid" after colleges fail to admit any black students - Mirror Headteacher takes her own children out of school for a year and claims ‘authorities won’t care’ - The Sun How pupils could be given access to their school's raw data - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former education ministers gather to tackle global education problems - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofstedwatch: the latest Ofsted reports for FE and skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of colleges charging £9K tuition fees on the rise - Times Higher Education | THE Stephen Exley: let’s shout about FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of colleges charging £9K tuition fees on the rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES St Olave’s School’s headmaster, Aydin Onac, suspended in A-level scandal - Times Teacher Louisa Jones takes her three children on a year-long holiday - Times Oxford and Cambridge dominated by applicants from the southeast - Times Universities use buzz words to secure awards - Times University chief Alistair Jarvis calls for urgent clarity on post-Brexit visas - Times Watchdog to tell students where their tuition fee money goes - Times Analysis: which works best? Graduate tax or student loans? - Times Dump university tuition fees and mad system of loans, says James Dyson - Times Snowflake students must learn how to argue - Times Scotland: Voters split over students or state funding university fees - Times Ireland: Trinity college to start using green machines - Times