News archive for 24th October 2017

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Cambridge University caves to student demands to 'decolonise' English curriculum - Telegraph Tory whip sent 'sinister' letters to universities asking for names of Brexit professors - Mirror Holocaust Education. Reflections on a trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau - Headguruteacher Academies land and buildings collection tool - Education & Skills Funding Agency National Leaders of Further Education: guidance for potential applicants - Education & Skills Funding Agency Guidance for applicants to the pilot of the Strategic College Improvement Fund - Education & Skills Funding Agency Minister appoints new apprenticeship ambassadors - DfE Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency PE and Sports Premium doubles to £320 million - DfE New programme launched to improve colleges - DfE European studies Professors and course content - Universities UK Success at the Skills Olympics - AoC | Association of Colleges NASUWT comments on supply teacher project - NASUWT NASUWT comments on NFER report into flexible working in teaching - NASUWT STA - ​​Primary assessment webinars - NAHT UCU calls on Jo Johnson to condemn MP demanding names of Brexit professors - UCU Free LGBT+ CPD event: launch of LGBT History Month - NAHT Mass lobby of parliament against cuts to school funding - National Education Union Comment on NFER report on teacher retention - National Education Union The political will is there – what are the next steps for increasing investment in UK R&D? - HEPI Teacher retention and turnover research: interim report - NFER Westminster Higher Education Forum: the next steps for delivering open access - implementation, expansion and international trends ( 20 February 2018) - UCET EU course content - Russell Group Education Secretary puts teachers at the heart of social mobility - DfE Justine Greening: We can challenge the impossible - DfE MPs demand urgent action from Oxbridge to widen admissions base - Guardian The Guardian view on universities and Brexit: culture wars | Editorial - Guardian Justine Greening reveals locations chosen for student loan reimbursement pilots - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chris Heaton-Harris takes the Brexit fight to universities - Financial Times Children and young people’s mental health—the role of education: Government Response to the First Joint Report of the Education and Health Committees of Session 2016–17 - UK Parliament Government responds to children and young people’s mental health report - UK Parliament Anne Milton: employers in the 'Dark Ages' on hiring female apprentices - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government names 25 areas for teacher student loan forgiveness pilot - Schools Week The question of knowledge – putting knowledge back into the curriculum - The Staffroom Nick Gibb: The importance of knowledge-based education - The Staffroom How to ensure IAG for young adult carers is meaningful - Learning & Work Institute Providing tailored positive careers guidance to carers - Learning & Work Institute New book explores the challenges of transitioning into adulthood - IOE London Blog Mental health green paper will tackle risks of social media - Schools Week Principal resigns as college made aware of “allegations of mismanagement” - FE Week New England employability fact finding visit to the Higher Education Academy - HEA Why personal tutoring is essential for student success - HEA Tory MP under fire over 'sinister' Brexit demand to universities - BBC Children's mental health green paper 'to feature joint-working duty' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 24 October: County lines, smacking, and school funding - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Why it’s right for Titus Andronicus to come with a trigger warning - New Statesman PE and sport premium for primary schools - DfE USA: Harvard tops US News global rankings - PIE News Brexit ‘McCarthyism’ is unacceptable to universities. Free speech must flourish | Janet Beer - Guardian Tory ex-chair blasts whip over 'Leninist' demand in universities Brexit row - PoliticsHome Caroline Spelman MP: It’s time to give all refugees in Britain a voice - PoliticsHome Newcastle United Foundation appoints new trustee - FE News Tory MP's Brexit letter to universities called 'foolish and outrageous' by Lord Patten - Huffington Post Perceptions survey - Education & Training Foundation Labour 'wouldn't necessarily scrap' teaching apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES My life as a Cambridge University fresher - BBC Angela Rayner: teachers resorting to food banks to survive - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour urges ministers to 'come clean' over collapsed academy trust - Guardian Teacher apprenticeship ‘not a priority’ for Labour, says Rayner - Schools Week Tory MP's Brexit demand to universities 'offensive' - Lord Patten - BBC Teacher handed life ban for possession of child pornography - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister appoints new apprenticeship ambassadors - FE News The Strategic College Improvement Fund - FE News Greening agrees north-east needs Opportunity Area - Schools Week National Leaders of Further Education: guidance for potential applicants - FE News Angela Rayner cays Brexiteer government should 'keep its nose out' of universities - Huffington Post Philip Pullman's swearwords are a useful lesson for children - Guardian Grants worth £250K on offer for struggling colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pilot applications open for new Strategic College Improvement Fund - FE Week Award-winning e-book audit signals new chapter for librarians and disabled students alike - Jisc UK universities recoil at Brexit-backing MP’s request for names - Financial Times Knowledge, the curriculum and the substance of education - Montrose42 Search on for top FE leaders to support struggling colleges - FE Week Funding for PE doubles to £320 million per year - Schools Week ‘Sinister’: UK academics balk at request for lists of Brexit professors - Financial Times 'Good' college leaders sought to support struggling institutions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Supply teachers to demonstrate over '£85-a-day pay' as Wales reveals new system - Wales Online Management Scottish Apprenticeship framework review - Skills CFA MPs appointed as apprenticeship ambassadors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Milton only appoints Conservative MPs as apprenticeships ambassadors - FE Week As protesters descend on London, it's high time the teaching unions stopped scaremongering over school funding - Telegraph ‘Less innocent, more adult’: the unfair perceptions that haunt young black girls - Guardian Hussain Manawer reveals video for 'Playground' - premiere - Independent Disappeared: the headteachers sacked and gagged by academy trusts - Guardian Universities deplore ‘McCarthyism’ as MP demands list of tutors lecturing on Brexit - Guardian ‘Sacked from the school I loved’: a headteacher’s story - Guardian Dear Ms Greening, why won’t your boss give up on new grammar schools?| Michael Rosen - Guardian Academy entrepreneur calls on government to increase funding for schools - Guardian Better part-time opportunities needed for secondary school teachers - NFER Student debt provides a window on the state of the HE debate in Scotland - Wonkhe Trump that: what we can learn from US higher education - Wonkhe Step inside the mind of the young Stephen Hawking as his PhD thesis goes online - Cambridge Network Healthy organisations need healthy leaders - FE Week The importance of technology apprenticeships - FE News Ofsted wipes academy convertor reports after 5 years - Schools Week Meet the parents who ditched school to give their kids lives without boundaries - The Sun Improve part-time working to halt decline in secondary school teachers, says NFER - Schools Week Parents and teachers take school cuts march to Westminster - Huffington Post More than 1,000 school funding campaigners to descend on Parliament today - Times Educational Supplement | TES School staff to march on parliament over funding cuts - Schools Week Part-time secondary school teachers most likely to leave – and four other findings on retention - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our task is to get parents to care about the education of other people’s kids - Times MAT teachers more likely to leave profession, research shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES