News archive for 25th October 2017

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USA: University of Illinois professor publishes written theory explaining why mathematics coursework 'perpetuates white privilege' - Mail More Cambridge University subjects face 'decolonisation' campaigns - Telegraph The inspirational Welsh teachers named among the UK's elite - Wales Online Brathay apprentice challenge winners GSK in Westminster visit - FE News Sally Collier Keynote Speech: FAB Conference 2017 - FE News Freedom of thought is a democratic right - Financial Times Government 'confusion' over early years pledge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student who demanded Cambridge University 'decolonise' its English literature course and put more emphasis on ethnic authors once claimed white people holidaying in Africa were 'selfish' - Mail School cuts: Why these pupils are protesting - BBC Edinburgh childcare costs 'almost as much as mortgage' - Scotsman A banjo, a large-screen TV and an Anderson shelter: the 'ridiculous' items bought by teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Playing with children's lives' Fire chief outraged over lack of sprinklers in schools - Express Two-thirds of teachers 'don't have the skills or tools to teach coding' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adichie, Kureishi, Hurston: what authors should be in the 'decolonised' canon? - Guardian Focused support needed to tackle teacher supply challenge in London, says research - NFER Thousands of pupils worldwide draw their dreams for future jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Assessment and feedback: getting the balance right - The Staffroom Education moves you forward - Learning & Work Institute Cambridge University moves to 'decolonise' English literature curriculum adding more black and ethnic minority texts - Evening Standard Academy trusts: notices about poor performance - DfE Rt Hon Justine Greening MP questioned on the work of her Department - UK Parliament Alternative provision census 2018: guide - DfE Working Together to Safeguard Children: revisions to statutory guidance - DfE Sally Collier Keynote Speech: FAB Conference 2017 - Ofqual Brathay apprentice challenge winners GSK in Westminster visit - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA update: October 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Using the register of end-point assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency The ‘decolonise’ Cambridge row is yet another attack on students of colour | Jason Osamede Okundaye - Guardian Daily roundup 25 October: Sprinklers, MoJ apology, and whistleblower - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Bringing together the University of Southampton and Lloyd’s Register for university-business collaboration - HEFCE Taking stock: reporting on value for money - HEFCE Welsh providers urged to have their say on 30-hour childcare - Nursery World 100 MPs call on Oxbridge chancellors to take ‘urgent action’ on widening admissions - PoliticsHome Anti-EU Tory MP who demanded Brexit course details from universities 'was just working on a book' - PoliticsHome Brexit, academic freedom and where the law stands on universities being quizzed about what they teach - The Conversation Brexit ‘not all bad’ say international education experts - PIE News Staff brand University of Bath pay committee change a "worthless stunt" - UCU UCU response to Sutton Trust report on fairer access to university - UCU New recruitment and workload survey - NAHT Europe’s university leaders call for urgent Brexit clarification - Universities UK Required reading: How can we fix the Oxbridge problem? - Times Higher Education | THE Apprentices have the ‘metaskills’ which give them the edge over graduates - Edge Foundation Parlimentary Newsletter 23 - AELP Analysis: Why aren't there any Opportunity Areas in the North East? - EPI Concern over further 30-hours confusion in Government - Nursery World Cost of regional schools commissioners soars to £26 million - Schools Week Make sprinkler systems compulsory in schools, fire chiefs urge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge academics seek to 'decolonise' English syllabus - Guardian DfE must make 'smarter decisions' about struggling academies, says Greening - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greening in an ‘alternative reality’ over FE funding, MP says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greening: 61 per cent apprenticeships drop was expected - FE Week Brexit is hindering research collaboration, say EU universities - Guardian Cardiff will run out of English language high school places in two years - Wales Online Greening: Part-time primary PRUs 'dramatically' reduce secondary exclusions - Times Educational Supplement | TES To recruit more black students, we must demystify Oxbridge admissions | Raph Mokades - Guardian Cambridge to 'decolonise' English curriculum by making minority ethnic authors compulsory reading - Independent MP who asked for list of tutors lecturing on Brexit 'was doing research' - Guardian More than 100 MPs demand Oxford and Cambridge universities end 'social apartheid' - Independent Universities minister criticises Tory MP’s Brexit letter - Financial Times I sold sex to fund my unpaid internships. Poor kids are still battling the class gap | Paris Lees - Guardian MP's Brexit letter to universities 'was research for book' - BBC Jo Johnson: Heaton-Harris letter should not have been sent - BBC NCFE develops 2020 vision for technical education in schools - Schools Week Cambridge University forced to ‘decolonise’ English course to avoid ‘racism risk’ - Express Make sprinkler systems compulory in all schools, urge fire chiefs - Mail Girls Network: Primaries added to activity project - BBC Embrace the mixed learning economy model to solve our global education crisis - PoliticsHome Bill Nicol: Education funding needs a shake-up to escape the shackles of the state - Scotsman John MacMillan: Joined-up thinking helps youngsters get ahead in business and life - Scotsman 'No platform' and safe spaces aren't the real dangers to freedom of speech - Guardian Whatever happened to the promise of online learning? - Wonkhe School support staff have borne the brunt of funding cuts - Schools Week Head teachers need to know how often their subject teachers are asked for careers advice - FE News Ministers axe college policy that led to a dramatic fall in student numbers - Herald Scotland Analysis: Impact on female students still unknown despite welcome policy shift - Herald Scotland Fire chiefs call for sprinklers in all UK schools - BBC Global: The 350 million people who don’t even exist - BBC What’s it like to be a single, teenage mother at university? - BBC Ofstedwatch: the latest Ofsted reports for FE and skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES I want names of Brexit lecturers, Tory whip Chris Heaton-Harris tells universities - Times Black writers to be compulsory part of Cambridge curriculum - Times Scotland: Boardroom gender rules ‘won’t work at universities’ - Times Ireland: ‘Delays on building schools and extensions inexcusable’ - Times