News archive for 26th October 2017

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Submitting data to Ofqual - FE News Jackie Ashley: Oxbridge, run by lefties? That’s just ridiculous - Guardian King’s College hires 'safe space marshals' to police controversial speaker events on campus - Telegraph Student found with Anarchist Cookbook cleared of terrorism - Daily Mail ‘Welcome and important’: academics on decolonising education - Guardian Comment on accounts for academy schools in England - National Education Union Scotland: nursery pupils targeted under new action plan on science and maths - Herald Scotland A Welsh MP launched a furious diatribe against universities after storming out of a meeting - Wales Online Oxbridge inequality: Admissions data not 'whole story' - BBC Cardiff University bans 'white T-shirt socials' - Daily Mail Black students may need more support at Oxbridge to deal with 'racist academics and racist curricula', suggests campaigner - Telegraph Academy accounts: 165 trusts in deficit and 4 other things we learned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Deadline extended for the 2018 Tes FE Awards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Black Oxbridge admissions: why David Lammy's comments and MP coalition fail to highlight all the real issues - HuffPost FE loans applications down for all established age groups - FE Week Renowned specialist music school faces closure - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland must become a STEM nation, says minister - Scotsman Tory MP asks what students are being taught about Brexit - Daily Mail '14-19 technical schools work. Just look to Europe to see that they are the future' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers 'paid 38% less than private tutors' - Times Educational Supplement | TES New ECU research shows women in STEMM academia are underrepresented in senior posts - ECU Universities! Here's your treachery-free post-Brexit syllabus - Guardian 'After Grenfell, Kensington and Chelsea College needs to win back the community's trust' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academies annual accounts: 6 things we've learned about academy finances - Schools Week Watford Grammar School pilots mental health project getting year 12s to teach year 7s about wellbeing - HuffPost Campaigner fears over low number of recorded university sex attack cases - Herald Scotland Multi-million pound funding for new Higher Education provider - FE News Transport to education and training for people aged 16 to 18 - FE News A 'decolonised' syllabus: the BAME authors Guardian readers think students should read - Guardian Empowering speech, challenges on 'correctness' and some questions for sociolinguists - Teacherhead Cambridge student accuses Telegraph of inciting hatred in books row - Guardian NAO gives qualified opinion on DfE's first academies accounts - Schools Week FE loan applications up overall – but down for older learners - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher training: More postgraduate places are needed and 3 other facts in today's statistics - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 34 schools honoured for their excellence by watchdog Estyn - Wales Online The man behind Wales' new curriculum on the purpose of education, exams and statistics - Wales Online How to use picture books to get your class talking about emotions - Guardian Edinburgh College joins Collab Group - Times Educational Supplement | TES The rise of the scripted teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES Financial health of the higher education sector: managing financial pressures and uncertainty - HEFCE New Zealand government confirms plan to abolish tuition fees - Times Higher Education | THE Does Cambridge University need to widen a 'whitewashed' reading list? - BBC Graduates attending job interviews to get free accommodation under new offer - Independent FE loans applications down for all established age groups - FE Week Graduates attending job interviews to get free accommodation under new offer - Independent Tendering process finally launched for single awarding organisation plan for prisons - FE Week Do 'no platform' policies threaten free speech at uni? Students share their views - Guardian More non-EBacc teacher training places needed following drop in entries - Schools Week Campaigner trying to 'decolonise' Cambridge course: 'English Literature is not only the literature of white men' - Evening Standard Wayland Academy Norfolk issued with funding termination warning - Schools Week Schools can finish old computer science test, says Edexcel - Schools Week Record numbers apply for Oxbridge and medicine - Times Poor student admissions to top universities could rise by half if they entry requirements were lowered - HuffPost Financial health of the higher education sector: managing financial pressures and uncertainty - HEFCE Tory MP faces standards probe into university Brexit note - Daily Mail 'Imminent lack' of school places in parts of Wales - BBC Give poor pupils a two grade break - Sutton Trust Too scared to speak up? How to be more confident - Guardian ‘Top universities should make lower offers to worse-off students’ - Scotsman Tom Peterkin: SNP should concentrate on education and health, not smacking - Scotsman Blended learning brings benefits all round - FE News Headteachers to be given 'right to refuse' teachers from other schools - Herald Scotland Why student loans are a confidence trick for the 85% - Wonkhe Supporting international students - Wonkhe Our Remainer universities: As an MP provokes a storm by asking what students are being taught about leaving the EU, the extent of anti-Brexit bias and the academics who push Remain propaganda are laid bare - Mail Students urge Cambridge to 'decolonise' more courses or ‘risk perpetuating institutional racism’: Professors discuss including more ethnic minority authors following campaign - Mail Just one in three new schools are fitted with sprinklers despite more than 1,300 blazes at institutions each year that require firefighters to attend - Mail Oxbridge: why is every new head a Leftie?  - Daily Mail Stephen Glover on the hysteria of universities over Brexit - Daily Mail Sprinklers fitted in just one in three new schools - Daily Mail The patronising, elitist hysteria of universities over being asked about Brexit will harden the views of millions who voted for it - Mail Record numbers apply for places at Oxbridge and medical schools - Guardian Pupil: 'Yoga tells the worries to go away' - BBC £450k university chief Dame Glynis Breakwell resigns from salary panel - Times Top universities should drop entry requirements by two grades for poorer students, says new study - Independent Hundreds more poor students could attend 'top' universities if entry requirements were dropped by two A-level grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish Catholic priest first to back LGBT school lessons - Scotsman Call for lower grades to help poorer students - Times History of homosexuality to be taught at Turin university, Italy - Times Oxbridge and medical science applications rise by 7% - Financial Times Ofstedwatch: the latest Ofsted reports for FE and skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fears over student 'Brexodus' misguided, new Ucas figures suggest amid surge in Oxbridge applications - Telegraph Universities are increasingly important to our economic prosperity - that's why we're helping fund a new university for engineering - Telegraph Are universities bastions of anti-Brexit brainwashing? - Times ‘Lower grades to let in more poor students’ - Times £450k university chief Dame Glynis Breakwell resigns from salary panel - Times Scotland: Universities accused of failure over sex attacks - Times Scotland: Colleges free to run more adult courses - Times Applications to 'early deadline' university courses reach all-time high - Times Educational Supplement | TES