News archive for 1st September 2017

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Liz Smith: The case for charitable status in education - Scotsman Update on procurement for non-levy paying employers - FE News Secondary school places crisis - National Education Union Fresh funding concerns emerge as free 30 hour childcare launches - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Research Excellence Framework 2021: applications invited for sub-panel chairs - HEFCE National Teaching Fellowship - keep it in the family - HEA Statement on apprenticeship procurement - AoC | Association of Colleges Missing from the tuition fees debate: student well-being and the public benefits of higher education - The Conversation Defending the technologically assisted nursing curriculum - HEA GSE: Is blended learning overhyped? Our teachers around the world weigh in - Edmodo How prevalent is Year 12 drop- out from selective schools? - Education Datalab Biggest QTLS registration window opens today: Ensuring teachers and trainers get the recognition they deserve - Education & Training Foundation | ETF New DfE report on 30 hours free childcare pilot - The Staffroom Lucy Kellaway: why we went back to school - Financial Times St Olave's allows rejected sixth-formers to return to school - Guardian More than 20k pupils leave school sixth-forms before end of A-level courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dexter believes we should do more to prepare young people for the 21st century - Edge Foundation Do you tell your students how to succeed in your class? - Learning Scientists Student loans: Why is the interest rate so high? - BBC More than 20k pupils leave school sixth-forms before end of A-level courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ed Dorrell: the looming crisis in secondary education has rarely been bigger - Times Educational Supplement | TES Impact weighting increased in UK’s REF 2021 - Times Higher Education | THE Manchester’s Bernstein: universities key to ‘world’s most successful cities’ - Times Higher Education | THE Ofsted to ask headteachers how they plan to reduce teachers' workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES ATL and NUT form the National Education Union - National Education Union British schoolgirl named first non-Japanese winner of haiku contest - Guardian Funding and workload are no barriers to character education, Nicky Morgan tells teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCAS daily Clearing updates - 1 September 2017 - UCAS School land: decisions about disposals - Education & Skills Funding Agency New framework for universities to help improve student mental health - Universities UK Updated 'schools causing concern' guidance published - NAHT Head who falsified Sats results is struck off - Times Educational Supplement | TES New Insights on WP: Extending access and promoting lifelong learning - HEPI AELP statement on latest ESFA ‘clarification’ on non-levy apprenticeship ITT - AELP ATL and NUT form the National Education Union – the largest education union in the UK - ATL Cambridge University student 'sorry' for burning £20 in front of homeless man - BBC Wakey wakey – adulting (and wonk-ing) for beginners - Wonkhe Jack Cornish: St Olave’s use of exclusions was no secret – we pupils all knew about it - Guardian Noam Chomsky to leave MIT for University of Arizona - University World News Head who falsified Sats papers is struck off - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pioneering London academy absorbed by Harris Federation - Schools Week REF2021: much still to be decided - Wonkhe MillionPlus welcomes Hefce’s REF2021 decisions - MillionPlus ‘S-index’ aims to tackle abuse of self-citations in science - Times Higher Education | THE Colleges left ‘frustrated’ after last-minute changes to ESFA non-levy tender process - Times Educational Supplement | TES New framework for universities to help improve student mental health - FE News Who deserves a £2,000 pound apprenticeship? - FE News Bring back 'Nitty Nora', say parents tackling childhood 'nasties' - Nursery World Colleges ‘deeply concerned’ about £650m non-levy tender - FE Week My students can't write essays – I blame Ireland's declining academic standards - Guardian ATL and NUT form the National Education Union – the largest education union in the UK - FE News Playing fields could fall foul of 30 hours of childcare policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to be a minimalist teacher - Guardian Biggest QTLS registration window opens today: Ensuring teachers and trainers get the recognition they deserve - FE News There’s no such thing as a free lunch — or free childcare - Financial Times Childminders ‘reluctantly’ offering 30 hours, finds PACEY survey - Nursery World Councils want to force free schools to expand - Times ESFA £650m non-levy tender has ‘descended into farce’ - FE Week DfE's secret plan to share free school 'rewards' with private developers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why don't universities prepare students for self-employment? - Guardian Half of councils 'unable to meet school place demand' within five years - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New 'superunion' would mount national industrial action only over ‘absolutely critical’ issues - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only children's books with humans have moral impact, study finds - Guardian Trojan horse: the real story behind the fake 'Islamic plot' to take over schools - Guardian 'Scandal' of plan to 'waste' £75m on temporary free school sites - Times Educational Supplement | TES The rigged crapshoot of top exam grades - Financial Times Exorbitant interest rates have turned student loans into a ticking debt bomb - City AM Half of councils will not have enough secondary school places by 2022: More than 125,000 pupils face missing out unless urgent action is taken - Mail Warning over 'looming secondary school place squeeze' - BBC Schools warn of pupil places ‘crisis’ as half of councils fail to meet rising demand - Independent NEU launches as the largest education union in Europe - Schools Week MSPs call for action on Scottish teacher shortages - BBC Councils demand powers to expand academies as pupil bulge hits secondary schools - Schools Week Insufficient careers advice puts £90bn GDP at risk - FE News Computing skills ‘should be taught to five-year-olds’ - Herald Scotland Students housed 30 miles away from university due to accommodation crisis - Herald Scotland 'Back to school' proposal for exam and curriculum officials - Herald Scotland The FE commissioner’s new guiding role: hatchet man or helping hand? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly half of councils 'risk being unable to meet demand for secondary school places' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Go back to school, key Scottish education agencies told - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Body Coach goes back to school to get kids moving - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cheat claims may stop teachers setting A-level exams - Times Pledge of 30 hours ‘free’ childcare will cost parents dear - Times Don’t let religious apartheid infect our faith schools - Times Scotland: ‘Send education quango officials back to school’ - Times Scotland: Hotel plan for Royal High School rejected - Times School places: Nearly half of councils don't have enough secondary school spaces - Express