News archive for 7th September 2017

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Scotland: Sturgeon's school crisis: Mass exodus as nearly half of teachers to quit within 18 months - Express Woman keeps stepdaughter off school in protest against uniform rules - Metro USA: Betsy DeVos to overhaul 'failed' guidelines on campus sexual assault - Guardian Oxford vice-Chancellor forced to issue statement clarifying free speech comments amid student backlash - Telegraph Individualised Learner Record (ILR): check that data is accurate - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin: 7 September 2017 (issue 186) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Oxford University’s vice-Chancellor should not be in her job if she wants to be paid like a footballer, Jo Johnson suggests - Telegraph Director for Fair Access and Participation announced - DfE Apprenticeship service registrations and commitments to July 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teaching Excellence Framework - DfE Apprenticeships in England by industry sector - DfE Universities must embrace accountability - DfE Jo Johnson: speech to UUK annual conference - DfE Young Muslims in the UK face enormous social mobility barriers - Social Mobility Commission Free schools: open schools and successful applications - DfE Social mobility challenges faced by young Muslims - Social Mobility Commission MillionPlus comment on the HEPI creative arts paper - MillionPlus UUK President Annual Conference speech: we must stand up and make the case for why universities matter - Universities UK Young people deserve more - AoC | Association of Colleges MPs urged to back Support Our Sixth-formers campaign - ASCL UCU response to Jo Johnson's speech on vice-chancellors' pay - UCU New Russell Group chair celebrates UK higher education system - Russell Group Minister on vice chancellors' pay - Russell Group Some issues are even more important than vice-chancellors’ pay – such as autonomy - HEPI A crisis in the creative arts in the UK? - HEPI New HEPI paper warns of crisis in UK creative arts education - HEPI Lords debate: AELP’s recommendations on improving digital skills - AELP SFCA member news - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA SFCA in the news - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA SFCA comment - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA National Education Union comment on DfE not approving vocational qualifications - National Education Union The value of the TEF - Wonkhe Where policing ends and universities begin - Wonkhe Learning TEF lessons - Wonkhe A secondary school has made its uniform policy smarter - because pupils asked for it - Wales Online Minister's threat of fines 'not enough' to curb university salaries - Guardian ‘Support our students’: MP Nic Dakin demands more funding for sixth-formers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for early years teachers to lead nurseries in poorer areas - Nursery World Poorer pupils get less help with homework than better-off peers, study finds - IOE London Blog Daily roundup 7 September: Brexit impact, young Muslims, and school uniform - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Only 15 per cent of levy-funded apprentices aged 16 to 18 - FE Week Universities ‘to be fined’ if they fail to justify paying vice-chancellors more than prime minister - PoliticsHome Nic Dakin MP: Cuts to 16-19 education funding is turning English sixth form into a 'part time experience' - PoliticsHome Pupils missing digital innovations in maths education due to lack of support for teachers - IOE London Blog School bans girls from wearing skirts in gender-free move - Evening Standard Councils pressured to place children in boarding schools instead of care - Schools Week Where should I study? - Learning Scientists Extra Time: New Sutton Trust Report on private tuition and out-of-school study - The Staffroom Four things PISA tells us about after-school learning - Education Datalab MPs urged to back 16-19 funding campaign - AoC | Association of Colleges Prince George looked far more nervous than dad William and Uncle Harry on their first day at school - Mirror Grey matter: school bars pupils with wrong shade of charcoal trousers - Guardian Kids across Britain could lose school breakfasts due to massive cuts - Metro Parents 'will be asked to educate children on dangers of knives' - Herald Scotland Trial begins: Former Welsh footballer and three others accused of £5 million FE fraud - FE Week DfE schools tsar intervened to curb excessive academy chief exec pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Mass exodus’ of Scots teachers as 40% plan to leave profession - Scotsman Tulip Siddiq named chair of early years APPG - Nursery World Tory minister finally declares 'we're not setting a pay cap'... for uni bosses on £350,000 a year - Mirror Commissioner report exposes financial turmoil at London SFC - FE Week 'Ridiculous!' Outrage over uniform rules 'that sees kids sent home over wrong material' - Express How active are kids at school? - Huffington Post Campaign to get MPs to visit FE colleges launched by NEU - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools are local and should be locally accountable - Huffington Post 40 per cent of Scottish teachers consider leaving their jobs in next 18 months - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 40 per cent of Scottish teachers "want to leave profession" - Herald Scotland More than half of apprenticeships to go to 25 and overs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Things people don’t tell you about going to university - Huffington Post Zero-hour contracts are turning university lecturers off the job - The Conversation Kidd Caru sold to European childcare provider - Nursery World Maintenance debt weighs on my mind as a poorer student - Guardian Five new UTCs open after a spate of closures over the summer - Schools Week Five new UTCs open doors to students - FE Week It's time for universities to put student mental health support first | Jon Wakeford - Guardian A solution to the row over tuition fees - bring back maintenance grants - Guardian Our cathedral school's science festival is proof that science and religion can be taught in tandem - Telegraph Prince George arrives for first day at £18,000-a-year prep school - Guardian Lewes school makes trousers compulsory for new girls - BBC Homework lessons from PISA: looking past the headlines - IOE London Blog Urgent investment needed for sixth forms - FE Week Poor pupils get less tutoring and homework help - study - BBC Kate to miss Prince George's first day at school as she suffers morning sickness - Express Pupils from ethnic minorities are more likely to get a private tutor: Findings may explain why white British children are falling behind their peers - Mail Use your power wisely: advice to university leaders from the experts - Guardian By creating a market for universities, the government has snookered itself - Guardian Four things PISA tells us about after-school learning - Education Datalab Homework lessons from PISA - Sutton Trust Poorer pupils get less homework help - Sutton Trust UK schools subject divide among genders still an issue, finds report - Scotsman Academy secrets the DfE tried to hide – part 3 - Times Educational Supplement | TES University heads asked to justify pay over £150,000 - BBC Poor pupils eschew music and sports clubs for more core tuition - Schools Week Justify paying bosses more than the PM or face fines, universities are told as minister launches crackdown in response to outcry over salaries - Mail Children prefer teachers who build relationships, research shows - Schools Week Minister to threaten universities with fines for excessive salaries - Guardian Government to crack down on excessive pay of university senior staff - Huffington Post Pakistan: Children of Karachi: From the streets to education - BBC EBacc is putting art at risk, university warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private tuition 'is the hidden secret of Britain's educational arms race' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Teachers under pressure to enter students into qualifications that don't suit them - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs urged to back funding boost for sixth form students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gender stereotypes are alive and kicking in the classroom, poll shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Drive for better results in schools damaging pupils’ mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Crackdown on university vice-chancellors’ pay - Times Student loan interest rate too high, say university chiefs - Times Girls banned from wearing skirts at gender-free school - Times European students will have to prove they speak English - Times Nearly third of pupils have received private tuition - Times Why parents are hiring lawyers to fight their cases with schools - Times Pupils 'marking time' in first three years of secondary - Herald Scotland Teachers call for new exam to help ‘motivate’ National 4 pupils - Herald Scotland Universities face fine if they fail to justify paying vice-Chancellors more than Prime Minister  - Telegraph White children less likely to have private tutors than those from ethnic minorities, study finds - Telegraph