News archive for 11th September 2017

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Learndirect and DfE scandal referred to NAO by Public Accounts Committee chair - FE Week Learndirect 'should face investigation', says senior MP - BBC Britain's weakest universities could be forced to cut tuition fees - Mail Lift the £21,000 threshold for paying back student loans - Mail Newer universities beat elite institutions for helping graduates find jobs - Mail Graduate employability ranking: the best university for getting a job - Guardian Top 100 universities for graduate employability – how do they do it? - Guardian Autistic boy turned away from Norwich college days after starting course - Guardian Surely it’s what is taught in school that matters, not what’s worn | Letters - Guardian DfE launches school transport review - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Third of parents 'yet to access 30 hours childcare' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Alison Johns appointed Chief Executive - designate of the proposed merged organisaton, HEA, LFHE and ECU - HEA Daily roundup 11 September: Playgrounds, fire safety, and fast food - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Average teacher received 'paltry' 0.6% pay rise last year - Times Educational Supplement | TES It’s official - higher education students want staff to be better with digital, not to use more of it - Jisc Impact of degree apprenticeships – invitation to respond - UVAC Further education colleges: financial intervention and exceptional support - Education & Skills Funding Agency Contracting template – HEI and end point assessment organisation - UVAC Nick Gibb: The importance of vibrant and open debate in education - DfE Joint union guidance for school leaders on fire safety in light of the Grenfell Tower fire - NAHT Teachers not even receiving the 1% pay award - NASUWT Asbestos - understand the risks with a free e-learning module - NAHT School cuts campaign: 5 tests for government on school funding - ASCL Government's record on child poverty a disgrace - NASUWT Minister ‘misled’ MPs over apprenticeships at Learndirect - FE Week Chief Executive-designate appointed to lead new HE sector agency - Universities UK University’s controversial takeover of Lambeth College delayed - FE Week School cuts campaign: 5 tests for Government on school funding - National Education Union Great Yarmouth parents slam strict rules at failing academy - BBC Fire safety in schools post-Grenfell fire - National Education Union Seeking policy clarifications for accredited initial teacher education providers - UCET Nearly 1,000 schools blighted by harmful and illegal pollution - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tories under fire over £200m apprenticeships pledge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greening jeered over response to failed Wakefield City Academies Trust - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anne Milton 'welcomes' apprenticeships for over-60s - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils ordered to bed at 9.30pm under school's strict new rules - Herald Scotland A new urban eyesore: Britain's shamefully shoddy student housing - Guardian NUS president Shakira Martin: ‘This goes way beyond tuition fees. We are talking about class’ - Guardian Laptops are great, but not if it means the end of handwriting - Guardian A third of primary schools in France will return to four-day week - Times Educational Supplement | TES What we can learn when 100,000 illegal immigrants suddenly become 5,000 - Huffington Post Will the leopard change its spots? A new model of inspection for Ofsted - IOE London Blog Working class and BAME? Here’s how not to feel like an impostor at uni | Poppy Noor - Guardian Christian parents plan to sue school over son’s transgender classmate - Metro Machines could replace teachers in classroom revolution, Anthony Seldon says - Express Boy removed from school in transgender rights row - BBC Machines 'will replace teachers within 10 years' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Further education colleges: financial intervention and exceptional support - FE News This Morning viewers outraged by couple in school transgender row - Express Register of apprenticeship training providers (RoATP) - UVAC When state schools lead, independents follow - Huffington Post Backlash against 'gaff-prone' Oxford University's vice-Chancellor for scoring 'own goal' in pay row - Telegraph Girls’ school shoes are hobbling their chances in life | Anna Kessel - Guardian Science teachers are more likely to quit, research shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five new UTCs open to boost technical skills post Brexit - FE News Ofsted lodges last-minute appeal against High Court’s Durand Academy ruling - Schools Week Medical and dental students (MDS) survey 2017: Survey for the Department of Health, Health Education England and the UK higher education funding bodies - HEFCE Ruth Davidson calls for new focus on education on 20th anniversary of Scottish devolution referendum - Telegraph Halving the NSS diminishes the student voice in TEF - Wonkhe Below standard: grade inflation in TEF - Wonkhe It’s time to shift focus from outcomes to expectations - Wonkhe Intelligent machines will replace teachers within 10 years, leading public school headteacher predicts - Independent How can universities ensure their students are satisfied? - Guardian Northern Ireland education faces £100m 'cost pressures' - BBC Overcoming the apprenticeships stigma – not before time - FE News Robots could replace teachers in 10 years says academic - Mail Teachers urged to be open-minded about talking about porn - Mail Robot teachers will transform education, says ex-head - Times Yarmouth pupils told to be in bed by 9pm under school’s new regime - Times Parents may sue over boy pupil allowed to wear dress - Times Top headmaster believes robots 'will take over from teachers within 10 years' while humans will become teaching assistants - Mirror