News archive for 13th September 2017

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Edinburgh school forced to ask parents for help with maths lessons - Express Parents to be fined £1 a minute if they're late picking their children up from pre-school - Mirror Tuition fees are about more than tuition fees: The DUP and Corbyn get that - New Statesman Government suggests university fees could be linked to course subject - PoliticsHome Britain’s youth say they face barriers to success, prosperity and engagement - British Council Government's digital strategy is on road to nowhere, says Lord Baker - Edge Foundation New OECD report finds benefits of university education remain high but vary widely across fields of study - The Staffroom Background noise and classroom design - Learning Scientists Removal of apprenticeship frameworks - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA financial health assessment - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA update: September 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teachers analysis compendium 2 - DfE Partnership is key to creating more good school places - DfE New school proposals - DfE Lords debates English Baccalaureate - UK Parliament New Education Committee to prioritise social justice and productivity - UK Parliament MPs debate higher education regulations - UK Parliament Sally Hunt becomes TUC President - UCU #TelltheChancellor - School Funding in Crisis Westminster Event - NAHT Pupils & staff casualties of another failed Government policy - NASUWT Brexit - what's best for our universities and students? - MillionPlus Celebrating Partnerships: Secretary of State shows support for cross-sector working - Independent Schools Council | ISC U-turn over threat to charitable status of private schools - Guardian May suffers humiliation as DUP backs Labour on NHS pay and tuition fees - Guardian Theresa May suffers embarrassing defeat on tuition fees as DUP back Labour move to scrap increase - Mirror James Dyson warns tuition fees hit students with debt 'at worst time' - Guardian No guarantee secondaries will receive per pupil funding ministers promised - Times Educational Supplement | TES University sector faces blight of neoliberalism | Letters - Guardian Government lifts the lid on new school improvement boards - Schools Week Prince George's school faces security review after burglary arrest - Express U-turn over exam paper access for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education's big beasts to be grilled by former teachers at Education Select Committee - Times Educational Supplement | TES Educational inequality still ‘deeply entrenched’ despite marginal progress - SecEd Sixth form courses under threat as funding reaches crisis point - SecEd Free mental health resources published - SecEd Unions issue fire safety guidance for school leaders in wake of Grenfell Tower tragedy - SecEd Playground plea: ‘As safe as necessary, not as safe as possible’ - SecEd Two in five teachers are considering quitting - SecEd South Africa: Teachers face suspension over videos showing abuse of pupils - Guardian Parents query GCSE grading in Wales - SecEd Strategic school improvement fund opens its second round - Schools Week Unions demand government talks over future of teachers at Wakefield City Academies Trust - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE to monitor partnerships between state schools and independents - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs to grill Greening on school funding and GCSE changes - Schools Week IfA interviewing chief executive candidates - FE Week Singapore: World's largest early years setting opens - Nursery World Education select committee to investigate subcontracting - FE Week London's most polluted schools to be given air-quality audits - Guardian We Travellers must take a stand against racism, for the sake of our children | Patrick O’Leary - Guardian DfE discussing ‘options’ to reverse provider’s £3m funding cut - FE Week Durand appoints new directors following Sir Greg Martin's resignation - Schools Week Government urged to pilot payments for school governors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish nurseries win end to business rates - Nursery World What’s the law on confiscating a pupil’s mobile phone? - Schools Week How better education has built a more secular Britain - The Conversation DfE won't fund Toby Young and Sir Anthony Seldon's fast-track headship college - Schools Week Government funding T-Level ‘high level message’ training for college staff - FE Week Schools accused of exploiting apprenticeships for cheap labour - Nursery World Children just aren't playing truant from Swansea schools like they used to - Wales Online Social mobility: breaking down the barriers - SecEd Eighth member for Chartered Institution for FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Workload and policy changes trigger teachers' decisions to quit - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU's Sally Hunt elected TUC president - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher struck off after receiving indecent images of children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Workload and government policy forcing teachers out, DfE research finds - Schools Week Two-year degrees: the solution to the drop in mature student numbers? - Guardian How will leaving the EU affect universities and research? Brexit Means ... podcast - Guardian ‘Overburdened’ young people still ‘angry and emotional’ about Brexit, study claims - Express Edinburgh school begs parents for help amid teacher shortage - Scotsman Children need teachers´ help to identify fake news - report - Mail Teachers’ pay in Scotland lagging behind many worldwide – OECD - Scotsman What prompts parents to get their child a tutor? - Telegraph 10 ways to broaden your child's horizons - Telegraph How to choose the right tutor  - Telegraph PHE launches Rise Above for Schools programme - GOV.UK A new higher education league table - HEPI In defence of independent learning - Wonkhe What do smaller institutions think about the student visa system? - Wonkhe Young people fear for futures in Brexit Britain, says study - BBC Reality check: Why is VAT charged on school uniform? - BBC Kenya: What's it like to start reading at 60? - BBC Most new apprentice teaching assistants are paid just £3.50 - Schools Week Pupils to be given resilience lessons at secondary school to help them cope with modern life and 'online stress' - Mail Scotland: Scottish teachers’ pay fell 6% over past decade, says OECD - Times Scotland: Maths genius applies for master’s degree at 13 - Times Ireland: Fewer make top grade in junior exams - Times Secondary pupils to be taught how to cope with modern life - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils 'lack critical literacy skills to identify fake news' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis: Failure to learn the lessons of the past in erratic pay rises for teachers - Herald Scotland One in five parents 'do not spend any time reading with their children' - Times Educational Supplement | TES University tuition fees could be linked to course costs and job prospects - Times Teachers’ pay falls 12% in a decade, OECD report says - Times Private schools will keep charitable status - Times If student loan reform led to a tax cut, the Tories could be onto something - Times