News archive for 15th September 2017

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Chelsea Manning hung up phone on Harvard dean who delivered fellowship snub - Guardian Boys are better at physics because they learn about 'projection' while going to the toilet, researchers say - Telegraph Freshers' week charity auction investigated by university over ties to 'slavery' - Telegraph Policy Eye - highlights of week ending Friday 15 September 2017 - Pearson Non-levy apprenticeships growth requests - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Post-16: intervention and accountability - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: current notices of concern - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teachers' pension scheme payments: 2017 to 2018 - DfE Apprenticeships: become a training provider - DfE Appointments to the School Teachers’ Review Body - GOV.UK Value for money in higher education: Committee launches inquiry - UK Parliament Read NAHT's summary and analysis of government's consultation on Rochford Review recommendations - NAHT Colleges must step out of the shadows for fair pay - UCU UCU response to education committee's inquiry into value for money in universities - UCU In the news: 15 September 2017 - UCU Schools need confidence that children’s mental health services can deliver, says NAHT - NAHT UCU at TUC Congress 2017 - UCU Students are more interested in science when lessons highlight its career benefits - IOE London Blog Daily roundup 15 September: Aspiration, knife crime, and 'mosquitos' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Greening announces plans for reception-age baseline checks - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Pension fact sheet two - demystifying membership of the Teachers' Pension Schemes - NAHT Review of the National Award for SENCos in 2016/17 - NAHT UK-Aus: HE funding under the microscope - PIE News Student of the Year finalists announced - AoC | Association of Colleges Just how powerful is the student voice? - HEPI DfE publishes their response to the consultation on primary assessment in England - NFER EPI report: access and waiting times in children and young people’s mental health services - National Education Union London Fashion Week - Edge Foundation 1 million reasons to celebrate - National Numeracy Conditions for organisations on the register of end-point assessment organisations - feCompare Dept of Education has changed plans to increase by three % points the apprenticeship minimum standard achievement threshold - feCompare Fairer funding system to end ‘postcode lottery’ for schools - The Staffroom Why September should be the time for New Year’s resolutions - Capita SIMS UKRPIF funding of £220 million available to develop leading-edge research facilities - HEFCE Writing off student debt cheaper than claimed, says IFS - Guardian Ofsted watch: Major retailer ‘requires improvement’ - FE Week The Tes podcast: School funding, Sats and scripted lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rural schools to have funding boost trebled - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs to probe rise in knife crime in wake of spate of deaths - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Mental health: more than 50,000 pupils are not receiving specialist care they need - Times Educational Supplement | TES The UK continues to top world university rankings – here’s why that matters - The Conversation Greening could face legal action over failure to protect raped pupils - Guardian 'Posh' BBC removes qualifications from CVs of job applicants - Guardian Wolverton Grammar School celebrate 70-year reunion - BBC ESFA Post-16: intervention and accountability - FE News Information Commissioner cracks down on pupil nationality data collection - Schools Week British values for kids? Scepticism and bloody-mindedness would be a good start - Guardian Changes to early years goals and Profile planned - Nursery World Reception baseline assessment: dangerous, inappropriate and flawed data - IOE London Blog DfE given legal ultimatum over botched adult education budget tender - FE Week School breakfast clubs 'in crisis' with 6,000 due to close - Nursery World MP blasts stalled merger as a ‘hostile takeover’ - FE Week Ofsted exposes rule breach over unemployed apprentices - FE Week ‘Collusion’ banned in tough new EPA guidance - FE Week Is Gibb to blame for functional skills reform? - FE Week Sixth form colleges’ cash crisis exposed - FE Week College caught on camera touting for rival’s learners - FE Week Damning evidence mounts against DfE over Learndirect - FE Week Boy charged after schoolboy slashed in school canteen - Scotsman I voted for Brexit – why do academic colleagues treat me like a pariah? - Guardian Access and waiting times in children and young people’s mental health services - EPI Greening calls for 'competitive' teachers' pay to improve recruitment - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE consultation functional skills mathematics and English - feCompare Tes FE Awards 2018 open for entries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leader comment: Putting teachers on probation backfires - Scotsman Six practical steps to deal with vice chancellor pay - Wonkhe Excluded pupils denied education that is their legal right - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-thirds of schools have no vote in elections that could determine their future - Times Educational Supplement | TES Britain's schools face a bullying epidemic - Mail Academics uncover 30 words 'lost' from English language - BBC Apprentices used as ‘cheap, subsidised labour’, survey suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES New breed of teacher will work across primary and secondary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching Leaders training programme 'improves pupils' results' - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney urged to make statement on 'outrageous' pay hike for college boss - Herald Scotland Analysis: ‘Excessive’ pay rise invites scrutiny of the purpose of colleges board - Herald Scotland Nine-year-olds to be tested on times tables as Sats scrapped - Times Teachers reject own schools for their children over bullying - Times Fifty vice-chancellors paid 20% more than in 2011 - Times Jazz up parents’ evening, heads urged - Times Handshaking policy causes norovirus nightmares at Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys - Times Head teachers need more imagination to improve schools - Times Scotland: MSPs rage at 17 per cent pay rise for college executive - Times Scotland: We’ve solved school staff shortages, claims SNP - Times