News archive for 27th September 2017

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ESFA weekly round-up - Issue 373 - FE News Somerset school uses standing desks to beat obesity - Daily Mail Parents outraged as Bradford school bans sausage rolls and pork pies from packed lunches - Mirror Headteachers warn parents: there is not enough money to fund schools - Guardian Student took her own life after university refused to share her records due to 'data protection', inquest hears - Telegraph Sexual consent row as feminists accuse Bristol University of downgrading workshop to online quiz - Telegraph Mother of sick child launches furious rant at council's 'don't be a mug' campaign over school attendance - Mirror School bans sausage rolls, pork pies and fruit squash from children's lunchboxes in healthy eating drive - Telegraph Student Loan Company is ranked the 'worst place to work' - Daily Mail Secondary schools left 'demoralised' by DfE's Progress 8 error - Times Educational Supplement | TES Art display falls on and injures Plymouth pupil at school - Daily Mail Backlash against freshers' week chicken shop tour as students claim it is racist and 'exotifies local culture' - Telegraph Bradford school bans sausage rolls from packed lunches - BBC Learndirect Apprenticeships tries to avoid the past with major rebrand - FE Week Institute for Apprenticeships sets out vision on quality - FE News 'I thought Oxbridge was unattainable' - BBC Bradford school bans sausage rolls and fruit squash - Daily Mail Parents launch petition to stop their school serving only halal meat to pupils - Mirror Jeremy Corbyn: lifting public sector pay cap is not 'an act of charity – it is a necessity' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers must learn to tackle pupil distress, psychologists say - Times Educational Supplement | TES Manchester grammar school pupil cleared of raping student - Daily Mail University of East Anglia and FutureLearn team up to support clinical supervisors - FE News Girl, 16, in court over stabbing of school welfare officer - Daily Mail Wycombe boarding school teacher banned over sex acts - Daily Mail Angela Rayner: Labour 'won't give teachers a 5 per cent pay rise' - Times Educational Supplement | TES More women on boards will increase college success - FE Week Ofqual consults on reform of functional skills - FE News DfE's chief scientific adviser leaving to work with Gove - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mown down Woking teacher praises father's jail sentence - Daily Mail WHSmith CEO Stephen Clarke launches new Global Challenges business course - FE News learndirect responds to sensational media coverage after Ofsted report - FE News Clearing 2017: what worked for universities, and what didn't - Guardian Children are showing the kind of entrepreneurial spirit we mustn’t ignore - Guardian Young people deserve more - FE News The £20 billion benefit to Scotland’s economy from the college sector - Herald Scotland Fear over student drop-outs at college and university - Herald Scotland 'In school, but learning nothing' - BBC Family's first student in Cambridge state school record - BBC Review of school buildings ordered over fire safety fears - Times Uzbekistan teachers no longer forced to pick cotton - Times Ancient universities are worst at opening doors to poorer students - Times School failings push Scots public service rating to 10-year low - Times WSJ/THE US College Rankings 2018: Harvard comes top - Times Higher Education | THE Student mobility may aid ‘democratic development’ in home nations - Times Higher Education | THE Turkish academics exiled to Germany remain in fear - Times Higher Education | THE Wikipedia founder honoured for services to academia but critics complain his site promotes 'intellectual laziness' - Telegraph