News archive for 5th April 2018

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Soas student unable to finish PhD due to supervision failings offered thousands of pounds - Independent Nigella Lawson’s portrait replaces Oxford dons amid university-wide drive to end 'monopoly of men' - Telegraph Half of UK students have witnessed racism at university, says survey - Independent An anniversary of apprenticeships - FE News Open University staff pass vote of no-confidence in vice-chancellor - Guardian Should there be statutory guidance on acceptable accents for teachers? One leading linguist thinks so - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fresh racism row as black graduate hit by banana at university match in Sheffield - Times South Korea: Academics stride into battle to halt march of the killer robots - Times Minister sets out success measures for FE Commissioner - FE Week Minister's bid to provide 'transparency' about role of FE commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES We can all use a little mindfulness - Learning Scientists Work Programme statistics – April 2018 Learning & Work analysis - Learning & Work Institute Spring QTLS window now open - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Russia: UK tensions harming business, say agents - PIE News Who’s smarter in the classroom? It’s all about perception - UKEdChat A close examination of revision - UKEdChat Why young children tell tales - UKEdChat GDPR and education - UKEdChat Can degree apprenticeships plug the tech skills gap? - Jisc Mentally Healthy Schools – access quality assured information, advice and resources on mental health and wellbeing - NAHT Staff overwhelmingly back motion calling for Open University vice-chancellor to resign - UCU Voice becomes GFTU affiliate - Voice Brexit will worsen uneven distribution of EU students in UK, suggests policy briefing - IOE London Blog Daily roundup 5 April: Signs, free school meals, and stabbing death - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Policymaking must be informed by the reality of children's lives - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Turkey: University shooting leaves 4 dead after gunman goes on rampage - Express Register of end-point assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin: 5 April 2018 (issue 214) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Individualised Learner Record (ILR): sources of data - Education & Skills Funding Agency Open academies and academy projects in development - DfE Academy trusts: notices about poor performance - DfE Further Education Commissioner objective setting letter - DfE Funding for higher education in England for 2018-19: OfS board decisions - Office for Students UCAS: Non-EU undergrad applicants up 8% - PIE News 'Crumbling buildings, spiralling costs, corner cutting and relentless pressure': a message to ministers on school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Merger of Stockport College and Trafford College - FE News School plans to finish at 2pm so teachers can have more ‘planning’ time - The Sun Open University staff call for Peter Horrocks to resign - BBC Scottish colleges urged to strive for equality - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anger as Welsh Government cuts £700k school uniform grant - BBC South Korea: Artificial intelligence researchers boycott university amid fears it is developing killer robots - Independent Cambridge and Oxford among worst universities in UK for socio-economic equality, report reveals - Independent Creative ideas for teaching children to read and write – in pictures - Guardian Putting pen to paper: the schools nurturing a love of the written word - Guardian National Union of teachers orders members to campaign against Tory cuts - Express Cut youth services and violent crime will rise – is that really so hard to see? | Polly Toynbee - Guardian Universities must tackle sexual violence on and off campus - The Conversation A boarding school education costs £½m - Times Hundreds of thousands of children to lose free school meals - Nursery World RNIB chief executive resigns over ‘serious incidents’ at special school in Coventry - Schools Week Young people's happiness levels sink to lowest in a decade - Times Educational Supplement | TES More colleges complete mergers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three-time ‘inadequate’ college merger completes - FE Week Sure Start closures – where are the centres, what services do they offer and how many have shut? - The Sun SNP slammed for ‘supersized’ school classes - Scotsman Are we using the wrong end of the telescope to find the future of credentials? - Wonkhe Record proportion of English 18 year olds apply to higher education - UCAS MillionPlus comment on the UCAS March deadline figures - MillionPlus Let’s hear it for the VC! Why we must start listening to vice-chancellors on the big policy questions - HEPI Upending the rankings: Benchmarking widening participation in universities - HEPI Benchmarking widening participation: how should we measure and report progress? - HEPI Time to let the WP Gini out of the bottle - Wonkhe The 11-plus is a loaded dice – research report - Education Datalab 1,000 children's centres 'lost' - Sutton Trust Unsure starts - Sutton Trust Free school meals under universal credit: slightly more children to be eligible overall, but 1 in 8 who would have qualified under previous system will be ineligible - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Teachers 'routinely giving pupils food and clothes' as frontline services under strain - Herald Scotland Excellence in colleges and universities to be rewarded at The Herald Higher Education Awards - Herald Scotland Schools told 'put pupil safety ahead of grades' after absent London pupil found dead next to mother - Evening Standard Militant National Union of Teachers tell members to campaign against Tory cuts in an attempt to sway voters - The Sun USA: Students join teacher protest in Oklahoma - Mail Cambridge ranked last in university fair access table - Guardian University applications fall despite surge in foreign students - Guardian Children's centre closures may be as high as 1,000, says study - BBC Sending a child to boarding school now costs up to half a million pounds as fees rise by 4% in five years - Mail University of Hull beats Oxbridge in equality ranking - BBC Record proportion of sixth formers apply to higher education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free schools meals changes: 210,000 pupils win; 160,000 lose - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Thousands of families missing out on vital support' following closure of children's centres - Times Educational Supplement | TES Overall number of people who apply to Ucas drops by 11,000 - Mail Welfare reforms create free school meals winners and losers, analysis claims - Mail The impact of children's centres closing down - HuffPost 160,000 children to miss out on free school meals thanks to universal credit plans - HuffPost Quarter of children in north Wales overweight or obese - BBC At least 1,000 children's centres have closed, claims report warning of 'tipping point' - Nursery World Increasing numbers of weak A-level pupils graduating with firsts - Times 160,000 will lose their free school meals - Times Cambridge is top for inequality - Times Scotland: University diversity drive ‘failing poorest’ - Times Scotland: St Andrews inequality criticised in new rankings for diversity - Times Scotland: The Curriculum for Excellence is dead; now we need to clarify our aims - Times SNP fail over Scotland's supersized classes - Express Sure Start centres disappearing at double rate ministers claim, says charity - HuffPost 160,000 children will lose free school meals, says spending watchdog - Schools Week