News archive for 28th August 2018

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Parents are paying a hefty £70k extra for a house near a top state school - Mirror Edinburgh University students to be given gender pronoun badges during freshers week - Independent Anne Robinson: Who cares if some women don't want to go on University Challenge? They musn't change it a bit - Telegraph Ofqual investigating provider after inspectorate found copy and paste assessments - FE Week New £1.6million investment in projects in North Yorkshire - FE News Gordon Ramsay wades into row over learner with dwarfism claiming college rejection - FE Week Gordon Ramsay 'offers apprenticeship' to college 'snub' teen - BBC Providers could be left in no new business limbo for years after Ofsted apprenticeship monitoring visit - FE Week Is abolishing the private school system the answer to inequality? | Letters - Guardian Education Secretary's visit to promote English as global export - FE News Scotland: Shake-up for controversial primary school tests after anger from parents and teachers - Herald Scotland Government launches £1m fund to support diversity in tech - Public Technology Failure to invest in colleges is a failure to invest in the country, AoC warns - AoC | Association of Colleges Tim Morris Award Application 2018/2019 - Education Development Trust | EDT What teachers tapped this week #48 – 28th August 2018 - Teacher Tapp Children & Young People Now Awards 2018: the shortlist - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New £1.6million investment in projects in North Yorkshire - DfE Education Secretary's visit to promote English as global export - DfE Non-association independent schools inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted Use football to engage working-class boys, say academics - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'GCSE resit data shows we need a policy rethink' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Government missed an opportunity on FE pay' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman warns off-rolling ‘could get worse’ after sharp rise in pupils leaving school before GCSEs - Schools Week New unit to tackle exploitation of vulnerable young people - DfE Collab Group and Leadership Through Sport & Business announce education partnership - Collab Group Connecting the dots: painting, thesis and writing - BERA Higher education co-regulation: Where do we go from here? - HEPI Doing something different to tackle sexual harassment - Wonkhe 5 essential tips for newly qualified teachers - Teacher Toolkit Up to £150,000 funding to look at using crowdsourcing for exam questions - FE News National Audit Office (NAO) – Follow up study of the apprenticeship programme – call for action - UVAC We welcome the Government’s rethink on the 3 million apprenticeship starts target - UVAC No more Mr Nice Guy: AoC boss ‘angry’ and will switch from ‘polite’ calls for more funding to ‘action’ - FE Week College denies learner with dwarfism was refused place, following national media reports - FE Week Schools just keep off rolling along - Montrose42 Make skills count during Maths Workout Week - Unionlearn Edinburgh student union to hand out ‘gender badges’ during freshers week - Scotsman Unconditional offers use ‘still low in Russell Group’ - Times Higher Education | THE Schools 'off-roll thousands to boost results' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish: Teenagers in work or education hits record high - Times Educational Supplement | TES Best independent schools in 2018: Full league table for A-Level results - Telegraph Scotland: National tests are ‘accessible and stimulating’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It's time to drop the gender clichés about exams' - Times Educational Supplement | TES No government funding for college teacher pay rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'How can we cut workload? Kill perfectionism' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted refuses to explain five-figure bonuses - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Why I won’t spend my summer putting up displays' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Damian Hinds' priorities...on two sides of A4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scots P1 tests to be overhauled - but not axed - Scotsman Schools accused of excluding weak pupils - The Educator Learning Rep - Autumn 2018 Edition - Unionlearn When do kids go back to school after the summer holidays? - Metro UCU launches national ballot for fresh college strike action over pay claim - FE Week Hundreds of pupils are being excluded from Cardiff schools - Wales Online When do kids go back to school and when is October half term? Full 2018/2019 school dates - The Sun Cut-throat A-level season ‘pushing some universities towards insolvency’ - Guardian Class acts from across the globe – in pictures - Guardian Militant tenderness: how teachers are rooting out sexism in school - Guardian Does University Challenge have a problem with women? - Guardian Dear Damian Hinds, plans to test little children are ‘flawed and unfit for purpose’ | Michael Rosen - Guardian Sub-contracting “a problem child or a rising star” - FE News Are we edging into a new era for apprenticeships? - FE News Exam chiefs: Higher maths pupils making 'basic' numeracy errors - Herald Scotland University Challenge to introduce 'gender neutral' questions following complaints from viewers - Telegraph Weak pupils expelled as heads ‘game’ exam tables - Times Ambitious heads have lost sight of education’s purpose - Times Expelled GCSE boy became armed robber - Times Thousands of pupils cast aside as schools climb GCSE league tables - Times University Challenge women ‘fear being judged on looks’ - Times School where pupils give teachers lessons in how to use computers - Times Scotland: Graduates in court as legal system faces crisis - Times Ireland: Teacher accused of calling pupil ‘a bitch’ wins review - Times