News archive for 6th December 2018

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Eight schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than three quarters of the rest of UK schools, report finds - Independent What is she up to? Meghan Markle’s secret meeting with academics at King’s College London - Express Fourth Industrial Revolution and the role of education examined - UK Parliament Strategic college improvement fund: successful applicants - DfE Incentive programmes for the recruitment and retention of teachers in further education (FE) - DfE T Level action plan - DfE Further education and skills: November 2018 - DfE Apprenticeship and levy statistics: November 2018 - DfE National Leaders of Governance for further education: national leaders - DfE Evaluation of the Industry Placements Pilot - DfE Education Secretary outlines plans to get more people into skilled jobs - DfE Expert panel confirmed to raise education outcomes in North East - DfE Damian Hinds Technical Education Speech - DfE Colleges receive funding boost to help raise standards - DfE Further education and skills data - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Providers selected to deliver T Levels in academic year 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency No classroom teachers on new 'expert panel' for North East schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES New inspection regime 'could help Ofsted spot funding pressures' - Times Educational Supplement | TES HMC boss: 'Our schools are a bit like socialism in action' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford and Cambridge should admit students who have not done A-levels,  Education Secretary says - Telegraph 'Inadequate' Steiner school to be taken over by academy chain - Guardian FE colleges are the ‘national infrastructure’ for technical education - FE Week In numbers: the decline of adult education - Times Educational Supplement | TES No classroom teachers on new 'expert panel' for North East schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES New inspection regime 'could help Ofsted spot funding pressures' - Times Educational Supplement | TES HMC boss: 'Our schools are a bit like socialism in action' - Times Higher Education | THE UCU: Colleges' 1% pay offer 'wholly inadequate' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Teachers' Panel warns strike 'inevitable' unless pay offer improved - Mail Scotland: Special needs pupils manhandled into soft rooms - Times Educational Supplement | TES School funding remains Ofsted's elephant in the room - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cost of renting for students jumps a third in six years – but where are the cheapest and most expensive places? - The Sun YouTube deletes cheating videos after BBC investigation - BBC Higher T Levels: Panacea – or another ‘piece of the jigsaw’? - HEPI Arresting ‘epistemic violence’: Decolonising the national curriculum for history - BERA Teaching for recall, fluency and understanding: Blog round-up for easy access - Teacherhead 5 wellbeing quick wins - Teacher Toolkit Workload: the freedom to make a difference - Ambition School Leadership Eight schools send as many pupils to Oxbridge as three-quarters of all schools - UCU UCU responds to colleges' "insulting" 1% pay offer - UCU Improving school accountability: The next steps - NAHT Provisional November 2018 exam entries: GCSE - NAHT Government’s technical and vocational education strategy is ‘disjointed’ - ASCL CBI supports Universities UK's #MadeAtUni campaign - CBI MadeAtUni: universities top 100 discoveries - Universities UK UK HE should seek “full association” to Horizon Europe - PIE News EPI response to Secretary of State’s announcement on technical education - EPI Classroom management - UKEdChat How do schools address self-harm in adolescents? - UKEdChat UK too 'snobbish' about benefits of vocational studies, says Education Secretary Damian Hinds - PoliticsHome Child poverty: One million under-10s 'face desperate Christmas' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Union warns AoC risks ‘becoming an irrelevant voice’ after another ‘insulting’ 1% pay offer - FE Week 'We're fighting to save the school, it means a lot to us' say parents of Cardiff primary threatened with closure - Wales Online Government review to improve lives of autistic children - Nursery World There’s more than one way to get a PhD: enhancing women’s career opportunities in HE - IOE London Blog More children of working families falling into poverty - Nursery World UCL may rename buildings honouring Sir Francis Galton, known as the father of eugenics - Mail Apprenticeship levy funding curbs threaten to hit MBA courses - Financial Times Failing Steiner school to be moved to new trust - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Inadequate’ Steiner free school faces rebrokerage over pupil safety - Schools Week Meghan Markle busily takes notes as she makes secret visit to university - Mirror Scottish schools and hospitals ‘obliged’ to provide vegan food, MSPs told - Scotsman Wales: Threat of strike action by FE staff prompts revised pay offer from colleges - Wales Online Scottish Labour leader grills First Minister over additional needs support - Mail DfE pauses publication of monthly apprenticeship starts - FE Week Gender pay gap at universities could get even worse – here’s why - The Conversation Skills Advisory Panels: role and governance - DfE IfA confirms funding cut of £5k to chartered manager degree apprenticeship standard - FE Week Poorer children less active than wealthier peers, survey finds - Guardian Every school SHOULD have a counsellor argues Natasha Devon - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education secretary disagrees with Ofsted and not blaming colleges for ‘false hope’ job prospects - FE Week You can't escape Christmas in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU blasts Facebook over 'ridiculous' video ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES Advanced learner loan participation falls for first time - FE Week Coursework reforms prevent pupils from getting exams ‘special consideration’ - Schools Week Scotland: Some councils 'fail to recognise value of music' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are primary schools setting too much homework? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: children facing ‘Dickensian levels of poverty’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of year 13s re-taking English and maths GCSEs in November doubles - Schools Week DfE ugently seeking answers to why level two apprenticeships fell by 38% - FE Week 'Powerful' message on technical education welcomed by FE sector - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of schools in deficit at 9-year high - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds: 'Error' for Russell Group to reject T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only 1 in 6 pupils do recommended hour of daily exercise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam special consideration requests highest for at least 5 years - Times Educational Supplement | TES One third of London pupils don’t get first-choice secondary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Progress slows in closing university opportunity gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student rent rises: A look around two very different student flats - BBC Apprenticeships starts down nearly a quarter last year - FE Week Three in ten LA-maintained secondaries now in deficit, DfE data shows - Schools Week Apprenticeship starts continue to recover - Times Educational Supplement | TES Damien Hinds speech: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Technical education must be put on an equal footing with academic study - CBI Hinds: New technical qualifications needed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Slow uptake of flagship nursing apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels: Second wave of subjects announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tear down barriers to end nursing degree apprenticeship 'mirage' say MPs - UK Parliament Progress slows in closing the gap between the most and least advantaged students starting degrees - UCAS Cultured robots and prison record labels: the UK's research breakthroughs - Guardian UCL launches inquiry into historical links with eugenics - Guardian Why do dyslexic students do worse at university? | Christopher Byrne - Guardian UCL to investigate its historical links to eugenics after outcry over secret meetings - Guardian Scotland: Mainstreaming is always the ideal, but it doesn’t work for all ASN children - Scotsman How working-class children ended up paying for the financial crisis | Owen Jones - Guardian The most significant breakthroughs from Scotland’s universities - Scotsman Schoolboy 'bully' of Syrian refugee 'scared for his life' after death threats - Mirror A puzzling 24 hours for creative industries - Wonkhe Who is new universities minister Chris Skidmore? - Wonkhe Parents’ terror as hooded teen yob cockily poses with huge blade outside school once attended by Home Secretary Sajid Javid - The Sun One in ten children feel lonely, with youngsters who get free school meals, and live in big cities more likely to be unhappy, study finds - Mail Pregnant Meghan Markle dresses down for surprise meeting with uni bosses on how further education can change lives - The Sun Government’s technical qualifications to count for Ucas points in bid to end ‘snobbery’ - Independent Revealed: The next seven T-levels to be taught from 2021 - FE Week League tables to score schools on how many pupils take up higher apprenticeships - Schools Week Irish lecturer’s ‘throat slit in fatal attack by expelled student who failed to pass his exams’ - The Sun DfE to consult on level 4 and 5 T-levels for introduction from 2022 - FE Week 'Snobbish' attitudes that everyone has to have a degree must go so Britain doesn't 'fall behind' other countries, Education Secretary warns - Mail Give nursing degree apprenticeships special treatment, education committee urges - FE Week Slow rise in university admissions from disadvantaged students - Guardian Children are being ‘held back’ by parents who insist ‘university is the only route to career success’ - The Sun 'Snobbish' Britons think university is the only way to get a good job, says Education Secretary - Telegraph Trans lobby sent me death threats, claims professor - Times Forgotten art haul creates £15m windfall for Rugby School - Times ‘Snobs’ hold back apprentices - Times Special needs children are being betrayed by the state | Jenny Hewitson - Times Ireland: Online abuse needs a global response | Hildegarde Naughton - Times Irish lecturer John Dowling killed by expelled student near Paris college - Times Ireland: Cork students to get more beds in €100m development project - Times London school places shock as more than a third of pupils miss out on first choice - Express