News archive for 8th December 2018

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Two universities setting targets to recruit more white male students - Mail Local councils profiting from student debts - Mail Brian Walton: It's not workload that keeps me awake, it's the fear - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bernard Trafford: All schools want for Christmas is more money and less lying - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of children given faith schools against parents’ wishes - Times University friends: By chance or by design? - BBC Dyslexia in academia - Times Higher Education | THE Exams shouldn't be the foundation on which the curriculum is built - Times Educational Supplement | TES Joshua McGovern: What is a Ministry of Defence School? (podcast) - Teacher Toolkit Apprenticeship quality remains a ‘mixed picture’, says Ofsted's Paul Joyce - FE Week Councils urged to claw back cash as 'excess' school surpluses top £500m - Schools Week Flagship National Citizen Service under fire for £1m-a-year offices - Schools Week Student loans are a terrifying debt with a frightening degree of bad accounting - Times Times Letters: Reasons for private schools’ Oxbridge success - Times