News archive for 5th February 2018

back to standard EdNews format

Universities 'obsessed' with academic degrees should have funding cut, warns senior Tory - Express University of Cambridge admits it has a 'significant problem with sexual misconduct' - Mail USA: Yale students and dental professor took selfie with two severed heads - Guardian Private firms profiting from illegal alternative provision, Ofsted warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES How a new generation of thin-skinned student activists are gagging young people - The Sun School blasted by inspectors over pupils that 'are rude, rowdy and swear too often' - Mirror NSPCC survey: dealing with disclosures from children and young people - NAHT NAHT submits evidence on teachers' pay increases to School Teachers' Review Body - NAHT NAHT’s joint conference with Royal College of Psychiatrists - NAHT Sats: Most teachers say writing assessment will not produce accurate results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Response to latest UCAS application figures for 2018 entry - Universities UK RCN report on fall in nursing degree applications - Universities UK Social mobility must underpin higher education - Universities UK Fake football coaching apprenticeship cost Skills Funding Agency millions - Times Educational Supplement | TES School is 'the main cause of stress' for children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tips on how to deal with stress - The Educator National Education Service is solution to skills crisis, says Labour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wilshaw: Academisation failing to boost 'miserable' standards in the North - Times Educational Supplement | TES SENCO forum is back up – but only for some - Schools Week Practitioners' views sought for NDNA survey - Nursery World What Teachers Tapped This Week #19 – 5th Feb 2018 - Teacher Tapp Response to UCAS analysis of full time undergraduate applications - British Council Social Mobility: Ending the opportunity gap - Learning & Work Institute Why are we still waiting for apprenticeship levy standards? - feCompare How big is the funding gap between further education colleges and universities? - UK Parliament The £5m apprenticeship fraud run by former footballers Aizlewood and Sugrue - Mail Do teachers need theories that would bore researchers? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Teresa Pearce: Transform PSHE – and set young people up to succeed in life - PoliticsHome Ofsted spending over £25,000: 2017 - Ofsted Daily roundup 5 February: Duchess of Cambridge, antidepressants, and mental health - CYPN | Children & Young People Now State schools often better managed than private schools - IOE London Blog Global: International mobility not inclusive – report - PIE News Apprenticeship levy: Bureaucracy is holding us back - feCompare ESFA: business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency School performance tables: how we report the data - DfE Ex-Wales international facing jailed and sacked from club for scamming schools and colleges out £5 million - Mirror LKMCo: ‘Give schools £10k per vulnerable pupil to stop exclusions’ - Schools Week Labour (and students) must not get sucked into a campus culture war | Abi Wilkinson - Guardian UK universities receive record number of applications from foreign students - Express More Tory MPs will be sent to universities to 'protect free speech' after Jacob Rees-Mogg student protest - Independent Government urged to give adults lacking functional skills access to training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Professional footballers found guilty of £5m apprenticeship subcontracting fraud - FE Week A tale of two sixth forms: inside the East End Eton at the heart of Britain’s education divide - New Statesman University students receive 'paltry returns' for their academic degrees, says Tory MP - Independent No metal detectors for school where pupil stabbed welfare officer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students who fork out £50k for a degree often get tiny returns, top Tory warns - The Sun Let's not sacrifice play-based learning for a more structured reception experience - HuffPost I'm a doctor from a disadvantaged background. Why is that so unusual? - Guardian Research round-up - 5 February 2018 - NAHT Welsh students applying for university will benefit from most generous student support package in the UK - Welsh Government Cambodia: British Embassy's new science magazine aims to promote STEM education - FE News Kenya: 'Dangerous proposal': campaigners condemn sex education plan - Guardian Teachers could be charged to park outside their own schools under plans to reverse savage education cuts - Mirror What possible evidence does Ofsted chief have to suggest religious extremists are ‘perverting’ education? - The Conversation Half of all schoolchildren feel sad or anxious every week as teachers warn they struggle to get them help - Mirror Global: Patterns of change in UK provision of higher education overseas - FE News 2018 cycle applicant figures – January deadline - UCAS Read all about it! Literacy Works week is go - Unionlearn Struggling universities will be shut down, not saved – it's not fair for students - Guardian Girl escaped falling concrete in Edinburgh school toilet - Scotsman What we know about the 2018 recruitment cycle so far - Wonkhe Understanding the last UCAS cycle in depth - Wonkhe Response to new UCAS data - Sutton Trust Fewer Scottish teens from poorest areas apply for university - Scotsman Classroom assistants targeted to help fill teacher vacancies - Herald Scotland Robots in the classroom push boundaries of education - Financial Times Personalised learning starts to change teaching methods - Financial Times Demographics and digital disruption threaten the UK’s talent pool - FE News Building confidence and self esteem - Unionlearn University lecturers are told to censor their courses in case they are transphobic in bid to appease equality campaigners - Mail Number of EU students applying to UK universities surges despite Brexit fears - Independent Gender gap in university applications at record high, Ucas figures show - Independent UK universities report rise in applications from EU students - Guardian Many graduates earn 'paltry returns' for their degree - BBC Need to know: Alternative provision - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rate of 18-year-olds in England applying to university hits record high - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers concerned that anti-poverty funding lacks oversight - Times Educational Supplement | TES 36,000 missing male students – and three other things we learned from UCAS figures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Increase in applications to Scottish universities, Ucas figures show - Mail Scotland: Union calls for all teachers to decide how PEF cash is spent - Mail Bold Beginnings: getting the message over - Nursery World Ethics? That’s a bit of a grey area, say researchers - Times Foreign students apply to UK in record numbers - Times Stop swearing and taking drugs, head tells parents - Times Scotland: Applications to university from poor areas stall - Times Scotland: Head teachers ‘ought to give staff a say on funds’ - Times Australia: Desperate parents camp out for three nights outside of a prestigious primary school to get their children a place - Mail 'Worrying' drop in uni places for poverty-hit Scots - Express Foreign interest in UK early years sector rockets - Nursery World Ceeda Data: About Early Years 2 - No such thing as free? - Nursery World