News archive for 6th February 2018

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ESF funding rules - Education & Skills Funding Agency How to register for an IDAMS account - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 education: independent learning providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Asia University Rankings 2018: results announced - Times Higher Education | THE A personal view: Challenges facing the London skills system - Collab Group Disappearing part-time and mature students: time for change - Universities UK UUK and CBI to look at decline in part-time students and future skills needs - Universities UK Derbyshire teachers to strike - NASUWT ‘Create, Connect and Share Respect’ on Safer Internet Day - NAHT Ofqual 2017-18 Supplementary Estimate Memorandum (pdf) - UK Parliament FE commissioner's warning over adult education devolution plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES New documentary examines challenges faced by bright, disadvantaged pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Six schoolgirls are rushed to hospital after 'taking too much of the anti-anxiety drug Xanax' - Mail Australia: Desperate parents spend nights sleeping rough on the street outside school to get their children a place - Mirror Poorest areas face biggest cuts to children's services - BBC FE commissioner: Funding for Institutes of Technology is ‘too modest’ - FE Week National school funding formula threatened as councils demand changes - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do we solve a problem like levelling the employability playing field? - HEFCE DfE confirms Zahawi as children's minister - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 6 February: Home schooling, FGM, and 'paltry returns' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Outdoor instruction makes students more open to learning - UKEdChat Securing the right work placements for learners with SEND - Education & Training Foundation | ETF How to enable online global collaboration in your learning environment - Edmodo Ministers under pressure on funding for PSHE lessons - Schools Week Pre-apprenticeship programmes in Europe – how are young people being supported to progress? - Learning & Work Institute 16 to 18-year-olds need funding too! - Schools Week Ofsted announces tougher approach to monitoring subcontracting - FE Week Institute for Apprenticeships announces reforms to be faster and better - FE News Welsh students will get to study at Yale University free of charge - Wales Online Traineeships, the case for change - FE News The problem with teaching ‘British values’ in school - The Conversation Schoolgirls wearing a hijab is a path to extremism? Now that’s a leap | Samira Shackle - Guardian Ofsted to start carrying out monitoring visits on subcontractors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Off-the-job qualifications can be included in apprenticeships, IfA confirms - FE Week Institute for Apprenticeships promises to speed up standards delivery - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leading research centres secure transition funding - London School of Economics | LSE Schools should teach all pupils first aid, MPs say - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Dumping grounds': Eight key points from today's alternative-provision hearing - Times Educational Supplement | TES ICP Nurseries buys two more nurseries - Nursery World Busy Bees expanding in China - Nursery World UUK and CBI to look at decline in part-time students and future skills needs - FE News Global: With crop skills and coding, new UNICEF chief aims to shake up schools - Mail Zero-tolerance behaviour policies exclude more vulnerable children, MPs told - Schools Week London university probed over management misconduct claims - Financial Times Edinburgh University divests from all fossil fuels - Guardian Later school start time may produce benefits but more evidence is needed - Institute for Effective Education New analysis of the attainment gap - Institute for Effective Education Examining the research on charter schools - Institute for Effective Education Evidence and policy - Institute for Effective Education Academy trust sponsored by grammar school owes £5.8m - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge University admits 'significant problem' with sexual misconduct after 173 complaints in nine months - Independent Scots scientists develop monitoring technique to protect elephants - Scotsman Zero-tolerance behaviour policies could be illegal, SEND expert tells MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge University admits 'significant' sexual misconduct problem - BBC Digital media helps with parenting and brings families together - London School of Economics | LSE Universities are failing to make students employable - Express Seren Network unveils ‘life-changing’ scholarship with Yale University, as independent report finds project is ‘adding value’ and ‘plugging gaps’ - Welsh Government New free speech rankings: possibly too subtle and nuanced? - Wonkhe A right KEFuffle over knowledge exchange? - Wonkhe What should the role of Ofsted be? - Guardian Premier league clubs do well on diversity – so why don’t universities? - Guardian Ofsted head: ‘The last thing a chief inspector should be is a crusader’ - Guardian Plans to lower university entry grades for poorer students lack support from pupils - Herald Scotland Give apprenticeships time, and they’ll futureproof our workforce - City AM It’s time to stand up to the stupid bans of the student Stasi and protect free speech in the UK - The Sun Parents being talked into homeschooling troubled children - BBC Universities must offer ‘earn as you learn’ degree apprenticeships or face cuts to funding, senior Tory demands - The Sun Two in five children made anxious every week when using internet, research reveals - Independent Cambridge reveals scores of sexual misconduct claims - Times Students miss out as donors struggle to give away £150m - Times Scotland: Aberdeenshire academy students ‘asked to buy own paper and books for classes’ - Times Ireland: Pupils being failed by poor-quality Irish lessons - Times