News archive for 15th February 2018

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Defining its purpose will give FE a sense of identity - Times Educational Supplement | TES USA: Minority parents sue over racial quotas at magnet schools - Mail ESFA e-bulletin: 15 February 2018 (issue 207) - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship funding: how it works - DfE ESFA: current notices of concern - Education & Skills Funding Agency Destinations of KS4 and KS5 pupils: 2016 - DfE USS strikes force cancellation of Southampton science and engineering event - UCU Teacher assessment frameworks for the 2018/19 academic year onwards - NAHT NAHT responds to call for evidence on PSHE and RSE - NAHT Identifying pupils who may be victims of criminal exploitation - NAHT Why fears of censorious campus culture are more than ‘free speech hysteria’ - Wonkhe Why fears of censorious campus culture are more than ‘free speech hysteria’ - Wonkhe Anti-Semitism, free speech and no platform - Wonkhe DfE lists responsibilities of its ministers a month after government reshuffle - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning that PE teachers found selling pupils supplements ‘might encourage doping’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Committee to hear from vice-chancellors on value for money in higher education - FE News Edinburgh College principal to retire - Times Educational Supplement | TES Daily roundup 15 February: Hinds on tour, driving bans, and death review - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 15 February: Hinds on tour, driving bans, and death review - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Alumna named as Global Teacher Prize finalist - IOE London Blog PRIME 2018: Building diversity in law - Sutton Trust It’s on us: Why we need to advocate whole child development - Edmodo Murdoch University partners with FutureLearn to deliver online degree courses - FE News Lady Hale: 'Studying law? Make sure you have the stomach for it' - Guardian Teaching vs. everything else - UKEdChat EEF grant making: 5 charts showing the what, who, where, when and why - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Social mobility in the news - Villiers Park Educational Trust China beckons for winners of national Mandarin speaking competition - British Council Metro mayors boost BAME apprenticeships - FE News DfE reviewing security advice for schools following terrorist attacks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mining the data – meet and greet gives jobseekers chance to show off skills - Scotsman Strike dates announced for colleges locked in pay dispute - FE Week PE teacher who had sex with pupil banned from teaching for life - Independent Schools urged to ignore ‘dangerous’ gender guidance - Schools Week Resurgent poetry makes longlist for prestigious children's books award - Times Educational Supplement | TES There must be easier fads to follow than teaching Mandarin | Emma Brockes - Guardian T-levels being shunned by top universities - FE News Poor children born today die earlier than rich study shows - Mail Anger as apprenticeship providers asked to log off-the-job training - FE Week 5 levy employer observations in 2018 - FE News Arts subjects are seen as the least important, poll shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES USA: Florida shooting: At least 17 dead in high school attack - BBC MPs to probe universities' unconditional offers - BBC Destination data on KS4 and KS5 pupils going into education, employment and training destinations: 2016 - DfE 'One in seven children of school staff and other public sector workers face poverty' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprentices should get a £1,000 grant, committee says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Recruitment company approved to deliver Level 2 and 3 apprenticeships - Nursery World Education system failing to properly prepare STEM students for the working world - FE News Scotland's spending watchdog raises concern about 30 hours - Nursery World Careers advice in custody - what is happening after 1 April? - Montrose42 Can you pass the teachers' basic English entry test? - Independent Religious groups mount campaign against teaching about same-sex marriage - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don’t count on Brexit to avoid the GDPR - FE News Scottish spending watchdog concerned about nursery funding - BBC Science teacher jailed for filming women and girls in school toilets - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government faces second judicial review over pupil data collection - Schools Week HE student statistics: alternative providers 2016 to 2017 - Higher Education Statistics Agency Ministers too politically correct to ban hijabs in schools, says ex-Ofsted boss - Express Brexit student exchange needs rethink says top uni head - BBC Nicola Sturgeon warned of major ‘risks’ with SNP childcare plan - Scotsman USA: Florida high school shooting: 17 dead and 15 injured in attack - HuffPost Qualifications in apprenticeship standards - FE News Fresh fears over legal threat to Scottish headteachers - Herald Scotland Hijabs have not been banned in primary schools as MPs fear being politically incorrect, claims ex-chief inspector of schools - The Sun Fat cat university bosses who decide their own pay - Mail Red Balloon founder Dr Carrie Herbert believes schools care more about results than bullied children - Mail Government must implement official hijabs policy in schools, former Ofsted boss says - Independent Watchdog warns of £160 million 'black hole' in Scottish nursery plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is an apprenticeship right for you? - FE News Most university bosses on committees that set their pay, figures show - Independent Majority of university leaders involved in setting their own pay - Guardian Vice-chancellors attend their own pay committees - Times Matilda child star in home schooling row - Times Equal rights turn girls off science - Times USA: Freedom of speech class cancelled after Princeton professor use n‑word - Times France: Macron overhauls teaching in class with a baccalauréat for the future - Times Their parents pay 35k for their education — so why are Rugby School pupils off to prison? - Times Why it pays for a trainee to be posh - Times Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon’s free childcare policy is damned by official auditors - Times Scotland: National chef’s school recipe to counter obesity - Times Ireland: Educate Together school enrolment ban may be reversed - Times Revealed: £160 million black hole in Sturgeon's childcare plan - Express