News archive for 18th February 2018

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Theresa May admits training for kids who want to learn a trade instead of university isn't good enough - Mirror USA: Florida students organise 'March For Our Lives' in Washington calling for gun law changes after latest US massacre - Mirror You don't need to go to uni - Mail Tuition fees: Theresa May challenges university costs - BBC Theresa May launching major review of student finance - Mail ‘Soft’ degrees could cost less in review of university funding - Express May talks up vocational courses ahead of fees review - Financial Times Poor students leave university with the most debt, Theresa May admits - HuffPost PM to give speech on education to mark launch of post-18 education and funding review - DfE Why secondary schools need art departments that push the boundaries - Independent Head Government must reconsider high interest rates on student loans - UK Parliament The early years sector must deliver a visceral response to Ofsted's caricatures and tropes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Backlash against Tory plan to cut tuition fees - The Sun Letters: Taking delight in times tables - Guardian Universities should consider compensation for students hit by strikes - Mail Ultra-Orthodox Jews say London schools should not teach 'lies' that Earth is older than 6,000 years - Independent Labour pledges school fire safety overhaul - Schools Week Weekly digest #97: Benefits and pitfalls of mindfulness interventions in schools - Learning Scientists Don’t do ‘can do’. The problems with can-do checklists and trackers - Teacherhead MPs urge Government to reconsider charging high interest rates on student loans - PoliticsHome Education Secretary Damian Hinds drops major hint that arts degrees will be cheaper - PoliticsHome Labour pledge sprinkler systems for all new schools - PoliticsHome Damian Hinds leaves door open to Tory U-turn on student maintenance grants - PoliticsHome Former education secretary Justine Greening warns cheaper degree plans could stifle social mobility - PoliticsHome School at home isn't so sweet - Express Wales: Four members of the same family had their student finance stopped suddenly two years into their studies - Wales Online UUK response to recommendations on major review of university funding - Universities UK University World News Global Edition - 18 February 2018 - University World News Ambition:Feed platform offers leadership support - SecEd What should teachers actually mark? - UKEdChat Joined at the strip - UKEdChat Students should get refunds on tuition fees when their lecturers go on strike - The Sun Cutting tuition fees would backfire, Justine Greening warns PM - Guardian Damian Hinds: 4 things we learned from the new education secretary's first interviews - Schools Week Education secretary Damian Hinds rules out creating new grammars but says he wants existing schools to expand - Mirror Tuition fees should be based on career prospects, says Education Secretary - Independent Education Secretary calls for tuition fee 'variety' - BBC The $1m teacher prize will not help us solve our recruitment and retention crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education secretary Damian Hinds: students to get cheaper places at university - Times Labour's Angela Rayner says government is 'not leading but being led - Mirror Tuition fee review: Link university costs to economic benefits of subjects, says education secretary Damian Hinds - City AM Koch, penetration pricing and organisms' entries on the curriculum that are a minefield for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers slammed for making arts degrees cheaper than engineering - Mail Grammar school expansion, a u-turn on sex ed, faith school reforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eight category mistakes in the debate around the funding review - Wonkhe Government must reconsider punitive student loan interest rates. - Independent Major reviews of higher education through history - Wonkhe Return to times tables? Not when we can ask Poles to do our sums - Mail MPs seek cut in high interest rates on student loans - Financial Times Tuition fees should be part-based on benefit to a student's future - Mail Scotland: Education experts say 'ban phones in school as they damage learning' - Herald Scotland Goody study sum drop - Less popular university subjects set for discount under planned fees shake-up - The Sun 'Cut student interest rates' say MPs - BBC University challenge - BBC Cutting university tuition fees ‘would be a subsidy to Tory voters’ - Guardian No clear reason to use RPI to calculate student loan interest rates, MPs argue - Mail A conspiracy of silence: Alex Renton on sexual abuse at top British boarding schools - Times Education secretary Damian Hinds: students to get cheaper places at university - Times Rabbis attack schools’ ‘lie’ about Earth’s age - Times Scotland: We don’t need to ditch elite knowledge but to open academic doors - Times Education secretary Damian Hinds: I will make arts degrees cheaper - Times Letters: Routine cheating has made exams meaningless - Times Hunt begins for legion of ‘missing’ children being educated at home - Times Scotland: We are failing to make the grade in education - Times High interest rates charged on student loans should be adjusted, MPs urge - Mirror