News archive for 19th February 2018

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Former Tory universities minister urges Theresa May to bring back maintenance grants for students - Mirror University tuition fees explained as plans to reform higher education revealed - Mirror "My children can’t breathe": Terrified parents slam luxury flat developers for ‘toxic dust’ descending on schools - Mirror Early years national funding formula: funding rates and guidance - Education & Skills Funding Agency Year 7 catch-up premium: 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Delivering 16 to 18 traineeships through ESFA funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency Review of post-18 education and funding: terms of reference - DfE Prime Minister launches major review of post-18 education - DfE Tertiary funding review launched - Russell Group Comment on the Prime Minister’s speech - HEPI Lack of RE teachers could ‘lead to bigotry’ - The Educator The impact a teacher can have on a child target grades - The Educator Brexit: European universities increase English-speaking courses to prepare for influx of students, study suggests - Independent The terms of the post-18 education and funding review digested - Wonkhe Martin Lewis: Why, bizarrely, cutting tuition fees under the current system would hurt not help most students - Mirror University strikes could hit exams and graduation ceremonies - Guardian Over a million UK students could have exams disrupted by lecturer strikes, union warns - Independent How to fix our universities – cap the number of students | Sonia Sodha - Guardian BBC issues on-air correction after Tory MP's false claim about tuition fees - Mirror May admits education is failing children but offers no extra cash - Guardian The Guardian view on university financing: the making of a market mess | Editorial - Guardian Children formerly in care outside England to be prioritised in school admissions - Times Educational Supplement | TES May's review on fees beats a knee-jerk policy change due to political pressure - HuffPost 12 rules for schools: Rule 7 pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient) - The Learning Spy Jersey to consider paying students' tuition fees - BBC 'Forgive my sense of deja vu': students on Theresa May's tuition fees review - Guardian When were tuition fees introduced and which party started them? - Metro Student loans cost teachers £30,000 more than high-flying lawyers - Times Educational Supplement | TES May skewered by even Schofield's softballs on This Morning sofa | John Crace - Guardian Response to university funding review - Sutton Trust Theresa May: Workers would be hit by tax rises to pay for Labour’s free student fees policy - PoliticsHome AoC's response to the Prime Minister's announcement on the post-18 education and funding review - AoC | Association of Colleges What teachers tapped this week #21 - 19th February 2018 - Teacher Tapp Post-18 education review: our response - Learning & Work Institute Technical education doesn’t need a review! - FE Week Post-18 education finance review: a failing system, even in its own terms - IPPR Post-18 education finance review: a failing system, even in its own terms - IPPR Daily roundup 19 February: Social mobility, Prince Harry, and cannabis - CYPN | Children & Young People Now It might be a pseudo science, but students take the threat of eugenics seriously - New Statesman Vacancy rate in alternative providers 'up to 150% higher than in mainstream schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Theresa May's post-18 review panel includes college principal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Times-tables are important, but the government’s latest test is a complete waste of time for schools - NAHT Better pay for teachers can no longer be ignored - NAHT Joint health and education select committee session on mental health - NAHT NAHT responds to call for evidence on PSHE and RSE - NAHT Newly updated governance guide February 2018 - NAHT Five things the university funding review must do - Universities UK A review for whom? - Universities UK UCU comment ahead of Prime Minister's universities speech - UCU "Build on strengths of our world-leading university sector & on the role further education" - CBI Two decades on, policymakers should learn from Learning Age proposals - Times Educational Supplement | TES PM speech on education to mark launch of post-18 education and funding review in England - Universities UK MillionPlus outlines priorities for the government’s review of post-18 education - MillionPlus OFFA comment on launch of post-18 education and funding review - OFFA What are your experiences of supplement use in school sport? - Guardian May launches review of UK post-school education - Financial Times HE funding review launch: read the Prime Minister’s speech in full - FE Week College principal named in HE funding review panel - FE Week Theresa May's university review will not scrap fees - BBC Huge expansion of higher education in colleges expected to follow post-18 education review - FE Week Lab v lecture hall: Whose tuition fees are you paying? - BBC France tackles inequality with a bold revamp of its baccalaureate - Financial Times Three ways to fix UK university financing - Financial Times University tuition fees among most expensive in world, Theresa May says - Herald Scotland Reality check: Would cutting tuition fees help poorer graduates? - BBC US school shooting survivors to march for gun control - Times Educational Supplement | TES We need to talk about subjects – and to know what great subject-specific professional development looks like - IOE London Blog Indian pupils get slipper to stop exam cheating - Times Tackling tuition fees may not be the vote-winner the government is hoping for - New Statesman Tuition fees: key questions about the government review - Guardian Council branded ‘inadequate’ after Ofsted warns of radicalisation risk - FE Week Tell us what you think of Theresa May's tuition fees plans - Guardian 'The standards in FE are too varied' – PM to announce post-18 review - Times Educational Supplement | TES PM to launch review to help 'pupils of all backgrounds gain equal access to university' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nursery opens second setting with half a million pound funding - Nursery World PFI firms to get £4.8bn from schools by 2020, study shows - Guardian Student finance is broken. A graduate tax is the only solution | Simon Jenkins - Guardian Theresa May's university fees review risks 'imploding at birth' amid mounting criticism - Independent Over half of young children in care not told why they are there - Nursery World Scotland needs more ethnic minority head teachers, says Sarwar - Scotsman Theresa May admits tuition fees aren’t working how they should be - Metro 'University fees need to come down,' says Lord Adonis - BBC How major should the review really be? - Wonkhe Theresa May has made a devastating admission about the failure of Tory tuition fees policy - Mirror Theresa May to woo parents with pledge to tackle university fees - City AM Theresa May's second-rate education: Mirror Politics morning briefing - Mirror Stop the decline in part-time undergraduate study - Wonkhe Sector voices on the review of post-18 education and funding - Wonkhe This should be a review for all subjects - Wonkhe Botched loan privatisations and the highest fees in the world - Wonkhe New Welsh support package equates to the National Living Wage - Wonkhe Leader comment: Students right to demand money back over university strike disruption - Scotsman Theresa May demands better value for money for university students - PoliticsHome PM launches post-18 education and funding review - FE News Sector response to post 18 funding review: Prime Minister calls for parity of esteem between academic and technical education - FE News Lego in push for buoyant Chinese toy market with “classes” in schools - City AM University of Edinburgh students demand lecture strike compensation - Scotsman Rhodes scholarships opened up to students from UK and rest of world - Guardian Plans to slash tuition fees met with backlash from senior Tories - The Sun Need to know: Changes to guidance for schools on keeping children safe - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Professional Discussion - Under the bonnet of end-point assessment - FE News Theresa May calls for an end to ‘outdated’ belief that young people have to go to university to succeed - The Sun PM to slam universities in speech aimed at proving commitment to issues outside Brexit - Express The Communication Trust lobbies for reprieve - Nursery World DfE early years boss defends Strategy pledges - Nursery World Halfon: Select Committee chair talks skills and 30 hours - Nursery World Theresa May is warned her revamp for tuition fees doesn’t add up - Times Lack of good RE teachers ‘adds to risk of bigotry’ - Times Ban silence on sex abuse, say schools - Times USA: Students demand gun control and plan march on Washington - Times Italy: Teaching unions demand end to assaults by pupils and parents - Times The murky world of student loans, the national debt and a fiscal illusion - Times Scotland: Sarwar’s call to tackle lack of ethnic minority head teachers - Times Scotland: Schools ‘must do more to help deprived pupils reach university’ - Times QTS consultation response - UCET