News archive for 21st February 2018

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Universities braced for 14 days of strikes over pensions - BBC Schools should prioritise foreign children who grew up in care over British youngsters, minister says - Telegraph Universities strike blamed on vote by Oxbridge colleges - Guardian Vice-Chancellor suggests he deserves salary of £360,000 as he has to oversee huge staff redundancies - Telegraph Parliamentary inquiry demanded over minister's plans to allow new faith schools to take fewer pupils from different backgrounds - Independent EAL Nexus website relaunched - The Bell Foundation Academies revenue funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Suicide is a sector-wide issue, says Bristol university vice-chancellor - Guardian Disadvantaged young people left again without apprenticeship opportunities after re-run of controversial government procurement - AELP Universities need to help poorer Scots pupils win places - Scotsman Only half of pre-school children being read to daily, UK study finds - Guardian Government 'out of step' over voting age, says AoC - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship funding bands set to change - FE Week Universities and College Union strikes - FE News Great Yarmouth Charter Academy bans 'McDonald's' hairstyle - BBC Vice-chancellors told high pay is immoral amid rising student debt - Guardian Changing the emphasis on university funding | Letters - Guardian Statement on the USS - Russell Group Scotland: Education Secretary faces questions over witness contact on Named Person law - Mail HEIs receive partnership funding - PIE News Leader: University tuition fees and the common good - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Inspectors praise safety improvements at YOI - CYPN | Children & Young People Now London Youth urges overhaul of Neet strategies - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Learning gain: Myths and possibilities - HEFCE Learning gain: Myths and possibilities - HEFCE Recruitment campaign aims to boost RE teacher numbers - SecEd Go global with collaborative projects - UKEdChat 16 to 19 funding allocations supporting documents for 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Letter from Lord Theodore Agnew to chairs of academy trusts - Education & Skills Funding Agency Common transfer file (CTF) and co-ordinated admissions data - DfE Letters to academy trusts about poor performance - DfE University vice-chancellors questioned - UK Parliament Universities doing everything they can to protect students - Universities UK Strike action at Powys school - NASUWT Sharing professional development & up-skilling others - UKEdChat Gloucestershire school threatened with closure over standards - Schools Week Employers in the driving seat? New thinking for FE leadership - AELP Free SecEd download: Evidence-based best practice - SecEd Higher Education in Brexit Britain: A changing future for international students in the UK? - HEPI How to top up your work experience in the education sector - The Educator As a working-class student, I know degree pricing would entrench elitism | Ellie Fry - Guardian Minister: Academy trustees ‘not rigorous enough’ on CEO pay - Schools Week Why we students should back our lecturers on strike - Guardian Australia: School grades and report cards could be scrapped under a radical plan to have students taught according to their ability - not their age - Mail Lord Agnew: No MAT CEO should receive bigger pay increase than their teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leader: University tuition fees and the common good - New Statesman Oxford University boss says vice-chancellor pay should not be regulated - Mail Teacher shortages: are a handful of schools a big part of the problem? - IOE London Blog Unions and apprenticeships event boosting quality and equality - Unionlearn Four universities say they are likely to accept T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher blackmailed by former student into handing over £10,000 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teenagers call for compulsory work experience - FE News Warning as fraudsters target schools using fake emails from headteachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warnings grow that three-year QTS could be ‘disastrous’ for teacher recruitment - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs want schools to tell them how social media affects pupils' wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government review into ethnic minority progression in the workplace - FE News What to look forward to during National Apprenticeship Week - FE News Small offices, big TVs, and the politics of the review - Wonkhe Student employability – the silent revolution - Wonkhe Martyn McLaughlin: Will SNP’s childcare plans institutionalise kids? - Scotsman GCSE pupils set to start school at 10am to see if lie-ins improve performance in lessons - The Sun Technology could mean the end for GCSEs and A levels, predicts exams chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Changing the culture of education - Post 18 review - FE News Sorry Corbyn, student loans are better for the many, not the few - City AM Families defend girl school’s status - Herald Scotland Fears over teacher cuts as council finds ‘loophole’ in national targets - Herald Scotland Analysis: Watering down of guidance paves way for cuts to teacher numbers - Herald Scotland Ministers consider allowing three grammar schools to open sister sites in a bid to expand - Mail MPs investigate impact of social media and screens on youth - BBC USA: 'Counting every school shooting so it never seems normal' - BBC Students want work experience back in the curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could delaying the school day improve pupils' mental health? Researchers launch new study - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inquiry to examine impact of social media on young people´s health - Mail New study examines whether starting school later in the day may help GCSE pupils - Mail Teenagers want work experience to be compulsory - survey - Mail Do a deal to stop strike, demand university heads - Times Mollycoddled youth lack grit, says head at elite private school Gresham’s - Times Grammars beating ban on selective schools - Times Newham council let St Stephen’s School down, Ofsted rules - Times University pledges to ‘decolonise’ degrees after listening to students - Times Irish families use childcare services less than average - Times EU students owe British taxpayers almost £600 million - and the total is set to rise - Express