News archive for 26th February 2018

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Almost half of Carillion apprentices remain jobless, skills minister confesses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching unions hit back after Theresa May attacks Scottish education standards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former top footballers jailed for £5 million fraud targeting FE colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Postgrad checklist: what to ask when picking a PhD - Guardian Wales: ‘Ghost learner’ football scammers jailed for over 25 years combined - FE Week How can 'embedding' really benefit students? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual opens apprenticeship assessment consultation - Times Educational Supplement | TES How hard is it to learn to write by hand as an adult? - Guardian You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear when it comes to the writing assessment frameworks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Setting pupils 'incompatible with social justice' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former Wales international Mark Aizlewood jailed for scamming schools and colleges out of £5million - Mirror Providers have to step up to help achieve apprenticeship ambitions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ucas blames Northern schools for lack of ‘aspiration and attainment’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Special measures school left unsupported after WCAT collapse, Ofsted finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES The quick Q&A: How to support children with selective mutism - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most of Progress 8 gap between London and the North unrelated to school effectiveness - Times Educational Supplement | TES University strike: Lecturers' pension action solid, says union - BBC Barclays: First UK bank to offer master’s apprenticeship - FE News Annual qualifications market report: academic year 2016 to 2017 (erratum notice) - Ofqual The assessment reforms take the pressure away from exam preparation and instead ensure concrete subject knowledge - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of Surrey spends more than £1,600 on relocating vice-chancellor's pet dog - Independent Strict headteacher was found hanging at his home - Mail Schools must be consulted on local safeguarding arrangements - Schools Week Reinvigoration co-Launch 1st online BSc in OpEx with The University of Buckingham - FE News Inquiry calls for social media companies to reveal anti-bullying response - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup... Daily roundup 26 February: Pencils, Rotherham, and lettings - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Half of councils contributing to adoption support 'match-funding' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Spring it on - Primary Times DfE publishes teacher supply and retention figures - The Educator The future of learning needs to get personal - Training Journal Most UK parents back air pollution exclusion zones around schools - Guardian Construction Hub training facility launched at Tweedbank - FE News Worried your child Is struggling to hold a pencil? - HuffPost Touchscreen generation don't have strength to grip a pencil - Mail Children struggle to hold pencils as they are used to touchscreens experts warn - Mirror Overview: headteachers' roundtable summit - Headteachers' Roundtable Tech trends in global higher education - Wonkhe Would subject-based fees stem arts provision? - Wonkhe Are we over-testing our students? - The Educator Don't tell us we're 'dumping' vulnerable children on you, virtual heads tell school leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE has taken the Prevent duty seriously, this should be acknowledged - FE News Do schools have to pay agency buy-out fees for supply teachers? - Schools Week Education Minister tells universities to give striking lecturers’ pay back to students - The Sun Anger over decade of bumper pay rises for Scottish university principals - Herald Scotland Decade of pay rises for Scottish university principals sparks call for change in the law - Herald Scotland Are Scotland’s university leaders worth their substantial increases? - Herald Scotland The Showcase / Presentation - Under the bonnet of end-point assessment - FE News Is my school closed today? Snow forces closures across the UK - but how do they decide if they should shut? - Mirror Overpaid university bosses could see pay slashed by Office for Students - The Sun Lecturers fight cuts of £10,000 to pension - Herald Scotland Students face being called 'scabs' if they defy pickets and turn up for classes - Mail Faith schools: Complaints over admissions rise as number of selective religious schools set to increase - Independent Universities charging thousands for useless degrees is the great mis-selling scandal of our time - Telegraph Need to know: What is the faith-school cap? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Embattled universities face limits on powers - Times Give university students strikers’ cash, says minister - Times School health drives can boost pupil performance - Times £13m pension hole at lecturers’ trade union - Times Touchscreen children cannot grip a pencil - Times Scotland: Pupils being let down by SNP reforms, claims Theresa May - Times Scotland: Pupils must be taught about architecture, says Gokay Deveci - Times Ireland: University cleared over invoices from consultants - Times