News archive for 2nd January 2018

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These are the key dates for Ucas applications to go to university in 2018 - Wales Online Doubts cast on DfE claims of Toby Young's qualifications for watchdog post - Guardian Marsden: Office for Students board a 'missed opportunity’ for FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nursery in financial straits closes after being downgraded - Nursery World May insists on students being included in migration statistics - Financial Times Blackpool and Walsall ‘need’ new free schools the most - Schools Week Is parent power driving grammar school expansion? - BBC Daily roundup 2 January: Greening, alcoholic parents, and sexual abuse - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Childhood obesity campaign targets 'unhealthy snacking' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Former ADCS president receives knighthood - CYPN | Children & Young People Now IOE academic recognised in New Year Honours - IOE London Blog College principals, staff and governors have been recognised in the Queen's New Year’s Honours - AoC | Association of Colleges Top tips to make teaching easier in 2018 - The Staffroom Bold ambitions for space in the UK - GOV.UK Rona Tutt's SEND summary (December 2017) - NAHT Nick Boles: Behind the scenes on the birth of the apprenticeship levy - FE Week USA: Nearly 50 percent of colleges do not track student suicides despite huge investment in prevention - Mail May forced into dropping foreign students from immigration numbers - FE News Six reasons teachers want Justine Greening to stay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities are under attack – time to drag the fight to a higher level | Stephen Curry - Guardian Tatler publishes state schools guide for 'people like us' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Truancy in Scotland reaches record high - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brexit could lead to more teacher injuries at work, union warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Demand for breakfast clubs booms, while poorer families miss out on formal childcare - Nursery World Giving Toby Young this job shows that the Tories care only for their own | Faiza Shaheen - Guardian Toby Young's appointment to university watchdog criticised - BBC Ruling on ex-chair of governors at 'Trojan Horse' school kept under wraps - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nine reasons teaching should be in your New Year’s resolutions - HuffPost 'Trojan Horse' school ruling hush 'exceptional' - BBC After a wretched year, university leaders must begin to make amends in 2018 - Telegraph Knowledge exchange funding: Higher Education Innovation Fund – institutional strategies and plans - HEFCE Teachers new year’s resolutions - The Educator PHE launches Change4Life campaign around children’s snacking - GOV.UK Nationwide search begins for young space entrepreneurs - GOV.UK A million days of term-time ‘holidays’ damaging education - Scotsman The quality of apprenticeship training – how universities are rising to the challenge - FE News Is the battle for SEND inclusion won? - Schools Week The importance of traineeships - FE News Limit children's snacks to 100 calories, health body says - BBC UK must reverse decline in technical training - Financial Times Parents urged to count calories in children’s snacks - Times Free school pioneer Toby Young appointed to university watchdog Office for Students - Times University merry-go-round blows hole in vice chancellor salary claim - Times Where to draw the line on true free speech - Times Syria: Teacher ‘Tim Ramadan’ risked death to tell world about life under Isis - Times Scotland: Truancy and cheap holidays lead to record school absence - Times Scotland: Young waiting months for mental health treatment - Times Ireland: Parents to get childcare choice under tax plan - Times