News archive for 3rd January 2018

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Department for Education defends Toby Young appointment - Guardian White working-class boys should be more aspirational, says Labour minister - Guardian Rise in universities expanding into apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES The history of empire isn’t about pride. It’s about truth | James McDougall - Guardian New free schools expected to halve with support scrapped in many areas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Toby Young appointment adds to the pressure on universities | Letters - Guardian 5,000 apprentice nurses to start training this year - Times Educational Supplement | TES From Louis Theroux to Jeremy Corbyn: why are young people’s heroes all middle-aged? | Sam Wolfson - Guardian The Tories are out of step with modern life – and Toby Young shows it | Ian Birrell - Guardian Sexist tweets by university watchdog divide Tories - Times Boris Johnson backs Toby Young in storm over his appointment to universities watchdog - PoliticsHome Labour demands Toby Young is sacked from new unis role over 'homophobic and misogynistic' comments - PoliticsHome New universities regulator comes into force - The Staffroom Toby Young says he's facing 'confected outrage' over universities watchdog appointment because he's for Brexit - HuffPost ESFA update: January 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Section 96 - Qualifications - Education & Skills Funding Agency Education and Skills Funding Agency: update - Education & Skills Funding Agency Local Heroes – why a focus on local graduate employability is vital - HEA In the January edition of CYP Now: Care leavers, early help and home education - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 3 January: Late fines, Rotherham, and child migrants - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Alternative provision census 2018: guide - DfE School census 2017 to 2018: guide for schools and LAs - DfE Early years census 2018: guide - DfE Local area SEND inspection outcome letters - Ofsted Toby Young reveals regret over comments but defends university regulator role - Mail AELP Board Directors honoured in New Year’s Honours list - AELP Grammar school pupil numbers soar - The Educator Welcome for two-year QTS plan - SecEd The scale of educational inequality in Britain is huge—and growing - Prospect Magazine Education News & Resource Round-Up: 4/1/2018 - SecEd Sexual harassment revelations: DfE guidance finally published - SecEd Concern for pupils hit by teacher shortage - SecEd Research review highlights PSHE’s role in boosting academic attainment - SecEd Toby Young deletes thousands of tweets amid row over appointment to university role - PoliticsHome UKCBC: London school opens Dubai campus - PIE News France is more attractive for study than Germany, US, UK, survey finds - PIE News Where internet safety is concerned, younger children should not be ‘left to their own devices’, says NAHT - NAHT Toby Young regrets 'politically incorrect' comments - BBC The number of words you need to write to get top marks in an English exam - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cyber security in 2017: how we made our defences stronger - Jisc Edinburgh named in top 10 most beautiful universities in the UK - Scotsman Fines of £60 for kids who are late to school less than once a week is just a stealth tax that punishes those already struggling the most - The Sun Toby Young quotes on breasts, eugenics and working-class people - Guardian Boris Johnson defends the decision to put Toby Young on a new university watchdog - Mail Institute for Apprenticeships to lose its deputy chief - FE Week Toby Young's “caustic wit” isn’t funny and it sends a terrible message on sexual harassment - New Statesman The 8p banana that showed Bogotá needed open public spending | María Victoria Angulo - Guardian Call for maximum temperature in Scottish classrooms - BBC Bullying isn’t just verbal or physical – it can also be social, and this can have the worst effects - The Conversation Thousands of pupils 'denied mental health treatment' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Higher education – trends in 2018 - Montrose42 First college merger plan for 2018 launched in the south-east - FE Week Bracknell and Wokingham College to merge with Activate Learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Toby Young is ideal man for university watchdog, says Boris Johnson - Guardian Dr Ann Clark: Teach kids how to express themselves and it could keep them out of trouble - Scotsman Staff driving education reform don’t believe they can deliver - Scotsman Let 2018 be the year in which we stop labelling international students as immigrants - City AM Who stole the techs? - FE News Rise in pupils staying on at school 'exacerbating' teacher recruitment crisis - Herald Scotland Careers guidance to no longer be education’s poor relation - FE News Indian school kids forced to cross a river using boats made from oil drums in world’s worst school run - The Sun Grammar schools role out 1,000 extra places a year due to high demand from parents despite ban on new buildings - Mail Defiant Theresa May will still count foreign students towards immigration target even if they are cut from official figures - Mail Liberia's big school experiment - BBC Make schools colder to improve learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leftwingers want to topple me, says free school chief Toby Young - Times Pressure on May over ‘migrant’ students - Times Grammar places increase by thousands despite ban - Times We need outsiders to keep an eye on our universities - Times Scotland: Education undervalued in Scotland, teachers say - Times