News archive for 11th January 2018

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Was government support of Learndirect sale legal? - FE Week More than a quarter of students now get a first-class degree as the rates of people getting the highest honours rises 50% in just five years - Mail Pupils at a Cardiff primary are going to other schools for classes because of a broken boiler - Wales Online UK sees influx of foreign students grind to near halt - Financial Times Three quarters of graduates get 2:1 or firsts as regulator issues warning to universities to halt grade inflation - Telegraph Scots schools sends unruly pupils back to primaries as punishment - Scotsman ‘Serious failing’: inquiry to scrutinise Toby Young’s OfS appointment - Guardian Toby Young is gone. But he was the least of universities’ problems | Letters - Guardian Collaboration is absolutely vital for education reforms to work - Education & Training Foundation Professional development in science - Teacher Development Trust | TDT How to make the most of Learning Scientists as a student - Learning Scientists Edge's response to the T-Level consultation - Edge Foundation Being an ethical leader - The Staffroom Durand Academy's £100K caretaker - Times Educational Supplement | TES Using ADHD drugs to control 'non-compliant' pupils is 'inhumane', say experts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fraudsters are intercepting school fee payments, warns Charity Commission - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher training agency failed to prove that grants were used properly - Times Educational Supplement | TES School catering staff feel excluded, undervalued and poorly trained - Schools Week Sponsors confirmed for 11 WCAT schools - Schools Week Quarter of students get firsts amid university grade inflation - Times Farming today: microchipped slugs and high-tech drones - Wonkhe Rubik’s cube or Battenburg? The university timetable - Wonkhe Perry Beeches Academy Trust closes after schools move to new sponsors - Schools Week New study highlights net impact of international students - Universities UK You say stability, I say stagnation - Universities UK International students report - Russell Group EYFS staff:child ratios - DfE approved qualifications - DfE Education Secretary makes first visit to Cambridgeshire school - DfE ESFA e-bulletin: 11 January 2018 (issue 202) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Further decline in part-time student numbers “a profound concern” - OFFA New study shows the benefits of international students are ten times greater than the costs – and are worth £310 per UK resident - HEPI The costs and benefits of international students (including by parliamentary constituency) - HEPI GCSE resits: English and maths pass rates drop in November sitting - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vice-chancellors at the UK’s leading 24 Russell Group universities earned an average of £332,000 last year - Mail Baroness Garden: Ministers must make the educational arguments for two-year degrees - PoliticsHome Gordon Marsden: The Tories’ pitch for two-year degrees is more of a PR initiative than a holistic programme for change - PoliticsHome Tory minister goes to war with ex-No 10 aide over Justine Greening resignation - PoliticsHome EEF publishes review of evidence on employers in education - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Parents who were fined £480 for taking their eight children to Tenerife in term time argue it was cheaper than paying £2,500 more to travel a week later in school holidays - Mail The large lecture (theatre) is dead… - Jisc 30 hours free childcare: eligibility codes issued and validated - DfE Headteacher segregated playground ‘between rich and poor’ - Metro £10m put aside for 'nature-friendly schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Degrees of confidence - HEFCE Class of 2017 - HEFCE Nadhim Zahawi to replace Robert Goodwill as children's minister - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup January 11: Energy drinks, teacher stress, and youth unemployment - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Profile: New children's minister Nadhim Zahawi - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Response to HESA statistics - Sutton Trust GDPR: What schools need to know in 2018 - Capita SIMS NCTL can't be sure teacher training grants used correctly, warns auditor - Schools Week University College London launches 'eugenics' probe after controversial conference secretly held on campus - Independent Number of white people accepted at universities drops despite overall rise in UK students - Independent Sponsors for 11 schools run by the failed Wakefield City Academies Trust confirmed - Times Educational Supplement | TES More degree students graduating with firsts than 2:2s or below - Guardian West Midlands school accused of segregating children in playground - Guardian Lower grade boundaries for maths GCSE resit exam spark concern - Times Educational Supplement | TES The biological reason why it’s so hard for teenagers to wake up early for school - The Conversation Universities – take back control of your vice-chancellors' spiralling salaries | Mike Ratcliffe - Guardian Do universities still bother reading personal statements? - Guardian What does Damian Hinds’ appointment as education secretary mean for schools? - Schools Week Justine Greening presses government to ensure sex education is taught in all schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 3,700 teachers signed off due to stress - Nursery World Thousands of teachers off sick in ‘stress epidemic’ - Times Primary pupils who learn through play struggle with 'traditional' teaching later on - Times Educational Supplement | TES Theresa May’s reshuffle raises questions over the future of university tuition fees - New Statesman Nursery teacher numbers plummet - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ark reports £4m loss and relies on loans between its schools to cover deficits - Times Educational Supplement | TES With his views on eugenics, why does Toby Young still have a job in education? | Polly Toynbee - Guardian Jo Johnson: PM's ex-aide 'so wrong' about Justine Greening - BBC Timothy attacks Greening over apprenticeship and T-level troubles - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of teachers are on long-term stress leave, new figures reveal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rising number of Scots studying for full-time degrees - Scotsman 'Loved the teaching, hated the paperwork': your best comments today - Guardian First-class honours for a quarter of UK graduates - BBC The results of Wales' Maths GCSEs November sittings published - Wales Online BookTrust names free books for under-fives in 2018 - Nursery World Higher education student statistics: 2016 to 2017 - Higher Education Statistics Agency Greening put the brakes on education policies that work, says former No 10 chief of staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education is about developing an investigative mind - Professor Scraton - Montrose42 School creates playground 'rich and poor zones' separating kids whose parents didn't pay £6 donation for new sports equipment - Mirror New home for Eastern High School and Cardiff and Vale College now open - FE News Damian Hinds "honoured" to be appointed Education Secretary - FE News Top Tories back bid to use sugar tax on 'holiday hunger' clubs - PoliticsHome Justine Greening ‘blocked tuition fee cuts’, ex-No 10 aide reveals - PoliticsHome Girls 'twice as likely' to experience emotional problems as boys - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Drama out of crisis: how theatre and improv teach lessons in sexual consent - Guardian Justine Greening blocked bid to reduce tuition fees, claims ex-May aide - Guardian 'Epidemic of stress' blamed for 3,750 teachers on longterm sick leave - Guardian Why holidaying during term-time is a bad idea - Metro Why teachers in England are suffering from so much stress - Guardian The four siblings who set up the first stress management club for - and by - kids  - Telegraph May sacked Justine Greening for 'aiding Corbyn' by risking electoral sabotage - Express DfE refuses to name financially troubled academies paying high salaries, because they need a 'safe space' - Times Educational Supplement | TES QTLS helping more practitioners get the recognition they deserve - FE News Teachers warn learning through play can lead to pupil disruption - Herald Scotland International students worth £2bn to Scottish economy - Herald Scotland What school will Prince George attend? - Express Tory and Labour MPs join forces to demand Theresa May use Sugar Tax to set up school-holiday breakfast clubs - The Sun Top London university launches probe into conference that included speakers with controversial views on race and gender - Mail Theresa May is now free to reform university tuition fees after sacking two ministers who opposed her plans - Mail Overseas students 'add £20bn' to UK economy - BBC Overseas students add £20bn boost to UK economy during stay - Financial Times Benefits of international students outweigh costs - report - Mail UK employers aim to write off apprenticeship spending as tax - Financial Times White children more likely to suffer mental health issues, study finds - Telegraph Ban children from Snapchat, parents told - Times International students boost economy by £20bn a year - Times University College London under fire over its conferences on ‘eugenics’ - Times Support for apprentice levy goes up in flames - Times Scotland: Strathclyde University chief receives lowest pay rise in five years - Times Ireland: One in 20 teenagers admits sending naked images to strangers - Times NASBTT:January Newsletter - UCET