News archive for 18th January 2018

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Learners and employers lauded at National Apprenticeship Awards - FE Week Investigation: Apprenticeship company told schools how to exploit tax loopholes - Schools Week Top apprentices and apprenticeship employers are recognised at National Apprenticeship Awards 2017 ceremony - Education & Skills Funding Agency Investigation: Agency accused over ‘tax avoidance’ levy advice - FE Week New school proposals - DfE Developing character skills in schools - DfE Searching, screening and confiscation at school - DfE School building framework: winning contractors announced - Education & Skills Funding Agency Top college principals to drive improvements in further education - DfE ESFA e-bulletin: 18 January 2018 (issue 203) - Education & Skills Funding Agency National Leaders of Further Education programme: current national leaders - Education & Skills Funding Agency Primary assessments: information and resources for 2018 - NAHT Fresh approach needed to make skills reforms - CBI Finding time to focus on what matters most - AoC | Association of Colleges Spotlight on multi-academy trusts: Pupil outcomes - NFER Teaching unions call for urgent review of teachers and school leaders’ pay - National Education Union Teachers’ unions demand a ‘significant’ pay rise - The Educator Why did Greening have to go? - Montrose42 Blog Nurseries admit asking parents for voluntary contributions - BBC Revealed: Low pupil numbers forced nearly every UTC to hand funding back - FE Week Why wait to unleash children’s creativity? | Letters - Guardian Early years teachers call on Ofsted to publish Bold Beginnings clarification - Times Educational Supplement | TES Service dogs that help young children with chronic conditions attend school proudly pose alongside their owners in heartwarming yearbook photos - Mail Defunct MAT owed £480,000 - Times Educational Supplement | TES CBI calls for fresh approach towards skills essential for UK future - The Staffroom The ETF welcomes appointment of National Leaders of Further Education - Education & Training Foundation Artists donate prints to schools in revival of postwar UK project - Financial Times Parents are forced to plug gaps in the government's 'free' childcare scheme as nurseries start charging for extras to cover the funding shortfall - Mail Daily roundup 18 January: Gang violence, Bradley brutality comments, and child refugees - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Providers introduce charges to make 30 hours free childcare viable - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New support for higher education courses in specialist healthcare disciplines - HEFCE Creativity in STEM - HEA Lion King actor among further education alumni to be honoured at AoC Gold Awards - AoC | Association of Colleges War on vice-Chancellor pay is revenge for universities’ stance on Brexit, higher education leaders say - Telegraph EU academics at UK universities double in a decade - Mail University of Kent boss given extra £45,000 payout - BBC Bayeux Tapestry explained... by kids - BBC Criticism of universities due to current politics, survey suggests - Mail University chief who complained about funding cuts was given a £45,000 pay rise for her final year before retirement - Mail Take Time to Talk, Listen and Play - Welsh Government Flagship social mobility programme risked 'overloading' schools, DfE official reveals - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE sector steps in to help stranded Carillion apprentices - FE Week Anne Milton appoints top college principals as National Leaders to drive improvements in Further Education - FE News Puberty is starting earlier for many children – sex education must catch up with this new reality - The Conversation Schoolboy told he can't buy lunch – because he owed 40p - Mirror Parents are ‘paying for free nursery scheme out of their own pockets’ - The Sun Outrage over each new education policy does nothing but harm | Richard Russell - Guardian 'Completely free' 30 hours shunned by most providers - Nursery World New look for NDNA - Nursery World Schools cost 40 per cent more to build under PFI, watchdog reveals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents shelling out for 'free' nursery scheme - BBC Unions demand ‘significant’ pay rise for teachers and heads - Schools Week Higher education staff statistics UK: 2016 to 2017 - Higher Education Statistics Agency China: 'Snowflake Boy' whose hair froze on walk to school gets just £900 from charity - despite well-wishers donating £56,000 - Mirror India: Delhi to put CCTV in classrooms for parents to monitor children - Guardian Metro and city mayors sign letter highlighting regional impact of international students - Universities UK Robin Hood and the American dream - Wonkhe Supporting students who work - Wonkhe Our world is changing. It's time for historians to explain why | Cormac Shine - Guardian Academic refugees have much to offer countries which give them a safe haven - Scotsman Teachers in Wales have demanded a "significant" pay rise - Wales Online How to scale wellbeing support - FE News Extension to the initial teacher education, and assessment and quality assurance qualifications - FE News At least a quarter of all free schools overestimated pupil numbers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for universities to fast-track bright pupils into the second year of degree courses - Herald Scotland Pupils taught key exams at university as choice of subjects at school narrows - Herald Scotland Analysis: Funding challenge for university initiatives as they move mainstream - Herald Scotland Budget cuts pave way for a further reduction in exam choice - Herald Scotland Drive to provide equality of opportunity ‘must begin at primary school’ - Herald Scotland Case Study: The university hub delivering record exam results for school pupils - Herald Scotland Metro mayors urge rethink on overseas student immigration policy - Financial Times Public accounts committee chair slams ‘exorbitantly expensive’ PFI contracts - Schools Week USA: Lawmaker seeks home school oversight after 13 found captive - Mail Unions call for cost of living pay increase for all teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching unions call for urgent review of teachers and school leaders’ pay - Voice Ministers funding Learndirect ‘knew of Ofsted criticism’ - Times I’m visiting campuses to stop a Corbyn monopoly, whatever students throw at me | Sam Gyimah - Times USA: Lax home schooling rules blamed for Turpin house of horrors - Times I wish I could have afforded to keep my kids at private school - Times Scotland: Private school exodus fear dismissed - Times Teachers must get pay rise, unions say - Mail University-led Teacher Education in England & the current HE policy context (Jan 2018) - UCET