News archive for 30th January 2018

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Education deals announced as Theresa May arrives in China - Mail France terror threat: Police to guard schools in security crackdown - Express Carillion collapse: ministers perform U-turn on apprenticeship wages - HuffPost Cash-strapped headteachers send Chancellor Philip Hammond a multi-billion pound bill for 'missing' funding - Mirror USA: For-profit loan forgiveness program could see major cut - Mail Parents threaten to pull their kids out of school after head proposes four-and-a-half day week to save cash - The Sun Poorest children risk being 'set up to fail' by university diversity drive, Russell Group leader warns - Telegraph Register of apprenticeship training providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies - Education & Skills Funding Agency Removal from register of apprenticeship training providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency How the ESFA will intervene with providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academy trusts: notices about poor performance - DfE Individualised Learner Record (ILR): check that data is accurate - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: course directory - Education & Skills Funding Agency Designation of a body to perform the assessment functions for higher education in England - DfE Pupils and their parents or carers omnibus survey - DfE New school proposals - DfE Designation of a body for English higher education information - DfE Ready reckoners and transition matrices for key stage 4: 2017 - DfE City Technology Colleges pioneer Sir Cyril Taylor dies aged 82 - Schools Week National Union of Students' message of support to staff ahead of USS pension strikes - UCU GDPR - what you need to know and do now - NAHT Cash-strapped primary school considers four-and-a-half day week to save money - Express What’s the role of academics in supporting students’ mental health? - HEPI The ranking that ranks no more - Wonkhe What if we were serious about students at the heart of the system? - Wonkhe University staff are right to be striking | Letters - Guardian Ambitions behind raising the participation age 'remain unrealised' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Alarm over 'dramatic' funding cut for speech and language charity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Carillion apprentices will be paid until they find new employers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Creative arts subjects in schools a child's 'human right' - BBC University Labour society apologises for tweet suggesting Queen should be executed - Telegraph Teacher shortages: 'Where the DfE got it wrong and how it can put things right' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Carillion apprentices will be paid after January, DfE confirms - FE Week Swiss university unveils yodelling degree - BBC A near £70m plan to increase school places to meet demand is set to get the green light - Wales Online Reformers argue that teaching outside your specialism can be a strength - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister appoints two members to the Careers Wales Board - Welsh Government Ploys for boys - UKEdChat Funding campaign heads 'invoice' Treasury for £3.5 billion - Times Educational Supplement | TES School put in special measures after standards and management deemed 'unsatisfactory' - Wales Online EPI Response to Joint Committee inquiry on mental health provision for young people - EPI Current provision of mental health services for young people examined - UK Parliament Apprenticeship decline could spell extinction for university alternative - feCompare DCCI chief: Is it time to rethink the apprenticeship levy? - feCompare Research chief calls on education Twitterati to show ‘more respect’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Studying online: seven ways to stay motivated - Guardian The intern's dilemma - Sutton Trust What's wrong with Ofsted's Bold Beginnings report? - Early Education Free SEND resource launched for IAG providers and teaching staff - Education & Training Foundation A-level students warned longer exam answers are not better after 27-page effort given grade E - Independent “What I cannot create I do not understand”- exploring creativity in STEM disciplines - HEA Teaching the Holocaust: in conversation with UCL Centre for Holocaust Education’s staff and supporters - IOE London Blog Daily roundup 30 January: School funding, fostering, and home schooling - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government mental health plans 'lack early years focus' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Less than a third of secondary school parents have heard of Progress 8 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents voice concerns as school suggests cutting week to four-and-a-half days - HuffPost Maths teacher exchange programme with China to be extended - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish part-time FE enrolments on the rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Maths and English GCSE resits leading to mental health challenges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outwood Grange confirmed as sponsor of six schools from failed Wakefield City Academies Trust - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mental health could become a 'stick to beat teachers with', and eight other things MPs heard today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Manchester Creative Studio will close this summer - Schools Week Top DfE official acknowledges concerns over money made through academy contracts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Manchester Creative Studio will be 18th studio school to close - FE Week Unpaid, unadvertised internships are hampering social mobility and locking out talented young people - HuffPost The ideal length of an A level English essay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why there need to be more autistic characters in children’s books - The Conversation WCAT: Outwood Grange confirmed as sponsor for six schools - Schools Week NAHT: Mental health proposals shouldn’t be a ‘stick to beat schools’ - Schools Week Porn appears during Walsall primary school film showing - BBC Gloucestershire College joins Collab Group - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wakefield City Academies Trust paid £83K to former CEO's firm - Times Educational Supplement | TES House of Commons Launch for National Careers Week 2018 – 5th-10th March 2018 - FE News No register for home-schooled children in Wales - BBC Tributes paid to NFER vice-president David Whitbread, who has died aged 81 - Schools Week Anne Milton on apprenticeships - FE News Weekly digest #94: Resources for language learners - Learning Scientists #ditchthegrades Let’s call time on Ofsted grades for schools - Teacherhead Commuter students: locked out, left out and growing in number - Guardian Fears of university closures after removal of safety net - Guardian Ofsted forgets our four-year-olds are not GCSE apprentices | Michael Rosen - Guardian Education Secretary announces package of support for home educating families - Welsh Government ‘Unfair’ internships: new research - Sutton Trust Heads warn of 'chronic' funding shortages - BBC London schools to be alerted on high air pollution days - Guardian The lack of work experience provision is a black mark on the UK’s education system - FE News Sacked Education Secretary Justine Greening accuses Government of dithering on tuition fees - The Sun Unpaid internships in fashion or media now cost graduates more than £6k - The Sun Plans to give more power to Scottish headteachers ‘terrifying’ - Herald Scotland Funding constraints could hamper calls for compulsory careers advice - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rising living costs for unpaid interns shutting out less-advantaged youngsters - Mail Sadiq Khan says UK must leave students out of immigration targets post-Brexit - City AM Unpaid internships in London now cost more than £1,000 a month - Guardian Anti-colonialist stunt at Churchill-themed café was student protest - Times Scotland: Pay cuts blamed as Scottish graduates shun teaching jobs - Times Scotland: Universities face strike threat over pensions dispute - Times Ireland: Leaving Cert students let fitness fall by the wayside - Times Scotland: John Swinney announces breakdown of Pupil Equity Funding cash - Mail