News archive for 4th June 2018

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Education Committee inquiry turns to nursing degree apprenticeships - FE News Universities now admitting twice as many BTEC students as they did a decade ago, figures show - Telegraph Majority of young people do not feel proud to be English, survey finds - Telegraph Cambridge University asks for help attracting black students - BBC Cambridge University says it cannot do more to admit black British students 'on its own' - Independent SEND system 'not perfect', admits DfE adviser - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Are colleges important to the government or not?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Neil Carmichael to chair commission on skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cable's Lifelong Learning Commission panel revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Hidden market’ in Sats moderation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Using research evidence to inform timetabling - Teacher Toolkit Labour would prevent academies paying staff poverty wages while bosses pocket six figure salaries - Mirror University entrants remain highly qualified - Universities UK Study links screen time to insomnia symptoms and depressive symptoms in adolescents - UKEdChat What teachers tapped this week #36 – 4th June 2018 - Teacher Tapp Experts call for reforms as apprenticeship numbers fall - Learning & Work Institute GSA Head counters Economist article - GSA We need you - Headteachers' Roundtable What to expect when Ofsted receives a complaint about your school - ASCL Making a world of difference: my experience of using evidence in international schools - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring We lay the foundations so they can soar - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Fixing the apprenticeship system locally - IPPR Government to retain controversial Prevent anti-radicalisation programme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Verbal vs. written feedback - The Educator From puppies & ponies to the ‘cry closet’ – the art of exam stress relief - Wonkhe Women professors, pay, promotion, and academic housekeeping - Wonkhe Letter from Damian Hinds, MP: joint letter on recruitment from UCET & NASBTT - UCET Manifesto idea #32: Justin Madders MP - HEPI Daily roundup 4 June: Free school meals, childbirth, and teacher recruitment - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Dunraven Educational Trust will adopt troubled Durand Academy - Schools Week All Change: Where next for apprenticeships? - Learning & Work Institute Home Secretary should look urgently at international students targets - UCU Manifesto idea #31: Robert Halfon MP - HEPI Arabic language teacher sought to help refugee families on Bute - Scotsman School allows boys to wear skirts but NOT shorts during hot weather - Mirror School bans boys from wearing shorts, telling them to wear skirts instead - Independent Damian Hinds announces £730m of capital funding to create new school places - Parliament Oxfordshire school bans boys from wearing shorts in ‘gender neutral’ policy - Scotsman Degree Apprenticeships: does @IFAteched realise Apprenticeship needs its Flagship Programme? - FE News AELP's Mark Dawe discusses 20% off-the-job training (podcast) - FE News Misconduct hearing bans IT teacher from classroom for 15 months - Mail Government to retain controversial Prevent anti-radicalisation programme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 4 June: Free school meals, childbirth, and teacher recruitment - CYPN | Children & Young People Now When are student loans written off and when does repayment of the debt stop? - The Sun Scotland: school meal smoothie ban in obesity fight - BBC Cambridge University asks for help enrolling black students - Evening Standard London university criticised for spending £415,000 on protest security - Guardian Institutions morph into hedge funds in arms race for full-paying students - Financial Times All change: where next for apprenticeships? - FE News Sajid Javid urged to change UK overseas student policy ‘urgently’ - Times Higher Education | THE What does research say about children’s wellbeing? - Teacher Toolkit It’s time for real action on local outreach - Wonkhe Need to know: Hinds to face school governors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Of values and value for money - Wonkhe Huge student debts feel unfair. Let's move towards a graduate contribution | Chris Husbands - Guardian Scottish Government urged to ensure army school visits are ‘appropriate’ - Scotsman MSPs call for child 'welfare assessment' of all armed forces visits to Scottish schools - Telegraph A curriculum catering to all: the power of kinaesthetic learning - FE News Cambridge University asks for help attracting black students - BBC Schools 'shun jobs and apprenticeships' in drive to get more pupils to university - Herald Scotland Pupils taught risks of joining the army after 'Top Gun' promotion fears - Herald Scotland Children to meet leading authors at book jamboree - Herald Scotland Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai to take on former Guardian editor - Mail Wales: Pencader student drops out over loss of care allowance - BBC Cambridge colleges failing to offer places to black students - Times Why football and exams don’t mix - Times Scotland: Fight obesity by ditching smoothies, schools told - Times Scotland is showing a can-do attitude to the business of research - Times