News archive for 7th June 2018

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Colleges recognised for outstanding higher education provision - FE Week Degree from Russell Group universities can boost salary by 13%, as average graduate makes up to £50,000 five years after leaving - Mail Education Secretary Damian Hinds challenged over funding - BBC Bolton Wanderers Free School’s £380k deficit - Schools Week The number of black students at Oxford is far from ideal - but it is making progress  - Telegraph Entry and exit criteria for interventions - Teacher Toolkit Universities that fail to improve student diversity could have tuition fees cut, regulator warns - Independent Stop ‘bums on seats’ arts courses, warns universities minister - Financial Times Highbury College tumbles two grades from ‘outstanding’ - FE Week This much I know about…making evidence work in schools and the World Cup! - JohnTomsett New £9.8m fund to gather world’s ‘best’ teaching practices - Schools Week Economics and medicine graduates are top earners, finds report - Guardian Who is Damian Hinds? - The Sun ‘Bums on seats’ degrees fail students, minister tells universities - Times The art and science of memory (part 1) - Learning Scientists Call for a research partner: How does having English as an additional language affect experiences and outcomes for individuals involved in the criminal justice system? - The Bell Foundation Solo: Learning independently - UKEdChat UKEdChat magazine – Issue 49 - UKEdChat Family background has an important impact on graduates’ future earnings, but subject and institution choice can be even more important - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS More than 350,000 children 'destitute', study finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Fresh trouble for NCG as its flagship free school is forced to close - FE Week What is the TEF? Results of the teaching excellence framework 2018 - Times Higher Education | THE NASUWT comments on Estyn review - NASUWT MillionPlus comment on Sam Gyimah’s 2018 HEPI conference speech - MillionPlus New IFS report on graduate earnings by degree course - Universities UK Door remains open for UK participation in next EU research programme - Universities UK Northern Powerhouse Minister calls for ‘Ivy League of the North’ to rival the best universities in the world - DfE Using graduate earnings to assess universities - Wonkhe UCET summer 2018 newsletter - UCET Keynote speeches from the HEPI Annual Conference - HEPI Universities Minister calls for a better deal for students - DfE Delivering value for money in the age of the student - DfE Exclusions of autistic pupils up 60 per cent - Times Educational Supplement | TES LSE ranked in global top 10 for employer reputation - London School of Economics | LSE Daily roundup 7 June: Age restrictions, mutuals, and Bob the Builder - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Governors are the unsung heroes of the school system - Schools Week Govia Thameslink provides taxis to get pupils to GCSE exams - BBC Universities warned over courses for 'bums on seats' - BBC Experts condemn 'folly' of pilot scheme using pupils to staff school libraries - Guardian Bright Tribe shelves plan to merge with sister trust - Schools Week 'With tutoring I get to see much more of the impact of volunteering' - Guardian Delivering value for money in the age of the student - FE News Dictionaries redefine bullying victims after campaign - BBC Minister criticises universities so overcrowded students forced to stand at back of lecture halls - Independent Carillion made big profits from its work at schools - Schools Week Keeping Carillion apprentices gainfully employed cost the government £3m - FE Week Vocational skills valued by students and employers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges 'should lead the way on new policies' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'GCSEs are a stepping stone, so why the pressure?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Anger’ after UCU congress walk-outs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools found to be excluding increasing number of autistic children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now CPD picks of the week - Teacher Toolkit Background, subject and university 'all impact earnings' - BBC Schools are employing foreign teachers ‘out of desperation’ - Schools Week Developing prisoners' teaching skills is helping to reach the most resistant learners - FE News Closure of Cymer Afan Comprehensive would be 'devastating blow for the community' - Wales Online Top 200 universities in the world 2019 - the table - Guardian Subject and institution choice more important then family background for future earnings - FE News International teachers quit over pay and classroom experiences - The Educator Scots school pupils offered chance to win table at Michelle Obama dinner - Scotsman Students aren’t actually lazy and don’t spend all day in the pub - Metro Minister attacks ‘threadbare’ courses at English universities - Times Higher Education | THE Review urges greater financial incentives for Welsh researchers - Times Higher Education | THE Students at ‘gold’ providers see good value, not good teaching - Times Higher Education | THE Office for Students responds to the 2018 HEPI Student Academic Experience Survey - Office for Students MillionPlus comment on the 2018 Student Academic Experience Survey - MillionPlus 2018 Student Academic Experience Survey - HEPI Diversity and social inclusion is business critical - Sutton Trust Turning the corner on value for money – 2018 HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey results - HEPI North East colleges are doing well, but ... - FE News School run war breaks out as ‘abusive parents threaten neighbours’ - Metro The results are in: Skills competitions give young people their competitive Edge - FE News Extended Pupil Development Grant to reach well beyond the classroom - Welsh Government Leader comment: A cry for help from Scotland’s teachers - Scotsman “Scottish Government does not value teachers” - Scotsman Scotland’s private schools eye international expansion as market booms | Chris McCall - Scotsman ‘Prove you value us’ - Teaching union issues challenge to Swinney - Scotsman Teachers attack blanket testing plan for primary pupils - Herald Scotland Long-term education causing short-sightedness - Financial Times 'Miss! Are your classes making me blind?' - BBC LSE gets the lowest mark for teaching among the UK's elite universities - Mail Students want more hours for their tuition fees - BBC Fewer university students say they are happy and believe lives to be worthwhile, survey finds - Independent The woodland nursery in the middle of the forest - BBC Parents to blame for science and maths skills gap because they put children off the subjects, industry leader warns - Telegraph Bad news, pupils: studying damages eyesight - Times Cambridge hits back at diversity criticism - Times Two more British universities join global top 100 - Times Stressed students unhappier than other youngsters - Times Scotland: Glasgow University reveals tie-up with Smithsonian - Times Scotland: Courses for girls to fight cybercrime - Times Ireland: No Irish universities in world’s top 100 - Times Ireland: Sammon collapse leaves schools project uncertain - Times