News archive for 8th June 2018

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Queen’s birthday honours 2018: Who got what in FE and skills? - FE Week Chris Husbands and Mary Beard top Queen’s Birthday Honours list for education services - Schools Week The changes to free school meals in Wales that will hit people on Universal Credit - Wales Online Wales: Excessive workload is making university staff ill, says union - Wales Online Horizon Europe proposal paves way for UK participation - University World News Experts slam Scotland's cake and chips school dinners - Express Schools must look beyond 'dead white men' to make the curriculum more diverse, teacher union chief says - Telegraph Army recruits (again): IfA appoints deputy director to oversee T-levels - FE Week Summer holidays ‘lead to increase in child poverty’ in Scotland - Scotsman Shake your booty and go straight to Oxbridge - Times Heath Family Trust issued with financial notice to improve - Schools Week Ex-children’s minister gets £550-a-day safeguarding review job - Schools Week Boles: 3m apprenticeship target 'nonsense' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 8 June 2018 - Pearson How student support is encouraging young learners to enter higher education - Office for Students Impact on children of early years education examined - UK Parliament ‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field’: Ethics and educational leadership research - BERA Targeted support for colleges - Learning & Work Institute What price the reform of technical education? - Edge Foundation What does the 4th industrial revolution mean for schools? - UKEdChat Football training in school greatly improves girls’ fitness and health - UKEdChat How germs thrive on school desks - UKEdChat Daily roundup June 8: FGM, smacking, and historic court case - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Minds really do matter - CYPN | Children & Young People Now There’s an app for [insert issue here] - Wonkhe A manifesto for access - HEPI DFE teacher recruitment bulletin (June 2018) - UCET In the news: 8 June 2018 - UCU Fifteen schools chosen as T-levels pioneers - Schools Week Without more money, the EHCP dream will become a nightmare - Schools Week The illusion of leadership - The Learning Spy Teachers in Scotland urged to prepare for strike action - Scotsman Universities that fail to improve student diversity could have tuition fees cut, regulator warns - Independent ‘Agile’ young universities ‘in the right locations’ for growth - Times Higher Education | THE Council accused of SEND transport discrimination - FE Week 100 years, 100 women: Daisy and Becky - Teacher Toolkit Three things wrong with Cambridge University’s statement on diversity - New Statesman Only a quarter of prospective T-level pioneers were successful - FE Week UCU college strike action continues to win concessions - FE Week Universities are running 'threadbare' courses in rush to put 'bums on seats', higher education minister warns - Telegraph Mandelson: left’s opposition to fees hijacked by elitist right - Times Higher Education | THE Impact on children of early years education examined - Commons Select Committee Big five awarding giants compete for T-levels - FE Week North 'should lead its own schools transformation' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes FE Awards 2019 open for entries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mental health issues on the rise in colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only 15% of Northern Powerhouse fund is accounted for - Times Educational Supplement | TES One year on: The 2017 election's impact on schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bakes for breakfast: ‘the reality’ of school food - Times Educational Supplement | TES Change is coming: how universities can navigate through turbulent political times - HEPI First step on ladder for nurse apprentices - Cambridge Network The evolving civic role of universities - Wonkhe Teaching cookie-cutter curricula does university students a disservice | Anonymous academic - Guardian Small PRU trust Schools Company stripped of all four schools - Schools Week Most lawyers recommended to be judges went to state schools, data shows - Guardian National teaching job website shrouded with secrecy - Schools Week Ministers’ school visits show ‘ideological obsession’ with academies - Schools Week Maximising student acquisition and retention activity - FE News Building relationships with employers in six steps - FE News Red tape, workload and stress blamed for lack of interest in headteaching - Herald Scotland Primary school bans children, teachers and visitors from wearing shoes 'because it has calming effect' - Mirror DfE scraps School Direct route to EYTS - Nursery World Universities face smaller share of €100bn EU research fund after Brexit - Times Apprenticeships need a better name, say business chiefs - Times What determines graduates’ earnings? | Chris Belfield & Laura Van Der Erve - Times Ireland: University challenge - Times