News archive for 11th June 2018

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Poorer parents are less likely to send their child to pre-school nursery even though it is free, study finds - Mail Oxford leaders warn students that 'trashing' makes university look like 'one giant Bullingdon club' - Telegraph Warwick University students' sick rape chat group where members boasted they would 'go wild and rape 100 girls' - Mirror Drug dealers and perverts target Scots school social network - Express Teachers strike in row over job cuts in Haverfordwest - Wales Online One company and two individuals charged with running an unregistered school - Schools Week School accountability that works for everyone - Teacher Toolkit Dorset school told to improve or have funding withdrawn - Schools Week Teachers' 70-hour weeks are 'immoral' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Like meerkats, teachers are always on red alert' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Do we still need key stage 3 exams?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We cannot allow pupils to intimidate us' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Need to know: The education committee's inquiry into life chances - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10 assumptions about MATs that must be corrected - Times Educational Supplement | TES Experienced teachers: first cut, last hired - Times Educational Supplement | TES The story of how funding cuts are hitting one area - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Most' people oppose faith-based admission in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Key issues in learning, teaching and assessment in an internationalising higher education - HEA Higher income families benefit from more free pre-school education - London School of Economics | LSE EPI response to Lords report, ‘The Economics of Post-School Education’ - EPI Up to 50 exceptional students to receive fellowships in honour of Stephen Hawking - Independent Daily roundup 11 June: Fast food, gaming addiction, and tuition fees - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Getting behind SLI - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Student loan debt has negative consequences in later life, review by IOE researchers suggests - IOE London Blog It’s time for government to stop the mixed messages on degree apprenticeships - Wonkhe Esports in universities – serious games, big fun - Wonkhe Would differential fees make a difference? - HEPI New fellowships for exceptional students launched in memory of Professor Stephen Hawking - GOV.UK UCU response to Lords' report on the future of education funding - UCU Teachers forced to take strike action after negotiations offer spurned - NASUWT MillionPlus comment on the Lords Economic Affairs Committee’s Treating Students Fairly report - MillionPlus Protect academic integrity by refusing to waive your legal rights - BERA Fantastic FE sector honoured in Queen’s Birthday Honour’s list - AoC | Association of Colleges Britain's universities 'not producing enough geeks', peers warn - PoliticsHome Schools with more poor students less likely to have qualified staff - Guardian Pupils in floods of tears over ‘hardest ever’ GCSE and A-level exams - The Sun Girl, 9, in rehab for Fortnite addiction after becoming so hooked she wet herself to keep playing - Mirror Stephen Hawking fellowships set up for 50 students - BBC Student loans system forces nurses to pay back £19k more than lawyers, say peers - Independent Go back to Stone Age and see nature, cave-dweller couple urge children - Evening Standard Student sobs on camera as teens reveal panic attacks - Metro Workshops galore at unionlearn Annual Conference - Unionlearn Racist incidents at UK universities have risen by more than 60 per cent in two years, figures show - Independent Learning tastes good at Solent University - Unionlearn Primary schools sought for air pollution study - Schools Week Strikes see 'radical' UCU increase membership - Times Educational Supplement | TES Safety fears could force university to close engineering facility - Times Higher Education | THE Regulation of academics ‘has undermined public trust’ - Times Higher Education | THE Are universities such as Oxford biased towards class or race? - Times Higher Education | THE Majority of nurseries in Scotland 'set to shun free childcare expansion' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Student loans 'heading for trillion pounds' - BBC Why does FE workforce data matter? - FE News Rye Studio School to close over low pupil numbers - FE Week Rye Studio School to close over low pupil numbers - Schools Week Why I am crowdfunding to pay for my law degree at Oxford University - Metro Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: latest management information - Ofsted Pearson announces independent review into the future of skills - Pearson Northants calls for more support for 7.5M on autistic spectrum - FE News Students need a new fairer deal for studying after school - Parliament Government to launch national detective training programme - GOV.UK Why technology should be a priority for every college leadership team - Capita FHE Scrap IfA and create new FE regulator, say Lords - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lord Forsyth: Transfer HE funds to FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Damian Hinds calls on employers to lend their business expertise to improve education for every child - FE News Economic Affairs committee makes case for treating students fairly - AoC | Association of Colleges School sports that encourage learning - The Educator Funding for governor and trustee training will be doubled to £6 million - FE News Research round-up (11 June 2018) - NAHT Students need a new fairer deal for studying after school - UK Parliament Rural LGBT teachers have worse mental health - Schools Week No classes, no professors: the alternative to business school - Financial Times A whole generation has been sold a university fraud, and we are all short-changed - Telegraph 5 ways schools can support high-mobility learners - Schools Week Where next for apprenticeships? The debate continues - FE News Graduates to become detectives in 12 weeks - Express Nurseries at ‘crisis point’ over doubling of free care - Herald Scotland Scotland: Nursery care promise may be dashed by funding issue - Express Police detective entry system targets graduates - BBC Students are warned not to post selfies with their graduation certificates visible to stop fraudsters using them to make fake diplomas - Mail Racist incidents at UK universities have risen by more than 60 per cent in two years, figures show - Independent The nursery where your little darlings are left outside in the rain and mud all day - and it has a waiting list of thousands - Mail Government is 'fiddling the figures to hide the true cost of student loans', says damning Lords report - Mail Pupils are being reduced to tears by the tough new GCSE and A-level papers - Mail Lords criticise 'unfair' university fees and loans - BBC Newcastle pyjama rave aims to get more kids reading - BBC Graduation selfies could lead to degree fraud, say experts - Guardian System stacked against young Brits who don’t go to university, House of Lords committee finds - The Sun Student loan debt harms mental health, careers and home ownership for many years, study says - Independent Post-school education in England attacked in Lords report - Guardian Fears that early years T-level will not give licence to practice - Nursery World Early Learning Goals group ‘unrepresentative’ - Nursery World Graduation selfies leading to surge in first‑class fake degrees - Times Bristol blamed by mother for student’s suicide - Times Universities ‘providing poor value for pupils and public’ - Times State-educated judges replace the old school - Times Scotland: Nurseries ‘will need more money to expand hours’ - Times Ireland: Private schools sent ‘identical’ letters to get sport grants - Times Ireland: €8m apprenticeship boost for Irish institutes of technology - Times