News archive for 15th June 2018

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Five messages to inspire school leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Forget the 11-plus. Is a world without selection at 18 possible? - Schools Week Harvard sued for alleged discrimination against Asian American applicants - Guardian Ofsted watch: Private provider straight in at grade four - FE Week Veteran Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge seeks salary for a voluntary university post - Telegraph Suffolk council to vote on swingeing cuts to rural school transport - Schools Week Podcast 22: Tom Rogers and friends - Teacher Toolkit T-levels will not be quickly forgotten | Letter from Anne Milton MP, apprenticeships and skills minister - Guardian Tier 2 match service in UK reaches 10K users - PIE News Early years staff 'should ensure children are checked for eye problems' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Insolvency regime publication: Introduction comes at historic low point in college funding - AoC | Association of Colleges Academy trust bosses’ New Zealand trip questioned by the ESFA - Schools Week Choose life, choose a job, choose a career… - Edge Foundation Children in England consume more than a year’s worth of sugar in 6 months - UKEdChat Don’t be a mediocre teacher - UKEdChat Zero Tolerance campaign nominated for NUS Award - Leeds Beckett University Providers selected to deliver T Levels in academic year 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Children consume more than a year’s worth of sugar in 6 months - GOV.UK Immersive technologies for pupils with autism: apply for funding - GOV.UK Foreign Secretary & Naomi Campbell discuss girls' education - GOV.UK A Moment of Optimism: How Innovation in FE Can Solve the Post-Brexit Skills-Crisis - FE News Strikes off as agreement reached over job cuts at Hull College Group - UCU UCU comment on Public Accounts Committee higher education market report - UCU In the news: 15 June - UCU Approaches to preventing and tackling bullying: case studies - NAHT New GCSEs website - NAHT MillionPlus welcomes Home Office changes to student immigration rules - MillionPlus ITE Partnership Leaflet: updated for GDPR - UCET ‘Government urgently needs to boost lower level skills training to be ready for Brexit’, says new AELP policy submission - AELP Response to the recent survey on students’ attitudes towards illegal drugs - HEPI From zero to hero: Anecdotal tales in pursuit of the elusive doctorate - BERA Changes to international student visa application requirements - Russell Group Essex council protests college merger with London group - FE Week 45th report re the higher education market - Parliament Fifth of schools not inspected for a decade in Scotland - Herald Scotland Policy eye - highlights of the week ending 15 June - Pearson Flagship free school had 'predatory pupils' roaming grounds - Guardian Summer Intern Advice from the Boss: More Passion, Less Entitlement - FE News Are school sports days compulsory and what are the different events? - The Sun Universities failing to 'pull their weight' on boosting diversity, damning Government report finds - Telegraph Five generations 'before poor reach average pay' - BBC Nursery school teachers should make sure that children have eye tests, Sutton Trust says  - Telegraph Seven-day strike at Hull College called off - FE Week Tougher Maths GCSE is calculated to multiply stress and failure - Financial Times Troubled colleges handed financial health notices and minimum standards breaches - FE Week ‘Government urgently needs to boost lower level skills training to be ready for Brexit’, says new AELP policy submission - FE News £150m post-16 maths plan 'is a sticking plaster' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former minister rails against FE funding proposal - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Vocational education has lurched from one crisis to another' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes FE Podcast: live from the Festival of Learning Awards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leading governors sought to share expertise - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'The DfE's post-16 maths agenda doesn't add up' - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK eases visa requirements for Chinese students - Times Higher Education | THE Research agencies ‘should tie funding to tackling harassment’ - Times Higher Education | THE Sutton Trust to respond to latest OECD report - Sutton Trust Atkins: Struggling colleges will still need stopgap funds - FE Week School In Theresa May’s constituency asks parents to donate toilet paper and stationery - HuffPost Let’s not be so quick to plan a raid on the levy pot - FE Week DfE estimates colleges with financial warnings will nearly triple to 100 - FE Week Degree pay premium - BBC Suggesting grammar schools ‘teach’ secondaries is a cynical insult | Melissa Benn - Guardian Public Accounts Committee report finds the HE market is not working in the interests of students or taxpayers - Commons Select Committee Trouble ahead for NCG with anticipated grade three from Ofsted - FE Week Maidenhead school asks parents to buy toilet roll - BBC Early years staff 'should ensure children are checked for eye problems' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 'The DfE's post-16 maths agenda doesn't add up' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of new grammar sites set to be 'one or none' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School business managers 'not getting pay they deserve' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trainees 'should do a stint in special needs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Get involved in Opportunities Ahead 2018, Form the Future's third annual careers fair - Cambridge Network Teachers’ tech trouble 'widens the attainment gap’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES £150m post-16 maths plan 'is a sticking plaster' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eye tests 'could help 1 in 10 children to read' - Times Educational Supplement | TES MillionPlus comment on the Public Accounts Committee’s Higher Education Market report - MillionPlus Office for Students responds to Public Accounts Committee report on higher education - Office for Students Higher education market not working in interests of students or taxpayers - UK Parliament Why every school needs to learn how to handle ‘conduct disorder’ - Schools Week Is competition driving innovation or damaging scientific research? | Anonymous academic - Guardian Why every school needs to learn how to handle ‘conduct disorder’ - Schools Week Once children were birched at school. Now they are taught maths | Simon Jenkins - Guardian Let universities alert parents about students' struggles, says father - Guardian Why arguments about student loans will end up harming further education - FE News DfE spent more than £23m on failed studio schools - Schools Week Suffolk council to vote on swingeing cuts to rural school transport - Schools Week Teenagers 'let down over degree choices' - BBC One in five teens did not secure their first-choice school due to population boom - The Sun Parents ‘in tears’ as cash-strapped primary school begs families to donate toilet roll - The Sun Social media giants have been accused of ‘exploiting our children’ to generate more traffic, report warns - Mail Pushy parents in the school egg-and-spoon race seem absurd. But my heart burst with pride when our boys did well - Mail One in six pupils have been denied their first choice of secondary due to a baby boom fuelled by immigration - Mail FE commissioner recruiting new national leaders of governance - FE Week Call for children's eye tests to improve literacy - Nursery World Higher education market not working in interests of students or taxpayers - FE News Tech firms ‘have duty of care to the young’ - Times Drug-binge student fell off crane - Times Scotland: Tests that leave pupils in tears ‘must be scrapped’ - Times Scotland: Number of apprentices in retail tumbles - Times