News archive for 2nd March 2018

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AELP responds to MPs’ report on Learndirect - AELP Liverpool Football Club’s young players investigated by school for alleged sexual harassment  - Telegraph History lessons are too focussed on battles while women are 'pushed to the side', campaigners say - Telegraph UTC told to join ‘strong’ multi-academy trust amid financial investigation - Schools Week UTC told to join ‘strong’ multi-academy trust amid ESFA investigation - FE Week Universities threaten to punish striking staff over cancelled lectures - Guardian Cambridge University considers pulling out of joint pension scheme after 'anxiety from students' over strikes - Telegraph Mosque teacher Umar Haque groomed ‘army of children’ for Isis death squad - Times Office for Students could transform the higher education sector - PoliticsHome New guide launched to address parent confusion over apprenticeships - PoliticsHome UK universities lecturers and staff strike: What you need to know - PIE News The under developed - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Access to special schools in England - EPI GSE: AI, algorithms and what should we all be thinking about? - Edmodo People said I was ‘too smart’ to do an apprenticeship - feCompare House of Lords lambasts apprenticeship levy - feCompare Apprenticeship ignorance driving engineering skills gap warns report - feCompare UTC censured for multiple breaches of government funding rules - Times Educational Supplement | TES Winds of Change: A framework for autonomy or control? - Russell Group UK and EU must remain ambitious on science and education - Russell Group BERA statement on UCU industrial action - BERA Top marks for school's mental health commitment - Leeds Beckett University Dexter agrees that arts make us more employable - Edge Foundation Sense and accountability - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Academies financial notices to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency Sir Gerry Berragan keynote speech: Ofqual Conference 2018 - Ofqual LRS organisation portal - Education & Skills Funding Agency Securing the Qualifications Landscape: The 3 'R's - Ofqual Innovation and digital learning - Independent Head Student employability – the silent revolution - Wonkhe University of Cambridge vice-chancellor says pensions dispute "cannot go on" - UCU When something goes wrong - The Educator Teachers' union calls for primary school ‘judgements’ overhaul - The Educator 30 hours childcare policy - have your say - NAHT Research round-up 2 March 2018 - NAHT NAHT responds to call for evidence on PSHE and RSE - NAHT London's universities lead the world, say QS World University Rankings - IOE London Blog Devon’s Bay Education Trust hit with financial notice to improve - Schools Week ASCL comment on access to special schools - ASCL ASCL calls for overhaul of system for judging primary schools - ASCL Statement ahead of ACAS talks on pensions dispute - Universities UK Partnership: the all-important word for MATs - ASCL Ofsted Chief Inspector questioned - UK Parliament Alternative provision for pupils outside school system examined - UK Parliament Daily roundup 2 March: Stress, medical cannabis, and commissioner - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs to question heads over provision for excluded pupils - Schools Week OCR suffers 20% drop in awards as schools flee iGCSE - Schools Week Ofsted Watch: Tough week for UTCs as two get ‘requires improvement’ - FE Week Teachers shouldn’t fear a robot revolution - Schools Week Hacking could cause you 'significant harm', Ofqual warns exam boards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Policy Tracker - keeping track of what happened in the world of education in February 2018 - Pearson Policy Eye - highlights of week ending Friday 2 March 2018 - Pearson Free school in planning dispute finds temporary site - Schools Week Why are some people worried about faith schools? - Guardian Japan: Tokyo pupils harassed in streets over Armani uniforms - Guardian Most 18-year-olds say lack of work experience is a barrier to career success - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL: ‘Stop telling primary pupils they haven’t met expectations’ - Schools Week Securing the qualifications landscape: The 3 'R's - FE News Only a quarter of parents would encourage their child to pursue technical education - Nursery World Teacher writes sex education play featuring porn, cucumbers – and former ministers - Times Educational Supplement | TES OCR fined £125k after GCSE exam answers found in textbooks - Schools Week Schoolgirls should be taught best way to get pregnant, say doctors - Independent Ofqual to fine OCR over textbooks that gave answers to GCSE computing controlled assessments - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE ‘plain sloppy’ at policing apprenticeship minimum wage adverts - FE Week Job-switch plan stalls for former Carillion apprentices - FE Week Apprenticeship policy should be devolved to city regions, say councils - Times Educational Supplement | TES University technical colleges will start recruiting from year 9 - FE Week IfA boss admits fears for tight T-levels timescale - FE Week Scotland aims to boost role of outdoor learning for nursery-age children - Nursery World Schools should teach girls how and when to get pregnant, say doctors - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK Snow: Bournemouth school dinners given to homeless - BBC Only a quarter of parents would encourage their child to pursue technical education - despite Government reforms - FE News Universities are home to a rape epidemic. Here’s what they can do | Emily Reynolds - Guardian HMRC VAT crackdown spreads to subcontracting - FE Week Electing cats and dogs: prominent animals in HE - Wonkhe Universities should be integral to the success of the cities they call home - Wonkhe How to do well in the National Student Survey (NSS) - Wonkhe Learndirect case highlights 'too big to fail' concerns in Government contracting - UK Parliament Cornish diocese forces an entire MAT board to resign - Schools Week Born to fail? No. But working class children do need help to succeed - Guardian My students support our strike – they don't want to be passive consumers | Academics anonymous - Guardian Privileged students need to battle Oxford's homelessness crisis | Alex Kumar - Guardian ProtectED seeks Founder Member universities to lead on addressing key student welfare issues - ProctectED Postcode lottery of pupil absence fines revealed - Schools Week 'Why is the law forcing us to label 11-year-olds as failures?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Access to special schools in England - EPI Office for Students could transform the higher education sector - PoliticsHome 'Scant' evidence that forced primary academisation works, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools lose £145k to fraudsters posing as heads in new scam - Schools Week School autonomy group wants to become the voice for academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Row as universities target lecturers' pay during industrial action - Herald Scotland Public Accounts Committee: LearnDirect case highlights ‘Too big to fail’ concerns in Government Contracting - FE News Public accounts committee wants top-slicing action by August - FE Week That’s special treatment all right: Accounts committee lays into Learndirect - FE Week Special-school pupils travel three times further to school - Schools Week Learners let down by Learndirect, say MPs - BBC Providers must not get 'too big to fail', committee urges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Majority of parents shun technical education, research suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Young women far less likely to consider technical careers, research shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education spending cut in 23 out of 32 Scottish councils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Special-school pupils forced to travel three times further than children in mainstream education - Times Educational Supplement | TES The PAC’s five recommendations following its inquiry into Learndirect - FE Week Teach girls how to get pregnant, say doctors - Times Royal Holloway ‘made girl choose studies or dying mother’ - Times Bristol University students ban ‘transphobic’ feminists including Germaine Greer - Times Ampleforth School will offer Btecs - Times Apprenticeship firm Learndirect ‘wasted public cash’ - Times Lessons go on in virtual classroom - Times