News archive for 8th March 2018

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Professor's call to axe St Andrews University gowns met with scorn - Express British students face strike action over exam period - Financial Times Universities union warns of further strike action at exam time - Mail Free school threatens legal action over closure plan - Schools Week Boris Johnson gets angry about education - BBC Written answer re Pupil Referral Units applying to convert to academy status - January 2013 to January 2018 - DfE Labour MPs launch school accountability inquiry - Schools Week Teacher who suffered years of 'horrendous' bullying at hands of headmistress from hell sues for £700,000 damages - Mail More part-time apprenticeships are needed – here’s why - FE Week Former General Teaching Council CEO to head new Teaching Regulation Agency - Schools Week Former policing advisor named as leader of new Teaching Regulation Agency - Times Educational Supplement | TES China: Graduates offered cash to ignore lure of Beijing and Shanghai - Times Councils receive Government grants to help providers offer the 30 hours - Nursery World Celebration of National Apprenticeship Week - UK Parliament Underfunding of schools resulting in increased class sizes for secondary schools in England - National Education Union Give women teachers a better deal, demands the National Education Union - National Education Union Times up on sexual harassment in higher education - HEPI Schools ordered to become academies set to close because no one will sponsor them - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vocational and other qualifications quarterly: October to December 2017 statistics - Ofqual Teaching Regulation Agency Chief Executive appointed - DfE ESFA e-bulletin: 8 March 2018 (issue 210) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeships work for women - Education & Skills Funding Agency First year celebrations for the Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network - Education & Skills Funding Agency Spielman 'not concerned' by lack of children's centre inspections - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Schools financial efficiency: case studies - DfE School business professional helps school expand places by 25% - DfE School business professional supporting the delivery of a new and exciting environmental building - DfE School business professional saves school cash and strengthens ties with local community - DfE UK performance indicators 2016 to 2017: non-continuation rates - DfE ‘Successful students: exploring the factors that encourage and enable students from a widening participation background to stay the course’ - HEA Look again at International Women’s Day - Wonkhe Translating evidence into improvement: why is it so hard? - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Translating evidence into improvement: why is it so hard? - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Accessible apprenticeships - Sutton Trust Sam Gyimah: “At the election, Jeremy Corbyn was the only game on campus” - PoliticsHome Why students are coming out in support of their striking lecturers - New Statesman Daily roundup 8 March: Domestic abuse, class sizes, and modern slavery - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Education & social mobility - UKEdChat Different research methods: Strengths and weaknesses - Learning Scientists Encouraging women into engineering apprenticeships would help the gender pay gap - Learning & Work Institute HRH The Princess Royal helps to highlight the inequalities young adult carers face in education and employment - Learning & Work Institute National LGBTQ award launched by Leeds Beckett University - Leeds Beckett University Unique partnership to improve mental health in schools - Leeds Beckett University Some teachers don’t talk to anyone about violent incidents - UKEdChat BBC launches new education strategy to encourage UK social mobility - UKEdChat Universities UK calls on UCU to suspend industrial action - Universities UK Ofsted safeguarding policy - Ofsted School inspection handbook - Ofsted Extended powers SEND tribunal: national trial - DfE University exams could be hit by new strike action - BBC Universities face 14 days of strikes during exams if pension dispute not resolved - UCU Schools who short-change teachers should be named and shamed - NASUWT NASUWT comments on National 4 reforms - NASUWT Prof John Raftery writes for THE: Elitism is alive and well in most UK universities - MillionPlus University staff and students take pensions protest to Holyrood - Mail University drop-out rates in UK rise for third successive year - Guardian Support for SEND pupils threatened as DfE rejects funding requests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish university dropout rate lowest for 19 years - BBC Arrests over racist Nottingham Trent University halls chants - BBC Ex-teacher sues for £700k after headmistress bullying ordeal - Evening Standard Collab Group and Keepmoat Homes announce apprenticeship delivery and training partnership - FE News HESA non-continuation performance indicators - FE News Police arrest two 18-year-old men over racist chanting outside Nottingham Trent University student's bedroom - Telegraph Teenagers 'need more than GCSEs' - BBC Heads to tell Damian Hinds they need more money and more teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Training provider teams up with national businesses to show that apprenticeships work #NAW18 - FE News Has the UK become a country that really doesn’t like children? | Polly Toynbee - Guardian Inspectorate for top private schools broke its own rules, Ofsted warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES The apprenticeship programme could worsen gender inequality in engineering, warns new report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cockapoo puppy joins college to support vulnerable childcare students - Nursery World BBC sets itself target to boost literacy skills of a million under-fives - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is sex education compulsory in UK primary and secondary schools and are children taught about porn and sexting? - The Sun Nottingham student reports racist chants in hall of residence - Guardian Nottingham Trent University: Two men arrested after video allegedly showing racial abuse shared online - Independent Apprenticeship levy funding transfer - FE News Private school inspectors are rubber-stamping failing leaders - Schools Week Vocational and other qualifications quarterly: October to December 2017 statistics - FE News Tablets have transformed teaching, says Harlow College - Times Educational Supplement | TES Certificates awarded for all vocational qualifications (excluding GCSEs, A levels and the Diploma) - Ofqual Performance Indicators in Higher Education in Northern Ireland: Student Retention 2016/17 - Department for Education (Northern Ireland) Quarterly statistics on vocational and other qualifications, excluding GCSEs, AS levels, A levels, and the Diploma and its components - Ofqual Scottish Parliament: written answer on widening access to higher education - Scottish Government Encouraging women into engineering apprenticeships would help the gender pay gap, say Learning and Work Institute - FE News Inspiring Apprenticeships event at Eastbrook School, Dagenham during National Apprenticeship week - Education and Employers Nottingham Trent University students 'shocked' and 'disgusted' by racist abuse video - HuffPost Openness in education: a call to action for policy makers - Wonkhe Views from four female HE leaders - Wonkhe What value for whose money? - Wonkhe Capped Scotland places ‘make university access harder’ - Scotsman Bridging the gender gap: Why do so few girls study Stem subjects? - Guardian Labour move to block cuts to free school meals through Commons vote - PoliticsHome School class sizes in England 'rising due to funding cuts' - Guardian Social mobility in apprenticeships: Improving the life chances of young people - FE News We should focus on teaching schoolgirls when to get pregnant — and not how to avoid it - The Sun Class sizes up in 'two-thirds of secondary schools' - BBC University staff and students to take part in pensions row rally at Holyrood - Mail Rate schools on how they meet pupils’ mental health needs, care commission tells Ofsted - Schools Week International Women’s Day: NEU demands action on teaching gender pay gap - Schools Week Class sizes rising in majority of secondary schools 'due to underfunding' - Times Educational Supplement | TES International women's day: union calls for action on teacher gender pay gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Young told to ‘fake mental health crisis’ - Times Scotland: Disadvantaged students ‘put off by St Andrews red gown rituals’ - Times General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) briefing events - UCET Give women teachers a better deal, demands the National Education Union - FE News