News archive for 26th March 2018

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How Northern students see North-South education gap - BBC Bids to open for share of new construction retraining fund in April - FE Week My father founded the Open University – here’s how to save it | Letters - Guardian Close schools in areas with surplus places, head of biggest academy trust says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universal solution to devolving power to Scottish schools will not work, warns head - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'The power of information - sex education helps cut teen pregnancy', says Dr Miriam Stoppard - Mirror A small victory against the essay mill profiteers - Wonkhe 'Poor schools' leave Northern children behind - The Educator As the NUS conference gets ready to kick off, where next for the student voice? - HEPI Music lessons improve children’s cognitive skills and academic performance - UKEdChat Surge in numbers of young people taking apprenticeships - feCompare Weekly Digest #102: Leading women in STEM fields - Learning Scientists What teachers tapped this week #26 – 26th March 2018 - Teacher Tapp Which modern management techniques work best for schools? - IOE London Blog Top universities urged to open new maths schools - DfE Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Mental health focus on postgraduate students - Leeds Beckett University Apprenticeships popular again as workers turn to trades - feCompare USA: Harvard students will now be able to report professors for 'offensive' comments or making them feel 'uncomfortable' - Mail Combined science GCSE grades: A letter to Heads - NAHT Home Office launches #knifefree campaign aimed at 10-21 year olds - NAHT Updated Guidance about free school meals - NAHT 2020 performance tables: technical and vocational qualifications - NAHT Strike the council tried to stop to go ahead - NASUWT Chair of Office for Students questioned - UK Parliament Skills Minister highlights new provider access law for schools - DfE Children in north 'being left behind', children's commissioner warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs call on government to increase 30 hours childcare funding - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Matt Warman: We must keep in check the growth of unconditional offers to university - PoliticsHome Northern children ‘being left behind’ – Children’s Commissioner - PoliticsHome Further education saved me - Jisc Take students out of migration stats, say politicians, stakeholders - PIE News 30 hours: winners and losers among London childcare providers - Coram Family & Childcare New tool to help local authorities assess local childcare market - Coram Family & Childcare Practices to improve schools differ from other areas of the economy - IOE London Blog Off-the-job training concerns still holding back apprenticeship starts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lizzy Yarnold: How good PE teachers put me on track to Olympic glory - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills Minister highlights new provider access law for schools - FE News Schools must publish information on how FE providers can speak to their pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Doubling in girls using social media more than three hours a day - Times Educational Supplement | TES Girls' schools are the best at preparing young women for life, claims head - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government renews call to universities to set up post-16 maths schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Northern schools blast RSCs in children’s commissioner report - Schools Week Help About Early Years measure the true cost of quality childcare - Nursery World Children's Well-being: 2018 - Office for National Statistics (ONS) Children's commissioner's North report calls for greater early intervention - Nursery World Growing up North - FE News Children in northern England being hit by 'double whammy' of poverty and failing schools, warns report - Independent How Wales' universities rate in the latest ratings by students - Wales Online Ofsted: First monitoring visit for subcontracted provision - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students 'reject FE because of the sector's image' - Times Educational Supplement | TES My son has Down’s syndrome – and he belongs in a mainstream school | Sally Phillips - Guardian Old schools get less money for repairs than brand new ones - Wales Online St Andrews hits out at Spanish bid to extradite Catalan academic - Guardian Scouts pay out £42,000 over 11-year-old's autism claim - BBC First Ofsted subcontracting visit report criticises Wigan and Leigh College - FE Week Banned: PE teacher who sent 'flirtatious' Snapchat messages to teenage girl - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top universities offered £350,000 per year to open new maths schools - FE News Post-18 review panel calls for (some) evidence - Wonkhe Passion, procedure and puppy rooms on the NUS National Conference agenda - Wonkhe What did we learn from the first big debate about the post-18 review? - Wonkhe It’s not all about borrowing: redefining the way universities think about financing strategy - Wonkhe 5 ways to increase your student’s comprehension - The Educator ESOL is chronically underfunded – this must change - FE Week What exactly is the role of Further Education? - FE News Why are so many adults unable to do basic mathematical tasks? - Independent Need to know: The Easter teaching union conferences - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis: Questions emerge over the permanence of new classroom staff - Herald Scotland Almost a quarter of nurseries want to ban glitter from their classrooms - Mail Northern children 'too often left behind', says commissioner - BBC Head of private school warns about the 'rising tide' of drug abuse in schools - Mail Children in north 'face double whammy' of poverty and bad schools - Guardian Pupils in north of England 'being left behind' by southern counterparts - Mail Children's commissioner: Northern pupils face double whammy of 'poor' schools and deprivation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities asked to open more post-16 maths free schools - Schools Week Entrance exams bad for mental health, says head - Times The tide is turning, and our schools are improving - Times Forget private school, it’s all in the genes - Times USA: Florida pupils set their sights on elections in fight for gun reform - Times France: Macron fears return of 1968 student revolt - Times Scotland: Tony Blair’s former school, Fettes College in Edinburgh, removes tributes to ‘abusers’ - Times Scotland: You’ll lose it all, children warn online abusers - Times Ireland: Stay-at-home parents miss out on childcare scheme support - Times Children in the north of England ‘left behind’ at school - Metro