News archive for 26th October 2018

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Children and Families Minister launches Care Leaver Covenant - DfE Further education: flexible learning fund - DfE Care Leaver Covenant - DfE Department for Education: Care Leaver Covenant offer - DfE Major new scheme launched to support young people leaving care - DfE Further education area reviews: funding to restructure colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency Qualification achievement rates and minimum standards - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: course directory - Education & Skills Funding Agency Having regard to institutional autonomy - Office for Students Student Loans Company Chief Executive and Chair questioned - UK Parliament Reflecting on the conference season: Where did your presentations end up as a result of social media dissemination? - BERA Making apprenticeships work for you - Training Journal DfE launches Care Leaver Covenant to create 10,000 'work opportunities' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ireland: High Court health insurance ruling a “blow” for international students - PIE News Labour: 'Use budget to give FE resources it needs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Suicides among at-risk children up 30 per cent - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges receive £330m in restructuring cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sponsor found for last Bright Tribe school in North - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland's exams chief to retire in 2019 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Further education: £11.4 million flexible learning fund - DfE In the news 26 October 2018 - UCU Is the human capital review the HE funding Holy Grail that the government is looking for? - MillionPlus MillionPlus welcomes UUK and CBI call for more flexible study - MillionPlus Education system must change to support flexible study - Universities UK Skills needs in England - CBI United Learning to take schools of doomed Silver Birch academy trust - Schools Week €187 million Erasmus+ funding for the UK - British Council UK universities and firms call for part-time study funding reform - Times Higher Education | THE Education system must change to support flexible study - CBI The economic case for flexible learning – joint statement by the CBI and Universities UK - CBI Ofsted Watch: Mixed results for private providers - FE Week College restructuring support: still less than half of £726m fund approved - FE Week Scotland: Councils agree to send controversial letter to teachers on pay deal - Herald Scotland Oxford students persuade Jeff Koons to stage rare UK art show - Guardian #Headteachersreallife: Heads get honest on social media - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Policy, not colleges, are the real problem in FE' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teach First may be controversial, but it does work - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: SEND, the Budget and kind kids - Times Educational Supplement | TES Six tests Monday's Budget must meet for schools, teachers and students - Times Educational Supplement | TES New international early years qualification to launch - Nursery World Avoiding common university interview mistakes - Guardian John Tomsett not guilty of unacceptable professional conduct - Schools Week Trainee teachers with bursaries are less likely to get teaching jobs - Schools Week Revealed: The winners of the Nasen Awards 2018 - Schools Week Why relationships — not money — are the key to improving schools - UKEdChat Developing flexible routes to higher skills - Wonkhe What do pupils want from teachers? - The Educator It's hard to build a life when you need to move cities for an academic career | Anonymous academic - Guardian Turning the page: how India's state schools are being revitalised - Guardian College teacher pay higher in Scotland than England - Times Educational Supplement | TES School building spend down 40 per cent, says Labour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of schools using IB continues to decline - Times Educational Supplement | TES In this week's Tes: social learning and the art of negotiation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gove blamed for IB decline by fellow minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES A Gradgrind ethos is destroying the school system | Simon Jenkins - Guardian Plans for school to help traumatised children with animal therapy - Scotsman Leader comment: P1 tests must not be political football - Scotsman Educators need to be 'more pirate' - FE News Maths is a potential life changer - Financial Times We are proud of the way that UTCs transform the lives of their students - FE News Horses used to help children overcome severe trauma - Herald Scotland Education system must change to support flexible study - FE News £3.5bn cut for school buildings leaves pupils in crumbling classrooms – Labour - Guardian Part-time students 'down by more than half' - BBC Val McDermid and Mark Beaumont to receive honorary degrees - Mail Coroner calls for initiations to be stamped out after death of Newcastle student Ed Farmer - Times Universities ‘should turn slave trade cash into scholarships’ - Times Budget to repair crumbling classrooms suffers £3.5bn cut - Times Scotland: Glasgow art school’s renovators dismiss fire safety doubts - Times Scotland: Swinney caves in and orders review of P1 school tests - Times Ireland: Inspections at 11 schools ‘not linked’ to architects - Times Ireland: Safety checks begin for 42 schools - Times Capital expenditure on schools has dropped 40 per cent since 2010, says Labour - Schools Week Millions wasted on teacher training bursaries for graduates - Times