News archive for 13th September 2018

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Ruth Davidson: Parents ‘left in dark’ over school performance - Scotsman I was bullied at school, admits First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - Scotsman Scottish parents in the dark due to shameful SNP education policies - Express College leaders to be consulted on new senior staff pay policy - FE Week Mum who took Fulham School to court over her son's dreadlocks says it was never just about winning - HuffPost The real cost of tuition fees may soon be visible – could it lead to them being scrapped? - New Statesman Prisoners will be offered bursaries to study at Cambridge University for first time  - Telegraph Fulbright Commission must do more to attract poor students, universities minister says - Telegraph Our new approach to funding apprenticeships will provide better value for money - FE Week Major slash in store for apprenticeship funding rate bands - FE Week School accused of victim blaming after 'telling pupils short skirts make them targets for sexual harassment' - Independent LSO's Simon Rattle launches east London music academy - Guardian London dominates education ministers’ visits - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE media coverage ‘more positive than expected’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Geoff Barton: 'Why are we so obsessed with Ofsted?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leeds Beckett and Cambridge United tackle mental health issues - Leeds Beckett University Tom Bewick: 'It's time to bring back the polytechnics' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student residentials can help new starters stay at university - Leeds Beckett University SET launches their brand new membership animation - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Practical problem-solving - UKEdChat Scotland: shortage of educational psychologists set to worsen - Times Educational Supplement | TES UKVI to roll out digital Tier-4 Visa process - PIE News Tory MP: ‘Commons arithmetic’ may bring overseas student change - Times Higher Education | THE Pay extra 1% of salary to save USS pension benefits, says panel - Times Higher Education | THE Video hearings for tribunal users are clear, easy to navigate and user-friendly first UK pilot reveals - London School of Economics | LSE New funding and scholarships announced in significant boost for Fulbright Programme - Fulbright Commission Canterbury Christ Church University to implement lecture capture - Public Technology IOE academic informs 12-point plan to protect the UK’s higher education sector - IOE London Blog Gypsy children suffering racism in schools, MPs told - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 16 to 19 funding: free meals in further education funded institutions for 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teacher subject specialism training (TSST) courses - DfE Tips for writing an impeccable teacher resume - The Educator The rich are bending school admission rules – report - The Educator Hot off the press: the IOE debates series for 2018/19 - IOE London Blog Response to Joint Expert Panel report on USS valuation - Universities UK Why now is the right time to examine school accountability - NAHT UCU response to USS Joint Expert Panel report - UCU Regional winners from across the country are announced #AppAwards18 - FE News Apprenticeship starts up 57% in June - Times Educational Supplement | TES Progress 8 ‘penalises’ schools with lower ability intakes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Open evenings: get ready for the show - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Lobby to make schools mentally healthy places to work' - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in three freshers 'show symptoms of mental health disorder' - Guardian Alison Peacock: teacher expertise should be in the DNA of every school - Times Educational Supplement | TES FMQs: Nicola Sturgeon defends Government over ‘shameless’ P1 testing criticism - Scotsman Roll up for the Nursery World Show 2019 - Nursery World Survey: state school teachers say much of their work is meaningless - The Conversation Boy, 12, wins legal battle against school over dreadlocks that teachers ordered him to cut off - Mirror Number of new UK apprenticeships drops 30% - Financial Times Rugby team at top private school ‘sang pro-IRA chant’ - Scotsman Norovirus outbreak at Exeter schools as 45 pupils are sent home with vomiting bug - Mirror Let’s do the maths this October - Unionlearn Sam Gyimah commits to transnational partnership - DfE ‘Teachers enslaved as never before,’ says DfE tsar - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: parents ‘in the dark’ about what happens in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: school exclusion 'should be a last resort’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-year-old funding rate 'a third less than needed' - Nursery World 4 in 5 graduates say their gap year made them more employable - FE News In a puff of smoke, school autonomy vanishes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parental choice ‘discriminates against poor’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship figures: What does it all mean? - Times Educational Supplement | TES GDPR: five things schools should have done by now - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our doors must be open to international students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Higher Education Commission welcomes ministers’ renewed commitments to international students - Jisc Teacher Recruitment Bulletin - DfE Monthly apprenticeships update: June starts down 40 per cent on 2016 - FE Week Loretto School teacher suspended over ‘inappropriate behaviour’ - Scotsman Apprenticeship and levy statistics: September 2018 - DfE School inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted FE Choices learner satisfaction survey 2016 to 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 5 tax entitlements teachers and educational professionals could be missing out on - FE News EAL: Supporting new arrivals in your primary school - Headteacher Update Basic digital skills: Anne Milton and Sally Collier - FE News A third bend the rules to get their children into a good school - Express Early Day Motion re teachers expressing political views - Parliament Black pupils less likely to get into good schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third of teen pupils think men are better leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five ways to boost social mobility through skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES School staff failed to stop six-year-old playground rapes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted plan to spend longer in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Our kids were raped by classmates. The DfE won't listen' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL comment on Sutton Trust’s Parent Power report - ASCL Secondary school choice in England - EPI Money matters - Sutton Trust Parents use ethically dubious tactics to get their child into school - Sutton Trust What LGBTQI+ parents want from their children’s schools - The Conversation How middle-class parents are the most likely to cheat the system to get their children into a good school - Mail Lecturers are fed up of being the big losers in the higher education market | Des Freedman - Guardian Share your experiences of school place admission tactics - Guardian Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free | George Monbiot - Guardian 7 principles of play help kids fulfil their potential | Alison Motion - Scotsman University Technical Colleges – what is happening to pupil recruitment? - FE News Hands up who thinks gulags are a good idea | Virginia Blackburn - Express Business schools bridge the artificial intelligence skills gap - Financial Times What I wish I had known at 18 - Financial Times Young Rastafarian boy, 12, wins racial discrimination case against Church of England school that wanted him to shave off his dreadlocks or remain in isolation - Mail Scotland: Mental health services 'let down children' - BBC Monstrous truth about Stalin's Gulag prison camps (where temperatures dropped to -58F) that students today claim were like holiday camps - Mail Mothers want action over sexual assaults at school - BBC Parents using 'dubious tactics' to beat school admissions criteria - Guardian Third of middle-class parents know someone who used ‘ethically dubious’ tactics to gain school place, report finds - Independent How rich bend the rules on school places - Times Scotland: Twice as many children wait months for mental health care - Times Scotland: Teacher at Loretto School investigated - Times Scotland: Pupils told to go online after Braeview Academy blaze - Times Scotland: Edinburgh University hit by freshers’ week cyberattack - Times Scotland: St Aloysius College rugby team ‘sang pro-IRA chant’ after win - Times The 6 key points from EPI’s ‘Secondary School Choice in England’ report - Schools Week