News archive for 13th August 2019

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Labour plans to scrap predicted grades system - BBC Academic underachievers lured to degrees in football, make-up and golf management - Mail Labour plans to reform UK universities admission system - Financial Times Labour wants universities to offer places after exam results - Guardian University admissions: Questions surrounding the system - Guardian Labour pledges to ditch predicted grades from university admissions - FE Week A levels: Labour promises to abolish clearing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour pledges to ditch predicted grades from university admissions - Schools Week Everything that’s different about university clearing on A-level results day 2019 - Wales Online Class inequality widens in academies that are more likely to recruit unqualified teachers, study suggests - Independent When I can resit my GCSEs? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE won't name unis making 'damaging' A-level offers - Times Educational Supplement | TES What's gone wrong in education and skills in England? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish pupils barred from school amid 'blue water' health risks row - Scotsman Pupils will only be allowed one day to strike for climate action after Edinburgh Council backtrack - Scotsman Paula Sussex's speech to the NUS, Memberships Services Conference - Student Loans Company Traineeship providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Discovering Uni: planning your higher education journey - Office for Students Adult education budget (AEB) devolution - Education & Skills Funding Agency State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted The Sutton Trust responds to labour’s proposed changes to the higher education admissions system - Sutton Trust Labour Party backs overhaul of university admissions system - UCU What will the spending review mean for FE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How uni unconditional A-level offers undermine schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Save Erasmus, Scottish and Welsh ministers urge DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Need to know: Your guide to reformed A levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES The expansion of clearing is a nightmarish vision of PQA - Wonkhe University admissions is about human beings, not algorithms - Wonkhe Scotland: They could leave school with nothing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chris Grayling aide to advise Gavin Williamson at DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES To query or not to query? That is the exams question - Times Educational Supplement | TES 562 years to close the attainment gap - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Encouraging inclusive practice – a practical approach - Advance HE Labour blasts ‘eye-watering’ student debt as analysis reveals interest to double in five years - PoliticsHome What would Augur mean for teacher education? - MillionPlus Setting realistic student expectations in clearing - Wonkhe Why canteens should stop serving beef – and probably milk too - Guardian The after-school tutoring club taught by industry professionals - BBC Good news for girls’ schools — Malory Towers is back - Financial Times Concerns raised over Erasmus student scheme as no-deal Brexit looms - Guardian A-level results: how to help disappointed students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pedagogy focus: Dialogic teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our future is debated by people who've never taught - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teach First in £136k ‘fair education for all’ rebrand - Times Educational Supplement | TES University admissions fail students. Let's give places for real grades, not predictions | Jo Grady - Guardian Collaborative curriculum design and professional growth - Teacher Development Trust | TDT A-level Results Q&A: retakes, remarks and all your 'what if' questions answered - Telegraph Deaf children under-achieving in A-levels, charity warns - Mail Clearing becoming route of choice for university applicants - Guardian The Conservatives must capitalise on free schools' remarkable success and make school choice a reality for all - Telegraph Chaos excites the men who run our country – as A-level day will prove | Suzanne Moore - Guardian Eton master who wants pupils to learn very slowly - Guardian A-levels with Asperger's syndrome: 'My time to shine' - BBC Thousands of EU academics left posts at leading British universities after Brexit vote, analysis finds - Independent To all the teachers I’ve ever loved … you helped me through my chaotic teenage years - Guardian Parents spend £1.2bn sending kids back to school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tory call to let investors make money from free schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free schools programme 'must change to survive' - Times Educational Supplement | TES More pupils seeking help with exam stress - Times Educational Supplement | TES Deaf pupils under-achieving in A levels, charity warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Applications for the UK Government’s Chevening Scholarships - GOV.UK Free schools show how hard it can be to battle the Blob - City AM For-profit colleges face pressure over tighter regulation - Financial Times UK universities must not turn away from Europe - Times Higher Education | THE Flipped classroom ‘fails to improve student performance’ - Times Higher Education | THE School uniform: Can it be bought more cheaply? - BBC Deaf pupils in England struggle at every stage of school, report finds - Guardian Tougher new GCSE deters pupils from A-level maths - Times Student loan interest to hit £8.6bn a year - Times Beef is off the menu at Goldsmiths College - Times Teachers stay on strike at Scottish schools on landfill site - Times Irish leaving certificate results: rise in pupils failing maths - Times