News archive for 4th January 2019

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Death announced of former principal Garry Phillips - FE Week Death announced of former principal Garry Phillips - FE Week Universities seek to calm staff by halving pension plan hole - Financial Times Ofsted watch: An ‘outstanding’ start to the new year - FE Week Making Kids Cleverer – Chapter 5: Can we get cleverer? - The Learning Spy 5 new year’s resolutions for teachers - The Educator Value for money in higher education - DfE £2.7 million fund to tackle parental conflict - GOV.UK No deal Brexit threatens “vital” research, warn UK university leaders - PIE News Government funds new ways to tackle parental conflict - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Midlands nursery group £1.65m deal to fund expansion - Nursery World Government Response to the Education Select Committee report: Value for Money in Higher Education (PDF) - DfE Meet the man at the top of the academy tree - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Drink-drive teacher caught with cocaine - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes FE Podcast: Maths recruitment, retention and resits - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We'd teach CPR now – if we had the time and money' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Four reasons to look forward to the new term' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Study suggests iGCSEs are ‘easier’ than reformed GCSEs - Schools Week British schools explore EU expansion after Brexit - Financial Times Insufficient evidence that screen time harms children - Nursery World Children's centres face ongoing fight for survival in 2019 - Nursery World Are IGCSEs easier than GCSEs? - FFT Education Datalab EU student enrolment drops at top UK universities - Financial Times A no deal Brexit seriously threatens UK universities - Guardian Indications of a worrying drop in EU recruitment - Wonkhe Postgraduate numbers plummet amid fears for no-deal Brexit - Times Higher Education | THE DfE finally admits teacher supply has ‘worsened’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES No-deal Brexit would harm cancer research, universities warn in letter - Telegraph Universities raise alarm over no-deal Brexit and EU student enrolment - Guardian Scottish teachers state opposition to standardised pupil testing - Scotsman University leaders warn against no deal as vital research comes under threat - Universities UK DfE looks to TAs to help solve teacher shortages - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK universities could go bust in wake of no-deal Brexit, think tank warns - Independent Fall in EU student numbers - Russell Group Warning against no deal Brexit - Russell Group Brexit: Universities warn no deal is 'biggest-ever threat' - BBC A teacher's story: Eat. Sleep. Teach. Repeat. - BBC https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/drop-in-lucrative-postgrads-hits-universities-ntfjnjgx5 - Times Sexual relations between coaches and under-18s 'should be illegal' - BBC UCU comment on university leaders’ no-deal warning letter - FE News