News archive for 21st March 2019

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Boy and his mum paid £3,500 by a council after he missed a year of lessons - The Sun Education secretary says that pooches can help to calm anxious pupils - Mail Teaching union official suspended after saying 'one child stabbed' is better than installing knife arches - Telegraph Nearly 25% of English universities in deficit last year, figures show - Guardian Scotland: Fall in specialist teachers for children with additional needs - Mail £3.2 billion of tax from each cohort of international students who stay to work in the UK - Universities UK Universities UK welcomes report detailing impact of international graduates - Universities UK Quality Strategy sets out best practice benchmarks for apprenticeships - IfATE First new grammar schools could open under the Theresa May expansion plan - Telegraph AELP response to launch of IfATE’s Quality Strategy - AELP International graduates - Russell Group Why school attendance really matters for social mobility - NFER Bridging existing teen engagement in social media with academic will - BERA One million parents took their children on term time holidays last year, figures show - Telegraph Higher education provider data: finance, 2017 to 2018 - DfE Headteacher board meetings schedule and preparation templates - DfE Pupil absence in schools in England: 2017 to 2018 - DfE Parental responsibility measures: 2017 to 2018 - DfE A guide to apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency Skills: A tale of two towns and one city - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why do teachers work more overtime than anyone else? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher banned over sex with sixth-formers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Don’t get angry about the LGBT row…' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: We demand Scottish government intervene on FE pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES NEU suspends official over 'better one child stabbed' comment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted warns Jewish school over lack of LGBT awareness - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammars go head-to-head with bids to open satellite school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford college to investigate its own role in colonialism - Guardian Degree apprenticeships must be funded through the levy - FE Week Birmingham LGBT row: Parkfield School protests resume - BBC Scottish lecturers go back out on strike over pay - Herald Scotland Dr Jordan Peterson: Cambridge University fellowship rescinded - BBC Kent pupils could be left stranded by no-deal Brexit gridlock, warns council - Guardian Brooklands principal resigns amid investigation into mysterious £16m subcontractor - FE Week Philosopher Mary Warnock dies aged 94 - Guardian ‘Unparalleled public intellectual’ Mary Warnock dies aged 94 - Times Higher Education | THE Teaching intelligence: educating Generation Z - Times Higher Education | THE Every school 'needs dog as stress-buster' - BBC The ‘privileged poor’: universities are far from all inclusive - Times Higher Education | THE DfE pledges £31m to address educational psychologist shortages - CYPN | Children & Young People Now LGBTQ lessons pulled from schools following protests from parents - HuffPost Absence rates in schools continuing to rise - The Educator Does your behaviour policy support learning? - Teacher Toolkit Number of parents fined for term-time holidays at record level - Guardian Coastal schools 'hit hardest by GCSE reforms' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stop putting all society's problems on to schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Getting it right from the start - Research Schools Network Can technology help bridge the gap between study and employment? - Jisc Edge announces new Chair - Edge Foundation Food campaigners back long-awaited healthy schools rating scheme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Fears plans for new grammar school 'by the back door' in Kent could pave way for dozens more nationwide - Independent Apprenticeship quango launches Quality Strategy with aspiration that no apprentice starts without an assessment body - FE Week Family holidays during term time help push unauthorised school absences to record high - Independent Protesting parents return to Birmingham school in LGBT lessons row - Mail Bristol nursery locks toys away for a month - BBC What are your experiences of racism at UK universities? - Guardian NEU rep: 'Better to have one child stabbed at school' than knife arches - Times Educational Supplement | TES Term-time holiday fines rise 75% in crackdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unauthorised absences hit record high - Times Educational Supplement | TES Knife crime: truancy 'bigger concern' than exclusions, says Hinds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis: How would part-time schooling work? - Herald Scotland Conservative MP Philip Davies blocks motion to make LGBT+ lessons at schools mandatory - Independent 'I was in awe of her intellect': tribute to SEND champion Mary Warnock - Times Educational Supplement | TES School holiday fines: Parents hit by penalties rise 93% - BBC Part-time schooling plan for Scottish pupils - Herald Scotland School absence fines soar by 74% after Supreme Court term-time holiday ruling - Schools Week School absence rates continue to rise - Schools Week Oxford teenager: 'I live in fear of knives' - BBC UK universities punch well above their weight when it comes to attracting students from overseas - CBI MillionPlus welcomes the Hepi/Kaplan report on international students - MillionPlus Just one cohort of international students who stay in the UK to work pay £3.2 billion in tax – and they aren’t taking jobs from UK citizens - HEPI The UK’s tax revenues from international students post-graduation - HEPI Response to HEPI’s International Students research from Shadow Higher and Further Education Minister, Gordon Marsden MP - HEPI Post-study work restrictions cost the UK £150 million a year - PIE News Helping troubled pupils - UKEdChat Scottish universities 'a declining sector under pressure', finds European report - Telegraph Foreign students who stay to work in UK pay £3.2bn in taxes – study - Guardian Scotland: Disgusted parents slam council as rats ‘run wild’ at Edinburgh school - Scotsman Scotland: Scratch beneath surface of league tables to find real top schools - Herald Scotland Scottish universities in 'sustained decline' warn international experts - Herald Scotland Scotland: Row as college bosses appeal directly to lecturers not to strike - Herald Scotland Campaigners say they want Birmingham LGBT teaching abolished - BBC What does being employable mean? - Wonkhe International students: we couldn’t do without them - Wonkhe A new conversation about Scottish higher education - Wonkhe How do neighbouring universities assert their identity? - Times Higher Education | THE Grade threshold ‘exemptions for poorest’ risk Treasury rift - Times Higher Education | THE Failed Horizon 2020 bids ‘cost European universities £6 billion’ - Times Higher Education | THE Scrapping post-study work visas ‘cost UK £750 million’ - Times Higher Education | THE UK academics should not rely on their universities to save them from Brexit fallout - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland: Lecturers to strike for fourth day in college pay dispute - Mail ‘Touchy feely’ courses give graduates an edge - Financial Times One in five school staff assaulted once a week in Northern Ireland - Mail Foreign students who study at UK universities earn up to 50 per cent more than their British classmates - Telegraph International graduates remaining in UK for work contribute £3.2bn in tax, analysis finds - Independent Scotland’s universities in ‘sustained decline’ due to funding cuts - Scotsman Cambridge turns away alt-right darling Jordan Peterson - Times Foreign students earn more than Britons if they stay on - Times Protests by parents must not be allowed to turn the clock back on LGBT rights | Peter Turay - Times Scotland: Postcode premium of top schools revealed - Times ‘Declining’ Scottish universities tumble down European rankings - Times Ireland: Trinity paper accused of bugging student in ‘hazing’ investigation - Times