News archive for 30th May 2019

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Too many people are doing worthless degrees. How can government fix this? - Telegraph PM speech at Augar Review launch: 30 May 2019 - GOV.UK Apprenticeship and levy statistics: May 2019 - DfE Cost of undergraduate higher education provision - DfE Post-18 review of education and funding: supporting statistics - DfE The student finance system: impact on disadvantaged young people - DfE Alternative Student Finance: current and future students’ perspectives - DfE Graduate choices in post-education jobs and careers - DfE Benefits of post-18 education for individuals and society - DfE Choices students make between different post-18 education routes - DfE The student finance system: impact on disadvantaged young people - DfE Attitudes towards the student finance system - DfE Letter to schools and colleges - summer 2019 - Ofqual Letter to Directors of Admissions, higher educational institutions - Ofqual Augar Review: Committee Chair comments on post-18 review of education and funding - UK Parliament Vice-Chair and Director of NPP questioned on education in the north - UK Parliament Edge comment on the Augar review of post-18 education and funding - Edge Foundation Perks of teaching - UKEdChat The emerging consensus - Learning Scientists Augar’s call for investment in FE is welcome, but we need more ambitious action to stop the UK falling behind - Learning & Work Institute Focus on Further Education and Training sector welcomed in Augar Review - Education & Training Foundation EPI comments on Augar Review of post-18 education funding - EPI Augar Review aims to rebalance funding to FE and give government more control over HE funding - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Sutton Trust response to the Post-18 Education and Funding review - Sutton Trust UK universities must recalibrate recruitment strategy post Brexit - PIE News Special educational needs children and parents hold protest - BBC Augar review: Tackling the elephant in the room - Times Educational Supplement | TES Augar review: how will it affect post-18 education? - Financial Times Teaching not a research-based profession - Times Educational Supplement | TES If we are to ask schools to take on inequality... - Times Educational Supplement | TES Crisis talks on future of IB in state sector - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why thousands protested against SEND cuts today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Augar Review recommends school sixth-form funding boost - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers demand 'culture change' in schools to improve career progression - Mail Universities hit back after report proposing funding cuts - Guardian England’s vocational education needs a boost - Financial Times The Guardian view on the Augar review: taking further education seriously | Editorial - Guardian Universities in crisis: why a cut in tuition fees and longer loan period would make most students worse off - The Conversation University of Essex: New sexual assault code brought in - BBC Birmingham LGBT school row: Protest parents 'manipulated' - BBC Families rally against special educational needs funding cuts - Guardian Theresa May bows out with a policy that exposes all her flaws - New Statesman Police investigate data breach at University of South Wales - Wales Online Schools warned to be braced for 'more variation than usual' in GCSE and A-level as reforms take their toll - Telegraph University tuition fees 'should be cut to £7,500' - BBC Meta-analyses and the making of an evidence-informed profession - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring How will the Augar Review impact science research funding in universities? - UK Parliament A politically acceptable system of student finance? - Wonkhe Who are the winners and losers from the Augar review? - Wonkhe Students have been failed by Phillip Augar and his panel - Wonkhe Statements of SEN and EHC Plans: England 2019 - DfE Poverty funding helping to narrow attainment gap in schools, Scottish heads say - Mail Augar review: reversing Cameron, Osborne and Browne’s ‘past errors’ - Times Higher Education | THE Blink and you’ll miss it: ten hidden treasures buried deep in Augar - Wonkhe Will the next PM take the Augar report seriously? - Wonkhe Augar review special (podcast) - Wonkhe Simulating the impact of Augar’s proposals on funding for different subjects - Wonkhe What does the higher education sector make of the Augar review? - Wonkhe Staff to protest over plans to cut 65 jobs at University of Portsmouth - UCU The DfE confirms the expansion of career hubs - NAHT A quick checklist of how the Post-18 review report measures up against our list of college priorities - AoC | Association of Colleges First thoughts on Augar: plenty to discuss, but we must protect opportunity and choice - Universities UK Augar review: A 'big step' for further education - Times Educational Supplement | TES How SEND funding cuts are hitting vulnerable children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gems Education buys Saudi private schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four ways the Augar review impacts on widening participation in higher education - HEPI Lunchtime takeaways: 10 points to note in the Augar report (including some overlooked ones) - HEPI Open access update - BERA Second cohort of Advanced Teacher Status attainers announced - Education & Training Foundation ‘No limits: Curriculum for success in the 21st century’: Aspirations Academy - Nesta Theresa May’s tuition fees review will help higher earners most, former minister warns - Telegraph 'SEND crisis' sparks day of protests as number of EHC plans rise - CYPN | Children & Young People Now School absence rates fall, data shows - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Projects divert young people from serious and organised crime - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Esther McVey says it's right for parents to take children out of LGBT education - Mirror Move to cap tuition fees at £7,500 - The Educator It’s not fair that getting an EHC plan could depend on your postcode - Schools Week School leadership podcast May 2019 - Childhood bereavement - NAHT Tory leadership hopeful Esther McVey defends parents protesting about ‘gay lessons’ in school - The Sun Teenage girls reveal the shocking verbal abuse they've experienced around their periods - Mail ‘Parents know best’: Esther McVey faces Tory backlash over LGBT lessons - Guardian Scottish pupils attend first classes at new £17m school - Mail DfE told to publish official school funding figures amid another stats slap down - Schools Week May backs review calling for tuition fees to be slashed to £7,500 - Mail Would proposed finance changes help poorer students? - BBC Outlander star Sam Heughan to receive honorary degree - Herald Scotland Theresa May calls for student tuition fees to be cut (video) - Guardian Graduates should repay student loans over 40 years, review recommends - Mail NUS Wales warns over England finance shake-up impact - BBC Ofqual warning about GCSE papers being offered for sale - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Undervalued and underfunded': Theresa May on FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council cuts morning registration to save cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE appoints temporary regional school commissioners - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unauthorised term-time holidays up 11% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poverty funding helps shrink attainment gap, heads say - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greater degree of variation in results possible, Ofqual chief warns - Schools Week JM Barrie's childhood home to open as Scotland's new storytelling centre - Nursery World Esther McVey says 'parents know best' over LGBT lessons in schools - HuffPost Cutting tuition fees misses the point. We need to overhaul the whole system | Matt Waddup - Guardian May urges Tories to cut tuition fees and revive student grants - Guardian Student fees could be cut and grants restored in Theresa May's final Tory U-turn - Mirror Key questions on review into post-18 education system - Mail Number of EHC plans for pupils with SEND up by 11% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Every school should have access to new careers hubs, says Augar review - Schools Week Most depute heads ‘not keen’ on headteacher posts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former primary head and education adviser appointed as interim RSCs - Schools Week Number of EHC plans for SEND pupils soars - Schools Week Theresa May: FE has been ‘overlooked, undervalued and underfunded’ - FE Week The government's tuition fee review ignores EU students | Paul Raybould - Guardian UCAS responds to the review of post-18 education and funding - UCAS The facts and figures of union learning - Unionlearn Monthly apprenticeships update: March starts up 7% but down on 2017 - FE Week What are the Augar Post 18 review recommendations for skills, further education and apprenticeships? - FE News Post-18 funding review published - Russell Group SEND national crisis - National Education Union Initial response to the Augar proposals - HEPI Augar review has right approach to colleges, but must protect funding for English universities - CBI Top-up guarantee needed from government if fees are cut, warns UUK - Universities UK UCU response to Philip Augar review of education funding - UCU MillionPlus comment on the Augar Review of Post-18 Education - MillionPlus Post-18 review of education and funding: independent panel report - DfE PM: post-18 education must work better for everyone - GOV.UK Augar Review: Give colleges £1bn and freeze HE funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for return of grants to help poor pupils enter uni - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND ‘crisis’ petition to be delivered to Number 10 - Times Educational Supplement | TES How hot is too hot for teaching? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Augar review: recommendations in full - Times Higher Education | THE Augar review: call for £7.5K fee cap but loan access bar deferred - Times Higher Education | THE Augar review: return of maintenance grants and loan shake-up urged - Times Higher Education | THE The Augar review could be a watershed moment - Times Higher Education | THE Conference organisers urged to take action against harassment - Times Higher Education | THE SOAS director warned that institution could run out of money - Times Higher Education | THE Special needs: Petition demands action on 'national crisis' - BBC Nationwide protest to highlight SEND crisis - Nursery World Tuition fees should be cut if students agree to keep repaying until they retire, review panel rules - Mail Post-18 education review: The 9 main recommendations for FE - FE Week Review says £1bn needed to fix post-18 education system - Financial Times Campaigners to march on Downing Street over SEND funding crisis - Schools Week Post-18 education review: Introduce a ‘lifelong learning loan allowance’ - FE Week Children should be educated and empowered to deal with online abuse - Mail Give worse-off students £3,000 to stay in education, says report - Guardian Cut tuition fees to £7,500 and reintroduce maintenance grants, review recommends - Mail University tuition fees should be capped at £7,500 not £9,250, Government review says - Telegraph Graduates will pay back loans into their sixties - Times I question if I’m getting value for money at university - Times Bring back student grants, urges Theresa May - Times Cutting tuition fees will hurt universities, not help them | Gordon Marsden - Times Skills gap: Fears over failings in the education system - Times Economy needs skills from abroad, ministers warned - Times Investigation into Scottish school subject choice - Times Irish universities’ plans €67m over budget - Times Martin Lewis: Student 'loans' to be scrapped and grants brought back in new plan - Mirror