News archive for 11th November 2019

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Labour promises free jobs retraining for adults - BBC Labour pledge: we would give six years of free study for adults - Guardian Labour to promise access to life-long learning - Financial Times Does Corbyn’s ‘education escalator’ still include free adult learning? - FE Week Teachers share stark truth about kids coming to school with no coats in winter - Mirror Teacher supply a global issue, says IB boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour pledges six years of free study for adults - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Breach of faith': UCU threatens college pay strikes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Senior Liberal Democrat says having zero university fees a 'fantasy' - Scotsman Are private-school pupils cleverer? No, just richer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour and the Liberal Democrats share a common problem: a lack of honesty about tax - New Statesman Teenager found dead at top Scottish private school - Scotsman City & Guilds buys another training provider - FE Week Insolvency Service investigating Hadlow College directors - FE Week University strikes: Students demand tuition fee refunds for planned walkouts - Independent UCU threatens strike action over AoC’s ‘derisory’ 1% staff pay rise recommendation - FE Week Parents blast Britain's toughest 'Tiger Headmistress' - Mail Scottish independent schools appeal three times as many exam results - Scotsman UCU responds to Labour's lifelong learning announcement - UCU Mottos, values & the one word students would use to describe you - Teacher Tapp On the road to ISO 27001: Runshaw College’s information security journey - Jisc Labour announces plans to “throw open the door” for adults to study and retrain throughout their lives - FE News Strikes on the cards after colleges refuse to prioritise staff - UCU General election 2019: skills, jobs and opportunity - Universities UK Steve McQueen hopes Year 3 work will inspire art's next generation - Guardian Academic freedom in the UK - Policy Exchange Is bullying cutting short careers in many academic institutions? - Advance HE NYA launches youth work bursary fund - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Election 2019: Early years policy 'arms race' ignores providers, say campaigners - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 'Free' childcare offer will lead to more nursery closures, finds research - CYPN | Children & Young People Now It's time for a thriving college in every community - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupil progress 'reflects social advantage, not school' - Times Educational Supplement | TES PM 'not targeting funding where schools need it most' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the Lib Dems' £10k 'skills wallets' won’t work - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can we stop segregating children with SEND? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How learning management systems are revolutionising education - The Educator Response to Labour's lifelong learning proposals - CBI Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Character education framework - DfE National Numeracy contributes to new guidance for tackling maths anxiety published by Pearson - National Numeracy General election: 15,000 disadvantaged teens drop out of college and sixth form in one year - Mirror Liberal Democrats on lifelong learning - National Education Union Election 2019: Labour pledges counsellors in every secondary - BBC Comment on Liberal Democrats 'Skills Wallet' policy - Collab Group What election manifestoes don’t say about higher education is generally more important than what they do - HEPI Labour plans for adult learning - National Education Union Facing the Future - new international survey launched today looking at what 14-18 year olds think about the future - Education and Employers SEND crisis: A call to arms against austerity - BERA General election 2019: Lib Dems propose £10k 'skills wallet' for all adults - BBC Meet the Apprentice of the Year who helped his employer to save more than £22,000 - Wales Online Parliamentary Review ‘misleading’ over government links, advertising watchdog rules - Schools Week Cocaine worth more than £200k found after raid on one of UK's most prestigious private schools - Independent Counsellor in every secondary school pledged by Labour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Behind the scenes at the provider Ofsted calls 'fun' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School flew group of staff to Ibiza for a meeting - Metro Lib Dems pledge £10k adult education 'skills wallet' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Zero tuition fees a fantasy, says Lib Dems' Gyimah - Mail Pioneering interdisciplinary university to open next year - Financial Times General election 2019: A chance to transform colleges - FE Week GE2019: A chance to transform colleges - FE Week Most constituencies will be worse off in real-terms school funding despite Boris Johnson’s cash boost, union says - Independent The 'national scandal' of schools failing to stop bullying - Telegraph Under half of UK students support freedom of speech - Mail Lib Dems pledge £10k HE ‘skills wallet’ for adults - FE Week Are schools ever at fault for exclusions? - The Learning Spy Movers and Shakers: Edition 296 - FE Week Is the ITT framework stifling debate? - Times Educational Supplement | TES AI: Beware the robots - The changing role of technology in a digital world - GOV.UK We are all responsible for acting on sustainability - FE Week Managers who ‘fetishise’ certain journals warp incentive culture - Times Higher Education | THE Support for cross-border teacher education in Ireland is more important than ever - Times Higher Education | THE Higher education is big business - Wonkhe Universities need to play catchup to their business reality - Wonkhe The crisis in student wellbeing is about emotional fitness, not mental illness - Wonkhe Bullying: Fifth of young people in UK have been victims in past year - report - BBC The GCSE language loophole: Hundreds of British pupils took English exam meant for foreign students - Mail Call for reform of pupil exclusions 'as schools unaware of legal duties' - Guardian Three-quarters of teachers stressed out, study finds - Schools Week Students turn against free speech amid ‘culture of conformity’ - Times Hypocrisy claim over Cambridge’s long-haul flights - Times Academic freedom must be backed up with hard policy - Times Scotland: Fire-dance strip show at Glasgow School of Art after Mackintosh blaze - Times Ireland: Male graduates expect 10% higher salary than women - Times