News archive for 27th November 2019

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Access to medicine courses ‘going backwards’, warns Kevin Fong - Times Higher Education | THE Is it fair to expect teachers to do research as well? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tory manifesto leaves more questions than answers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why is nobody talking about the pupil premium? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only 4 Institutes of Technology open despite Tory claim - Times Educational Supplement | TES Interim CEO appointed at college under investigation for nepotism and ‘financial wrongdoing’ - FE Week Record rise in student nurses – but unions warn it isn't enough to cover NHS shortfall - Independent UK universities ‘must be forced’ to improve diversity - Times Higher Education | THE Geography degrees ‘soft option for posh but dim’, says Professor Danny Dorling - Times Scotland's universities need 'shared national mission' - BBC London Met v-c: Student deprivation shows need for civic duty - Times Higher Education | THE International students crossing picket lines 'out of fear of losing visas' - Guardian Ormiston scraps plans to axe caretaking and maintenance jobs - Schools Week New study looks at why leaving rates are higher among Science, Maths and Computing teachers - NFER Creativity counts - HEPI Selective schooling: A suitable vehicle for social mobility? - BERA Collaborative problem solving and worked examples in code clubs - Nesta Apprenticeships suffer too many unintended consequences - FE Week Bronze cockerel to be returned to Nigeria by Cambridge college - Guardian Collab Group statement on adult education - Collab Group UCU statement on latest pay talks - UCU 'School-level asbestos' database developed by campaigners - NAHT General election 2019: What the parties say on higher education - Universities UK NEU parents poll - National Education Union Almost half of learners in top study destinations say higher ed failed to prepare them for their career - PIE News International school costs on the rise, UK up £1K on 2018 - PIE News WAHED event shows how unis can widen access - PIE News Geography 'suits posh pupils struggling with three Rs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES General election: British Youth Council urges parties to tackle child poverty and improve mental health support - CYPN | Children & Young People Now General election: Focus on quality childcare, not just more 'free' hours, parties told - CYPN | Children & Young People Now EU report highlights 'extensive abuse' of vulnerable children by county lines drugs gangs - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Project to improve how schools use Teaching Assistants wins public engagement and impact award - IOE London Blog An engaged and inclusive sector by 2030 – a governance and leadership three-point plan - Advance HE Supporting students to stick with university - Jisc Is education a bigger election issue than in 2017? - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Victory’ as academy chain drops plans to axe 130 jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catholic schools are ‘very opposite’ of hateful bigotry - Times Educational Supplement | TES What isn't in the Tory manifesto says more than what is - Times Educational Supplement | TES Night of the nativity – the magic of Christmas - The Educator Campaign calling on political parties to increase childcare funding launches - Nursery World Electorate put education high on election agenda - Nursery World Plaid Cymru manifesto: Welsh party pledges universal childcare from the age of one - Nursery World Using Ofsted’s inspection data summary report (IDSR): 16 to 19 - Ofsted Non-association independent schools inspections and outcomes in England: August 2019 - Ofsted ESFA Update: 27 November 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Chevening Alumni Programme Fund 2020-21 for Turkey is now open - GOV.UK Points mean prizes in PISA rat race - Education matters Ofsted blasts ‘unreliable’ apprenticeship off-the-job training records - FE Week Welsh Assembly extends voting rights to 16- and 17-year-olds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ex-Walsall special school teacher banned 'after hitting pupils' - BBC Twofold rise in secondaries losing 'outstanding' rating under Ofsted clampdown - Schools Week Catholic diocese defends 20% non-faith admissions at new VA school - Schools Week Unionlearn and unions talk "Apprenticeships" at WorldSkills UK - Unionlearn Green and smart: University of the West of Scotland wins accolade for high-tech sustainability - Jisc Banned: Teacher who threatened to break pupil's legs - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney accused of behaving like an ‘old hippie’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES It's not right that heads work so incredibly hard - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education 'rising up election agenda' - Times Educational Supplement | TES These are the 10 top performing secondary state schools in Glasgow and East Renfrewshire - Scotsman The skills sector needs to remove its apprenticeship blinkers - FE Week More small private schools receive top Ofsted grades, but 1 in 10 still 'inadequate' - Schools Week Poor GCSE passes for one in eight teens, figures show - BBC Education becomes third most important election issue for parents - Schools Week 10 years on: How researchers and the autistic community are making a future together - IOE London Blog When the going gets tough, schools make data - FFT Education Datalab PCS support Apprenticeship Roadshow at DWP - Unionlearn Forget academisation and recruit teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Election policies 'won't touch the forgotten third' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teens from East Midlands least likely in England to go on to leading universities - Sutton Trust ERSA launches report into the future of employment support post-Brexit - ERSA Over half of parents with young children feel lonely, with those on lowest incomes twice as likely to be affected - Coram Family & Childcare 'This time we all have to vote': the view from ultra-marginal Southampton - Guardian University strikes: yes, students should get compensation – but not in the form of monetary payment - The Conversation Tories may make universities share risk for ‘low-quality’ courses - Times Higher Education | THE Geography seen as ‘soft option’ by ‘posh’ students, warns Dorling - Times Higher Education | THE Do universities know what’s important to their students? - Wonkhe Hard-working… or working too hard? - Wonkhe War Horse author Sir Michael Morpurgo says technology can’t beat reading to kids as he supports Books For Schools - The Sun Behind the manifestos: Choice in education is return to 1970s or stick to the status quo - Times Scotland: Police step up patrols after assaults on ‘rich’ St Andrews students - Times Scotland: Health board chairman quits after weeks for university role - Times Scotland: Parents reject head’s planned Christmas cards for inmates - Times Scotland: All secondary school students to have access to counsellors - Times