News archive for 30th October 2019

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Students who get unconditional offer for university place are more likely to drop out of the course - Mail Professor Andrew Atherton removed from office - Herald Scotland Boris Johnson to offer extra free childcare in Tory manifesto boost for families - Mail General election: Labour’s share of student vote at 43 per cent, survey suggests - Independent 'Poor leadership and governance' behind UTC failures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: SEND teacher who shoved and screamed at pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES How the IB is changing its theory of knowledge course - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of Birmingham apologises to staff not paid on time - BBC Glasgow Art School 'unfit custodian' of iconic Mackintosh building - Scotsman Ex-Hinds adviser to help tackle youth crime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unconditional offers leading to higher dropout rates - Times Educational Supplement | TES EAL pupils 'disadvantaged by science assessments' - Times Educational Supplement | TES UTCs running half-empty amid student recruitment difficulties - SecEd High unconditional offer dropout rate shows need for university admissions reform - UCU Strikes not ruled out as University of Nottingham steps up outsourcing plans - UCU Should student reps be paid? - HEPI Registering a complaint? The OfS registration process, analysed - Wonkhe OfS analysis shows students with unconditional offers more likely to drop out - AoC response - AoC | Association of Colleges Chief inspector urges radical change at Feltham as ban on new child prisoners lifted - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Governance news: OfS registration process and outcomes 2019-20 - Advance HE UK independent school launches in Japan - PIE News Battle over Glasgow’s last single-sex school intensifies before key vote - Guardian Labour manifesto: Corbyn went to grammar school - but now wants to destroy private schools - Express ESFA Update: 30 October 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Oxfordshire Advanced Skills centre officially opened - GOV.UK Sustained outreach makes the difference - Office for Students Perceptions of higher education outreach and access activity - Office for Students Data analysis of unconditional offers: Update - Office for Students NCOP: end of phase one report for the national formative and impact evaluations - Office for Students Office for Students registration process and outcomes 2019-20: key themes and analysis - Office for Students Curriculum for Wales 2022 – leaving nothing to chance - Education matters Key findings from EPI’s report on unexplained pupil moves - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Veteran advice fro the new elementary teacher - The Educator What schools should know about children in care - Times Educational Supplement | TES Value education, vote education - National Education Union Podcast: OfS reviews applications to get on its register - Wonkhe How do we get more black innovators to the table? - Nesta Report finds University Technical Colleges are closing, failing and under capacity - UCU UCU welcomes Justice Select Committee's call for more stable prison education contracts - UCU Students given degree places regardless of exam grades more likely to drop out, regulator finds - Independent Students who have unconditional offers more likely to quit - Guardian Unconditional offer students 'more likely to drop out' - BBC What is Curriculum for Excellence? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we really need to break down the subject silos - Times Educational Supplement | TES Behaviour: We need to talk about restraining students - Times Educational Supplement | TES IfATE 'right to reject business support apprenticeship' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Research shows bearded heads are worst in country - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academic freedom: repressive government measures taken against universities in more than 60 countries - The Conversation TAs are the lifeblood of schools – but we overlook them - Times Educational Supplement | TES Phishing and social engineering: still the top threats to cyber security? - Jisc UK's first black female history professor to research Bristol's slavery links - Guardian December election: MPs warn of nativity crisis and ‘cancelled Christmas decorations’ - Schools Week Violent teacher banned after stomping on boy's foot and shoving pupil at school - Mirror 5 danger signs threatening the future of UTCs - Times Educational Supplement | TES UTCs: Half full, closing down and underperforming - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bristol University appoints black history professor to expose institution's links with slave trade - Independent Nearly two in three universities and colleges told to take action by regulator amid concerns - Independent Report finds University Technical Colleges are closing, failing and under capacity - UCU Union warns of teacher cuts in West Lothian - Scotsman Something for something: outcomes that universities in Scotland agree to - Wonkhe Scotland’s approach to quality makes universities better for everyone - Wonkhe THE ‘Table of Tables’ 2020: Bath joins top 10 - Times Higher Education | THE The UK’s hostile monitoring regime poisoned my PhD - Times Higher Education | THE Horizon Europe association hopefuls ‘out of time’ for 2021 start - Times Higher Education | THE Regulator puts two-thirds of providers on ‘enhanced monitoring’ - Times Higher Education | THE Racism against students ‘taken more seriously than staff abuse’ - Times Higher Education | THE Technical schools 'half full and perform less well' - BBC Student housing told to fix 'awful' problems - BBC DfE’s attempts to salvage UTCs are failing as deficits soar - Schools Week UTC deficits more than double over 4 years, National Audit Office finds - FE Week Bristol University appoints History of Slavery professor - BBC Technical schools lavished with Gove funding criticised by watchdog - Guardian Students could tip the balance . . . or go out partying - Times Students need to know our universities and colleges are financially healthy | Nicola Dandridge - Times One fifth of universities could run out of money - Times Bristol University hires slavery professor to tackle colonial past - Times Scotland: Glasgow art school picks team to help it rebound from fires - Times