News archive for 9th September 2019

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PM pledges thousands more good school places - DfE Boris Johnson gives the go-ahead for 30 new free schools, creating more than 20,000 new places - The Sun Johnson pledges thousands of new free school places - Mail Boris Johnson's drive to set up more free schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Johnson re-announces latest free schools application round - Schools Week Summer-born children: school admission - DfE The impact of college mergers in further education - DfE Further education area reviews: policy and reports - DfE School inspection update: academic year 2019 to 2020 - Ofsted DfE opens bids for next wave of free schools - Nursery World Exam bodies urged to increase scrutiny on cheating - Financial Times FE area reviews: 1 in 8 recommendations not progressed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Toby Salt steps down as AQA chief executive - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why no government would renege on £7bn pledge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Summer-born 'more likely' to be able to defer entry - Times Educational Supplement | TES Navigating the maze of exam-board complaints - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nicola Sturgeon launches £1bn schools investment programme - Herald Scotland Banks given £201m to clear college debts during area reviews - FE Week England's best-performing universities will be banned from charging more than £6,000-a-year in tuition fees - Mail College to stay open as usual during ‘mammoth’ 15-day strike - FE Week AQA chief executive Toby Salt steps down - Schools Week No-deal Brexit ‘won’t water down school food standards’ – Williamson - Schools Week INSET days, teacher voting behaviours & a longer summer? - Teacher Tapp The wait-and-see game over key stage 2 Sats results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Improve access or face action, universities warned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson: 'Apprenticeships are one of our successes' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why times-tables check does not reflect pupils' ability - Times Educational Supplement | TES English GCSE grade boundary change 'penalises pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nine issues the FE sector is grappling with - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC responds to report from the Independent Malpractice Commission - AoC | Association of Colleges Oxford and Cambridge aim to halve rich versus poor entry gap - Times Higher Education | THE Base police officers in schools, urges children's commissioner - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Off-rolling analysis reveals steep rise in pupil moves - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Boris Johnson on free schools - National Education Union Every pupil should be entitled to a broad and balanced curriculum - NASUWT Pupil serious violence a significant and growing problem within schools - NASUWT Mammoth 15-day strike at Nottingham College begins on Wednesday - UCU We should help students to take control of their own wellbeing - Wonkhe Can higher education single-handedly solve skills shortages? - Wonkhe Outside on the inside: how to include student governors - Wonkhe Ranking all the way – your essential league table update - Wonkhe Where next for enterprise education? - Nesta Opportunity areas, 'Bercow: 10 Years On': S31 grant determination and letter - DfE Lesbian, gay and bisexual teachers struggle in rural schools - Teacher Toolkit New education secretary commits to Stourbridge College sell-off meeting - FE Week Summer-borns: 60% of councils ‘more willing’ to accept delayed entries - Schools Week Schools should be presented with MMR jab certificates before pupils can start, MP says - Independent Selective universities must follow through on promises to admit more disadvantaged students, regulator says - Independent Why BTECs should not be replaced by T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Less than a third of pupils in ‘good’ school buildings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jo Grady: Funding is not an excuse for no negiotation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bangladesh: UK government’s prestigious Chevening Scholarships applications for 2020/21 now open - GOV.UK New Shetland MSP becomes Lib Dem education spokeswoman - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cultural capital and curriculum: will OFSTED’s new framework encourage better education in our schools? - IOE London Blog Principal no-shows TUC fringe event panel but claims UCU pressure unconnected - FE Week Charlotte Church plans to open school in her Dinas Powys home - BBC 'My pupil was expelled for breaking a teacher's fingers. I have to help him' - Guardian The rise of xenophobic bullying in UK schools - The Educator What issues will dominate higher education policy this autumn? - HEPI The future of education: An essay collection - IPPR Taking the credit: can universities tackle academic fraud? - Financial Times How can we assess the public value of universities? - Wonkhe UK set to miss fundraising goal but ‘heading in right direction’ - Times Higher Education | THE Does the postgraduate premium really exist? - Times Higher Education | THE Children should be banned from starting school until they have had MMR vaccine - Mail Cambridge University lets in record level of state school pupils who make up 68 per cent - Mail Cambridge University accepts record number of state school pupils - Guardian State school numbers rise at Cambridge - BBC Heads warn parents to look out for signs of vaping among 11-year-olds - Times Ban pupils who haven’t had MMR jab - Times Science school puts female pioneers in rightful place - Times Autism help ‘being denied by councils’ - Times More than £1,000 for prep school uniform - Times Cambridge takes record number of state pupils - Times Scottish ministers plan attack on vaping ads to deter children - Times Scotland: Universities change rules after chiefs’ cronyism row - Times Ireland: Takeaway to be built 300m from school - Times Ireland: Islamic Foundation considered for school patronage - Times Cambridge admits record number of state educated students - Telegraph