News archive for 22nd September 2019

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Ministers ‘drop plan to cut university tuition fees to £7,500’ - Mail Children as young as six are to be given compulsory self-touching lessons that critics say are sexualising youngsters - Mail Pupil gets more than £10,000 in council compensation after tripping over a 'wet floor' sign because they damaged their teeth in the fall - Mail Activists vote in favour of axing independent education sector and Jeremy Corbyn will now have to put the policy in his next general election manifesto - Mail Private schools could be abolished under Labour after party members vote to integrate them into state sector - Evening Standard Could school-blind university applications help address diversity and social inclusion inequalities? - Times Universities under fire over growth in top degrees - Times Please sir, can we grow up to be entrepreneurs? - Times Is the university grade inflation bubble ready to burst? - Times Labour pledges to abolish Ofsted and make councils inspect schools - Times Number of first-class degrees awarded in Britain soars by half - Times Plan shelved to cut university tuition fees to £7,500 - Times Scottish University of the Year 2020: University of Strathclyde - Times University of the Year 2020: St Andrews is UK’s best place to study - Times Good University Guide 2020: who gains from unconditional offers? - Times Going to pot: British university campuses face a drugs epidemic - Times Labour begins bid to abolish private schools with university quotas - Times Jeremy Corbyn on Sats, Ofsted and teacher retention - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted and the battle for Labour's education policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rayner: Schools will not be subjected to one-word grade - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bousted: 'Why Labour's plan is a body-blow for Ofsted' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Common sense’ needed on English post-qualification admissions plans - Times Higher Education | THE Despite zero public fees, Germany’s private universities are booming - Times Higher Education | THE Labour members call to 'redistribute' private schools' assets - BBC If Labour bans Ofsted it will be a disaster for our children’s education - Times Schools can do more to encourage universities to be socially inclusive - Times Labour delegates vote for plan that would abolish private schools - Guardian Labour votes to abolish private schools at party conference - Independent Labour announces plan to scrap and replace ‘unfit for purpose’ Ofsted - PoliticsHome ISC response to the Labour Party vote to abolish independent schools - Independent Schools Council | ISC NASUWT welcomes Labour's commitment to retain an independent national education inspectorate - NASUWT Labour commits to abolishing private schools if it wins the next general election - PoliticsHome Investing in arts and culture will create jobs and regenerate communities - PoliticsHome White Elephant #3: Putting the burden of closing attainment gaps off BME staff and students - HEPI Relationships at school. Teacher-student. - Teacherhead The 4 schools policies in Angela Rayner’s Labour conference speech - Schools Week Vegan college menus on the rise as students return to university - Guardian Trainee teachers are welcome - Teacher Toolkit Running action research school-based projects - Teacher Toolkit You gotta fight for your right to party - Wonkhe Black students aren’t getting funded PhDs. Who’s responsible for fixing that? - Wonkhe What could a registration refusal for a college mean for higher education? - Wonkhe Is that it for £7.5k fees? - Wonkhe Hold on to your hats, it’s the 2020 Times & Sunday Times league table - Wonkhe No more heroes. Time to change the record on school leadership - Schools Week CPD firms struggle as funding squeeze shifts landscape - Schools Week The government must take steps to reform the apprenticeship levy - FE Week