News archive for 16th January 2020

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Tories ‘whitewash’ warning as Nicola Sturgeon confirms school review - Scotsman Teachers warned off using pension compensation lawyers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Another GCSE results day, another disappointment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nicola Sturgeon bows to MSPs' demand for full review of Scottish education system - Telegraph Third of non-EU university students in UK come from China - Guardian London state school praised by Stormzy secures 51 offers to study at Oxford and Cambridge - Independent London state school rivals top independents with 51 students offered Oxbridge places - Evening Standard Chartered teacher status going global with UAE partnership - Schools Week Number of international students at UK universities jumps - Financial Times Most learners don’t know they’re apprentices at management provider, Ofsted finds - FE Week Unregistered schools management information - Ofsted Higher education student statistics: 2018 to 2019 - DfE September Guarantee: education and training for young people - DfE School governance update - DfE 16 to 19 funding: Overview of the 16 to 19 funding formula - Education & Skills Funding Agency Vivienne Baumfield to be next BERA President - BERA Breaking the silence about the menopause - Times Higher Education | THE Rise in firsts awarded by UK universities stalls at last - Times Higher Education | THE One fifth of knife crimes in England and Wales committed by children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Youth social action projects share £2.1m funding boost - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Questions from ‘About Time’ report to be discussed in Parliament - NAHT Challenges to learning in natural environments in schools - UKEdChat Unconditionals, KEF, research culture, racism (podcast) - Wonkhe EPSRC announces review of support for doctoral education - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Survey highlights long wait for support for under-fives with autism - Nursery World 'Large drop' in occupancy and increase in insolvencies hits childcare market - Nursery World New show hacks pupils’ phones to teach online safety - Times Educational Supplement | TES Make GCSEs 'accessible', say AQA's new pupil advisers - Times Educational Supplement | TES University deprived background targets are nearly met - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police make arrest in college embezzlement probe - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nicola Sturgeon savaged in fiery FMQs clash over Scottish education standards: 'Whitewash' - Express Students awarded first class degrees at record high despite crackdown on grade inflation - Independent Online learning expert appointed as new Jisc trustee - Jisc Scottish universities close to meeting deprived background targets ahead of schedule - Herald Scotland Jisc helps devise new code of ethics for cyber security professionals - Jisc IB achieves worldwide growth with entries up by a fifth - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes International podcast: Jane Larsson on safeguarding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school test cheating probes up by 50% - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Grade inflation' in top degree grades stopping - BBC Apprenticeships: 'Little progress' in Australia, US and UK - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rise in first class degrees starting to stall, figures show - Mail School ‘to automatically call social services’ if parents are 30 minutes late to collect child - Independent SATs maladministration cases soar by a third - Schools Week Ofsted illegal schools taskforce investigates more than 600 settings - Schools Week Oxford makes 'record' number of offers to state pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish Parliament backs ‘full review’ of curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: 95 warnings issued to unregistered schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits grade boundaries: 18% needed for 4 in maths - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits: English and maths pass rate drops - Times Educational Supplement | TES Suspended principal to leave earlier than planned - FE Week Findings of Scottish exams inquiry to be published - Scotsman Teachers start pension age legal battle - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are these 'positive destinations' really so positive? - Times Educational Supplement | TES LGA: Devolve all skills and apprenticeship funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson says the Erasmus scheme isn't under threat. Do you trust him? | Layla Moran - Guardian School plans to fine parents £1 for every five minutes they are late - Metro Millions of people risk being unemployed or in unsuitable jobs by 2030, councils warn - Independent Response to Local Government Association skills mismatch research - CBI The ‘playing the race card’ accusation is just a way to silence us | Afua Hirsch - Guardian Contextual admissions: what you need to know - Sutton Trust Record numbers of state school pupils offered Oxford places - Guardian Great news for university business officers might not mean great news for students - Wonkhe The Knowledge Exchange Framework: year zero - Wonkhe Social sciences miss out on climate change research funding - Times Higher Education | THE Is standing up for expertise a fool’s errand? - Times Higher Education | THE Knowledge exchange framework starts this year before funding link - Times Higher Education | THE Box-ticking is the inevitable result of top-down impositions - Times Higher Education | THE Estranged students: 'The system assumes your parents will help' - BBC The 25 things all teenagers should do: Duke of Edinburgh's Award staff draw up checklist of activities to help youngsters build character - Mail DofE scheme draws up 'experience list' to build teen resilience - Guardian Duke of Edinburgh award says cooking a vegan meal is essential part of growing up - Times Universities are broken, declares Tony Blair’s son - Times Oxford sets record for offers to state pupils - Times Scotland: MSPs force inquiry into decline of education - Times