News archive for 23rd January 2020

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Heartbreak after headteacher who had 'profound impact in lives of kids' dies suddenly - Mirror No GCSE grade for 4,500 students entered in wrong tier - Times Educational Supplement | TES IfATE: Apprenticeship levy needs 'stability' not reform - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top private school first to partner with Morocco - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chiefs at Scotland's top universities branded 'out of touch' over six-figure salaries - Scotsman The tuition fees generation is finding its voice in parliament | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian UK universities issue health warnings over travel to China - Guardian Students planning Chinese New Year return to China face 'quarantine' on return - Mail Chiefs at Scotland's top universities branded 'out of touch' over six-figure salaries - Scotsman School branded 'inadequate' over Islamic leaflet launches legal challenge - Schools Week Vast majority of school business leaders are white, survey finds - Schools Week 'My dyslexic daughter can't get the help she needs now because she's a Welsh speaker' - Wales Online Coupland tells FE Week she will have ‘independent voice’ and is ‘excited to step out of the confines’ of the DfE - FE Week 'Golden triangle' graduates 'have highest earnings five years after degree' - Mail Coronavirus: Scottish universities reassure students over Wuhan partnerships - Herald Scotland Minister criticises lack of senior black UK academics - Guardian LEO: graduate earnings by region and provider - Wonkhe Walking and talking as and for methodological development - BERA Iain Mansfield responds to today’s paper on social mobility and grammar schools - HEPI Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) findings - National Education Union School leaders welcome removal of parents’ right to withdraw children from religion, relationships and sex education in Wales - NAHT More Than A Score assessment survey - National Education Union Education for our planet and our future - BERA More nurses will need more health academics to teach them – but where are they? - Wonkhe Does university governance need incremental or radical change? - Wonkhe To close access and participation gaps we need to close our understanding gaps - Wonkhe A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2018 to 2019 (revised) - DfE Open letter: GCSE tier entry guidance - Ofqual Grayson Perry: A bull in higher education’s china shop? - Times Higher Education | THE From knowledge to skill: Do learning strategies improve critical thinking? - Learning Scientists The purpose of apprenticeships, the rationale for the apprenticeship levy and the role of universities in skills provision - FE News School funding: Clever sleight of hand or a mess? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Support for developing learners’ English, maths and digital skills through T Levels - Education & Training Foundation | ETF The impact of interventions for widening access to higher education: a review of the evidence - EPI New data to help students see future earnings boost - DfE College leaders appointed to boost standards of further education - DfE Higher education staff statistics UK: 2018 to 2019 - DfE 17k college students receive regular counselling - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mental health is in crisis, but colleges are responding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Netflix and Warner Bros apprenticeship pilot launched - Times Educational Supplement | TES World Book Day: Make time for reading - Primary Times Schools 'failing to meet legal duties for disabled pupils' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Unlocking the puzzle of positive motivation – the conversation continues… - Advance HE More than 80 per cent of children in care 'receive SEND support' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The big questions of early childhood - Early Education Climate Commission for FE and HE share update and next steps - AoC | Association of Colleges Graduate outcomes (LEO): region by provider 2016 to 2017 - DfE HESA spring 2020: What does the HESA data about Black senior academics really mean? - Wonkhe Netflix and Warner Bros back TV and film apprenticeship scheme - Mail FE Commissioner’s leadership team to nearly double - FE Week MSPs demand apology for 'highly offensive' Tory comments on Gaelic education - Scotsman Only a handful of black academics in most senior positions in British universities, figures reveal - Independent Language degrees aren't dead, but increasingly they're only a sensible option for the wealthy - Telegraph DfE gender pay gap closing – but men get bigger bonuses - FE Week DfE gender pay gap closing - but men get bigger bonuses - Schools Week UK universities increasingly reliant on income from Chinese students, analysis shows - Independent Scottish university bosses branded 'out of touch' over soaring principal salaries - Herald Scotland Plans to return exam scripts to students ‘are on path’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gaelic becomes default language for island pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Cardiff high school where 15 pupils have got into Mensa - Wales Online Four out of five children in care have special educational needs - Guardian Mum furious as son, 11, faces third week at home after specialist school shut down - Mirror More than a quarter of pupils not getting enough sleep - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrap Sats and judge schools on happiness, say parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar schools 'unequivocally damage social mobility' - Times Educational Supplement | TES A third of pupils feel the strain of schoolwork - Times Educational Supplement | TES The impact of interventions for widening access to higher education: a review of the evidence - EPI Social Mobility and Higher Education: New report suggests grammar schools are not the answer - HEPI Majority of parents concerned about primary school testing - Nursery World Gap between rich and poor university students ‘remains stark’ as little evidence shows interventions work - Independent Social mobility is hampered by grammar schools - FE News All primary one pupils in Western Isles to be taught Gaelic for first time - Scotsman Trouble replicating cancer studies a ‘wake-up call’ for science - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities ‘increasingly reliant’ on Chinese fee income - Times Higher Education | THE Number of researchers in REF ‘up 43 per cent’ under new rules - Times Higher Education | THE V-c calls for admissions quotas to create mixed-ability campuses - Times Higher Education | THE Why mindfulness can have surprising effects on academic performance - IOE London Blog One in four children 'has too little sleep' - BBC EPI study highlights ‘lack of evidence’ on university outreach schemes - Schools Week Academics take aim at ‘flawed’ grammar school study - Schools Week Parents 'more concerned about pupil happiness than test results' - Mail Schools failing in legal duty to implement ‘accessibility plans’ - Schools Week Grammar schools fail the top university test - Times Inspector flees as staff ignore school fire alert - Times History a thing of the past as Sunderland University shuts faculty - Times Scotland: Cash bonus for Edinburgh University students – if their name is Gillies or Carmichael - Times Scotland: Schools accused of reusing topics to avoid extra work - Times Cleared sex case teacher ‘touched girl pupils at his new school’ - Express