Higher Education

Education in the media: 3 January 2017

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 3 January 2017 - Categories: Higher Education, School spending, Trade Unions, Universities

Today’s news review looks at coverage of misleading claims about school funding and stories about the Higher Education and Research Bill.

Education in the media: 15 December 2016

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 15 December 2016 - Categories: Curriculum, Exams and qualifications, Higher Education, School spending, Universities

Today’s news review examines coverage of our fairer funding announcement, the Key Stage 2 results tables and a UCAS report.

Education in the media: 8 December 2016

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 8 December 2016 - Categories: Admissions, Exams and qualifications, Higher Education, Uncategorized, Universities

Today’s news review looks at a report from the University and College Union (UCU) calling for an overhaul of the university application process due to a high proportion of incorrect A-level predictions.

Education in the media: 16 November 2016

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 16 November 2016 - Categories: Attainment gap, Careers, Childcare, Further education, Higher Education, School spending

Today's news review looks at a report into social mobility.

Education in the media: 14 November

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 14 November 2016 - Categories: Childcare, Exams and qualifications, Further education, GCSE results, Higher Education, School spending, Universities

Today’s news review looks at a report on post-19 education, support for school libraries, the cost of childcare for children below school age and the royal charters for the UK's research councils

Skills and Apprenticeships Minister Robert Halfon on his priorities

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 11 November 2016 - Categories: Apprenticeships, Higher Education, Technical education

Robert Halfon, Skills and Apprenticeships Minister, wrote the following comment piece for the New Statesman. My vision has always been simple: that each and every person no matter what their age or background gets a chance at a decent job …

Jo Johnson: Dyson Institute of Technology

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 4 November 2016 - Categories: Admissions, Adult learning, Apprenticeships, Careers, Exams and qualifications, Further education, Higher Education

Today, Friday 4 November, Dyson announced that it will be launching an Institute of Technology in partnership with Warwick University that will offer engineering degree apprenticeships to twenty five students a year. The succesful applications will work for Dyson in …

Education in the media: 4 November 2016

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 4 November 2016 - Categories: Apprenticeships, Careers, Exams and qualifications, Higher Education, School spending, Universities

Today's news review looks at the annoucnement of a new Institute of Technology from Dyson and a highly speculative report into school funding.

Education in the media: 3 November 2016

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 3 November 2016 - Categories: Attainment gap, Curriculum, Exams and qualifications, Further education, Higher Education, School tests, Universities

Today’s news review looks at figures published in Parliament that reveal the difference a grammar school education can make to disadvantaged children and the More Than a Score coalition.

Higher Education and Research Bill

Posted by: Media Officer, Posted on: 1 November 2016 - Categories: Higher Education, Universities

Today, the Guardian published an article by Peter Scott titled ‘The UK is becoming the nasty country, and our universities will suffer’ that contained a number of criticisms of the government’s Higher Education and Research Bill. Please see details setting …