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• Keegan offers little of value in statement on substandard degrees | John Crace

  17-07-2023 20:45
  
  Education secretary makes largely symbolic speech about something that will probably never happenYou’d have thought ministers would have wanted to celebrate the UK signing the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. After all, it’s been a while since there’s been any good news and the country could do with some cheering up. All we get to hear is how Rishi Sunak isn’t meeting any of his five priorities. Surely he must be getting a bit fed up
  
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• The Guardian view on 'rip-off' degrees: another low-value government intervention | Editorial

  17-07-2023 20:14
  
  Proposals to cap course numbers according to economic outcomes are inegalitarian and misguidedThe Conservative philosopher Michael Oakeshott described one of the boons of student life as the opportunity “to look for some meaning in the things that have greatly moved mankind”. Higher education, he wrote, should be an interval during which the undergraduate will have “learned something to help him lead a more significant life”.On that basis, one suspects that Oakeshott woul
  
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• Jamie Driscoll to stand as independent candidate for north-east mayor after quitting Labour and raising £30,000 – as it happened

  17-07-2023 18:22
  
  Driscoll raises funds needed to pay for campaign after leaving Labour and announcing plans to run against former party. This live blog is closedJamie Driscoll quits Labour after snub in north-east mayor raceIn his interview for broadcasters this morning Rishi Sunak also paid tribute to Ben Wallace, following the defence secretary’s announcement that he expects to leave cabinet at the next reshuffle and to stand down as an MP at the next election.Asked if he was sorry to see Wallace go, Sun
  
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• Want to get rid of ‘rip-off’ degrees, Rishi? Try abolishing tuition fees

  17-07-2023 17:28
  
  Yes, many students are being sold a false dream. But that’s the government’s fault, not the universities’It was a long time before I understood the phrase “he’ll piss on you and tell you it’s raining” – really understood it, at a gut level. It took 13 years and 10 weeks, to be precise, of successive feckless Conservatives messing everything up and telling us how messed up everything is.So, having introduced the 2012 tuition-fee regime that leaves s
  
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• Guidance: Subcontracting funding rules for post-16 education and training

  17-07-2023 17:18 via gov.uk
  
  The rules providers must follow when using subcontractors to provide post-16 education and training (excluding apprenticeships).
  
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• ‘Anti-levelling up’: Tory former education secretary criticises PM’s university plan

  17-07-2023 17:14
  
  Justine Greening says proposal to cut numbers on ‘low-value’ courses would affect less privileged studentsA Conservative former education secretary has criticised Rishi Sunak’s plans to limit access to university degrees in England, accusing him of “anti-levelling up in action” if he presses ahead with the policy.Justine Greening, who ran the Department for Education from 2016 to 2018, said the proposal would disproportionately affect more disadvantaged people from
  
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• The parents fleeing Australia’s public school system – and those choosing to stay

  17-07-2023 17:00
  
  Experts say the shift towards private schooling is part of a broader crisis in the education sector that is creating a growing divide between the haves and have-notsPrivate school funding increased twice as much as public schools’ in decade after GonskiGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMichael Dukes wanted his children to have a public school education. But the Coffs Harbour dad opted to move them to a private school – even though he has to work
  
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• Research: Understanding the costs of foundation year study

  17-07-2023 16:56 via gov.uk
  
  Research exploring the costs of foundation year (FY) provision at higher education providers (HEPs) in England.
  
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• Research: Higher education reform consultation analysis: research report

  17-07-2023 16:56 via gov.uk
  
  External analysis of responses to the higher education policy statement and reform consultation.
  
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• Impact assessment: Higher education reform: equality impact assessment and analysis

  17-07-2023 16:56 via gov.uk
  
  Analysis of the impacts, including on particular protected groups, of the HE reforms set out in the policy statement and reform government consultation response.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Higher education policy statement and reform

  17-07-2023 16:55 via gov.uk
  
  We’re seeking views on proposals to improve outcomes, access and value for money of investment in higher education by students and taxpayers.
  
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• Guidance: National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2024 to 2025

  17-07-2023 14:07 via gov.uk
  
  Tables showing provisional allocations for the schools, high needs and central school services blocks from 2024 to 2025.
  
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• Press release: Record funding for schools in England

  17-07-2023 12:52 via gov.uk
  
  Schools in England to receive highest ever funding rates in 2024-25.
  
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• Lecturer strikes: Student with no grades could lose visa

  17-07-2023 12:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rei Takver needs her degree result to extend her visa, but a marking strike means she is "in limbo".
  
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• Rightwing disinformation on Plan B vending machines at colleges ‘harmful to young lives’

  17-07-2023 11:00
  
  Experts raise concerns that conservative backlash could stymie access to emergency contraception and spread disinformationThe headlines warned parents of an unspeakable horror on college campuses – something even more dangerous to their precious children than left-leaning curricula. “Abortion vending machines are appearing on college campuses,” one stated. “Abortions pills available by vending machine at 39 US colleges,” said another.Kristan Hawkins, president of St
  
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• Guidance: Length of the school week

  17-07-2023 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  Non-statutory guidance and case studies for schools in England wanting to increase the length of their school week, including those delivering below the minimum 32.5 hours.
  
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• The impact of qualification reviews on funding approval

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  The impact on our approval principles and processes because of ongoing qualification reform.
  
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• Statutory entitlements: approval criteria

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  Criteria that qualifications in the statutory entitlements offer need to meet alongside the common funding approval criteria.
  
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• Scope of this manual

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  Summary of what this manual includes and where to find information not included in this manual.
  
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• Qualifications with removed funding approval

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  Why and when we have removed or will remove funding approval for groups of qualifications.
  
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• Qualification funding approval: 2023 to 2024

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  Principles and processes we use to approve qualifications for funding in England
  
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• Post-16 funding approval moratorium and exemption approval criteria

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  How the moratorium affects our funded qualification offers and information about exemptions.
  
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• Other approval principles: 16 to 19

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  Criteria that qualifications in the 16 to 19 offer need to meet alongside the common funding approval criteria.
  
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• Other approval principles: 14 to 16

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  Criteria that qualifications in the 14 to 16 offer need to meet alongside the common funding approval criteria.
  
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• Managing changes to approved qualifications

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  How we manage changes you make to approved qualifications that impact funding approval status.
  
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• Level 3 free courses for jobs offer: approval criteria

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  Criteria that qualifications in the level 3 free courses for jobs offer need to meet alongside the common funding approval criteria.
  
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• How we will review qualifications

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  The stages we use to review qualifications
  
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• Funding approval and funding validity

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  The difference between funding approval and funding validity.
  
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• Forms

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  Some of the processes we describe in this manual state that you need to send us information through a form. This section of the manual contains those forms.
  
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• Components of qualifications: approval criteria

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  How components that are already approved for funding will be approved in 2023 to 2024.
  
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• Common approval principles

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  Criteria that all qualifications need to meet to be approved for funding.
  
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• Changes to funding approval principles and processes for 2023 to 2024

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  The changes we have made to our approval principles and process for the funding year 2023 to 2024.
  
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• Annex A: overview of qualification funding approval process

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  This shows the step-by-step process that awarding organisations must follow to get funding approval in England for a qualification.
  
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• Advanced learner loans: other approval criteria

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  Criteria that qualifications in the advanced learner loans offer need to meet, alongside the common funding approval criteria.
  
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• Adult education budget local flexibility offer at level 2 and below offer funded by ESFA: approval criteria

  17-07-2023 10:52 via gov.uk
  
  Criteria that qualifications in the ESFA-funded adult education budget (AEB) local flexibility offer and European Social Fund level 2 and below offer need to meet, alongside the common funding approval criteria.
  
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• Poor quality university courses face limits on student numbers

  17-07-2023 10:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ministers will ask the regulator to restrict numbers on courses that do not have "good outcomes".
  
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• Is it fair private schools had government funding increase more than public? Life isn’t fair! | First Dog on the Moon

  17-07-2023 08:52
  
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• A Rifle and a Bag review – quiet study of a marginalised Indian family

  17-07-2023 08:00
  
  Documentary follows Somi and her husband, who are struggling to live an ordinary life after their past as Naxalite guerrillasIf it’s the function of a documentary to open a window on the world – a part of the world that isn’t revealed by the nightly TV news – then this film is a distinct and deliberate success: a product of the NoCut Film Collective, founded in 2016 by Romanian Cristina Hanes, Indian Arya Rothe and Italian Isabella Rinaldi to explore collaborative and tra
  
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• Sunak ‘attacking people’s aspirations’ with universities policy, Labour says

  17-07-2023 01:01
  
  PM to announce proposals limiting number of enrolments on ‘low value’ degree courses in EnglandLabour has accused the government of “attacking the aspirations of young people” with its plans to limit access to university degrees in England based on what students might earn years after graduation.As revealed by the Guardian, Rishi Sunak will announce proposals on Monday to curb the numbers enrolling on so-called “low value” courses on the basis of data about ea
  
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• Press release: Crackdown on rip-off university degrees

  17-07-2023 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  University courses that fail to deliver good outcomes, with high drop-out rates and poor employment prospects will be subject to strict controls.
  
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