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Distribution of funding to support Ukrainian students

The letter in the link announces the distribution between providers of £4 million for the 2022-23 financial year to support students affected by the events in Ukraine. It follows the letter of 28 April 2022, which announced a partial and provisional distribution of £2 million, which some providers received in early May 2022.

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Teacher misconduct scheme to be extended to FE

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The Schools Bill includes proposals to ‘strengthen the current Teacher Misconduct Regime to include more educational institutions’. The Teacher Regulation Agency (TRA) can currently only act in respect of misconduct against teachers in schools, academies, sixth form colleges, certain forms of youth accommodation and children’s homes. However, following the response to a consultation held in February, the DfE confirmed that TRA would have its powers extended to post-16 education and training ‘when a suitable legislative opportunity becomes available.

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Is university still worth it? WONKHE Jim Dickinson reports

There’s a cracking hatchet job on the sector that seems to be buried away in the Sunday Telegraph’s “Sunday” magazine recently.

The supplement’s front page contrasts a student who’s doing accountancy at a firm as an apprentice with a student who’s doing an accountancy degree.

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IfS: 1 in 4 poorer pupils could lose out under proposed student loan grade thresholds Around 1 in 10 recent education undergrads would also have been excluded, think tank warns FE Week

 

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