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| Institute for the Study of Civil Society |
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02 August
- Transport Minister Theresa Villiers has broken government ranks to publicly attack Michael Gove, as an 'Outstanding' school in her constituency has its application for academy status rejected. She appeared to imply that Gove was allowing only the schools with the best results to become academies, in order to create an elite academy league.
Times
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The Nationwide Building Society has calculated that on average parents are often prepared to pay an extra 3.3% on the price of a home which is near a primary school achieving 10% better exam results than neighbouring schools.
Guardian
Just four months after they were given responsibility for 16-19 education, local authorities have been told to put their cheque books away as the role is reassigned to the Young People's Learning Agency. This is a move towards the coalition's aim to 'free up colleges from state control' and is accompanied by the launch of a consultation on the future of FE and skills.
Guardian
Top universities are imposing limits on the amount of students who can take a 'gap year' to avoid an admissions backlog in 2011, when the squeeze on places is likely to be even more severe. Exeter will allow only 10% of applicants to take a year out; at St Andrews students applying for English, modern languages, history and medicine will not be able to defer their entry.
Telegraph
Immigration Minister Damian Green is to launch a review of student visas after it is revealed that the number of students coming to the UK had leapt by a third last year, to more than 300,000. Overseas students are a lucrative form of income but it remains unclear why last year saw such a significant rise; visas for students from Pakistan and Nepal were suspended earlier this year.
Guardian
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Sarah's law is to be introduced nationwide. The Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme gives parents and guardians the right to check with police if anyone with regular unsupervised access to their children has a criminal conviction for child sex offences. Pilot schemes are said to have protected more than 60 children.
Times
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More than 1,000 girls in their first year of secondary school have been given prescriptions for the pill, while a further 200 have long-term injectable or implanted contraceptive devices, show records from GP practices. 58,000 15-year-olds were on the pill last year, more than double the number in 1999.
Telegraph
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American academics claim to have put together the first full picture of the effect of maternal employment. The conclusion: they see no adverse effects, and while there were downsides to mothers taking work during their child's first year, there were also significant advantages - for mother's wellbeing and the quality of childcare. Several eminent studies over the last two decades have suggested children do suffer if their mothers go back to work in the first year of their lives.
Guardian
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Infertile men with little chance of fathering children through current IVF processes may gain a chance to do so through a new sperm test. The first patient trials will begin next year and use a procedure which identifies genetically defective sperm by tagging them with a protein dye that binds to broken DNA, allowing healthy sperm to be picked out and injected into a partner's eggs.
Times
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