News archive for 1st April 2021

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UK steps in with 11th-hour extra £250m to stay in EU research scheme - Guardian Dozens of pupils at one primary school self-isolating - Wales Online Colleges will need to do their own funding audits – ESFA rules - FE Week Choosing a phonics teaching programme - DfE The Prevent duty in higher education (HE): training and guidance for practitioners - DfE Universities Minister at UCAS's Annual Admissions Conference - DfE Provider guide to delivering high-quality apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency New Further Education Commissioner announced - DfE Our schools are becoming a moral quagmire - Telegraph UCL partners with SI-UK on postgrad recruitment - PIE News Controversial adult funding threshold dropped to 68% – but only for Liverpool - FE Week Coronavirus cases fall further despite return to school - Times - New Perspectives and reflections from further education leaders on Covid-19 - Collab Group Cyber security update: Concerning rise in ransomware attacks - ASCL NAHT signs joint statement in response to the findings of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities - NAHT Empowering marginalised parents to undertake home-schooling during Covid-19 - BERA Updates to apprenticeship funding reservations - Cambridge Network GCSEs 2021: Teachers criticise 'shocking' exam material - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greens to publish plan on overhauling school inspection - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reflect on vulnerability of GCSEs, England told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Huge rise in children eligible for school meals during pandemic, new data reveals - EYE | Early Years Educator Are Covid-era trainee teachers screwed? Far from it - Times Educational Supplement | TES The state of school education: One year into the Covid pandemic - OECD Boris Johnson's latest 'build back better' pledge won't get Britain back to work | Polly Toynbee - Guardian Extra research cash to fund UK’s Horizon Europe participation - Times Higher Education | THE Teaching and classroom assistants key to keeping schools open in lockdown - IOE London Blog Headmaster at centre of Pimlico Academy race row described as disciplinarian, but gets results - Mail Government funds Level 3 qualifications in early years for free from 1 April for over-24s - Nursery World Universities UK responds to the government's commitment to funding UK science and research - Universities UK How can we help more women to become school leaders? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tory MPs condemn Pimlico Academy pupils for protesting at ‘racist’ uniform rules - Times - New School abuse helpline set up as government launches review of safeguarding policies - Independent Pimlico academy staff in strike talks after head loses confidence vote - Guardian Pimlico Academy removes Union flag as headteacher backs down over 'racist' uniform protest - Express Scottish teacher pay offer ‘completely inadequate’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Race report 'vindicates' disproportionate exclusions of black children, critics say - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Fears pandemic workload means teacher anxiety and panic - Times Educational Supplement | TES New EYFS framework to be introduced nationally from September, DfE confirms - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children may only get Covid jabs if the virus continues to spread and schools face the threat of closing again - Mail EYFS teachers 'should get white privilege training' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Autism diagnosis delays in Coventry and Warwickshire 'are horrendous' - BBC The Social Mobility Commission joins Cabinet Office - Social Mobility Commission Simon Woolley: First black man appointed head of Oxbridge college - BBC Million students 'forgotten' in lack of uni return date - BBC Scotland: Royal High School pupils reach national debating tournament grand final - Scotsman Sexual harassment? We need to talk to the boys - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching assistants 'are the unsung heroes of Covid' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why have we allowed checklists to dominate early years? - Times Educational Supplement | TES College Covid tests: 35% increase in positive results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pimlico Academy reverses ‘discriminatory’ hair and uniform policy after students protest - Independent Cash-strapped college announces merger partner - FE Week Stephen Lawrence Day 2021 - Voice SNCT – Teachers' Pay Claim 2021 - Voice Parents understand what's behind the school sex scandal... and it's time the Government listened - Telegraph Pimlico Academy headmaster caves in to protesting students who burned 'racist' Union Flag - Telegraph The new FE commissioner: Who is Shelagh Legrave? - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE commissioner: Principal Shelagh Legrave appointed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Well-known college CEO named as new FE Commissioner - FE Week Covid: When will children return to school and what are the rules? - BBC This much I know about two sentences by John Steinbeck - JohnTomsett Magazine podcast: Exam time limits, nudge theory, ADHD - Times Educational Supplement | TES First college in England to gain nursing course approval revealed - FE Week BTEC Awards 2021: Deadline extended - FE Week Covid jabs for pupils suggested by government adviser - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mental Health & Wellbeing in FE supplement - FE Week Headteacher backs down in row over ‘racist’ uniform rules that led to walkout - Metro Pimlico Academy: School where students staged mass walk out will amend 'racist' uniform policy - Mirror Composite classes ‘highly beneficial’ for attainment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: 25% of support staff worried about job security - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools watchdog to probe claims of 'rape culture' among pupils - Express Government orders Ofsted to launch immediate probe into sex attack scandal sweeping through UK schools - Mail Gavin’s official new assessment directive - Headguruteacher Teaching assistants 'unsung heroes' of pandemic, study shows - Guardian Digital poverty: How Glasgow Clyde College is fighting back - Herald Scotland Children love outdoor learning centres, but many are being forced to close - Telegraph Find a free level 3 qualification - DfE Hundreds of free qualifications on offer to boost skills and jobs - DfE Free courses for jobs - DfE National Skills Fund - AoC response - AoC | Association of Colleges More than half of students do not expect any more face-to-face teaching this academic year - HEPI Students’ views on the impact of Coronavirus on their higher education experience in 2021 - HEPI Teaching union donated to Islamic charity that published name of Muhammad cartoon row teacher - Mail Teachers deserve the truth about the DfE’s Covid cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES Avoiding analysis of racial disparity in higher education is one way to avoid fixing it - Wonkhe If a provider is in trouble, who will take the force of the blow? - Wonkhe Pimlico Academy will amend 'racist' uniform policy, review the curriculum after pupils held mass protest - Mail Lifetime Skills Guarantee: 11m adults now have access - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch-up 'could trigger teacher burnout' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Into work and onto skills training - the still unattained holy grail for many young people - FE News Covid: Many students say their mental health is worse due to pandemic - BBC Most UK students expect teaching to stay online for rest of year - Times Higher Education | THE Spread of supervision agreements protects PhD students from abuse - Times Higher Education | THE Axed staff on submissions leaves bad taste as REF deadline passes - Times Higher Education | THE Helpline for pupils as ministers launch school sex abuse inquiry - Times - New Private schools must take responsibility for boys’ behaviour outside, says Good Schools Guide head - Times - New Key findings from the Sewell report on racial equality - Times - New Scotland: Silencing pupils over abuse was ‘a disgrace’, says headmaster - Times - New