News archive for 7th April 2021

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Gavin Williamson calls for classroom mobile phone ban in clampdown on bad behaviour - The Sun Full list of Gavin Williamson's failures as backlash grows over behaviour crackdown - Mirror Think the school sex abuse scandal is shocking? Just read what goes on at our universities - Mail Ofsted launches review into sex abuse in schools - Mail Experts reject claim Covid has worsened behaviour in English schools - Guardian UK universities propose cutting benefits to save pension scheme - Financial Times Watchdog to inspect private schools caught up in ‘rape culture’ scandal - Telegraph Leave the classroom to give us space, teachers tell DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the adult education funding decision is a mistake - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers back GCSE reform ‘to restore love of learning’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Face masks in the classroom can 'disrupt' learning, headteachers say - Telegraph Teachers call for GCSEs and A-level exams to be replaced with 'more flexible' assessments to end 'toxic testing' in schools - Mail Ofsted inspectors to visit schools facing sexual abuse claims - Guardian Andreas Schleicher: Lifelong learning transforms lives - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers 'crying out' for workload cut - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the porn industry must be called to answer on rape culture in schools - New Statesman Employers to have their say on future of pension scheme - Universities UK Ofsted to visit ‘sample’ of colleges where sexual abuse has been reported - FE Week UUK proposes less generous pensions to stave off USS price hike - Times Higher Education | THE UCU responds to Universities UK's employer consultation on USS benefit changes - UCU How are British values relevant to us in the era of Covid-19? - Education & Training Foundation 'I will never forget the panic in that girl's voice’ – the poverty crisis laid bare - SecEd GCSEs and A-levels should be replaced with more flexible assessments - Mail Ofsted reveals plans for sexual abuse review in schools and colleges - Mail Ofsted review of sexual abuse - Ofsted Train to teach in England: non-UK applicants - DfE Ofsted to visit English schools where sexual abuse was reported - BBC Ofsted’s review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges - Ofsted Protecting students if a provider is at risk of closure - Office for Students ESFA Update: 7 April 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Coronavirus (COVID-19) free school meals: additional costs - Education & Skills Funding Agency Behaviour experts to support schools with poor discipline - DfE Consultation: Teachers’ pension scheme regulations 2021 - draft amendments - DfE Tackling race inequality - Advance HE Scottish education must be returned to its former glory - Scotsman Hundreds of free qualifications on offer to boost skills and jobs - Pearson A 10-point plan education renewal post-Covid - SecEd Long Covid: School sickness policies need updating - SecEd Shrinking the digital divide in education - FE News Teachers say Gavin Williamson “has not done his homework” on plans for behaviour crackdown - PoliticsHome Mirrors and reflection – the key to student success? - Advance HE Ofsted to visit ‘sample’ of schools where sexual abuse has been reported - Schools Week Williamson backs exclusions and expulsions, claiming children 'lacked discipline' in lockdown - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Schools offering lifeline to disadvantaged children during pandemic, say headteachers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Labour unveils free summer meals plan for all pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupil premium: how many children can schools support? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to visit schools at centre of sex abuse scandal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Abolish Ofsted and league tables - National Education Union Marcus Rashford MBE receives 2021 Fred and Anne Jarvis Award - National Education Union NEU sets out measures to stop toxic testing - National Education Union UK R&D threat averted as government adds £250m - PIE News NEU comment on maternity rights - National Education Union NEU comment on GCSE and A-Level grades - National Education Union NEU comment on a diverse and inclusive curriculum - National Education Union NEU comment on pay freeze - National Education Union Post qualification admissions: Should we be careful what we wish for? - HEPI Universities demand answers from government on student returns - Universities UK Peter-Mayhew Smith: How can colleges best support London’s economic recovery - Collab Group Teachers threaten national pay strike in 7% rise demand - Times Educational Supplement | TES Shielding teacher: 'Still wearing masks is not enough' - Times Educational Supplement | TES NEU comment on Covid-19 and workload - National Education Union NEU conference votes to survey members on teacher pay strike action - Schools Week Mobile phones should be banned in schools - Gavin Williamson - BBC Masks to be worn ‘at all times’ in Scottish secondaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: The edtech project that trained 10,000 teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Entries now open for the Nursery World Awards 2021 - Nursery World ‘Illogical’ that campuses can’t fully reopen next week, says UUK - Times Higher Education | THE Gavin Williamson backs schools taking action against scourge of mobile phones - Mail Gavin Williamson urges schools to crack down on discipline and mobile phone use after lockdown ‘inevitably’ affected pupils - Independent New podcast series kicks off with ‘lively and thought-provoking' debate - Jisc Call to end ‘discrimination’ of pregnant teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Generation of children lack "discipline and order" during lockdown says Gavin Williamson - Mirror Teachers to devise alternative to 'toxic' Sats - Times Educational Supplement | TES First 22 lead schools for DfE’s £10m ‘behaviour hubs’ project revealed - Schools Week Recruit teachers by talking up prestige of profession, DfE told - FE Week Teachers don't want to extend school day or summer term despite kids missing out on education in Covid - The Sun Up to 200,000 children leave primary school unable to swim - Telegraph Teachers back campaign to abolish Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Phones could be banned in schools to return ‘discipline lost’ in lockdown - Metro Pupils required to continue wearing masks at school after Easter break - Express DfE's 22 'lead' behaviour hub schools revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Saying there’s no need for exams lets down schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid Scotland: Pupils to return to school amid warnings of safety risk and exam 'confusion' - Herald Scotland Discipline drive: DfE backing school mobile phone bans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: teachers reject catchup options of extended school day and shorter holidays - Guardian The state of education: Poverty, the pandemic and recovery - National Education Union Beyond Covid, flexibility should be our new normal - Wonkhe How not to decolonise your curriculum - Wonkhe Podcast: How can the UK stop harassment and sexual abuse in schools? - Guardian Generation of home-schooled children lacked 'discipline and order' during lockdown says Gavin Williamson - Mail Students must be allowed to return to campus from April 12, university chiefs tell PM - Mail Teachers feed and clothe pupils hit by Covid pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid catch-up: Only 21% of teachers see tutors as key - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'a lifeline to many students' in past year' - BBC Food poverty: MPs call on government to step up help - BBC Retain ‘teaching technologies’ and online parents’ evenings after Covid, say NEU members - Schools Week Pupils must wear Covid facemasks at school until mid-May - Times - New Covid in Scotland: Exams ‘by another name’ as SQA wants closed-book assessments - Times - New Scotland: Aberdeen students vote for trigger warnings in lectures - Times - New Implicit bias training is often flawed but shouldn’t be scrapped - Times Higher Education | THE University access ‘protected by wealth’ for richest globally - Times Higher Education | THE UK study says block teaching boosts student grades - Times Higher Education | THE