News archive for 8th April 2021

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Union says male teachers must be taught about sexism to overcome 'toxic laddish culture' rife in Britain's secondary schools - Mail Rise in university students asking to repeat the year amid 'mental health pandemic' - Telegraph New student watchdog chief pledges to end cancel culture - Telegraph Gavin Williamson as spineless as Pinocchio, says teachers’ leader - Guardian Areas with most pupils isolating over Covid revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels: Placements unlikely in 2021, say employers - Times Educational Supplement | TES While Williamson calls for discipline, our children’s hopes crumble around them | Polly Toynbee - Guardian Leicester University may strip professor of title over social media barbs - Guardian Teachers make a stand against gagging orders in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 1 April 2021 - DfE Education Committee questions RSCs and National Schools Commissioner - UK Parliament Employers in the driving seat: Wrong turn for apprenticeships? - FE News Scottish researchers get £3m biotech boost - Public Technology General public thinks nursery and primary teachers should be paid more, survey suggests - EYE | Early Years Educator Level 3 early years training offered for free to adults aged 24 and above - EYE | Early Years Educator Revised EYFS and Reception Baseline Assessment all set for September - EYE | Early Years Educator Department for Education vs. Covid-19 - Teacher Toolkit Out-of-school clubs open for all children from 12 April - Nursery World Walsall NHS trust scholarship awards colleague of nurse who died of Covid - Guardian UCAS teacher training applications data: 7 things we learned - Schools Week If anyone is in need of “discipline and order” it’s Gavin Williamson - PoliticsHome T Level Strategic Leadership Group to set best practice for delivery - AoC | Association of Colleges Supporting digital skills: the importance of understanding and valuing everyday digital practices - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Digest #151: Education podcasts - Learning Scientists Russell Group response to launch of consultation with USS employers - Russell Group Scrap GCSEs and A levels to fight racism, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers back push to pause exclusions post pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Robert Gordon University: Dame Evelyn Glennie appointed as new chancellor - Herald Scotland So, Gavin, behaviour has got better...and also worse? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted chief inspector suggests there may not be any 'rape culture' within schools - Mail 16 UK and Singapore universities form an alliance to accelerate entrepreneurship and innovation collaboration - GOV.UK Magazine podcast: Times tables, presenting, edtech - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the DfE discipline drive is discrimination - Times Educational Supplement | TES School sex abuse allegations: My school was named on Everyone's Invited - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: A 'lie' to say exams are best and fairest - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted review into sex abuse welcomed by colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Attendance data shows stark divides in Covid disruption across England - Schools Week Rates of lockdown loneliness highest among young people - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Fifth of UK victims of criminal exploitation are children, research reveals - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Factors affecting students’ intentions to undertake online learning - Advance HE Return to Campus: leading back better - Advance HE College Covid tests: 22% drop in positive results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers don't want school day extended after kids miss out in lockdown, poll finds - Mirror Gavin Williamson clearly doesn’t know what school children need - Metro One in three teachers plan to quit within five years - Metro Ofsted: Sex abuse culture may not be rooted in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in three teachers plan to quit, says National Education Union survey - Guardian Teacher training applicants shot up by 17% in 2020 - Times Educational Supplement | TES SNP to unveil free primary breakfast and lunch plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Recognising the intersectionality of poverty and race is critical to advancing educational outcomes - PoliticsHome How could admissions reform work in practice? - HEPI Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon to reveal free school breakfast and lunch plan for every primary school - Scotsman Sixteen colleges to benefit from next phase of fund to transform facilities - DfE SQA row: EIS warns schools against prelim-style 'diets' - Herald Scotland Where next for digital learning? - Wonkhe More than 1 in 3 teachers 'plan to leave by 2026' - Times Educational Supplement | TES College capital fund: 16 colleges to benefit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Survey predicts one in three staff plan to leave education jobs - Nursery World The extra £250 million of UK research funding does not answer every doubt - Times Higher Education | THE Michael Barber: did Office for Students’ first chair deliver? - Times Higher Education | THE More than one in three teachers do not see themselves in education in five years - Mail Scotland: Sturgeon to unveil free breakfast and lunch plan for every primary school pupil - Mail Girls reveal 'sex threats' from pupils at top schools as screen-shots of abusive messages are posted on new web campaign page - Mail English university asks students to lobby MPs over lockdown easing - Guardian Scottish elections: Nicola Sturgeon to offer free school breakfasts to primary pupils - Times - New Scotland: Alarm that universities don’t use antisemitism definition - Times - New Ireland’s teacher unions threaten to strike if there is no Covid vaccine priority U-turn - Times - New Covid in Ireland: Gaeltacht summer schools may not go ahead for second year - Times - New