News archive for 14th April 2021

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Oxbridge colleges open to tourists but not students as undergraduates say it is a 'slap in the face' - Telegraph Scotland: Edinburgh University is among universities mentioned on website exposing rape culture - Scotsman Providing school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak - DfE T Levels: next steps for providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Everyone’s Invited ‘considering’ publishing tally of school sex abuse cases - Schools Week UK universities consider future EU student recruitment - PIE News Top London universities named on website sharing sexual harassment experiences - Evening Standard How can colleges best support London’s economic recovery? - Collab Group Hertfordshire teachers take strike action to protect pensions - NASUWT University of Leicester staff vote for industrial action over job cuts - UCU Reimagining creative research methods & collaborative relationships in the context of Covid-19 - BERA New research: “Numeracy crisis” could be costing the UK up to £25 billion a year - National Numeracy Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 14/4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES University challenge: Who would be a student right now? - Telegraph Pimlico academy parents told: future disobedience will be punished - Guardian Put £10m behaviour pot into mental health, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Election 2021: Scotland's schools 'to inspect each other' - Herald Scotland ‘Teaching won’t be on the timetable’: Students frustrated by 17 May goal for university return - Independent GCSEs 2021: Should schools be running full mock exams? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Professional progression halted by Covid? Don't worry - Times Educational Supplement | TES Autonomy, workload, wellbeing, Covid: A third of teachers say they will quit in next five years - SecEd Anger over Pupil Premium admin change that is costing schools millions - SecEd Troubled Families rebrand needs a 'long-term' funding commitment - SecEd DfE’s ‘orphan’ school trust takes financial hit as Covid scuppers expansion - Schools Week ITT market review proposals will be put out to public consultation - Schools Week White XR eco-warrior claims giving pupils too much dairy is 'racist' - Mail Headteacher 'shocked and saddened' after ex-pupil's 'toxic and ubiquitous rape culture' claims - Mail Primary school pupils learned 'little or nothing' from online lessons during lockdown - Mail How tech is creating unnecessary workload for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union to launch national consultative ballot over pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school admissions 2021: When are places announced? - Metro University threatened with legal action from Indian student facing deportation - Guardian Can Covid set teachers free again? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free early years education from age 1 promised by SNP - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools may be 'investigated' over daily worship duty - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges must be at heart of catch-up plan, says IoD - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Left behind’: students respond to news that uni campuses won’t reopen - Guardian University students not allowed to return to campus until mid-May - Express Outrage as Scottish council axes custard and ice cream from school dinner menus - Mail Government falls short of free laptops target - CYPN | Children & Young People Now One in three black young people out of work amid Covid-19 pandemic, research reveals - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Let’s consign grades to the educational graveyard - Schools Week Universal Design for Learning: an antidote to digital poverty - Advance HE Channel referrals – what does the latest data tell us? - Education & Training Foundation How secondaries can build better links with parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students feel like an 'afterthought' after university return date - BBC Scottish election 2021: Greens’ manifesto for education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government plan for full university return in mid-May ‘makes no sense’, institutions say - Independent SNP pledge to abolish fees for learning a musical instrument in school - Herald Scotland 'Experienced tutors are being snubbed by the Government – we want to know why' - Telegraph Music tuition will be free to all pupils, SNP promises - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Rape culture’ cannot remain the norm in our society, says charity chief - Mail Getting kids thinking - UKEdChat Professor Lorraine Dearden appointed Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation - Nuffield Foundation Guarding against ‘netpotism’: why Covid is leading to closed recruitment networks and what we can do about it - HEPI No better time to engage students in the big questions - College of the Future Covid crisis has turned our students into a lost generation - Express Asking young adults to retake driving theory tests is an unfair and disproportionate measure - Telegraph Coronavirus Scotland: Numeracy skills ‘crisis’ for jobless - Herald Scotland Digital capital is a whole-system issue – building it takes more than hardware - Wonkhe Strategy not soundbites needed for research and innovation in Wales - Wonkhe Chartered College ‘blueprint’ proposes national CPD quality badge - Schools Week Returning campus castaways: please wear your masks! - Times Higher Education | THE Brexit red tape endangering vital experiments, says UK laboratory - Times Higher Education | THE LGBT student homelessness: 'I had to put on a straight persona' - BBC Scotland: SNP promises free music tuition in schools - Times - New Scottish leader debate: Nicola Sturgeon defends SNP record on schools - Times - New Ireland: End war for special needs school places, state told - Times - New