News archive for 15th April 2021

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Good spelling and grammar isn’t elitist… it’s the key to getting somewhere in life - The Sun There is a ‘hidden’ labour of living through a pandemic - IOE London Blog Leadership: how schools can build on their creative, community-based responses to the pandemic - IOE London Blog Government’s recovery plans in jeopardy because of cuts to adult training funds - AoC | Association of Colleges Podsie - connecting teachers and students to learning science - Learning Scientists BERA publishes new Race Equality Policy - BERA Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 15/4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus (COVID-19) mass testing funding for schools and colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency Universities ignoring rape culture warnings, say campaigners - Guardian Schools probe on teacher trainee engagement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Pledge to reduce teachers' contact time creates a stir - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Colleges face losing tens of millions of pounds - BBC Everyone’s invited: what is the website for victims of abuse in schools - Scotsman Teachers must tell pupils not to send intimate photos - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Bring back principal Stem teachers, say Lib Dems - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leicester University staff vote for industrial action over job cuts - Guardian Horizon funding ‘up for debate again’ before UK spending review - Times Higher Education | THE Leicester staff vote for strike action over job cuts - Times Higher Education | THE Universities accused of 'dumbing down' standards by allowing poor spelling - Telegraph 'Flood' of new teachers 'a risk', warns DfE adviser - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE funding clawback could lead to staff and course cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student wellbeing ‘at heart’ of decision for full university return in mid-May, minister says - Independent GCSE tests called a shambles as children already know the questions - Wales Online Colleges take adult education clawback battle to Downing Street - FE Week Meet the SEND students working on the NHS front line - Times Educational Supplement | TES Enforced collective worship - an idea from another era - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers urged to compensate students as some courses will end before universities return - Mirror Election 2021: SNP to devolve financial decisions to schools - Herald Scotland ‘Angry and worried’ teachers on strike over pensions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish election 2021: SNP manifesto for education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top grammar school faces claims of sex abuse and misogyny - Express Cutting London weighting ‘will destabilise higher education’ - Evening Standard College Covid tests: Drop in tests and positive results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers urged to invest in outdoor play to help children recover from pandemic - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Planned ‘clawback’ of adult education funding puts recovery plans in jeopardy - FE News Magazine podcast: Tutoring, role models, DfE memories - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school places 2021: admissions announcements and first choice places - The Sun Call for inquiry into teacher Covid infections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales: Primary school shuts entirely after one coronavirus case - Wales Online A policy of conscious underfunding - HEPI 'Cheese is racist' storm as hundreds back ban on dairy foods in school - Express Upskilling staff – a cultural shift - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Why are we so reluctant to let go of exams? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Everyone’s Invited: Policies alone can’t solve the problems - Schools Week Data science is absolutely critical to health research - Wonkhe What is ‘safe’ in research fieldwork? - Wonkhe Scotland: SNP manifesto pledges £500m for next stage of the 'childcare revolution' - Nursery World 2 Oxford and Exeter are top of 'rape culture' university list - Mail London universities attack ‘levelling down’ plans to cut funding - Guardian Cuts to international research are a wrong turn for a country going global - Times Higher Education | THE Has the pandemic changed research culture – and is it for the better? - Times Higher Education | THE Axeing London weighting cash ‘will push universities into red’ - Times Higher Education | THE Everyone’s Invited: Universities under pressure as website sexual abuse claims mount - Times - New Scotland: Revolting pupils protest ice cream ban - Times - New Scotland: SNP offers Highers for all at digital academy - Times - New