News archive for 16th April 2021

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SNP to force schoolchildren to 'face the UK's colonial past' in Black Lives Matter-inspired lessons - Telegraph Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 16 April 2021 - Education Eye Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 16/4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children who organised Pimlico academy protest could be expelled - Guardian Thousands of children miss out on first choice of primary school on National Offer Day - Mail Baseline 2021: 64% primary leaders want to scrap tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary schools in England record steep fall in demand - Guardian Young people give evidence to MPs on their experiences of mental health services - UK Parliament Lords examines Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill - UK Parliament Education Committee to question Dame Sally Coates in inquiry’s first oral evidence session - UK Parliament Join the Race Equality Charter Governance Committee - Advance HE Coram Family and Childcare sign the LCPA Mayoral Election Manifesto - Coram Family & Childcare MP criticises “frankly insulting” university hardship funding as English students get less support than devolved nations - PoliticsHome Singapore and UK launch university alliance - PIE News New module improves skills and confidence in Early Years practitioners’ maths teaching in England - Education Development Trust | EDT Expanded programme to support skills development in local businesses in North East of England - Education Development Trust | EDT Edge response to EDSK’s second report “Re-assessing the future - the final years of secondary education” - Edge Foundation Grŵp Llandrillo Menai joins as the newest member of Collab Group - Collab Group Wolverhampton teachers take strike action - NASUWT UCU to fight closure of history & language courses at Aston University - UCU The impact of school closures on pupils with English as an additional language - BERA Causation in evidence-based policymaking and education - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth UK government calls on local authorities to support ELT - PIE News EEF publishes new evaluation reports - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Ten things we need from the education recovery plan to boost social mobility - Sutton Trust Covid and schools: Heads coped on adrenaline but will fall by wayside - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE podcast: Funding, prison education and FE Heroes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extra study time in lockdown ‘may have driven rise in firsts’ - Times Higher Education | THE Primary school admissions: ‘More kids’ getting first choice of schools across England - The Sun English universities to be told to work harder to stop sexual misconduct - Guardian Scottish election 2021: Lib Dem manifesto for education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Re-assessing the future (part 2) - EDSK Weekly highlights: Differentiation, pensions and tutors - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE's valuation of 'stealth' cut kept secret - Times Educational Supplement | TES Calls to scrap reception baseline assessments due to pandemic - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The £1bn apprenticeship levy underspend revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Imagine if government was a help, not a hindrance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Save libraries to end education inequality, top author urges PM - Express Most primary schools don’t offer collective worship - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school admissions day 2021: When are places announced in England? - Metro National Offer Day: School admissions appeals - Mirror Primary school places to be announced as families wait anxiously - Independent Jon Collins: Standing up for prisoners' right to learn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Students call for day of action over fees - BBC Joint practice development - UKEdChat ASCL comment on National Offer Day - ASCL Degree classification, grade inflation and COVID: lessons from 2019–20 - HEPI Call to give every prisoner access to digital learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-levels should be replaced with a broader baccalaureate, says thinktank - Guardian Government urged to scrap plans to assess youngest primary kids - Guardian Coronavirus: Term reform at top school ‘will boost learning’ - Herald Scotland Podcast: Return to campus, inclusive assessment, sex work, London - Wonkhe Micro-credentials – big problems? - Wonkhe Precarity robs students of agency and power - Wonkhe Speed read: Think tank calls for new ‘baccalaureate’ to replace A-levels - Schools Week GCSEs: Generous grades ‘logical and justifiable’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES A levels 'should be replaced with baccalaureate system' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Btecs and T levels 'second-class qualifications' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reception baseline: Overwhelming majority of parents reject testing children starting school - survey - Nursery World 2 Call for new ‘baccalaureate’ to replace A-levels, BTECs, T-Levels and apprenticeships - FE Week Radical rethink of UK’s excellence frameworks is needed - Times Higher Education | THE Sustainability ‘more important than location’ for mobile students - Times Higher Education | THE DfE job includes dealing with higher education access bar - Times Higher Education | THE I am appalled: University minister attacks dumbed-down exams - Mail EDSK: A-levels, BTECs and T-levels should be replaced by a ‘Baccalaureate’ - FE News Covid in Scotland: Exam timetables handed out despite being scrapped - Times - New Gavin Williamson to order investigation into university ‘rape culture’ - The Sun