News archive for 19th April 2021

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) summer schools programme funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency ROATP application guidance digital May 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Lords examines Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill - UK Parliament Universities are allowing students back to campus early on mental health grounds - Telegraph ‘Woke weaning’ is coming to a school near you - and parents are too scared to question it - Telegraph Ampleforth College fails Ofsted inspection after 'serious safeguarding risks' identified - Telegraph Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 19/4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES '60 days left': Anxious teachers count down to summer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship provider slammed as Ofsted returns to work - FE Week Oxbridge should not discriminate against private school pupils because they get more firsts, head says - Telegraph Universities could face fines if they fail to crack down on sexual harassment - Telegraph £36m bootcamp results delayed - FE Week How Covid is changing Ofsted inspections: 7 key points - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A-levels: Fears of private school 'minority' subject cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools ‘kept guessing’ over £320 million PE fund - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted’s Covid inspection changes – everything you need to know - Schools Week Colleges face 'confusing' guidance on sexual harassment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson orders crackdown on student rape culture as he calls for universities to follow new emergency code - Mail NAHT signs TUC letter to the PM repudiating race commission report - NAHT OfS tackling sexual abuse statement of expectations for colleges - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges AoC join Erasmus+ EXPECT climate project - AoC | Association of Colleges Working in education means constantly adapting and improving what you do - Advance HE Data Futures Alpha phase: confirmed participants - HESA Strike action at Devon school over attacks on pensions - NASUWT Awarding qualifications in summer 2021: guidance and support materials - NAHT School Diversity Week 2021: new resources launched - NAHT NAHT LGBT+ network - NAHT Edge Director appointed Specialist Adviser to Lords Committee on Youth Unemployment - Edge Foundation We need to take abuse on campus much more seriously than this - Wonkhe Impacting trainee teachers’ self-efficacy with Black, Asian and minority ethnic pupils through real-world teaching resources - BERA Buying school uniforms post-lockdown “unmanageable” for low income families - Nuffield Foundation Promote your wellbeing - UKEdChat Social mobility vs equity: What can Ofsted learn from other UK school inspectorates? - SecEd New online resources to support CEOs and Principals in challenging times - Education & Training Foundation Universities must do more to tackle rape culture and sexual harassment on campus, watchdog warns - Independent A thinking process to support your working memory - Teacher Toolkit Andreas Schleicher: Repeating the school year not the answer to COVID learning losses - OECD Eventful week sees HE buffeted by spelling and campus re-opening rows - MediaFHE NAHT Leaders for Race Equality - NAHT Pastoral care during COVID-19 - Teach First Report: Levy paying employer decisions - Learning & Work Institute Academies Enterprise Trust appoints new leader - Times Educational Supplement | TES College funding: 5 minutes with Boris Johnson - what would you say? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: No 'inadequate' rating if Covid caused failings - Times Educational Supplement | TES How we expect universities and colleges to tackle harassment and sexual misconduct - Office for Students Former RSC Rebecca Boomer-Clark is new Academies Enterprise Trust CEO - Schools Week English regulator demands ‘urgent action’ on sexual harassment - Times Higher Education | THE Pimlico Academy graffitied after protesting students ‘threatened with expulsion’ - Independent Pupil ban on Ampleforth lifted despite Ofsted concerns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher who had stroke in China finally back home after his pupils raise £54,000 - Metro Universities 'must do more to tackle sexual harassment' - BBC Banned: Former teacher who sexually abused children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we can't allow the school day to be lengthened - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish election 2021: Tories' manifesto for education - Times Educational Supplement | TES £750K scheme to target 'sexual bullying' in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE lifts Ampleforth College pupil recruitment ban despite continuing safeguarding concerns - Schools Week Children likely to miss five per cent of entire schooling by the end of the pandemic - Mirror Digital SEND funding tool launched by Staffordshire council - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How are schools creating teacher-assessed grades? - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Humphrys blasted 'woke brigade' for universities' 'white, male, elite' fear - Express The Oxford University students demanding their #MeToo moment - Telegraph Coronavirus in Scotland: Majority of pupils return to full-time teaching in schools - Scotsman Scottish students 'left in limbo' by SNP failure around 2020 exams results - Scotsman The true potential of a national student survey - HEPI Scotland's state schools can 'phase out' private rivals - Herald Scotland How might ministers make student loans cheaper? - Wonkhe The funding debate returns to top up fees - Wonkhe Probe after millions of school children given rapid Covid tests with wrong instructions - Mirror WorldSkills UK national competitions are back for 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Big Ask: Biggest-ever pupil survey launches today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children's commissioner launches major survey of children's lives for post-Covid wishlist - Nursery World 2 Europe-wide survey aims to measure children's well-being as they grow up - Nursery World 2 Scottish and Welsh elections: Call for improved funding tops the list for early years and childcare manifestos - Nursery World 2 WorldSkills UK LIVE cancelled again – but national skills competitions return - FE Week Big Ask: Children in England asked their hopes for post-Covid future - BBC James Kirkup: It’s time for apprenticeships to take the stage - Times - New Scottish elections: Douglas Ross pledge for 3,000 teachers in manifesto - Times - New Mariana Mazzucato: greed holding back, not helping, vaccine drive - Times Higher Education | THE Elite universities are falling short on their green promises - Times Higher Education | THE