News archive for 20th April 2021

back to standard EdNews format

Students applying to university should get places on actual grades, says Ucas - Guardian Election 2021: Nicola Sturgeon backs student summer grants - Herald Scotland Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 20/4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES It's one step forward and two back for adult education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Awarding qualifications in summer 2021 - DfE Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 15 April 2021 - DfE School governance update - DfE Free meals in further education funded institutions: guide for the 2020 to 2021 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency What you want Boris Johnson to know about FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level exams could be sat earlier, says biggest board - Times Educational Supplement | TES Building back better: What barriers do today's children face? - SecEd Afro hair: How pupils are tackling discriminatory uniform policies - The Conversation Access and collaboration ‘key to ensure community benefit’ - Times Higher Education | THE Parents withdraw pupils from school mental health help - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will government's £750k crackdown on rape culture work? - Times Educational Supplement | TES A longer school day: 5 reasons teachers don’t want one - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three-year £15bn funding package needed to support lost learning post-pandemic, research shows - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK higher ed responds to India red list and student exemption - PIE News Award-wining college uses industry 4.0 to shape the curriculum - Jisc UKRI publishes an analysis of COVID-19 PhD student support - UKRI Mythbusting the early career framework - Ambition Institute What inspires you to teach and will you always be a teacher? - Teacher Tapp Digital divide must be tackled before distance learning can improve accessibility and inclusion - Nuffield Foundation Funding research to improve science education - what have we learnt - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Pioneering teacher inspires new equality award - Times Educational Supplement | TES Employment rates for under-25s hits record low, ONS reveals - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Climate change: Colleges need to take action urgently - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Expel the racist headmaster!': Walls outside Pimlico Academy are vandalised with hateful graffiti - Mail Shielding pupils to return to Scottish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher trainers' Covid cash cut by a third - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 8 lead schools for teacher flexi working revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: 'Teachers left driving an out-of-control car' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges invited to bid for £65m Strategic Development Fund pilot – but must collaborate - FE Week Preparing for GCSE assessment submissions - Education & Training Foundation Lessons from lockdown – mathematics curriculum planning - Education & Training Foundation United Learning to take over edtech demonstrator programme - Schools Week Hunt begins for ‘employer representative bodies’ to pilot local skills improvement plans - FE Week £15bn funding boost ‘needed in education to help pupils catch up’ - Evening Standard Schoolboy, 15, is expelled from £44,000-a-year Abingdon School after sending 'highly-offensive' messages - Mail Scotland: Football star to miss matches because of school 'exams' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE extends Institute of Teaching’s remit to 6 years with £121m contract - Schools Week £121m for Institute of Teaching over 6 years - Times Educational Supplement | TES “I was too north London for No 10”: One Brent teacher’s global fight to reform education - New Statesman 'Normal working class British lad' that Harvard, Princeton and Cambridge all want - Express School sex abuse controversy: Have your say - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools should be 'phased out', says report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish college lecturers to stage two-day strike over bid to replace staff - Scotsman Analysis paper: preliminary research findings on education recovery - EPI Consultation launched to create new flexible apprenticeships - DfE Flexi-job apprenticeships: reshaping the role of apprenticeship training agencies - DfE Skills Accelerator: apply now - DfE Festival will celebrate vital role of the arts in schools and colleges - NASUWT ASCL comment on EPI education recovery funding analysis - ASCL Festival will celebrate vital role of the arts in schools and colleges - ASCL NEU comment on EPI report on education recovery - National Education Union Q: What is the worst research among students in recent times? - HEPI EPI reveals £10–15 billion is required to make up for lost learning - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Students fear financial difficulties after India added to UK red list - PIE News Online harms are different and the regulator needs to recognise this - Wonkhe Shirley Williams’ 13 higher education suggestions - Wonkhe £36,000-a-year Catholic boarding school Ampleforth College fails its Ofsted report - Mail 10:15 a.m. - Youth Unemployment Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into youth unemployment, education and skills - Lords Select Committee Festival will celebrate vital role of the arts in schools and colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges 9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into prison education - Accountability Hearings £15 billion funding boost needed in England to support education recovery - Mail £15 billion extra needed for Covid lost learning recovery, EPI says - Schools Week 'Up to £15bn needed' for Covid catch-up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills Accelerator launched by education secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'can be weapons against poverty’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Education catch-up plan must include early years - analysis - Nursery World 2 ‘Frightening’ statistics on children’s mental health revealed in MPs' cross-party report - Nursery World 2 Government consults on replacing ATAs with new ‘flexi-job’ apprenticeship scheme - FE Week 9:00 a.m. - Health and Social Care Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into children and young people's mental health - Accountability Hearings Plan S will be a catastrophe for learned societies - Times Higher Education | THE Creator says REF should swap expert panels for metrics in science - Times Higher Education | THE Schools to fight Covid 'misery' with national arts fest - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Business security kit used for cyberattack on Highlands university - Times - New DfE: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (April 2021) - UCET