News archive for 21st April 2021

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Poll: Parents value vocational qualifications over HE - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Premier League Draw Together Challenge is here! - Premier League Primary Stars Teaching maths mastery through technology - Teacher Toolkit Investing in teachers is crucial to the recovery effort - Ambition Institute School leadership: Embedding a coaching culture - Teacher Toolkit Live events and school competition announced for National Numeracy Day - National Numeracy Building back greener: the role of UK universities in helping to ensure a sustainable future - HEPI What next for admissions in Scotland? - HEPI Social haunting in former mining communities: A young person’s perspective - BERA EAL: Language awareness in science - ASCL UCU response to UCAS admissions report - UCU The Talking Together programme may improve children and parent outcomes - Nuffield Foundation Supporting curriculum planning in science - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF 10,000th Fellowship awarded by Advance HE outside the UK - Advance HE UKAEA nominated in Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards 2021 - GOV.UK Proposed guidance on 2021 appeals published - Ofqual ESFA Update: 21 April 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Adult education budget (AEB) funding rules 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Universities Minister speaks to TASO conference - DfE UCAS sets out ways to enhance how students make their university choices - UCAS News briefing: What the catch-up tsar wants for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCHQ to roll out cyber security training for teachers - Telegraph Universities could allow students back early to play sports or for 'entertainment' - Telegraph City University reveals new business school name after ditching Cass over slavery links - Guardian Reading for pleasure: 6 lessons from lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Imperative’ to compensate for Erasmus loss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 21/4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK research shortfall still £1 billion, says Royal Society head - Times Higher Education | THE Impact Rankings 2021: results announced - Times Higher Education | THE Scottish election 2021: Alba’s manifesto for education - Times Educational Supplement | TES What one thing would you change about Scottish schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents furious over 'ludicrous' parking scheme forcing them to walk a mile with kids - Mirror Scottish election 2021: Increasing childcare to 50 hours 'will take time', says Scottish Labour - Scotsman Student health is failing - The Educator Report exposes inadequacy of government's £250 per-pupil recovery funding - SecEd Sexual abuse: Safeguarding campaign after huge spike in self-generated images during lockdown - SecEd Blended learning: How to make your resources accessible - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools could get more control over catch-up tutoring - Times Educational Supplement | TES I’m here to ‘stop bad things happening’ says Kevan Collins - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Schools have no 'discretion' over appeals - Times Educational Supplement | TES London's City University renames its Cass Business School in honour of statistician Thomas Bayes - Mail Catch-up tsar: Asking teachers to do more has a price - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early Career Framework: a guide for school leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES How teachers can boost languages learning according to researchers - Times Educational Supplement | TES A levels: Ucas backs move to post-qualification offers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Centrepoint reveals spike in demand for support during lockdowns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now TikTok faces legal challenge from former children’s commissioner - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofsted: Schools 'behind' on curriculum during pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES How the literacy hour still shapes primary learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Struggling pupils did ‘little, if any’ reading during lockdown, and 5 more Ofsted findings - Schools Week Ofqual reveals more about how 2021 grade appeals will work - Schools Week Reflections on Citizen Literacy Taster and the CareerTech Challenge Fund - Nesta Career skills for the 2020s: What we’ve learned so far - Nesta Game Academy: a tech programme that helps video gamers win at work - Nesta City College Norwich on supporting learners with SEND with employment - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Effective practice in teaching essential digital skills – an account of a rapid literature review - Education & Training Foundation Weston College on making mental health and emotional wellbeing a priority - Education & Training Foundation Leadership reflections with Derby College Group - Education & Training Foundation The questions schools face as teachers are vaccinated - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cass Business School to be renamed after statistician Thomas Bayes - Financial Times Gavin Williamson says secondary school pupils will not have to wear face coverings under rule changes expected on May 17 - Mail Student Loans Company adds Capgemini to ‘strategic partner’ base in £150m deal - Public Technology Young minds matter: early intervention is paramount for preserving mental health - PoliticsHome TikTok sued for billions over use of children's data - BBC Scotland's colleges facing 'indefinite three-day strikes' - Herald Scotland Is it time to change our SOCs? - Wonkhe Permitting staff-student relationships harms education - Wonkhe Administrators – we’ve achieved something - Wonkhe Children missing out on adventurous outdoor play – study - Nursery World 2 Which arm of the K-shaped recovery will your institution be on? - Times Higher Education | THE Teaching universities lead UK’s £60 million crowdfunding haul - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland: Donor criticises ‘failure’ of SNP to fight teacher unions - Times - New Scotland: Unions are making online study harder for poorer pupils - Times - New Ireland: Taxpayer bailout of college to be investigated by watchdog - Times - New