News archive for 23rd April 2021

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College strike action suspended after talks progress - Herald Scotland Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 23 April 2021 - Education Eye “Every good conversation starts with listening” – how conversations can support organisational transformation - Advance HE The challenges of COVID-19 for young people need a new cohort study - Sutton Trust National study to track the pandemic’s effect on year 11 students’ life chances - Sutton Trust Teaching pupils to ‘think like Da Vinci’ will help them to take on climate change - UKEdChat Joint statement of European university groups on the future of Horizon Europe and restriction of access to quantum & space programmes - Russell Group Context, academic freedom and the ethics of internationalisation - HEPI National study tracks effect of pandemic on students’ lives - UKRI Child safeguarding practice review panel: pool of reviewers - DfE Schemes for financing schools - DfE Prestigious appointments to UCAS board - UCAS School exams: EIS calls for 'equitable' system - Herald Scotland Schools left waiting for thousands of home Covid tests for pupils - Schools Week Warning over 'super league' of highly-paid academy trust chiefs - Mail Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 23/4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE is full of great stories – but they need to be told - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2022: 'No assumption exams will be same as 2019' - Times Educational Supplement | TES News podcast: Catch-up, online exams and Pisa - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching pupils to think like Da Vinci could help tackle climate crisis, Scottish researchers say - Scotsman Private school teacher took pupils to strip club during ‘educational’ trip to Costa Rica - Telegraph Labour calls for ‘big conversation’ around early years cuts - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Up to 95% of teaching days lost during Covid crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES 360 Play Young Minds campaign - Primary Times Skip the kindergarten cop routine: free play is vital for young children | Michael Rosen - Guardian Harry Potter character is model for calling out sexual harassment, school head says - Independent Call for more play time amid ‘schoolification’ of UK childhood - Guardian ‘Let children play’: the educational message from across Europe - Guardian Drunk teacher sacked after making pupils go to strip club during school trip - Express Make it compulsory! Union Flag must hang outside schools, demand MPs - Express Is there any point to Pisa? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social mobility study to assess lockdown effect on teenagers in England - Guardian How much your area will lose from pupil premium funding change - Schools Week Sadiq Khan slams mayoral exclusion from local skills improvement plan pilots - FE Week NAHT Cymru calls for education to be at the heart of the 2021 Senedd elections - NAHT Over 20,000 children fell off the school register by last autumn's reopening - Mail It turns out teachers aren’t being trusted on grades - Schools Week Pupil changed grades when teacher left password on laptop note - The Times Weekly highlights: Ofsted, new TAG guidance and hope - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Heads condemn 'scandalous' grade check plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swinney ‘bombarded’ by calls for no masks in secondary - Times Educational Supplement | TES The benefits of undertaking your OTNA – by a T Level Co-ordinator - Education & Training Foundation Isle of Wight College: Our journey in undertaking the T Level OTNA - Education & Training Foundation North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College's experience with the OTNA process - Education & Training Foundation The Times view on vocational studies: Learning Curve - The Times Thousands of pupils set to sit exams even as GCSEs and A-levels are axed - The Times MPs write to Pimlico academy over threat to discipline student protesters - Guardian Study to track Covid’s long-term impact on pupils’ life chances - Schools Week ‘Frankly scandalous’: ASCL challenges Ofqual over student work checks - Schools Week Flexi-job plans may force closure of some ATAs, DfE is warned - FE Week Consent for school Covid testing trial questioned - Schools Week University students demand fees refund - Express Top school head: ‘Look to Harry Potter to call out sexual harassment’ - Evening Standard Most schools to use tests for GCSE and A-levels despite exams being cancelled - Metro NAHT Cymru calls for education to be at the heart of the 2021 Senedd elections - NAHT Meet the man on a mission to transform exam boards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Fuel Change encourages NetZero innovation by next generation - Scotsman Scotland: Heriot-Watt's role tackling underwater bombs and nuclear material - Scotsman The emerging ‘super league’ of academy trust CEO pay - Schools Week NCFE boss: 'Inherently wrong' to say exams are fair - Times Educational Supplement | TES Support for young people's self-esteem 'needed more than ever' - BBC Survey reveals range of approaches to assessing GCSEs and A-levels - ASCL Fastest growing apprenticeship provider goes bust amid ESFA investigation - FE Week Few schools and colleges will rely solely on exam results to set grades - Guardian Private schools to cash in on remote lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES How GCSEs and A levels could be transformed online - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE knew scale of result downgrades before 2020 exams fiasco - Schools Week The recovery will need funding – but just what sums are required? - Schools Week Climate change: 'Get pupils to think like Leonardo Da Vinci' - Herald Scotland Scotland: Higher education awards will honour widening access success - Herald Scotland After a decade of discussion progress on anti-racism in higher education is still too slow - Wonkhe Students want protection for themselves and others - Wonkhe Fair procedures aren’t as easy to run as OfS thinks - Wonkhe Podcast: Admissions, harassment, adult learning, complaints - Wonkhe How should students express their dissatisfaction now? - Wonkhe Tes FE Awards 2021: The shortlist revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A-levels 2021: Most schools prioritise 'exam-style' papers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils 'would benefit from thinking like Da Vinci' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads plan greater weighting on ‘exam-style papers’ for teacher assessment grades - Schools Week Call to give a fees refund to 1 million students: Unions seek 'collective fee justice' for lost face-to-face learning - Mail Labour launches 'big conversation' on early years - Nursery World 2 More than 20,000 children missing from class when schools reopened as lockdown sees kids ‘falling through the gaps’ - The Sun Universities can’t rely on early adopters to drive transformation - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Nordic’ innovation vision for Scotland backs university mergers - Times Higher Education | THE Three in five schools plan to rely on tests when deciding GCSE and A-level grades - Mail Cambridge college bans LGBT flags in student halls - Telegraph Chairman heads for the exit amid Pearson pay row - The Times Thousands of pupils set to sit exams even as GCSEs and A-levels are axed - Times - New Young Leonardos urged to lead education renaissance - Times - New Scotland: Puritan bullies are trying to end my career, claims lecturer - Times - New