News archive for 28th April 2021

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Government 'turning blind eye' to harm from classroom face mask policy - Telegraph Gavin Williamson: All schools in England ‘should become academies’ - Mail School uniform cost cutting bill to become law tomorrow - Times Educational Supplement | TES Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 28/4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tuition fees? That is not what they are. Here is why - Times Educational Supplement | TES Baseline 2021: Roll-out extended as opposition mounts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship quality remains ‘troubling’, says Ofsted chief - FE Week Gavin Williamson wants to turn more state schools into academies - Guardian Why better CPD could be the answer to teacher retention - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL responds to Education Secretary’s speech on MATs and behaviour - ASCL Update on covid daily contact testing trial - NAHT Speech by Gavin Williamson to the Confederation of School Trusts - National Education Union Education Committee to question Ministers Nick Gibb MP and Baroness Berridge - UK Parliament Trust and school improvement offer - DfE Drive for stronger school system to benefit all pupils - DfE Amanda Spielman at the 2021 Annual Apprenticeship Conference - Ofsted The secret to delivering a better higher education experience? Involve students every step of the way - Office for Students ESFA Update: 28 April 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Education Secretary speech to the Confederation of School Trusts - DfE School improvement monitoring and brokering grant: payment conditions - DfE Survey results will help build picture of cyber security in education and research - Jisc Speaking skills must be at the heart of education catch-up in schools - PoliticsHome College lecturers strike action in Scotland over as principals meet demands - Scotsman Calls for date to end mask wearing in Scottish schools - Scotsman Leeds Beckett University graduates shortlisted for international PR award - Leeds Beckett University Northern Ireland’s forthcoming skills strategy must be ambitious in its plans to improve learning and skills outcomes - Learning & Work Institute Delivering foundation digital skills to beginner learners - Education & Training Foundation Reshaped mental health services to outlast Covid-19 - PIE News Neoliberalism: what’s it all about? - IOE London Blog NDNA celebrates early years practitioners as unsung superheroes on National Superhero Day - EYE | Early Years Educator Wales: The hardest primary schools to get a place at in Cardiff - Wales Online Stop 'tinkering' and fix Covid crisis gap, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Strike action in Scottish FE ends after deal agreed - Times Educational Supplement | TES All schools to be academies: What teachers need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools with 3 'requires improvement' grades face becoming academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES The power of character strengths, and how to teach them - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers 'treated as political enemy' during pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels and apprenticeships: DfE sets IfATE targets - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2022: No 'leap back to normality' after pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Try before you buy: The key to unlocking post-Covid support - Schools Week Apprenticeships: Insufficient progress in new providers - Times Educational Supplement | TES National behaviour survey to show 'what schools need' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Life in a PRU: The lockdown impact is becoming clear - Times Educational Supplement | TES Assessed grades: 8 steps to avoid unconscious bias - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why tutoring isn't the answer for primary pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in three schools 'using pupil premium funding to plug budget gaps' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Pupil Premium stealth cuts: Williamson accuses Labour of ‘moaning’ over £133m loss - SecEd Reading and literacy skills: Research offers reassuring picture of pandemic's impact - SecEd A 35-hour a year CPD entitlement could stop 12,000 teachers quitting - SecEd Speed read: Williamson’s 7 policies to revive the academies drive - Schools Week Williamson plans behaviour survey and urges ‘sensible debate’ over exclusions - Schools Week ‘Try before you buy’ academy offer – what you need to know - Schools Week HESA to publish comparison between occupational coding versions in Graduate Outcomes - HESA Schools to get trial runs before joining academy trusts - Times Educational Supplement | TES The effects of high-quality professional development on teachers and students: A cost-benefit analysis - EPI UK universities are institutionally racist, says leading vice-chancellor - Guardian Report: Oracy after the pandemic - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth One more, one less - UKEdChat ASCL comment on EPI teacher development report - ASCL Comment by NEU on EPI study on teacher training and development - National Education Union How universities can use property to work more with their local communities and businesses - HEPI How many Education Scotland staff experience bullying? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid Scotland: Schools to have blended learning 'after lockdown', says Glasgow education boss - Herald Scotland Coronavirus: Digital learning 'to stay after lockdown' - Herald Scotland Who owns the curriculum? - Wonkhe Teacher CPD plan 'could stop thousands quitting' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Don't overdo the doom' on lockdown reading decline - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pause primary tests so pupils can catch up, DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES MATs move to centralise in wake of Covid pressures, study finds - Schools Week CPD entitlement would boost attainment by two-thirds of a grade, study claims - Schools Week Call to scrap the Reception Baseline intensifies - Nursery World 2 Early years attendance levels decline since Easter - Nursery World 2 Student in pistol attack ‘had problems’ at Crawley College - The Times Pupils losing speaking skills as they focus on 3Rs - The Times ‘Try before you buy’ offer for schools to join academies, Williamson to announce - The Times Scotland: ‘Stellar’ lecturer suspended after students accuse him of racism - The Times Ministers should pause primary school tests to give children time to catch up - Mail Gordon Brown: If we don't act now, we will fail a generation - Mail Where’s the data? Does the UK really know why apprenticeships matter to the economy and people? - FE News Oxford doctoral system criticised as Wolf thesis finally released - Times Higher Education | THE Overseas research cuts threaten UK’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda - Times Higher Education | THE Is the benefit of the REF really worth the cost? - Times Higher Education | THE