News archive for 29th April 2021

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Mixed signals: evidence for mobile phone bans contested - Schools Week Pupils will be spared from wearing masks in class at English schools and colleges in just over two weeks’ time - The Sun Schools struggling to access tutoring programme for disadvantaged children - Guardian National Tutoring Programme 'too restrictive' say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister says ‘intuitive’ to look towards longer school day to make up for Covid disruption - Independent School uniform to become more affordable under new law passed today - Express Finalists announced for the 2021 AAC Apprenticeship Awards - FE Week People with dyslexia have skills that we need, says GCHQ - Guardian School uniforms should become cheaper after MP steers bill through Parliament - Mirror Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 29/4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Professor George Holmes: Bolton University’s paean of praise to its dear (£322,000 a year) leader - The Times Support staff roles to be listed on free DfE teacher vacancy website - Schools Week Masks-in-class rule will lift in mid-May if data allows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: 22 colleges go over 10 years without inspection - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson accused of 'prioritising bad behaviour over tackling disadvantage' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK: Thousands of international students had hardship fund applications rejected - PIE News New ‘Voices from the Classroom’ – The RADAAR Framework - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Giving teachers right to quality training and development would boost pupil outcomes, say EPI - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Carmel College: How staff engagement increased following our in-house Understanding T Levels day - Education & Training Foundation UCU: students ‘could apply to fewer universities’ under PQA model - Times Higher Education | THE Children read more challenging books in lockdowns, data reveals - Guardian Should students have to pass a consent course? - Wonkhe Research review series: science - Ofsted Level 2 and 3 attainment by young people aged 19 in 2020 - DfE Ian Bauckham CBE’s speech to the Confederation of School Trusts annual conference - Ofqual Case for scrapping Reception Baseline steps up with new evidence-based report - EYE | Early Years Educator Post-pandemic, where do we start with assessment? - ASCL Continual learning - supporting access and progression for all - AoC | Association of Colleges Statutory school uniform guidance due in autumn after bill gets royal assent - Schools Week Pupil premium: allocations and conditions of grant 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted publishes science research review – the first in a series of subject reviews - Ofsted The Department for Education (DfE)'s Get Help with Technology programme - DfE New law to make school uniform costs affordable for all - DfE Perceptions of qualifications in England: wave 19 - Ofqual Apprenticeships and traineeships: April 2021 - DfE Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill completes passage through Parliament - UK Parliament Education Minister responds to Petitions Committee request for more information on diversity in the curriculum - UK Parliament Without action now, youth unemployment could be the new pandemic for years to come - Learning & Work Institute Learning from video: A review of the literature in higher ed - Learning Scientists Science research review – Ofsted publishes guide for a high-quality science education - UKEdChat Updating and preserving sustainable skills for generations to come - IfATE Report paves way for fairer, student centred university admissions - UCU IntoUniversity evaluation report - FFT Education Datalab ‘Shameful’ YouTube trend costs schools ‘£1000s’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tackling racism: What we need to do to improve diversity in colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why teachers' worst fears over exams have come true - Times Educational Supplement | TES How the 2020 grades 'fiasco' torpedoed trust in GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don't 'panic' pupils over lost learning, teachers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Election 2021: SNP pledges to publish Curriculum for Excellence review - Herald Scotland Spare a thought for university students on a compulsory year abroad - Telegraph What Ofsted thinks good science teaching looks like - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning over drop in intermediate apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers complain about having to do pupil assessments themselves - Mail Ministers did not consider harm of forcing children to wear face masks in classrooms - Mail Grade GCSEs 'dispassionately', teachers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE and A-level appeals 'will take longer' this year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour ‘interested in exploring’ devolved apprenticeships funding - FE Week Ofsted director touts online curriculum forums to support schools post-inspection - Schools Week Speed read: Ofsted’s advice for ‘high-quality’ science education - Schools Week Gibb brushes off £125m pupil premium ‘stealth cut’ complaints - Schools Week Most students think sexual consent test should be compulsory at university - Metro Dear Mr Williamson, school funding is in crisis... - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gibb: Schools that ban phones 'have higher test scores' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Up reading time to match lockdown levels, schools told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fury as primary school head bans teachers from using 'sexist' language like 'good morning, boys and girls' - Mail How has Covid impacted on early years education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'won't lose out over pupil premium change' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Magazine podcast: 'Feisty' girls, technology, mistakes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch-up plan expected 'before the summer', says Gibb - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils read ‘books of greater difficulty’ in lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Church of England to create FE colleges group - Times Educational Supplement | TES Racist abuse by teachers and pupils uncovered in Wales' schools - Wales Online Trust in GCSEs plummets after exams fiasco, Ofqual survey reveals - Schools Week Most students think sexual consent test should be compulsory for university, survey suggests - Independent Headteacher bans the phrase 'good morning boys and girls' at her school - Wales Online Reading during lockdown helped children cope with Covid-19 pandemic, study finds - Scotsman Lockdown sparked a revival in reading among children - Telegraph Literacy fears: Call for more personal reading time at school - Herald Scotland Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence 'to blame' for lower maths and science scores - Herald Scotland One in three head teachers using funding for poorer pupils to plug general budget gaps - Sutton Trust ASCL responds to Sutton Trust research on Pupil Premium funding - ASCL Sutton Trust on pupil premium funding - National Education Union Sex and relationships among students: Summary report - HEPI Most students think passing a sexual consent test should be compulsory before starting higher education - HEPI Students want sexual consent test in university - BBC What have we learned about effectively using assessment data during remote learning over the past year? - BERA Ask not what you might do, but why you’re doing it - Wonkhe Empathy is what we’ll all need next - Wonkhe 9:15 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence in its accountability hearings - Accountability Hearings Many parents want more mental health education - Times Educational Supplement | TES 1 in 3 heads using pupil premium to plug funding gaps - Times Educational Supplement | TES Up reading time to match lockdown levels, schools told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of teachers 'suffering burnout' during Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers must reverse pupil premium funding change, say leading charities - Schools Week Resources: New anti-racism guide for early years - Nursery World 2 Coronavirus: ‘Concerning’ impact on language development and PSED among four-to five-year-olds - Nursery World 2 ‘Truly extraordinary’: v-c’s £322K award gets long justification - Times Higher Education | THE Make sexual consent training mandatory for enrolment, say students - Times Higher Education | THE Primary school pupils read tougher books during lockdown due to boredom - Mail Most students want compulsory sexual consent tests before university - Mail Finalists for AAC Apprenticeship Awards 2021 to be announced tonight live - FE Week Devolution: school and health results often worse outside England - Guardian Most students want sexual consent tests, survey finds - The Times St Andrews wants to stick its oar in the Oxford-Cambridge boat race - The Times Scotland: Holyrood ‘blew shot’ at studying full effect of classroom closures - The Times Education and Training Foundation newsletter (April- May 2021) - UCET