News archive for 13th August 2021

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This week's record grade gap between private and state pupils one of the bitterest legacies of Covid - Mail Labour warns cutting off BTEC funding could entrench inequality - FE Week Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 13 August 2021 - Education Eye Ministers struggle to find fair solution for pupil assessment in England - Financial Times New MHKs must prioritise education funding, union says - BBC Why we must encourage students into apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Alternative Provision: A results day like no other - Schools Week This is no time for a mass experiment on teacher education - IOE London Blog Scientists call government "reckless" over lack of Covid-19 measures in schools - PoliticsHome We’re braced to help sector deal with new wave of ransomware attacks - Jisc Turing Scheme data: HE top destination choices closed to students - PIE News GCSE Results 2021: Has this year’s grading system impacted some more than others? - FFT Education Datalab GCSE results 2021: Why are Maths and English entries from older pupils down this year? - FFT Education Datalab Improving students' self-assessment skills via spaced retrieval and active engagement in dentistry - Learning Scientists Cooking up decent differentiation - UKEdChat Report calls for urgent prison education reform with 7 in 10 teachers set to leave - UCU Charity launches bid to create one million employment opportunities for young people - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Blended learning at Russell Group universities - Russell Group Girls overtake boys in A-level and GCSE maths, so are they ‘smarter’? - Guardian GCSE results 2021: Record grades sparks 6th form surge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pitfalls to avoid for teachers leaving or starting at a school - The Educator Maths goals in the early years: what’s changed? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Girls in STEM: A cause for celebration, not complacency - Schools Week Harnessing the power of university-sponsored Multi Academy Trust partnerships - HEPI Exams 2021: Why new grade boundaries may be inevitable - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fury as Scottish pupils allowed to change gender aged four without parental consent - Express Covid classroom air trials could cut other absences - Times Educational Supplement | TES The reality of teaching in a prison revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prison educators: 70% want to leave within 5 years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools in England and covid-19 - your questions answered - NAHT Weekly roundup: results, more results and wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: Universities to return to face-to-face teaching - BBC College sector demands more funding to cope with demand amid high GCSE grades - Mail Schools told to support pupils as young as four who want to change gender - Metro Parental responsibility measures attendance census 2021: guide - DfE Find a free level 3 qualification - DfE Why a pupil's hard work should be its own reward - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pressure grows on Gavin Williamson after pupils receive yet more record GCSE exam results - Express To be fair, we can do better than exams - Schools Week GCSE and A-level results: 'It's been hell' grading exams - BBC Wales' GCSE gap widens for children from poorer backgrounds - BBC Graduates are right to expect healthy workplaces – so employers should get ready - Wonkhe Scotland will let pupils change gender aged four without their parents' consent - Mail Don’t leave us out of A-level reform debate, say universities - Times Higher Education | THE Britain won’t level up until it confronts endemic educational inequality - FE News GCSE results: Disadvantaged fall even further behind wealthy - The Times GCSE results: Language drive falters after German lessons shunned - The Times Scottish teachers told to use pupils’ chosen gender - The Times Scotland: Modesty curtains in changing rooms among trans advice given to schools - The Times