News archive for 16th August 2021

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Banning phones in schools will cause pupils to misbehave, union claims - Telegraph We can no longer be squeamish about sex education in the smartphone age - Telegraph Anger as schools ‘forced to set up field hospitals for Covid testing’ - Evening Standard Prison education: the learner's perspective - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gibb and Ofqual to face education committee hearing over exams - FE Week FE Hero: Let’s hope for a real turnaround for FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Find a Skills Bootcamp - DfE Exams regulator and minister to face questions on summer results and plans for next academic year - UK Parliament New data upload facility on 'Publish to the course directory' - Education & Skills Funding Agency What’s behind the increasing attainment gap between independent and state schools? - FFT Education Datalab Boris Johnson: UK will do ‘whatever it can’ to host Afghan students - Times Higher Education | THE Some thoughts on exams and grade inflation - Teacherhead What do students think and how do universities find out? - HEPI ASCL responds to DfE consultation on student behaviours - ASCL Student partnerships in assessment - podcast episode 2 now available - Advance HE We must not abandon British Council Afghan educators to the Taliban - PoliticsHome British Council teachers "abandoned" in Afghanistan warn they are "at the top of the list" of Taliban targets - PoliticsHome Schools left in 'limbo' over future of exams, Scottish Tories say - Herald Scotland Gibb and Ofqual to face education committee hearing over exams - Schools Week SNP branded 'desperate' after bragging about freebies for kids – but 700,000 still waiting - Express Where Wales' eight universities stand in the latest UK higher education rankings - Wales Online Scotland: New call to give free school meals to all pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Education secretary promises masks in school will go 'as soon as possible' - BBC A-levels 2021: Havering students picket college over lower than expected A-level grades - FE Week Labour would 'politicise education' as UK warned over Keir Starmer's plans - Express Plan to ban phones from classrooms is out of touch, say UK school leaders - Guardian Covid Scotland: Masks in schools to be dropped 'as soon as possible' - Scotsman GCSEs and A-levels 2021: Gibb and Ofqual chief to be grilled by MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES At their peak, Sure Start centres prevented 13,000 hospitalisations a year among 11- to 15-year-olds - Nuffield Foundation SNP accused of lack of ambition over delivery of laptops to pupils - Scotsman NAHT submits response to the Treasury's consultation on the proposals to the cost cap mechanism - NAHT Williamson 'outdated and out of touch' on phones - Times Educational Supplement | TES British Embassy blocked visas of 35 Afghan students offered scholarships to study in UK - Mail Covid in Scotland: Back to school - back to normality? - BBC The health impacts of early childhood interventions: evidence from Sure Start - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS At their peak, Sure Start centres prevented 13,000 hospitalisations a year among 11- to 15-year-olds - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Child going to university? Here is the parent’s guide to student finance - Metro Sure Start: Major research reveals long-term health benefits of programme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now School children to have lessons in consent, sexual assault and revenge porn - Telegraph History Teacher Educators Network (HTEN) response to the ITE Market Review consultation - UCET “One stop shop” for families delivered long-lasting health benefits, new research shows - EYE | Early Years Educator How should universities support students with long Covid? - Wonkhe Why the Scottish Government is willing to allow breach of trust between schools and parents - Scotsman Study finds Sure Start benefitted children’s long-term health - Nursery World The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for vocational education and training: Lessons learnt from OECD countries - FE News Students as governors: walking the tightrope and shouting into the void - FE News Early years centres prevent thousands of hospital admissions, report finds - Mail Millions of children are breathing dangerously polluted air in school - The Times Scotland: Transgender guidance for schools ‘based on flawed data’ - The Times Irish language education plateaus in Ireland but shows increase in North - The Times