News archive for 18th August 2021

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DfE puts out ‘Fire It Up’ campaign - FE Week Exams return in 2022 but fears of assessment 'overload' - Herald Scotland Cambridge to end teacher training if government enacts overhaul - Guardian Manchester University puts Palestinian solidarity statement back in gallery - Guardian Learning for all – knowing your starting points - UKEdChat What impact will scrapping further education coverage in the Tes have on the FE sector? - FE News New university partnerships set up to support growth and long-term success of two Yorkshire businesses - Leeds Beckett University How do we classify what graduates are doing? - HESA NASUWT comments on 2022 qualifications plans - NASUWT Scotland: Covid fund to boost teacher numbers will be permanent - Times Educational Supplement | TES New research examines the impact of the pandemic on disadvantage gaps (funded by the Nuffield Foundation) - EPI Why many parents say they’re not ready for their kids to return to in-person learning amid Covid-19 pandemic - The Sun ESFA Update: 18 August 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Register of apprenticeship training providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Financial assurance: monitoring post-16 funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency Guidance: Institutes of Technology - DfE Four reasons to read education books - Teacher Toolkit NAHT responds to government consultation on fire safety in schools - NAHT IFS report shows huge increase in college funding needed - UCU Free school meals - who qualifies this term and how to claim it - Mirror Colleges to partner with NHS and Office for Students to improve mental health in HE students - AoC | Association of Colleges UK academics fear reprisals for speaking out on sensitive issues - PIE News Applications open for new opportunity bursary supported by JPMorgan Chase - Sutton Trust Level 5 early years apprenticeship approved - Nursery World Continuation of intensive Mandarin language programme for state school pupils in England confirmed for further three years - British Council Has the UK pandemic signalled the end of the digital learning debate? - Training Journal Accreditation success for Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU) - Advance HE IOE-led Mandarin language programme for schools awarded funding for a further three years - IOE London Blog IOE responds to the ITT Market Review Consultation - IOE London Blog Students accuse Bristol University of 'ruthless profit-chasing' as hundreds are told they'll have to live in Bath and commute - Mail ASCL comment on IFS report into further education and sixth form spending in England - ASCL Less focus on end-of-year exams could be fairer way to assess students, former Ofqual chief executive says - Independent Covid in Scotland: Exams planned to go ahead as normal next year - BBC Top universities reject 'flawed' teacher training plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trapped Afghan students to be allowed into the UK in government U-turn - Mirror Scholarship alumni urge No 10 to speed up evacuation of Afghan students - Guardian St Andrews University is hiring specialist sex abuse counsellor after it was hit by claims of campus 'rape culture' - Mail SQA: Exam contingency will require no extra assessments - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher recruitment boost as £80m Covid fund is made permanent - Herald Scotland Colleges and sixth forms need an extra £570 million due to rise in students - Nuffield Foundation Covid: What will school be like in the new term? - BBC Isle of Man drive to diversify curriculum in education system - BBC Covid: Outdoor lessons idea ‘a total fudge’, DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are extracurricular activities for preschoolers worthwhile? - Best Evidence in Brief Private schools need to be banned before they cause any more harm to society - Metro Covid Scotland: School exams to return in 2022 'if safe to do so', SNP confirms - Herald Scotland Scotland: External exams to go ahead in 2022 ‘if safe to do so’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why Scottish pupils' disinterest in thriving sector doesn't compute - Herald Scotland Mobile phone ban in schools risks giving students ‘anxiety’ – union hits out at Williamson - Express Big increase in student numbers means additional spending on sixth forms and colleges has done little to reverse decade of cuts in funding per student - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Colleges and sixth forms need £570m boost to cope with 200,000 more pupils after 'abnormally' high GCSE results - Mail The student voice at the heart of the system (but only when they’re thinking what we’re thinking) - HEPI There can be no equal education until we bring back grammar schools - Express IFS publish 'Further Education and sixth form spending in England' - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Lectures were always a lousy way of teaching – universities should scrap them forever - Herald Scotland Online learning is not the enemy - Wonkhe Trust is about making and keeping promises - Wonkhe Colleges facing “immense” challenge from rising student numbers, warns IFS - FE Week Changing the narrative on vocational results - FE News Extra £570m needed as post-16 student numbers grow - Times Educational Supplement | TES Study casts doubt on whether anti-cheating laws work - Times Higher Education | THE Microcredentials don’t stack up, academics warn - Times Higher Education | THE Colleges need extra £570m due to rise in students - think tank - BBC Pandemic burnout will slow restart of research - Times Higher Education | THE Scottish primary school league table: Quarter of P7 pupils fail to make grade in literacy and numeracy - The Times Scotland: Emergency coronavirus powers could last for ever - The Times Results fall at one in three Scottish primary schools - The Times Lindsay Paterson: Teachers are not very good at judging pupils objectively - The Times Scotland: Too much time wasted for poor primary school data - The Times