News archive for 17th February 2021

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Half of BAME students harassed at Glasgow University, report shows - Guardian Sellafield Ltd: Our award-winning apprentices - GOV.UK Evidence to the STRB: 2021 pay award for school staff - DfE ESFA Update: 17 February 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency English schools face tighter mask rules in government plan to reassure parents - Guardian Does the FE sector need its own chartered college? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: Why don’t all employers see the value? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Scotland: Defeat for John Swinney - Herald Scotland Scottish Government education bodies ‘cannot be trusted’, MSPs told - Scotsman How the new NPQs will make professional development work for your school - Ambition Institute SQA and Education Scotland reform demanded by MSPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Abysmal’ – ministers’ schools record condemned - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Tutoring Programme (NTP) England - NAHT Supporting LGBT inclusion in education: guidance and resources from Stonewall - NAHT Rethinking the pathways for academic career progression - Advance HE Education unions unite to reject Government pay freeze - National Education Union Primary school attendance six times higher than in spring lockdown - Independent Students and parents pay £1bn on unused university housing - Financial Times Scotland: Spare a thought for those in non-practical subjects - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'can’t afford £250 pay rise and Covid costs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES I was bullied for standing up for free speech at university – now I'm suing - Telegraph Unions reject teacher pay freeze and call on STRB to defy government - Schools Week Attributes and aspirations - Advance HE Are low expectations holding back disadvantaged pupils in the north? - FFT Education Datalab Phenomenal technology: Making connections - UKEdChat Teaching on the front line - MillionPlus The government's Turing Scheme offers pupils the chance to study abroad - NAHT Education unions unite to reject Government pay freeze - ASCL T Levels update - NAHT 2021 Masters Dissertation Award winners - BERA A new 'free speech champion' may end up doing the opposite | Alison-Scott Baumann - Guardian Pupils in children’s homes less likely to attend best schools, warns Ofsted - Schools Week Heads and teachers reject pay freeze 'kick in teeth' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Covid support for colleges and international students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lords to examine 'increasing lack of support' for vulnerable children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children’s commissioner for England criticises officials ‘lack of understanding’ of vulnerable children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Thousands of children are meeting up with people they have only spoken to online - SecEd This is how children fall through the gaps: Anne Longfield's final, exasperated warning to Whitehall - SecEd Clear communication – despite chaotic DfE guidance – is secret to schools' success during Covid-19 - SecEd Education Scotland: Half of Glasgow University BAME students have faced racial harassment, poll shows - Herald Scotland Children's commissioner Anne Longfield takes ministers to task in final speech - Nursery World 'Don't give up on Scotland rejoining Erasmus yet', SNP minister states - Scotsman The pay freeze is a slap in the face for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES England’s education recovery plan should focus on wellbeing, not on ‘catching up’ - The Conversation Just 6,400 teachers eligible for a pay rise in 2021, and 5 other things we learned from the government’s STRB evidence - Schools Week Post-Covid, flexi-schooling could give our children the rounded education they really need - Telegraph New SQA timeline for grading: what you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Blended learning could last 'considerable' time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prominent call to extend the school day - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is it time for a revolution in education? - Montrose42 Coronavirus in Scotland: John Swinney says ‘every possibility’ secondary schools could use blended learning in classroom - Scotsman Non Welsh speaking teachers at Carms school fear for their jobs - Wales Online Teacher recruitment boost 'short-term gain', DfE admits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only 6,400 teachers to get 2021 pay rise - of just £250 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mass tests for teachers and pupils to be part of England lockdown easing, report says - Guardian Covid Scotland: John Swinney stresses 'every possibility' of blended learning in Scottish high schools - Herald Scotland Anti-Brexit 'harassment' forced academics into 'underground group' to protect free speech - Express Britain's highest paid university boss who was found guilty of bullying will stand down when her contract expires - Mail Cambridge Uni said student who made racism complaint needs to 'understand UK customer service' - HuffPost SNP told to back UK's Erasmus rival – but Sturgeon still hellbent on keeping EU ties - Express GCSEs 2021: Grading may rely on past papers - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK university students wasted £1bn in a year on empty accommodation - Guardian Informing parents is the key to unlocking the next generation of apprentices - HEPI Why we need our world history teacher to be a Martian - BERA Response to the new announcements on free speech and academic freedom - HEPI No amount of Zoom lessons will replace the one billion days of schooling lost due to Covid - The Sun Children's Commissioner says ministers are ignoring the needs of pupils left behind during months away from school in lockdown - Mail Schools should be prepared for ‘challenge’ after £95k exit payment cap revoked - Schools Week What’s the equivalent of blended learning for service delivery? - Wonkhe How to tackle student loneliness - Wonkhe More than a million laptops have been sent to needy pupils during lockdown in £400m boost for Mail Force drive - Mail Six in 10 graduates get a first at UCL and Imperial - Times Higher Education | THE Reset of UK-China research relations ‘will harm global science’ - Times Higher Education | THE Covid: Make children priority after pandemic, Anne Longfield says - BBC Coronavirus: Should university students get a refund? - BBC The government will offer a lifeboat to sinking free speech on campuses - Times - New Children’s team sports head for early kick-off - Times - New Teachers will be told to wait for Covid vaccine as under-50s are prioritised by age - Times - New Scotland: Head of Robert Gordon’s College says Ruth Davidson teacher ‘unfit’ - Times - New Coronavirus in Scotland: Socialising on the school run ‘endangers our lives’ - Times - New EU bars Scottish students from Erasmus exchange programme - Times - New Scotland: We should be told why homophobic teacher kept his job - Times - New Ireland: Dublin school developer to appeal against planning refusal - Times - New