News archive for 1st June 2021

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Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 1/6 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour's £14.7bn catch-up plan to boost pupil premium - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: School pupils to finally find out appeals process - BBC Millions of levy funding expiring monthly, says Labour - Times Educational Supplement | TES No ban for head who changed pupils' SPaG test answers - Times Educational Supplement | TES School day ‘could be extended by 30 minutes’ as part of leaked Covid-19 catch-up plan, reports suggest - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Spielman reappointed as Ofsted’s chief inspector of education and children’s services - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Safeguarding and vulnerable groups - Education & Training Foundation Lies, damn lies and variants - SecEd Teach First's Annual Report and Accounts: 2019-2020 - Teach First Sustainable development and the UK higher education sector’s opportunity for global leadership - HEPI Employers 'too cowardly' to stand up for education, Jo Grady says - UCU University College Birmingham under fire for plans to sack 73 staff - UCU ASCL comment on leaked report of education recovery plan - ASCL Edge response to the Flexi-job apprenticeship scheme consultation - Edge Foundation Losing the postgraduate residential during a pandemic - Wonkhe Would changes to student loans be progressive? - Wonkhe Autumn Cambridge University Covid cases linked to one nightclub - Guardian Cash boost for apprenticeships launched - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19) no recourse to public funds: free school meals - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding: 16 to 19 tuition fund - Education & Skills Funding Agency Imperial professor dismissed for research misconduct - Times Higher Education | THE Teaching unions criticise plan to extend school day in England - Guardian Extended school day: Heads' caution on extra 100 hours - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: 'Reforms won't stop us failing 35% of students' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Levelling up: How we can make training world-class - Times Educational Supplement | TES King’s College ‘proud’ of ties with Prince Philip amid row over racism - Evening Standard Was an extended school day ever really feasible? - Times Educational Supplement | TES New bid to secure SQA and Education Scotland reform - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It's virtue signalling!' Wales Labour slammed over plans to overhaul school curriculum - Express Extended school day: Battle to save the plan heats up - Times Educational Supplement | TES What students really want from school catch-up - BBC School days to be made longer to help children catch up with lesson learning - Express School day to be extended by half an hour to catch up after Covid, leaked plan suggests - Evening Standard School day ‘to be extended with children doing 35-hour weeks’ to help catch up - Metro It's time to turn our attention to the 'Pupil Missing rate' - Express Interview: Julian Drinkall, Chief Executive, Academies Enterprise Trust - Schools Week Land-based colleges lose millions in commercial income - FE Week Class of 2021: How university students have been sold short - Telegraph It's time to stop shoving 18-year-olds into university - Telegraph Why the teaching legacy from the pandemic must be more than digital - Wonkhe Pupils to endure longer school days and a minimum 35-hour week to catch up after Covid - Mail School days 'to be made longer in bid to catch up on schooling post-Covid' - Mirror School days to be made 30 mins longer in bid to help kids catch up with class missed because of Covid - The Sun Entry deadline extended for the Nursery World Awards 2021 - Nursery World 2 Interview: Monika Jephcott and Sophia O'Neill of Play Therapy UK - Nursery World 2 Sector seeks 'catch-up' cash to alleviate Covid's impact - Nursery World 2 Can universities help save the UK high street? - Times Higher Education | THE Lifelong loans ‘could create long-term cost for English sector’ - Times Higher Education | THE School day to be extended in England, leaked ‘Covid catch-up’ plan suggests - Guardian School day to be extended under £15bn Covid rescue plan to help children catch up - The Times Jesus College row over slave-link memorial plans - The Times Crackdown urged as criminals exploit 3,000 children a year - The Times