News archive for 2nd June 2021

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Catch-up plans must do more to support children’s wellbeing and play, campaigners and experts say - Independent UK education tsar quits in row over catch-up funding - Financial Times Sir Kevan Collins: Our children deserve better than this half-hearted plan - The Times Boris's Covid recovery plan in chaos as education tsar quits over funding in brutal letter - Express Schools in Lancashire should stay shut for a week after half-term to tackle Indian Covid variant, says union - The Sun School catch-up tsar resigns over lack of funding - BBC Why the catch-up czar’s resignation is Boris Johnson’s problem - HuffPost SQA appeals: Education Secretary at centre of growing storm - Herald Scotland Christ Church, Oxford loses latest bid to oust embattled Dean - Telegraph The Guardian view on Williamson's schools plan: yet another fiasco - Guardian Boris Johnson's catch up chief quits over schools plan - warning it 'risks failing' kids - Mirror Education catch-up chief quits over government’s lack of funding for schools - Metro Sir Kevan Collins resigns as government education recovery tsar - Schools Week Why did Kevan Collins resign? Boris Johnson must reckon with the answer - The Times Sir Kevan Collins decision to quit is a "real blow" - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sir Kevan Collins resigns as government education recovery tsar - FE Week Education recovery chief quits in English schools catch-up row - Guardian Review of Scottish schools curriculum to be published just before Parliament closes for summer - Scotsman Education catch-up tsar quits after Treasury waters down £15bn rescue package - Telegraph Sir Kevan Collins resigns over catch-up plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch-up: Why more will most certainly be needed - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA appoints Warwick Sharp as Director of Academies and Maintained Schools - Education & Skills Funding Agency A geography of employment and earnings - Office for Students ESFA Update: 2 June 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Senior mental health lead training - DfE Mental health and wellbeing support in schools and colleges - DfE Next step in government's education recovery plan - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Scottish universities should “diversify” income streams, says government report - PIE News Covid school recovery: is England’s £1.4 billion catch-up plan a good idea? - The Conversation STEM will make the future, so let’s open its doors to all - PoliticsHome Post-Covid £1.4bn school recovery package is a tenth of what's needed, education leaders say - PoliticsHome EEF and Sutton Trust respond to the Government’s education recovery plan - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Government’s £1.4bn education catch-up package branded 'inadequate' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Free online academy boosts young people's employment prospects - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Year 6’s: ‘ready, strong and brave’ for the transition to secondary in the time of Covid - IOE London Blog A design thinking project for minority ethnic students at Swansea University - Advance HE Education Recovery Plan: Tsar's resignation rounds off nightmare day for DfE - SecEd SQA appeals statement leaves no hope for those hit by Covid-19 - Scotsman Young people forced to take 'perverse gamble' on grades after Scottish appeal process revealed - Scotsman Sir Kevan Collins, the Government's Education Recovery Commissioner has resigned - sector response - FE News One-off tutoring programmes available to all will do nothing to close gaps between the least and most disadvantaged - FE News £1 billion for national tutoring revolution in next step of government’s £1.4 billion education recovery plan - FE News VET during Covid: A global perspective - Edge Foundation Vaccines, transitions, feelings, TAGs and class size! - Teacher Tapp Vulnerable children: Confusion over early help policy is hampering intervention - SecEd Longer school day plan rejected by teachers and school leaders in Wales - Wales Online English schools need more than superficial soundbites and short-term remedies - Guardian Mapping the policy influence of Augar: How many of the 53 recommendations have been addressed by the Government? - HEPI NEU comment on Government’s education recovery plan - National Education Union Wave of strikes at 49 prisons over Covid-19 concerns set to continue - UCU Catch up announcement far short of what is needed - NASUWT Appeals announcement reinforces that SQA is not fit for purpose - NASUWT ASCL comment on reported resignation of Sir Kevan Collins - ASCL ‘Governance of scientific advice’ key issue for next pandemic - Times Higher Education | THE How do we teach English when schools are ‘closed’? - BERA Baker Clause provision still inconsistent in schools, UCAS warns - SecEd Government’s education recovery announcement ‘frustrating and lacking ambition’ - Voice Catch-up cash: How England compares with other nations - Times Educational Supplement | TES Villiers Park statement on government's catch-up funding announcement - Villiers Park Educational Trust Post-16 education and labour market activities, pathways and outcomes (LEO) - DfE Huge expansion of tutoring in next step of education recovery - DfE Calls for GCSEs to be scrapped by 2025 - and replaced with computer assessments - Mirror Prison educators plan further strikes in health and safety dispute - FE Week Boris Johnson promises more school catch-up cash in 'damp squib' row - BBC ‘A sacrificed generation’: psychological scars of Covid on young may have lasting impact - Guardian ‘So many revolutions to lead’: Europe’s Gen Z on their post-Covid future - Guardian SQA appeals: Pupils given right to challenge grades directly - Herald Scotland Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 2/6 - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA appeals 2021: Grades could go down as well as up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual adds lost learning data expert to advisory board - Times Educational Supplement | TES School exam data used to spot ‘unexpected’ grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why Rishi Sunak is to blame for the government’s underfunding of schools - New Statesman Williamson: Extended school day 'still on the agenda' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The £1.4bn Covid catch-up plan: all you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plans to shorten school summer holidays after Covid dropped by Gavin Williamson - Mirror Teaching is buzzing; the professional community has never felt more dynamic - Teacherhead School day should be extended permanently with extra classes and longer lunches - The Sun Covid catch-up plan for England pupils ‘pitiful compared with other countries’ - Guardian Pupils in England to be offered 100m hours of tuition in Covid catch-up plan - Guardian Swansea Uni registrar, who oversaw probe into senior academics, leaves post - Wales Online Covid-19: Tutoring sessions in £1.4bn school catch-up plan - BBC Sutton Trust and EEF respond to the government’s education recovery plan - Sutton Trust ASCL comment on education recovery plan - ASCL NEU comment on Labour’s children’s recovery plan - National Education Union Proposals to extend school day risk being shelved amid row over multi-billion pound price tag - Telegraph Universities say admissions plan 'risks Scottish schooling' - Herald Scotland How the REF is used determines how the burden is felt - Wonkhe Pupils to be offered extra tuition and option to repeat year under £1.4bn plan - Evening Standard Huge expansion of tutoring in next step of education recovery - DfE Government's Covid catch-up measures 'disappointing' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE’s £1.4bn education recovery plan: what you need to know - Schools Week Catch-up tutoring to be led by private outsourcing firm - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch-up plan a 'paltry', 'disappointing' 'damp squib' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools get £579m to employ their own catch-up tutors - Times Educational Supplement | TES No extended school day in new £1.4bn catch-up plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children to be offered 100 million hours of extra tuition over three years in back to school blitz - The Sun Non-maintained settings in Wales to benefit from post-Covid education recovery plan - Nursery World 2 Labour pledges £110m for early years out of total £14.7bn Children’s Recovery Plan - Nursery World 2 Montessori practice to receive a boost from new research fund - Nursery World 2 Amanda Spielman’s role as Ofsted chief inspector extended to 2023 - Nursery World 2 More black students sought by top science college - BBC Government plans to expand 16-19 Covid tuition fund - FE Week Critics slam Boris Johnson's 'cheap' schools rescue package - Mail Treasury’s £1.4bn school catch-up fund falls short, say educators - Financial Times Pupils to be offered 100m hours of tuition in Covid catch-up plan - Guardian Complete PhD coverage for lecturers ‘undesirable’, says professor - Times Higher Education | THE Imperial head: no more ‘dull lectures in crowded auditoriums’ - Times Higher Education | THE Children 'let down' by Gavin Williamson's 'paltry' plan to catch up with school - Mirror Boris Johnson accused of failing pupils with ‘cheap’ schools boost - The Times Pupils allowed to resit assessments in Scotland’s ‘shambolic’ system - The Times Scotland: It’s time the elite gave junior colleges a chance to shine - The Times