News archive for 8th June 2021

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Somerville: If a teacher gives you an A, you get an A - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly 140,000 pupils did not attend class in England in last week before half-term amid fears over Indian variant - Mail Oxford students vote to remove Queen portrait because she 'represents colonial history' - Mirror School assessments: Education secretary makes 'cast-iron' guarantee - BBC Gavin Williamson says Oxford students’ removal of Queen portrait is ‘absurd’ - Independent Tunbridge Wells: Skinners' Kent schools closed after data breach - BBC Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 8/6 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former Ofsted head parachuted in to Jewish school linked to sexual misconduct controversy - Telegraph Teachers face ‘almost impossible task’ awarding A-level and GCSE grades - Guardian Judy Murray: I want my sons to leave a schools legacy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unions call for return of masks to secondary classrooms in England - Guardian Labour demand answers from Scottish education secretary around 'unfair, unclear and unacceptable' appeals system - Scotsman The case for research-informed CPD delivered within subject - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Practitioner Research Programme benefits recognised - Education & Training Foundation The ETF releases 2019–2020 Impact Report - Education & Training Foundation Trauma aware practice - Education & Training Foundation New episode of ‘Evidence into Action’ – ‘Exploring the complexities of reading comprehension’ - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Annual report and accounts 2020-21 - Office for Students Equality, diversity and student characteristics data - Office for Students Staff at the Office for Students: Equality, diversity and inclusion statistics - Office for Students Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak – 23 March 2020 to 28 May 2021 - DfE New education award empowers young people to tackle plastic pollution - GOV.UK Extending the school day from 8am to 6pm - Teacher Toolkit Business Secretary selects Sir Andrew Mackenzie for new UKRI Chair - UKRI Online story exchange experience to boost Bradford primary school children’s speaking skills - Leeds Beckett University Excelsior Academy: Trailblazing project-based learning in North East England - Edge Foundation Who is going home at 2.45pm? And other things we learned about this week - Teacher Tapp Too many pupils get just two years of MFL at key stage 3, Ofsted warns - SecEd Teachers in plea to ministers: 'Get a grip' on Delta variant spread in schools - SecEd 140+ organisations call on government to put children at the heart of the nation’s recovery - Early Education Unions demand masks in schools return as a third of Bolton's pupils in isolation - Mirror Bring back face masks in class now, teachers demand - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to overhaul the adult education system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former Ofsted boss returns to school as interim head - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Department for Education's strategy for school business professionals - NAHT ASCL comment on the appointment of Michelle McIlveen as Minister for Education - ASCL ASCL comment on Week 23 school attendance statistics - ASCL ASCL comment on JCQ appeals guidance - ASCL Professor Liz Barnes interviewed by University Business - MillionPlus Bring back face coverings in secondary schools and vaccinate pupils on site, say unions - Schools Week Schools promised cash for staff to oversee ‘priority’ appeals in summer holidays - Schools Week A positive attitude isn’t enough: Finding a balance with assessment - BERA The school grading drama unfolds in five acts - HEPI Government must ​reintroduce face coverings to minimise Covid disruption in schools - National Education Union NEU comment on school attendance figures: week before half-term - National Education Union Three days of strikes begin at University of Leicester - UCU New frameworks approved by the Department for Education - NAHT Pupils looking forward to last day of school were told not come in - Wales Online Mining executive Mackenzie to be ‘commercially-minded’ UKRI chair - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland to ‘repair Brexit damage’ with £3 million research fund - Times Higher Education | THE Athlone Institute of Technology colleagues participating in the Aurora Programme - Advance HE GCSEs and A-levels 2021: Cut appeals with transparency, schools told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sturgeon: Teen vaccines could prevent school disruption - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nicola Sturgeon hatches desperate SNP plot to woo Brussels with new £3 million fund - Express Northern College faces 'perfect storm' over finances - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teenagers are getting GCSE and A-level grades in Wales two months early - Wales Online Universities ‘must be open to free speech’, says head of UCL - Evening Standard Scottish teachers blast 'disgraceful' recruitment practices - Herald Scotland Covid-19: Almost 1 in 3 Bolton secondary pupils absent as Delta variant surges - Schools Week Lack of Covid guidance puts pregnant teachers at risk - Times Educational Supplement | TES A third of secondary students off in virus hotspot - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lords starts detailed check of Professional Qualifications Bill - UK Parliament Banned: Teacher who had sex with student - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: "Long way to go" on apprenticeship quality - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid vaccines for students – but what about the staff? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wilshaw returns to headship with interim role at London school JFS - Schools Week Keegan stands firm on keeping levy funding for apprenticeships - FE Week Is sleep a ‘magic pill’ for teen wellness in a mental health crisis? - Guardian Art lessons in our schools are pitiful - Telegraph New statistical measure of the design and nature of work developed from graduate outcomes data - HESA ‘Serious concerns’: UK education row as Israel-Palestine textbooks pulled - Guardian Covid in Scotland: Blended learning 'boosts pupil outcomes' - Herald Scotland Warnings SQA 'algorithm by stealth' could replicate 2020 fiasco - Scotsman Covid Scotland: 'Urgent measures' needed to stop school virus spread - Scotsman Did the chatbox kill the conference Twitter star? - Wonkhe Every graduate should have the chance of a decent job - Wonkhe Childbase Partnership goes ‘climate positive’ - Nursery World 2 Employers urge ministers to address lack of digital skills - Financial Times Research intelligence: which Covid innovations should be embraced? - Times Higher Education | THE Precarity means top students quitting academia, warns OECD expert - Times Higher Education | THE 9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence in it's ongoing inquiry into education in prisons - Accountability Hearings Becoming a teacher update (June 2021) - UCET Teachers criticise lack of wellbeing support in Covid catch-up plans - The Times Education needs investment and a ten-year plan - The Times Scotland: EIS teachers want inquiry into Beijing involvement with Mandarin classes - The Times Scotland: Dundee University apologises for racism on campus - The Times Scotland: Over-12s should be given vaccine now, urges SNP Covid adviser Devi Sridhar - The Times Scotland: Dental students’ fee fears after year added to degree - The Times Ireland: GMIT forum to soothe student-staff relations after lecturers’ gaffe - The Times