News archive for 9th June 2021

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Sexual harassment the norm for most pupils in England, official report finds - Financial Times An ‘unspeakable’ act or welcome change? Oxford students torn over latest chapter in culture wars - Independent Edinburgh University outranks Princeton in latest global league table - Herald Scotland Schools in England struggle to contain rising Covid variant - Financial Times PM incorrectly claims 6 million pupils will benefit from tutoring - Schools Week Teacher-assessed qualifications to be excluded from achievement rates - again - FE Week Oxford Uni staff 'sent threats' after students remove 'colonial' Queen from common room - Mirror The proposed changes to 2022 GCSE and A-level exams, explained - Telegraph Minister denies education recovery ‘catalogue of chaos’ (but claims she doesn’t know why catch-up tsar resigned) - Schools Week Covid Scotland: Cases in under-15s at highest level recorded during pandemic - Scotsman Seeing the difference: Raising awareness of the allied health professions - Office for Students Evaluation of the Strategic Interventions in Health Education Disciplines programme - Office for Students ESFA Update: 9 June 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Pupil premium extended to children with 'no recourse to public funds' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Student Voice and Partnership: An institutional approach at the University of Reading - Advance HE AoC signs Fair Education Alliance Letter on Education Recovery plans - AoC | Association of Colleges The importance of bridging the UK’s digital skills gap - Training Journal The ETF supports post-16 education and skills report on achieving net zero - Education & Training Foundation New series of EdTech Reflective Exploration Stories - Education & Training Foundation A college lecturer's experience of delivering education and childcare route specific courses - Education & Training Foundation Transition: A bridging project to tackle a trio of challenges - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Are we living in a post-LGBTQ+ rights age? - Universities UK Route panel membership – open recruitment competition, June 2021 - IfATE Peter Roberts Collab Group bursary (sponsored by The Skills Network) - Collab Group STEMinism: One year on - Teach First Emotional wellbeing – a whole school priority - UKEdChat Leave education to people who know what they're doing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boys' sexual misconduct not down to teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Taking notice: Children’s observation skills in nature as a basis for the development of early science education - BERA Universities and net zero - HEPI Williamson's Queen portrait comments 'laughable nadir' in government's authoritarian crusade - UCU Strike action at Loughborough school over attacks on pensions - NASUWT ASCL comment on EPI analysis of education recovery funding compared to Eat Out to Help Out scheme - ASCL Universities boosting academic skills and wellbeing of Year 13s - Universities UK Effects of principals and teachers’ feedback on their practice - Best Evidence in Brief Williamson intervention on Oxford royal portrait ‘authoritarian’ - Times Higher Education | THE Seeking help for my wellbeing made me a better teacher - Teach First Oxford University Press to end centuries of tradition by closing its printing arm - Guardian Employers warn of skills vs education 'mismatch' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gibb: 'We've done all possible to protect education' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vaccinate school pupils to stop disruption say school leaders - Wales Online Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 9/6 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keir Starmer: government ‘holding back a generation’ with schools catchup plan (video) - Guardian Legal victory hands schools more pupil premium cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hepburn: We must carefully consider colleges' role - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Willamson’s attack on Oxford students shows his warped priorities - New Statesman Schools catchup plan will hold Britain back for generation, says Starmer - Guardian Heads to lead up to 8 schools under cost-cutting plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why broken funding promises hurt schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE extends pupil premium to children with ‘no recourse to public funds’ after legal threat - Schools Week Education recovery funding worth ‘little more’ than Eat Out to Help Out scheme, analysis finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Queen's portrait removed after vote by Oxford University students - BBC Government should fund apprentice wages for SMEs, says Halfon - FE Week Halfon: Government should fund apprenticeships for SMEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Time to shake up our assessment system? - Montrose42 Conservative MP Robert Halfon: “The government can’t say there’s no money for education” - New Statesman Skills: Government 'must scrap universal credit rules' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL comment on EPI analysis of education recovery funding compared to Eat Out to Help Out scheme - ASCL Unemployment, welfare and education - New AoC report and recommendations - AoC | Association of Colleges Gavin Williamson slams Oxford students who voted to remove Queen’s pic from common room as she ‘represents colonialism’ - The Sun School qualifications system 'poorer than Standard Grades' - Herald Scotland Education Recovery Plan: Embarassment at Eat Out to Help Out comparison - SecEd Free school meals uptake: Removing the barriers - SecEd Integrating equality, diversity and inclusion throughout education is a challenge we all share - Wonkhe Here’s how we can build student transition back in 2021 - Wonkhe Monthly catch-up spend a tenth of Eat Out to Help Out - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education secretary slams 'absurd' cancelling of the Queen as students at Oxford's Magdalen College vote to take down 'unwelcoming' portrait of the Monarch - Mail EPI: Recovery funding ‘little more’ than was spent on ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ - Schools Week Schools’ catch-up money for entire year ‘slightly more than one month of Eat Out to Help Out’ - Independent More than 240 organisations and sector leaders call for Government to urgently invest more in education catch-up - Nursery World 2 Labour urges Conservative MPs to vote for its education catch-up plans - Nursery World 2 ‘Simply absurd’ Woke Oxford students condemned for removal of ‘colonial’ Queen’s picture - Express School catch-up plan for millions of kids 'costs similar to Eat Out to Help Out' - Mirror President of Oxford college defends students’ right to remove Queen’s photo - Guardian Grade inflation tied to women in insecure teaching roles - Times Higher Education | THE European researchers ‘losing interest’ in UK university jobs - Times Higher Education | THE Universal credit rules hold people back from training, warns report - FE Week Magdalen College Oxford to remove Queen’s portrait over colonial links - The Times Honour for Oxford vaccine scientist Professor Sarah Gilbert - The Times Oxford and Cambridge overtake US universities to rank among top three - The Times Studying classics gives teens the Homer advantage - The Times Scotland: Rector at Edinburgh University feared for her safety in trans row - The Times