News archive for 10th June 2021

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Oriel controversy: Meet ‘Red Kate’, leader of the ‘People’s Republic of Worcester College’ - Telegraph Students should get compensation if affected by Oriel boycott, says Downing Street - Telegraph Covid: Masks still in place and onsite testing returns in ‘Delta’ hotspot schools - Schools Week Meet the Left-wing ringleaders who sparked academics' Oxford boycott - Mail Nicola Sturgeon overseeing ‘sleekit’ repeat of 2020 exams crisis, claim opponents - Telegraph School skirts ban: St Martin's in Caerphilly changes uniform - BBC Graduates face highest unemployment rate since austerity era – report - Guardian Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 10/6 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted sex abuse probe ineffective, say 1 in 5 teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 3,000 schools named on sex abuse survivors’ website - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'unfairly blamed' on rape culture, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tory MP accuses Ofsted of ‘massive failure’ over sexual abuse in schools - Guardian Catch-up: shot in the arm or kick in the teeth? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to come up with a good local skills plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford colleges at war over Oriel Cecil Rhodes statue - The Times What happens we when use spaced practice? - Teacher Toolkit Ambition Institute commits to working for better equality, diversity and inclusion - Ambition Institute Action still needed about teacher workload - The Educator Schools urged to change sexual harassment cultures in schools and colleges - UKEdChat Who is included, who is excluded and what can we do to promote inclusion for all children? - IOE London Blog Change to maximum Plan 2 and the Plan 3 student loan interest rates - Student Loans Company Teaching assistant workload flagged in new pay talks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Delays to teacher pay talks 'not conducive to recovery’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should private tutoring be a normal part of education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Plan for Jobs' skills and employment programmes: information for employers - Education & Skills Funding Agency More support for schools and colleges to tackle sexual abuse - DfE Simon Lebus speech at the AELP National Conference 2021 - Ofqual Graduate labour market statistics: 2020 - DfE IOE staff members win UCL Education Awards 2021 - IOE London Blog Key issues raised by MPs over children’s Covid-19 recovery - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sexual harassment ‘normalised’ in schools, Ofsted review finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now HEPI's student loan proposals are regressive and would hit the least affluent - UCU NAHT outlines its actions and commitments to furthering equality, diversity and inclusion in education for 2021/22 - NAHT NAHT Cymru's Blueprint for Education Recovery - NAHT Education Recovery - a blueprint for a stronger and fairer system for all - NAHT NASUWT comments on Ofsted review into sexual harassment in schools - NASUWT Ofsted Review – statement from the Girls’ Schools Association - GSA Apprenticeship will train people to install life-saving healthcare equipment - IfATE HE Provider Data: Business and Community Interaction – open data release - HESA The big reveal: Showing students how metacognition works - Learning Scientists ISC statement on Ofsted’s review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges - Independent Schools Council | ISC Ofsted review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges - National Education Union Athena Swan transformation – co-creating the enhanced UK Charter - Advance HE Statement on school sexual abuse reports - Voice Headship can be lonely - but not with Teach First’s networks - Teach First Need for assessment reforms - Montrose42 Parents' fury as school bans skirts for girls saying they wear them 'too short' - Mirror No 10 suggests Oxford students hit by Rhodes boycott should be compensated - Guardian Scottish teachers threaten strike action over class sizes - Herald Scotland Parents angry as head bans all skirts because girls wear them 'too short' - Express Sturgeon warned of second 'exams crisis' amid concerns over 'sleekit' system - Herald Scotland UCAS glitch automatically rejects 20,000 students' university offers as parents hit out - Herald Scotland Tough online law 'needed to fight pupil harassment' - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA assessment: This is the same shambles as 2020 – just more sleekit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual: We're over the worst on functional skills assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five key findings from Ofqual’s research on assistive technology in assessment - Schools Week Gavin Williamson MP and Ofsted give evidence in accountability hearings - UK Parliament Universities Minister scolds ‘ridiculous’ Oxford dons threatening to boycott teaching over statue row - The Sun Nicola Sturgeon accused of 'sleekit' use of historic data around 2021 exam results - Scotsman Letter about the statement of expectations for preventing and addressing harassment and sexual misconduct - Office for Students Quality and standards: The road to more rigorous regulation - Office for Students Letter to providers: TEF update - Office for Students Communicating accurate and informative research results to teachers - Best Evidence in Brief 20,000 students ‘shocked’ as UCAS glitch rejects university offers - FE Week 20,000 students hit as UCAS glitch rejects university offers - Schools Week The world is looking to the UK to step up, not step back, and support girls' education - Telegraph Cecil Rhodes statue sparks boycott as 150 Oxford academics refuse to teach if it stays - Express Zero SNP MPs turn up to education debate as Nicola Sturgeon's party labelled 'shameful' - Express School bans girls from wearing skirts saying they wear them too short - Wales Online 150 lecturers refuse to teach at Oxford’s Oriel College in protest over refusal to remove Cecil Rhodes statue - Independent Girls asked for nudes by up to 11 boys a night, Ofsted finds - BBC A tenth of England’s schools and colleges named on Everyone’s Invited website - Schools Week Sexual harassment ‘normalised’ in schools with 90% of girls sent unwanted photos - Metro ‘Huge increase’ in need for pupil mental health support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Magazine podcast: Pupil premium, evolution, the ECF - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cecil Rhodes: Oxford lecturers boycott Oriel College over statue decision - BBC Sports charities demand clarity on future of £320m PE and sport premium - Schools Week Oxford college should place apology sign around Cecil Rhodes’ neck, says academic - Guardian EIS AGM: Teachers set to enter Scottish independence debate - Herald Scotland Oxford uni lecturers refusing to teach accused of 'blackmail' over Rhodes statue - Express 9 in 10 girls are sent explicit photos - as boys share nudes like a 'collection game' - Mirror Increasing England student loan repayments ‘would save government £4bn a year’ - Guardian Ofsted's review of sexual harassment in schools and colleges: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Boys sharing naked photos of female classmates now seen as 'part of life', say inspectors - Telegraph Schoolboys bombarding girls with demands for nude pics and sharing them with their mates in a sick Top Trumps style game - The Sun Sexual harassment ‘has become normalised for children in schools and colleges’, damning Ofsted review finds - Evening Standard ASCL comment on Ofsted review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges - ASCL No easy answers: English student finance and the spending review - HEPI Reducing the student loan repayment threshold to under £20,000 would save £3.8 billion and lower student loan write-off costs in England - HEPI Sexual harassment has become ‘normalised’ for children and young people Ofsted review finds - FE News Lecturers ‘boycott Oxford college over decision to keep Cecil Rhodes statue’ - Evening Standard Herald Higher Education Awards: Strength in depth makes life hard for judges - Herald Scotland High Covid levels in schools leaves parents with a difficult choice - Scotsman Oxford dons ‘boycotting Oriel College’ over decision to keep Cecil Rhodes statue - Independent Boys sharing naked pictures of girls at school like ‘collection game’ finds Ofsted report - Independent Universities will play a key role in building resilience and trust in this Covid decade - Wonkhe Learning to thrive during transitions at the top - Wonkhe Review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges - Ofsted COP26 launches environment education packs for UK schools and students - DfE Ofsted: culture change needed to tackle 'normalised’ sexual harassment in schools and colleges - Ofsted Ofsted inspectors to question schools that record no sex abuse cases - Schools Week School sex abuse review: The Ofsted proposals, and what DfE has committed to - Schools Week Ofsted sex abuse review: Schools ‘consistently underestimated’ scale of problem - Schools Week Sexual harassment: Colleges have responsibility to act - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex education: Teacher knowledge 'poor', finds Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sexual harassment 'normalised' among children, warns Ofsted - BBC Train teachers on sex abuse on inset days, schools told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex harassment: School inspections 'not robust enough' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Assume sexual harassment is in your school, heads told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Magdalen College President defends Oxford students' right to 'free speech and political debate' - Mail Colleges must share sexual abuse records for future Ofsted inspections - FE Week Sexual harassment misery of girls at school is revealed as Ofsted warns the problem is rife - Mail Lowering English loan repayment threshold ‘would save £4 billion’ - Times Higher Education | THE Sexual harassment is a routine part of life, schoolchildren tell Ofsted - Guardian Cecil Rhodes: Oriel College faces teaching boycott over refusal to remove statue - Guardian Harassment is now the norm in our schools, Ofsted warns - The Times Soma Sara: Time to act on rape culture - The Times Oxford college head defends her students over Queen portrait - The Times Head teachers ‘lack power to voice concerns over education’ in Scotland - The Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Covid cases in children at highest level since the start of pandemic - The Times Melvyn Roffe: Truth about myth of Scottish education should have been evident - The Times