News archive for 17th June 2021

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DfE officials plan schools white paper to deliver Williamson’s ‘vision’ for schools - Schools Week Scrap Covid tests in schools, says Oxford vaccine pioneer - Telegraph Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 17/6 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Black and ethnic minority students can use ‘racial trauma’ to defer exams - Telegraph One in five children in England now eligible for free school meals amid Covid surge - Independent Goldsmiths to allow students suffering racial trauma to apply for extensions - Guardian Baker’s back: Could schools be sued for limiting careers advice? - Schools Week What Ofsted thinks good geography teaching looks like - Times Educational Supplement | TES New academy rules put trust autonomy at risk, say sector leaders - Schools Week Purpose of education is to teach maths: Headteacher blasts white privilege lessons - Express 420,000 children in England qualify for free school meals since first lockdown - Mirror Teacher 'brain drain' falls for first time since 2012 - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'No evidence' of school data used to change grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Schools can't submit grades as site crashes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Baker’s back: Could schools be sued for limiting careers advice? - FE Week Lord Baker: Schools must give students FE advice - Times Educational Supplement | TES We don’t need another 'porn panic' - Telegraph Research review series: geography - Ofsted Perceptions of VTQ in England- wave 4 - Ofqual Ofsted publishes research review on geography - Ofsted Pupils to benefit from better quality PE and sport next year - DfE PE and sport premium: conditions of grant 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Schools block funding formulae 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Secondary and primary school applications and offers: 2021 - DfE Identifying priority areas for raising school standards - DfE PE and sport premium for primary schools - DfE Vocational training and education changed forever due to the pandemic - British Council Engaging with the ETF's TLPD offer: South Devon College - Education & Training Foundation Whose resilience is it anyway? - Education & Training Foundation Maximising the impact of feedback in literacy - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Ensuring equity for disabled applicants in a new post-qualification admissions system - Advance HE Supporting the transition to Vice-Chancellorship - Advance HE Schools and colleges shut out from submitting teacher grades after exam board portal crashes - FE Week Schools shut out from submitting teacher grades after exam board portal crashes - Schools Week School census data shows increase in free school meal provision - National Education Union School workforce data - National Education Union What impact did Covid-19 have on teacher retention? - NFER Latest DfE stats show pupil premium change will dent funding for low income pupils - NFER Tutoring is a top priority for education recovery – but not via the National Tutoring Programme, say school leaders - NAHT The JUAC is marking Clean Air Day 2021 (17 June 2021) with the launch of a new campaigning website - NAHT ASCL comment on rise in free school meal eligibility - ASCL Unions launch website to lobby government to remove asbestos from educational buildings - ASCL Addressing lost learning for young people in further education - AoC | Association of Colleges Vocational training and education changed forever due to the pandemic - AoC | Association of Colleges Transition 2021: What are schools allowed to do now? - Times Educational Supplement | TES UKRI encourages innovators to apply for Horizon Europe funding - UKRI Study skills are not the answer to students’ academic woes - Wonkhe Identity building as a pathway to children and young people’s wellbeing in schools - BERA JUAC unions launch new website - Voice What did OECD say when it last scrutinised Scotland? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free school meals: Poorer pupils miss out in funding change, say unions - BBC Nicola Sturgeon pledges to investigate any evidence of pupils' withdrawal from Highers after assessment failures - Scotsman Number of children on free school meals in England soars to 1.7m - Guardian Colleges 'unlikely' to return to pre-pandemic teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of pupils securing their first choice secondary school place falls compared to last year - Mail Speed read: Ofsted’s guide to a ‘high-quality’ geography curriculum - Schools Week OECD: Curriculum for Excellence 'offers inspiring philosophy of education' - Herald Scotland A fifth of school leavers turn their backs on university and aim for jobs that don’t need a degree - The Sun The extent of the pupil premium 'stealth cut' revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex abuse in schools: No, Ofsted – nude pictures aren't just clumsy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Leaked exam papers used to 'determine’ Higher results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Proposed new name for NCH at Northeastern Limited - Office for Students Data Futures: balancing burden and benefit - Office for Students Proportion of children securing first choice secondary school places falls - Independent Big 5.1% drop in number of new primary pupils for 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils who struggle to 'fit in' must not be forgotten - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish councils launch talks with SQA over exam fees - Herald Scotland The ‘catch-up plan’ for schools needs to start with the Department for Education | Paul Whiteman - Guardian DfE finally confirms £320m PE and sport premium will continue in 2021-22 - Schools Week Teacher departures down 17% during pandemic, plus 4 more school workforce findings - Schools Week Schools, pupils and their characteristics 2021: 5 things we learned - Schools Week Air pollution: 3.4 million children exposed to pollution just by going to school - Express More and more school leavers aren’t going to university - Independent Primary school applications drop 5 per cent in pandemic - Schools Week More than 1 in 5 pupils on free school meals after Covid surge - Schools Week Pandemic sees 21% rise in pupils on free school meals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish schools withdrawing pupils from Higher courses after poor assessment grades accused of ‘massaging results’ - Scotsman 450% increase in student mental health declarations over last decade but progress still needed to address declarations stigma - UCAS ‘Prince Harry effect’ adds to huge rise in students reporting mental health problems - Telegraph Foundation years – an engine room of social mobility? - HEPI Mental health disclosure is on the up – and that’s good - Schools Week School leaders in England reject catchup national tutoring programme - Guardian Quarter of UK pupils attend schools where air pollution is over WHO limit - Guardian ‘Our children are coming to terms with a different life’ - Financial Times Robotics expertise of Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh universities in demand - Herald Scotland Students should be encouraged to disclose mental health difficulties - Wonkhe Post-16 education and labour market activities and outcomes of looked-after children (LEO) - DfE Post-16 education and labour market activities, pathways and outcomes (LEO) - DfE More than one quarter of UK schools are in areas above global pollution limits, charity finds - Independent ‘Gross miscalculation’ lay behind 2020 exam fiasco, ex-Ofqual boss says - Independent Extending school day shouldn't be a priority, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES 450% rise in students disclosing mental health issues - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education secretary confirms phonics check to go ahead in the Autumn term - Nursery World 2 Decline in the number of deprived young people training as apprentices - Nursery World 2 Campaigners call for Government to do more to tackle air pollution around nurseries and schools - Nursery World 2 Number of students declaring mental heath condition in applications rises - Ucas - Mail Extending day should not be priority in helping children catch up, say teachers - Mail More than a quarter of schools are in areas over pollution limits - Mail DfE: COVID-19 ITT course extension funding manual - UCET Ministers to be advised against mass Covid vaccination of children - The Times Investigators hired by universities to look at student assault claims - The Times Scotland: Edinburgh University’s China links ‘not a propaganda tool’ - The Times Survey request: prevalence & impact of Covid-19 on the operation of schools & colleges - UCET Initial Teacher Education in England A briefing note for MATs, Teaching School Hubs and individual schools - UCET