News archive for 18th June 2021

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Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 18/6 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 18 June 2021 - Education Eye Exams regulator calls in Test and Trace firm Sitel to manage public enquiry phone lines - Schools Week Covid: Schools told to plan for more remote learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES News podcast: GCSE grading, Ofsted and Covid tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 1,000 schoolchildren self-isolating as Covid cases rise again - Wales Online FE minister: 'No one person' should decide skills need - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales: More than 1,000 schoolchildren asked to self-isolate as Covid cases rise again - Wales Online Former academies boss tipped for top job at exam regulator - The Times Education Secretary selects preferred candidate for new Ofqual Chief Regulator - DfE Amanda Spielman letter to the Secretary of State for Justice about Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre - Ofsted Duchess of Cambridge launches Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood - EYE | Early Years Educator New essay on trauma and children’s social care published - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Inspectorates: Rainsbrook children and staff fear serious harm - Ofsted Teacher who made pupils 'scared' by shouting at them banned from profession - Mirror Concern for students’ grades as Liverpool and Leicester universities respond to strikes - Guardian FE podcast: apprentices, skills bill and Jamie Hepburn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could this solve schools' teacher retention issues? - Times Educational Supplement | TES West ‘can learn from developing world’ on tackling harassment - Times Higher Education | THE Marking boycott campuses ‘playing fast and loose’ with standards - Times Higher Education | THE Arts education: how can we bring it out from the wings and into the spotlight? - IOE London Blog Call for entries: The ERSA Employability Awards 2021 are open! - ERSA Early Education welcomes new Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood - Early Education New College Lanarkshire wins Jisc-sponsored award for innovation - Jisc Kate Middleton launches Centre for Early Childhood - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Lack of early years support costs England over £16 billion a year - London School of Economics | LSE Comparing education catch-up spending within and outside the UK - EPI Practitioner research impacts resonate all across FE practice - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Applications open for EDI leadership project funding - Education & Training Foundation Keep giving your children lateral flow tests, urges Gavin Williamson - Telegraph Coronavirus: Gavin Williamson tells parents 'we need you and your children to carry on testing' - Mail 'Disgraceful' University of Liverpool management refusing to pay staff - UCU New Education Minister to speak at NASUWT Cymru Conference - NASUWT Introduction of the new Curriculum for Wales must be delayed - NASUWT Time to end the Local Management of Schools - NASUWT Lessons must be learnt on health and safety - NASUWT Sunderland College: Creating a truly community-driven FE college - Edge Foundation UTC South Durham: From good to exceptional with Edge Future Learning - Edge Foundation Pupil premium not reaching 100,000 disadvantaged children, researchers warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Inspired by Tim: How space inspired a generation - GOV.UK Kate Middleton's passion project by launching kids' centre to change thousands of lives - Mirror WJEC grades portal goes down as exam board scrambles to fix issues - Schools Week Poems not proms: England’s schools give leavers send-off in Covid times - Guardian Drakeford pledges to work to find a way to end masks in clasrooms - Wales Online Strike threat at University of Hull over language department closure and sacking of UCU branch president - UCU Williamson’s policy adviser set to be new Ofqual boss - FE Week Cottages on Durand boarding school site listed for sale as dispute over proceeds drags on - Schools Week Lords debates levelling up of opportunities for children - UK Parliament Minister questioned on children in poverty - UK Parliament Committee questions the Secretary of State - UK Parliament Ex-academy chief Jo Saxton to lead Ofqual - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid catch-up: Please, stop asking more of teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE grading: ‘Government should be utterly ashamed’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES New GCSE 2021 grades website problems - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE commitment to levelling up? It's just empty clichés - Times Educational Supplement | TES Churchill College has made a wise decision in closing down the working group on Churchill, Race and Empire - Policy Exchange Coronavirus cases in schools top 100 for the first time in weeks - Wales Online Long Covid: We demand protection in law - SecEd Covid recovery: Schools support use of tuition, but not via the NTP - SecEd Williamson rejects call to suspend school Covid tests - The Times Williamson’s policy adviser set to be new Ofqual boss - Schools Week Teacher suspended after showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad to pupils refuses to return to work over fears for his life - Mail School bans girls from wearing PE shorts claiming they’re ‘inappropriate’ - The Sun Lack of work experience is another loss for pupils who have missed out on so much already - Herald Scotland Scotland: New education committee line-up is revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘How is this fair?’: Ofsted pause leaves grade 3 colleges excluded from £18m Fund - FE Week An inset day on sexual abuse ‘won’t cut it’, says Spielman - Schools Week Colleges are unfairly being held back by their past - FE Week Meet Anthony Gascoigne: FE teacher of the year 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES England’s school assessment system favours the sharp-elbowed and the wealthy | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Ofsted raps performing arts provider for body shaming students - FE Week Careers2030: Why it is time for the higher education careers sector to start looking to the future again - HEPI Spending review should support research-intensive universities’ role in levelling up - Russell Group UKRI encourages innovators to apply for Horizon Europe funding - Cambridge Network Copenhagen Business School accredited by Advance HE to award Fellowships to staff - Advance HE ‘Time is running out’: Exams fiasco data promised by Ofqual to ‘rebuild trust’ delayed - Schools Week Lords line up to challenge new law on provider insurance - FE Week 2021 GCSE and A-level grades not 'fair', say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A-levels 2021: Huge differences in grading approaches revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Herald Higher Education Awards: Glasgow University triumphs - Herald Scotland Nicola Sturgeon must soul search some more and save pupils from this chaos - Scotsman Scotland’s councils ‘in discussions’ in bid to claw back millions paid to SQA - Scotsman Podcast: Skills bill, examnishambles, mental health - Wonkhe Changes to teaching and assessment are reducing awarding gaps - Wonkhe Why are so many students locked out of their education? - Wonkhe Further education professional development grants pilot - DfE More support for further education teachers to develop - DfE 'Hugely disruptive' coronavirus testing in schools should be axed - Mail FE teacher training and development gets £9.5m boost - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leaders challenge FE to raise £1m in social value - Times Educational Supplement | TES Duchess of Cambridge launches early years research centre - Nursery World 2 Scotland: Sector criticises omission of data on PVI workforce in childcare expansion report - Nursery World 2 Covid testing in schools is ‘hugely disruptive and should be scrapped’ - The Sun Duchess of Cambridge launches 'landmark' centre for childhood - BBC FE colleges, upskilling, reskilling and net zero - FE News Adopt US tactics to tackle sexual harassment, UKRI told - Times Higher Education | THE Covid surges in halls spread to local communities, analysis shows - Times Higher Education | THE HE and FE unite locally as England-wide policy still ‘disjointed’ - Times Higher Education | THE Bids invited for new £9.5m FE professional development grants - FE Week Duchess of Cambridge sets up early years research centre - The Times Sexual bullying is rife at top Jewish school JFS, say inspectors - The Times Scotland: Students want to dictate teaching, says Edinburgh University - The Times Scotland: Spit test trial at Edinburgh University could cut need for swabs - The Times UCET Summer 2021 Newsletter - UCET Principals launch ‘Good for ME, Good for FE’ volunteering campaign - FE Week