News archive for 19th June 2021

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Schools are using scrapped GCSEs excuse to send 500,000 pupils home - Mail Students protest at Science Museum over sponsorship by Shell - Guardian School closes and moves lessons online as Covid cases increase - Wales Online Essex ex-head teacher banned for indecent child images - BBC I can’t say yes to everybody, insists chancellor Rishi Sunak after rejecting schools catch-up plan - The Times Attainment gap: Record funding of £215 million pledged to support disadvantaged pupils in Scotland - Herald Scotland Novelists issue plea to save English degrees as demand slumps - Guardian Funding of £215m to close attainment gap is announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES City & Guilds: government must do far more to fix the new labour market crisis - FE Week RSC’s push to get communities on board not matched by academy guidance - Schools Week Inside Cambridge University's free speech crisis - Telegraph Active learning is the key to success - UKEdChat Podcast 116: Why we need diversity in teaching - Teacher Toolkit Row deepens over Sheffield plans to close archaeology department - Times Higher Education | THE DfE says sports days can go ahead and parents can watch in socially-distanced groups - Mail Scottish education system is too complex, says OECD - The Times St Paul’s Girls’ School ditches ‘binary’ head girl - The Times Batley Grammar School teacher still in hiding after threats over Prophet cartoon - The Times Worcester College Oxford shudders at small revolution - The Times