News archive for 23rd June 2021

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Universities that value diversity over correct spelling could face investigation - Telegraph Government encourages schools to host 'One Britain' events - BBC Edinburgh head teacher announces school's two-day closure due to 'number' of positive covid cases' - Scotsman Exams in England to be adjusted next year to ‘ensure fairness’ - Financial Times ‘Overcautious’ teachers blamed as number of children sent home to isolate quadruples - Telegraph Exams face Covid disruption next year and beyond, warns Gavin Williamson - Telegraph Unions press for swift decision on vaccinating children in England - Guardian Bumper year as 102 winners scoop silver Pearson Teaching Awards for 2021 - FE Week Government ‘very keen’ to increase Covid test uptake - Times Educational Supplement | TES The nation says thank you to school staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands more children being home-schooled in wake of pandemic as Gavin Williamson promises register - Evening Standard One Britain One Nation: What is OBON Day and what does it mean for Scotland? - Herald Scotland Bumper year as 102 winners scoop silver Pearson Teaching Awards for 2021 - Schools Week Schools warned Brexit driver shortages threaten meal supplies - Schools Week NAHT, NGA and ASCL joint statement on school leader workload from test and trace system support - NAHT NAHT leaders for race equality - NAHT DFE to provide more support for teachers completing their NQT induction this summer - NAHT ASCL Cymru comments on WJEC exam rebate announcement - ASCL June is Pride - Collab Group Leeds Business School launches government-backed programme to upskill small business leaders - Leeds Beckett University The Skills Imperative 2035: Essential skills for tomorrow’s workforce - Learning & Work Institute Keegan: Government won't 'clear up' after colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES English regulator launches spelling and grammar standards review - Times Higher Education | THE UKRI chair pick pressed by MPs on ‘polluting’ career - Times Higher Education | THE Flexible Learning Pathways: messages for UK higher education - HEPI NFER leads new five-year study projecting employment skill gaps - NFER £4.3 million for research to help shape the future of work and skills - Nuffield Foundation Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 23/6 - Times Educational Supplement | TES What's Williamson up to on short school lunches? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Need to know: Williamson on GCSEs, catch-up and Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Research: £4.3m funding to shape the future of skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Supporting youth transitions in Buckinghamshire: Interim report - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Online feedback and social annotation - Teacher Toolkit Twelve universities join forces to launch Impact Investment Fund - Cambridge Network New tool empowers children and young people to stop spread of nude images online - Cambridge Network Questions, questions, questions - UKEdChat ESFA Update: 23 June 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Former Education Recovery Commissioner questioned on the Government’s Covid catch-up plans - UK Parliament Condition Improvement Fund: 2021 to 2022 outcome - DfE Condition Improvement Fund - DfE Reform funding for struggling early years sector, MPs urge - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Covid schools testing under-reported, education secretary tells MSPs - Scotsman Letter from the Labour members of the Education Select Committee re the education report - Guardian CfESEND: Transition season - Education & Training Foundation A mentee's experience of the T Level Leadership Mentoring Programme - Education & Training Foundation Transition to and within further education, a learners and parent’s perspective - Education & Training Foundation | ETF It takes a whole world to raise a child - Early Education New ‘Voices from the classroom’ - Preparing for Literacy - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF The poor whites that politics forgot - Policy Exchange Britons blast 'facile' and 'bloody awful' 'One Britain' song being taught to pupils to celebrate 'One Nation' day - Mail Scottish Labour launches 'timetable for ambition' for education reform - Scotsman ‘Hyper-creepy’: Gavin Williamson mocked over One Britain, One Nation song - Guardian DfE considering ‘accelerated inspections’ to help Ofsted tackle Covid backlog - FE Week Headteachers and parents 'crying out for help' as Covid school absences soar again - Mirror Proposed new IfATE powers ‘strike the right balance’ with Ofqual, says Williamson - FE Week Exams altered next year after pandemic disruption - BBC Williamson looking at adaptions for 2022 exams to ensure ‘right level of support’ for students - FE Week Pupils’ entrepreneurial skills are in full bloom thanks to Scotland's Enterprising Schools - Herald Scotland Hard work pays off at South Lanarkshire College thanks to close links with industry - Herald Scotland Williamson dodges calls to publish winter Covid schools plan - Schools Week UK students miss out on university offers amid fear of admissions boom - Guardian Gavin Williamson slams schools which send pupils home 'far too early' as he hints at crackdown - Mail No immediate return to pre-Covid exams for schools next year, says Gavin Williamson - Mirror GCSEs and A-levels 2021: Williamson 'expects' exam fee rebates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should schoolchildren still have to self-isolate? - BBC Williamson looking at adaptions for 2022 exams to ensure ‘right level of support for pupils’ - Schools Week DfE considering ‘accelerated inspections’ to help Ofsted tackle Covid backlog - Schools Week Williamson wants schools to stop closing ‘too early’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson: No immediate switch back to pre-Covid GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES I’m working class – MPs are wrong to blame ‘white privilege’ instead of government for school failings - Metro ‘One Britain One Nation’ in schools: what’s all the fuss about? - Schools Week DfE looking at ‘accelerated’ Ofsted school inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Careers support funding may be linked to Baker Clause - Times Educational Supplement | TES How white working-class underachievement has been used to demonise antiracism | David Gillborn - Guardian Most teachers back climate change direct action lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES NEU comment on Thank A Teacher Day - National Education Union Stop devastating arts cuts, unions tell prime minister - UCU University launches enhanced bursary scheme - Cambridge Network ASCL comment on Thank a Teacher Day - ASCL £483 million investment to boost and improve school buildings - DfE Stuart Waiton: Diversity report has failed to engage objectively with the issues - Herald Scotland Is the hippocratic oath an answer to the student mental health question? - Wonkhe W is for Whiteness in higher education - Wonkhe White working-class students have been let down – just not by a debate over “white privilege” - Wonkhe Primary school children as young as five should be taught how to stage climate change protests - Mail Pupils are asked to sing 'One Britain' song - Mail MPs call on Government to carry out 'meaningful review' of early years funding - Nursery World 2 Coronavirus: School absences at highest level since schools reopened - Nursery World 2 Death of three-hour exam looms as pandemic reshapes assessment - Times Higher Education | THE Unions condemn English university arts cuts in letter to PM - Times Higher Education | THE The reality of levelling up: Tackling barriers to lifelong learning - FE News Cut-price education package ‘will damage children for life’ - The Times Universities in denial over obstacles to white working class, says Oxford don - The Times Scotland: Exams for older pupils could be ditched despite plea for caution - The Times 10:00 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence in its accountability hearings - Accountability Hearings