News archive for 24th June 2021

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School made to pay nearly £29k after boy, 9, crushed to death by falling locker - Mirror ‘Militant activism’ can have ‘limiting effect’ on children’s education, Ofsted chief says - Independent Students who failed English GCSE could be banned from uni until they pass - Mirror Government quietly admits schools will lose out by £90m due to funding shake-up - Mirror Glasgow University to fund £1,750 Covid quarantine costs for students coming from red list countries - Scotsman Ofsted chief says 'self-appointed moral guardians are policing teachers' views - Mail Skills bill: Why adult learners need 3 big changes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands more children being home-schooled in wake of pandemic as Education Secretary Gavin Williamson promises register - Evening Standard White privilege' an insult to underperforming poor white British schoolboys - Express Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 24/6 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ex-Ofqual boss: 2020 exam grades system a ‘gross miscalculation’ - Independent Gavin Williamson heralds GCSE grade bar for entry to university - Times Higher Education | THE Education to ‘broaden minds’: Is Ofsted chief inspector singing a new tune? - FE Week Ofsted chief: Teachers should not be policed by ‘militant activism’ - Schools Week Lifelong learning: Don't let Williamson restrict access - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Don’t let catch-up ‘bend schools out of shape’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers hit by ‘militant’ pupil violence says Spielman - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK ‘lost £1.5 billion’ Horizon 2020 funding after Brexit vote - Times Higher Education | THE Universities fear loss of overseas students over quarantine capacity - Financial Times £73m adult education budget tender outcomes delayed - FE Week Call to improve schools to level up ‘education deserts’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools can go ahead with `risk-assessed´ sports days - Mail Pupil premium 'stealth cut' will cost schools £90m - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: All exam boards in England to offer rebates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: ‘Most’ SQA course changes to continue next year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools lose £90m in pupil premium ‘stealth cut’, DfE admits - Schools Week Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon criticised for leaving pupils 'in limbo' over exams next year - Herald Scotland Williamson: The purpose of education is skills for work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is 'white privilege' to blame for education's ills? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don’t cancel sports days on our account, DfE tells schools - Schools Week Schools can run 'risk-assessed' sports days, says DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES First WorldSkills UK CPD event to feature in ‘Month of Learning’ - FE Week One Britain One Nation Day - what is it about? - The Sun Students: ‘Uni definitely not good value this year’ - BBC Covid-19: School proms hit by continuing lockdown restrictions - BBC SEND: Number of pupils on EHCPs up 10% in a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES First exam board confirms 42% discount on entry fees - FE Week First exam board confirms 42% discount on entry fees - Schools Week Transcript of Gavin Williamson's speech at the HEPI conference - DfE Transcript of Amanda Spielman's speech at the Festival of Education - Ofsted Teaching coding and critical thinking - Teacher Toolkit White working class pupils are the victims of over a decade of cuts – not the term white privilege - PoliticsHome Government loans have helped widen access to postgraduate study, but rising tuition fees threaten progress - Sutton Trust UUK responds to valuable feedback from Student Academic Experience Survey - Universities UK The Student Academic Experience Survey 2021 - HEPI Students highlight the challenges of their 2021 academic experience - HEPI We’ve been tracking students’ views for 15 years. But it has never been so important to listen to them as it is in 2021 - HEPI Improving the connectivity of research on teaching assistants: Creating a new space for researchers - BERA Students highlight the challenges of their 2021 academic experience - Advance HE The Student Academic Experience Survey 2021 highlights how students value in-person teaching - Advance HE UK students say degrees represent “poor value” for money - PIE News UKRI paves the way for a future engineering biology programme - Cambridge Network The Knowledge Exchange Framework must recognise that knowledge comes in all shapes and sizes - Wonkhe Universities got more than they paid for. Students didn’t - Wonkhe Widening postgraduate participation – we need to talk about fees - Wonkhe Alternative Scottish school assessments ‘akin to gaslighting’, MSPs told - Scotsman Impact of pandemic on children’s wellbeing not yet known, says former recovery tsar - Independent Lowering standards and ignoring spelling and grammar errors does not help, universities watchdog says - Mail Why ‘self-isolate’ is the phrase every parent dreads: Do pupils really need to stay off school - Mail Students say uni poor value for money this year - BBC Government dismisses childcare funding petition signed by 110,000 - Nursery World 2 Almost half of undergraduates say their courses are 'poor or very poor' value for money during Covid pandemic - Mail Half of UK university students think degree is poor value for money - Guardian Wokeism has infected our universities and schools – it’s an insidious movement - The Sun Rising master’s fees ‘could scupper progress on access’ - Times Higher Education | THE Short-term study trips ‘still bring major benefits’ - Times Higher Education | THE UK student satisfaction collapses as pandemic drags on - Times Higher Education | THE Pandemic will force changes to next year’s GCSEs and A-levels - The Times One Nation song in dischord but Boris Johnson sings its praises - The Times Fear for English children living in ‘education deserts’ - The Times Levelling up must start with our sinking schools - The Times Patriotic song for One Britain One Nation Day as Scottish schools close dubbed ‘imperial stupidity’ - The Times Instituting a skills development culture - FE News FLiTE Summer Newsletter - UCET