News archive for 28th June 2021

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End the ‘madness’ of isolating children, Government warned - Telegraph We won’t force all football fans at Wembley to self-isolate, so why do it in schools? - Telegraph Play time like prison camp and supervised lavatory trips: the harsh reality of schools during Covid - Telegraph Ministers set to end automatic isolation for pupils in England - Guardian Javid seeks 'fresh advice' on school bubble isolation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Assume sex abuse is happening in schools, even if it’s not being reported, teachers told - Telegraph Parents are putting teachers under 'enormous pressure' to change pupils' school-assessed grades - Mail Ofsted changes FE handbook after sex harassment report - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE tells schools and colleges to prepare for return of on-site Covid testing in September - FE Week Covid in Wales: Moves to 'minimise' pupils self-isolating - BBC Parents ‘putting enormous pressure’ on teachers to change grades - Independent DfE tells schools to prepare for return of on-site Covid testing in September - Schools Week Bridging the UK digital divide - Teacher Toolkit The new NPQs: Your questions answered - Ambition Institute The ‘hidden data’ that could boost the UK’s productivity and job market - Nesta We cannot recover from COVID without the Arts and Humanities - HEPI NAHT Cymru comments on government plans for easing Covid-19 safety measures - NAHT Sports and PE premium update - NAHT Preventing and responding to sexual harassment and sexual violence between children and young people - NAHT Letters and Sounds update - NAHT ASCL Cymru comments on Education Minister’s statement on Covid-related absences in schools - ASCL Explained: Changes to Ofsted guidance to reduce sexual harassment in schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Inspections to look at how schools and colleges work to prevent sexual harassment, online sexual abuse and sexual violence - Ofsted Nicola Dandridge: Reflections on a challenging year and priorities for the future - Office for Students HE student mental health and wellbeing: sector insights - DfE Higher education and mental health: analyses of the LSYPE cohorts - DfE ESFA’s adult education budget tender results delayed… again - FE Week SAGE expert urges ministers to rethink school bubble isolation rules before the end of the summer term - Mail Teachers fuming after suggestion that self isolation rules are up to schools - Wales Online Firms must continue to strengthen inclusion and invest in skills and automation, the long-term solutions to staff shortages - FE News More needs to be done to encourage girls into sport, new study shows - Leeds Beckett University Innovative Higher Education - preparing students for life in a very different 21st Century - Edge Foundation The ‘hidden data’ that could boost the UK’s productivity and job market - Learning & Work Institute Greater scale of ambition needed for quality jobs and skills - Learning & Work Institute Notice the small things - UKEdChat Resetting the basics and restoring resilience - SecEd Employer experiences and supporting learners with transition into work - Education & Training Foundation UK HE exercising caution over use of aggregators - PIE News Millions of children missing out on vital send support, Sencos say - CYPN | Children & Young People Now REC success at University of Nottingham: "The real journey starts here" - Advance HE Ofsted confirms inspection changes following sexual abuse review - FE Week Digital Xtra Fund: Schools’ lack of computing teachers is a major error - Herald Scotland Ofsted to assess schools' use of Covid catch-up tutors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex harassment: How Ofsted inspections will change - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to judge schools use of tutors in host of inspection changes ahead of September return - Schools Week Why the OECD review needs to be taken seriously - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gangs warning for pupils missing majority of school - BBC Nearly 100,000 pupils failed to return to education full-time, report finds - Independent Green: Extended school day could be used to teach more ‘life skills’ - Schools Week Rethink school Covid bubble rules, says SAGE expert - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A-levels: Warning over 'striking' inconsistency on grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools can decide their own Covid rules under Welsh Government plans - Wales Online What education minister Jeremy Miles said about coronavirus - Wales Online Early years inspection handbook for Ofsted-registered provision - Ofsted Per-pupil funding for ASN children drops - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands more children now eligible for free school meals - Wales Online Per-pupil funding for children with additional support needs drops - Herald Scotland Movers and Shakers: Edition 358 - FE Week Teacher demands end of 'cruel' 'policy of sending children home to self-isolate - Wales Online High-street names cite cost as they exit apprenticeship training market - FE Week Here’s what you need to know about staff with ‘gender critical’ views - FE Week Entire student houses caught cheating in online university exams - Telegraph Tens of thousands of pupils isolating as Covid cases rise 70% in schools - Metro School lab closure will hit science's future, RSC warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most teachers are against scrapping GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid cost for new science teachers revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘I feel left behind’: graduates struggle to secure good jobs - Financial Times Forget digital versus non-digital – it’s about making higher education as good as it can be - Wonkhe Student experience during the pandemic could have been worse - Wonkhe A curriculum for a complex world – students’ views on digital literacy in the curriculum - Wonkhe Is higher education in England financially stable? - Wonkhe State of education the biggest example of failure of Scottish devolution - Scotsman Shock report reveals 100,000 pupils failed to return to education full-time when their schools reopened - Mail Will UK PM’s new science council start ‘picking winners’? - Times Higher Education | THE Ten-day Covid isolation will be scrapped to end Scottish school disruption - The Times Tories accuse education secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville of ‘flip-flopping’ on school tests - The Times Tourists and new crops: pupils told to look for benefits from climate change - The Times Irish students in rush for ‘safety net’ of UK universities - The Times Covid in Ireland: First-year students carry on despite stresses of online learning - The Times Covid in Ireland: No refund for students over online learning at University College Dublin - The Times