News archive for 29th June 2021

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What madness! We are robbing our children of their childhood with Covid shambles - Mail Revolt over proposal to set up Covid testing centres in schools from September - Mail Pupils could be regularly screened for Covid in bid to tackle absences - Mail One in five councils still making secondary school pupils wear masks - Telegraph Learning to live with Covid must see pupils kept in schools and not sent home - Mirror How will the new schools Covid testing system work? - Telegraph School self-isolation hitting poor pupils hardest - Telegraph Staggering 1 in 20 pupils off school and self-isolating because of Covid contact - The Sun Lockdowns leave half of teenagers battling anxiety and trauma - Telegraph Children face being ‘robbed’ of summer as camps fall foul of Covid bubble rules - Telegraph ‘Children are not guinea pigs’: parents and teachers on plans to stop self-isolation in England - Guardian Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 29/6 - Times Educational Supplement | TES England looks at autumn end to pupil self-isolation as absences rocket - Financial Times The Guardian view on schools and Covid: falling down - Guardian Williamson working to 'relax' school Covid measures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banning phones can be ‘very easy’, say some schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson working to ‘relax Covid measures in schools’ - Schools Week School absences due to Covid at highest rate since March - Independent Massive rise in kids missing school due to Covid with one in 20 now absent - Mirror The new model music curriculum: A step far enough? - BERA Coherence and stability: SFC’s third phase - Wonkhe More pupils sent home as Covid disruption soars - BBC Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak – 23 March 2020 to 24 June 2021 - DfE Scotland eyes collaboration for ‘geographic and sector coherence’ - Times Higher Education | THE Rachel Hewitt named next MillionPlus chief executive - Times Higher Education | THE Sir Kevan: 10,000 schools need longer days immediately - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Intensification of Islamophobia' in Scottish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Seven key changes ex catch-up tsar wanted to make revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES New safeguarding support from the ETF - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Learners take the lead – prompted by practitioner action research - Education & Training Foundation Ransomware attack: what we learned and how we recovered - Jisc Education recovery advisor quit after asking Boris Johnson for £15bn but was offered "feeble" £1.4bn - PoliticsHome Education secretary Williamson proposes ban on mobile phones in schools - Public Technology Does FE have a blind spot when it comes to talking about the attainment gap amongst the white working class? - FE News The pressures of increasing cases – plus One Britain, vaccines and teacher sports day races! - Teacher Tapp Integrating evidence into mathematics teaching – making use of manipulatives - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Williamson launches consultation on behaviour in schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Collins calls for 10-year education catch-up plan funded through pupil premium - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MillionPlus appoints Rachel Hewitt as Chief Executive - MillionPlus ASCL comment on Week 26 school attendance statistics - ASCL Government must get a grip over plans for September - ASCL UCU comment on Scottish Funding Council coherence and sustainability review - UCU Global Equality Collective – world's first app for diversity, equality and inclusion - NAHT NEU comment on self-isolation and schools - National Education Union State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 March 2021 - Ofsted NEU comment on attendance data - National Education Union School's Covid testing pilot helped 500 pupils and staff avoid isolation - HuffPost Use of remote Oak Academy lessons soars by up to 249% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who asked pupil to be his girlfriend - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch-up: The government can’t ignore level 2 students anymore - Times Educational Supplement | TES One thousand pupils sent home from school to self-isolate - Wales Online One in 20 children missed school in England due to Covid as cases rise 66% - Guardian Recovery plan for pupils in England is ‘feeble’, former catch-up tsar says - Guardian Ousted school tsar blasts 'feeble' catch-up - and unveils plan Boris Johnson rejected - Mirror Student Loans Company seeks strategic partner to support technology strategy - Student Loans Company Ministers should consider college public sector status - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary school attendance is lowest since March with nearly 400,000 pupils off - Mail Poorest pupils 'vanished' in lockdown as they skipped school to find food, says teacher - Mirror Behaviour hubs - DfE Four-fold rise in Covid school absence in a fortnight - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship providers ‘seething’ over budget delays - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch-up effort ‘a bit feeble’, says Sir Kevan Collins - Times Educational Supplement | TES Attendance: 1 in 20 pupils absent due to Covid as isolations soar - Schools Week Ex-education tsar Kevan Collins brands Government Covid catch-up plan for pupils 'feeble' - Evening Standard Student forced to isolate 3 days after tenancy slams letting agent for charging £300 - Mirror Covid-related pupil absence hits record high of 375,000 - Telegraph Blended learning to stay at universities and colleges - Herald Scotland Covid cases in schools are veering out of control - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: 85% of Scotland’s teachers to be jabbed by next term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ex-recovery tsar describes government’s catch-up plan as ‘a bit feeble’ - Schools Week ‘Stop wasting their lives!’ Isolation for pupils must end, say schools - Evening Standard Ex-education tsar Kevan Collins brands Government Covid catch-up plan for pupils 'feeble' - Mail Covid Scotland: EIS urges 'caution' over moves to scrap pupils isolating - Scotsman Education: Is going private the best way to go? - Herald Scotland Mobile phones could be officially banned in schools under new government plans - Mirror Heads’ ‘chaos’ warning on September school testing plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Change isolation rules ‘now’ not autumn, urges MAT boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES School bubbles should be scrapped so pupils can go back to class - The Sun New transatlantic partnership aims to accelerate digital transformation in FE - Jisc School isolation rules likely to end in autumn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid rules that force whole school classes to quarantine set to be axed in weeks - The Sun Second-generation ethnic minorities are achieving great success in education, but this does not translate into equal success in the labour market - Nuffield Foundation Pupils face immediate school-wide mobile phone ban to combat class chaos - Express Teachers say bubble closures are 'relentless' as thousands more pupils made to isolate - Mirror Covid isolation may be scrapped for most school pupils with decision by July 19 - Mirror Self-isolating students in end-of-tenancy 'nightmare' - BBC School isolation rules could end in autumn, minister confirms - HuffPost Major changes to Covid isolation rules expected in schools from autumn - Metro Fewer than 1% of students study books by people of colour at GCSE - Metro Ofsted: Assume sexual harassment is happening in schools - Mail How should our kids end the school year? In Belgium they’d sing drinking songs - Guardian Schools in England could scrap coronavirus rules as soon as autumn - Express The Church of England wants to serve a new generation as we have always done - FE Week Immigrant children twice as likely to graduate than white peers – but they still struggle for a job - Telegraph New Advance HE report – Black Lives Matter and the student voice - Advance HE Second-generation ethnic minorities are achieving great success in education, but this does not translate into equal success in the labour market - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS How can speech and language therapists help nurseries catch up this year? - Sutton Trust ASCL comment on school behaviour consultation - ASCL Behaviour management in schools - National Education Union Only 5% of state school governors in England from ethnic minorities – report - Guardian Behaviour management strategies, in-school units and managed moves: call for evidence - DfE Education Secretary launches call for evidence on behaviour in schools - DfE Scottish schools: The three questions the Scottish Government must answer - Herald Scotland Covid Scotland: EIS urges 'caution' over moves to scrap pupils isolating - Scotsman What should be the Q in PQA? - Wonkhe Gendered education policy does more harm to white working-class girls than discussing ‘white privilege’ - Wonkhe Automatic Covid isolation for school pupils ‘to end from September’ - Independent Mobile phone ban plan to improve school behaviour - BBC GCSEs: 'Not enough' diverse novels in English lit exam - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson wants teachers' tips for 'calm' classrooms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: School isolation rules could end in autumn - BBC Children could avoid disruption to lessons by being screened for Covid more often - Mail Schools ‘to become mobile phone-free zones’ under proposal after fears over use could ‘damage’ children’s well-being - The Sun DfE behaviour consultation seeks views on mobile phone bans - Schools Week Coronavirus: Ministers considering axing self-isolation for school pupils - Nursery World 2 Interview: Claire Cobain, Headteacher of Arlesdene Nursery School and Pre-school in Cheshunt - Nursery World 2 Analysis: The fallout from the Alliance investigation stokes calls for funding review - Nursery World 2 Ofsted updates early years inspection handbook ahead of EYFS reforms - Nursery World 2 Ban on mobile phones in English schools proposed by Gavin Williamson - Independent Europe to splash €35 billion on research in pandemic stimulus - Times Higher Education | THE Pupils face ban on mobiles to create 'calm classrooms' - Mail 10:00 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence from Sir Kevan Collins regarding education recovery - Accountability Hearings Education secretary wants ban on mobile phones in English schools - Guardian Pupils face total ban on mobile phone use - The Times Daily Covid tests for schoolchildren hold key as number forced to isolate soars - The Times GCSE pupils fail to study books by women - The Times