News archive for 1st March 2021

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School textbooks to get Black Lives Matter makeover as Pearson launches new race guidelines - Telegraph Netflix has experimented with automatic subtitles for children’s shows in bid to boost literacy - Telegraph Gay academic was unfairly dismissed from Oxford Islamic Centre but not due to his sexuality, tribunal rules - Telegraph Early career framework reforms: overview - DfE National Reference Test 2021 - updated information for schools - DfE Face coverings in education - DfE Draft guidance for heads of centre, heads of department and teachers - Ofqual School governance update - DfE Education Secretary speech to FED National Education Summit - DfE Signs that more families missing out on first choice of secondary school - Mail 'No need' for Brazil Covid variant to hit 8 March plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Confusion over school Covid mask rules in England risks 'anarchy', says top Tory - Guardian Don’t hand out Covid testing kits to pupils’ families, DfE tells schools - Schools Week Covid Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney under pressure to support vaccination of teachers - Herald Scotland School summer holidays could be slashed in bid to help children catch up after Covid chaos - Express We care about evidence! Gavin Williamson slaps down Labour MP Toby Perkins in fiery Commons row over school closures - Express Schoolkids’ summer holidays could be slashed for years to catch up on lost school time, Gavin Williamson confirms - The Sun Rishi Sunak's Budget: what will it mean for FE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE cuts early career framework funding rates - Schools Week Why we can’t ignore the 16-19 attainment gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson wants 'far more schools' moving into MATs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Staggering return of universities will simply delay Covid outbreaks, study suggests - Telegraph Warning schools face 'mask anarchy' without rule change - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid catch-up tutoring scheme to reach 750,000 pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disadvantaged sixth form and college students are three whole A level grades behind their more affluent peers - Nuffield Foundation Blueprint for recovery and renewal in young people’s education and employment opportunities - Learning & Work Institute When it comes to teaching practice, sharing is caring - Teach First Survey of staff with specific safeguarding responsibility - Education & Training Foundation | ETF FETL publishes new Skills for Life action plan - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Student reviews tell the story of 2020 - Universities UK Local councillors sign letter to PM to extend free school meals - National Education Union Challenges that BAME student representatives encounter when trying to challenge racism - HEPI Children’s agency: What is it, and what should be done? - BERA DfE’s Covid-19 helpline goes down days before schools reopen - Schools Week Virtual conferences prioritised under Glasgow’s green plan - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus: Third of pupils won't get tested due to parents not granting permission - Mail Schools will reopen on March 8: Downing Street refuses to delay restart of face-to-face teaching - Mail Sustainability for everyone: Here and now - Advance HE Advance HE announces awardees for its Collaborative Development Fund - Advance HE IOE to deliver national professional development programme for early career teachers - IOE London Blog Ministers warned schools are at risk of 'mask anarchy' without clearer rules on face coverings - Mail Fewer London children get top secondary school choice after entrance tests for grammars were hit by pandemic - Evening Standard Teachers not at higher risk of contracting virus, study claims - Evening Standard Celebrating our network of careers champions - Careers & Enterprise Company Gavin Williamson won't rule out shorter school holidays to help kids catch up - Mirror Former education minister says schools are in danger of “mask anarchy” next week because face covering guidance is advisory - PoliticsHome Pearson releases Race and Ethnicity editorial guidelines to address systemic racism in education - Pearson Clarification of our planned approach for Standards Verification in 2021 - Pearson Survey shows 27% of students and graduates changed career plans due to COVID-19 - Jisc Ed Dev selected as a lead provider for the national rollout of the Early Career Framework in England - Education Development Trust | EDT EPI's disadvantage gap study reveals poorer 16-19 year olds behind their peers - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Do later school start times benefit students? - Teacher Toolkit Ambition Institute named as early career framework lead provider - Ambition Institute Six ways NQTs and mentors will get quality support from the early career framework - Ambition Institute Fog starts to clear on road ahead for HE - MediaFHE Coronavirus: Early years workers ‘overlooked’ again as they miss out on priority vaccination - EYE | Early Years Educator New Institute of Teaching 'is an unnecessary symbol' - Times Educational Supplement | TES All schools in England to reopen from Monday despite Brazil Covid variant - Mirror Covid: Teachers' risk 'similar' to other under-65s - BBC GCSEs: National Reference Tests to show Covid 'impact' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early career teacher trainers selected by DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Call to cancel qualifications for students staying on - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will pupils struggle to get back into a school routine? - Times Educational Supplement | TES National reference test 2021 pushed back to summer term - Schools Week ‘Worrying’ increases in mental health symptoms among primary school children – study - Nursery World How do we ensure disadvantaged kids don't lose out in England's new exam system? | Lee Elliot Major - Guardian Poorer students ‘three A-level grades behind better-off peers’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now De Souza embarks on children’s commissioner role vowing to 'listen to sector' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Early years leaders slam omission of staff from latest vaccination plans - CYPN | Children & Young People Now GCSEs and A levels 2021: What problems lie ahead? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools to get £1,200 for training each new teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES School shuts after one suspected coronavirus case only a week after re-opening - Wales Online Millions of families with school-age children to all get Covid tests from today - The Sun The reality of social distancing in schools revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson: Government ‘looking at’ how to get more schools into multi-academy trusts - Schools Week Huge variation in number of teachers who have had Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Masks in schools are 'ludicrous' - Government accused of breaking WHO guidance - Express Movers and Shakers: Edition 344 - FE Week Measuring the disadvantage gap in 16-19 education - EPI County lines: How young people are stolen from outside school and trafficked around the UK to sell drugs - HuffPost Integrating evidence into mathematics teaching - addressing assessment - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF My kids don’t believe they are going back to school – or a thing Boris Johnson says - Guardian Showing off the country’s skills is missing from the International Education Strategy - FE Week Scottish schools 'should reopen a month earlier' after Covid data shows big drop in hospitalisations - Telegraph A-levels: Poorer students 'three grades behind' - BBC It’s census time, and the sector has an important role to play - Wonkhe Why what we mean by “online learning” matters - Wonkhe Is Michelle Donelan deliberately trolling us now? - Wonkhe Three traps the edtech strategy must avoid at all costs - Schools Week Catch-up tutors snubbed by schools in North - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stark attainment gap in 16-19 education revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES The “disadvantage gap”: Poorer sixth-form students behind by three A-level grades - Times - New Online learning is not a compromise — it’s the future - Times - New Ireland: Children with special educational needs ‘left behind’ in phased return to school, campaigners say - Times - New Ireland: Schools criticise ministers for refusing to allow Bus Éireann to roll out bigger buses - Times - New