News archive for 3rd March 2021

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Parents furious as schoolkids told if they don’t wear masks they’ll have to sit at back of class - The Sun Warnings of 'chaotic scenes' when all children in Wales go back to school before Easter - Mirror Pupils face 'mask apartheid' as those who refuse told to sit at back of class - Telegraph Developing employability skills from an experiential learning residential - Advance HE EEF publishes three new evaluation reports - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Reskilling and upskilling talent will go some way to ensuring we are able to recover in an effective and sustainable way - Pearson The EEF’s approach to Covid-19 impacted evaluations - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivers Spring Budget to Parliament - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Jisc appoints new director of research and innovation strategy - Jisc Boris Johnson’s roadmap to recovery: When will schools be reopening? Everything you need to know - Evening Standard UK universities facing 'unaffordable' hike in pension contributions - Guardian Tes FE Awards 2021: Meet the judges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Scotland: Chief inspector and SQA boss hit back at MSPs - Herald Scotland Free data: The mobile operators supporting students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: School return chance for more pupils before Easter - BBC Study undermines claim philosophy boosts maths and reading skills - Guardian Exams 2021: Key questions that need to be answered - Times Educational Supplement | TES Budget 2021: Business rates relief extension will include nurseries - Nursery World NYA lays out ‘roadmap’ to reopen youth work settings - CYPN | Children & Young People Now World Hearing Day: Government urged to fund specialist therapy for deaf children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Budget 2021: Training providers praise jobs boost for under-25s - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Catch 22 launches hospitality apprenticeship scheme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ESFA Update: 3 March 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Russell Group response to the 2021 Budget - Russell Group Edinburgh schools racism report calls for 'decolonisation' of the curriculum - Scotsman Sunak's flagship Budget policy risks squeezing out young people - FE Week Covid Scotland: Teachers and students face 'intense' period of assessments - Herald Scotland UK universities fear more strikes as USS pensions crisis deepens - Times Higher Education | THE UK budget: Sunak pledges new visa route and freezes fee cap - Times Higher Education | THE Telecoms firms extend free data offer to FE students - FE Week FE providers to receive free batch of face masks to aid reopening - FE Week ASCL Cymru responds to wellbeing check-in sessions announcement for Welsh schools - ASCL ASCL comment on Budget 2021 - ASCL Reaction to Budget 2021 - Collab Group Increased pension costs risk pricing university staff out of USS - Universities UK UCU response to USS trustee update - UCU UCU responds to Budget statement - UCU Budget 2021: Increased incentives for apprenticeships and traineeship boost welcomed - AELP Voice Community Cymru statement on return to schools before Easter - Voice NEU comment on Budget 2021 - National Education Union Is education a discipline? - BERA Russell Group response to USS Trustee report on pensions - Russell Group Academy chain's £12m Covid bill - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for post-Covid rethink on school funding formula - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wellbeing of teachers must not be forgotten as children return to school, urge psychologists - BPS | British Psychological Society Celebrating colleges - Careers & Enterprise Company UCL Institute of Education ranked world number one for Education in QS subject rankings - IOE London Blog The Budget should have tackled the deep structural problems with apprenticeships - FE Week Budget 2021: What it means for education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Budget 2021: 'Missed opportunity' to help schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA and Education Scotland defend their performance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning of pupil 'fear of overload’ on school return - Times Educational Supplement | TES Online learning: How teachers can focus on safeguarding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Statement on Budget 2021 - Voice The Budget - NFER welcomes support for employers hiring new apprentices - NFER Budget 2021: What the chancellor announced for FE and skills - FE Week Budget 2021 a ‘missed opportunity’ with no extra funding for schools - Schools Week Schools have 'courage' to replace GCSEs, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Budget 2021: £126m to triple traineeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Prioritise on attendance, assessment and recovery over time, schools urged - SecEd No new money for Covid recovery: Disappointment as Rishi Sunak's Budget snubs schools - SecEd Is this the perfect time to scrap all pointless admin? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kids Planet to take on Oxford University nurseries - Nursery World How should writing fit into the English curriculum? - The Learning Spy Headteachers warn of 'chaotic scenes' when all children go back to school' - Wales Online Watchdog fears public bodies will avoid statistical models following exam grading backlash - Schools Week Watchdog fears public bodies will avoid statistical models following exam grading backlash - FE Week How to help children with SLCN readjust to school life - Times Educational Supplement | TES Speed and scope are now crucial for the skills white paper - FE Week Build Back Better: Our plan for growth - FE News Leading academics call for a summer of play - Nursery World Council strips primary school governors of budget powers in row over teaching post - Wales Online Finnish ex-minister to lead International Baccalaureate - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don’t presume learning lost to Covid, says John Hattie - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we need to put pupils' friendships above learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid testing in schools will be impossible to enforce and of limited value. We shouldn't bother - Telegraph Back to school: 30% of pupils in attendance last week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Welsh students could 'check in' before Easter return - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former students to help chain run Covid tests inside schools - Evening Standard Giving kids a break is the best way for them to 'catch up' after a year of disruption | John McMullen - Guardian Academics face battle over pension scheme deficit - BBC Vaccines, R&D and the Budget - HEPI Universities face big rise in pension contributions as deficit quadruples - Financial Times The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) Bill - Wonkhe For assessment to count as authentic it must mean something to students - Wonkhe Most heads 'thinking of quitting amid Covid chaos' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The UK needs a German lesson in levelling up - Times Higher Education | THE Campuses urged to review ‘inexcusable’ PhD late-submission fees - Times Higher Education | THE Girls doing more housework in Covid lockdown than boys - Guardian Covid summer schools could target pupils starting secondaries or sixth form - Times - New Covid in Scotland: More children left waiting for mental health support - Times - New Covid in Ireland: Thousands of special needs children ‘being left behind’ - Times - New