News archive for 10th March 2021

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Cambridge University issues 'stark warning' over toll of pandemic on young people's mental health - Mail State school in east London gets more Oxbridge offers than Eton - Mail Universities ‘plugging the gaps’ in NHS services as poll suggests decline in mental health for most students - Independent Concern raised over kids wearing masks all day when back at school - Wales Online London state school gets more Oxbridge offers than Eton College for first time - Telegraph Spielman: Don't 'skid across everything' to catch-up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Pupils give their perspective on life during Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers sent threatening letters from parents against Covid face masks - Mirror Pension regulator under fire over university fund valuation - Financial Times Hit on pupil premium 'offsets' catch-up cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Insufficient' focus on school ventilation, say experts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Government 'balancing harms' on reopening education - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE warned over 'attack' on poorest school budgets - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA under fire: Exams body 'so untrusted', MSPs warned - Herald Scotland Report: All models are wrong, some of these might be useful - FFT Education Datalab Quick catch-up or recovery over time? A systems perspective on the pandemic (part 1) - IOE London Blog ‘Crushing pressure’: More than half of women say wellbeing damaged by home-schooling children during lockdown - Independent Scotland: Dates primary and secondary pupils return and Covid testing plan explained - Scotsman Why FE people need to be part of policymaking - Times Educational Supplement | TES UUK: Avoid non-disclosure agreements in sexual misconduct cases - Times Higher Education | THE V-cs seek review of planned hike in USS pension contributions - Times Higher Education | THE Funding plea as student mental health nosedives during pandemic - Times Higher Education | THE Changes to the payment process of schools’ business rates - DfE GCSE modern foreign languages (MFL) subject content review - DfE Proposals for future assessment arrangements for GCSE French, German and Spanish - Ofqual ESFA Update: 10 March 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Coronavirus (COVID-19) workforce fund for schools and colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency Conditions of acceptance for apprenticeship training providers (until 9 May 2021) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Education Committee to question Government’s Youth Mental Health Ambassador Dr Alex George - UK Parliament MSPs demand more time in school for secondary students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Physical learning to support children’s mental health - Teacher Toolkit Strict compliance with guidance required as pupils return - NASUWT Why is extremism even more of a risk in times of Covid? - Education & Training Foundation University College Birmingham becomes Society for Education and Training Corporate Partner - Education & Training Foundation Action research at Tameside College - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Secondary school re-opening: Good attendance and mask-wearing amid testing confusion - SecEd Almost one million children learning in classes of 31 or more pupils - SecEd Generate to stimulate reluctant writers - UKEdChat Edge response to Pearson consultation on assessment - Edge Foundation University mental health teams 'plugging the gaps' in NHS services - Universities UK Is your college making use of two new cyber security tools yet? - AoC | Association of Colleges England’s teaching school ‘super-hub’ policy: Policy meets practice - BERA Alternative EYFS guidance Birth to 5 Matters prepares for launch at the end of March - EYE | Early Years Educator Budget 2021: What you need to know about how it will affect young people - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Many children lack the motor skills required for learning, says new study - EYE | Early Years Educator Covid-19: False test results 'ruining' return to school - BBC Education: New immersive classroom is 'transformative' for pupils - Herald Scotland No MFL bursary boost despite teacher shortage - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why children and parents should understand schools cannot be “Covid-secure” - New Statesman Mental health, well-being and school leadership: tips and tools in Covid times - NAHT Doctor accuses Government of ruining kids' education after son is sent home after just one day - Mail From Covid kids to generation grit - New Statesman Don't pay private heads less - pay state heads more - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of pupils in classes of 31 or more soared over past decade, analysis finds - Independent T levels are here to stay, says Labour's Toby Perkins - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE proposes school business rates change to cut ‘substantial bureaucracy’ - Schools Week Exams 2022: Next year’s A-levels and GCSEs will be easier to help pupils disrupted by Covid - The Sun In Year 8, only one student was wearing a mask - Times Educational Supplement | TES MAT spent £2.3m on severance and redundancy payouts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Profile: Eleanor Harrison, CEO, Impetus - Schools Week Children may not be ‘physically’ ready to start school - study - Nursery World Sacrifices made by children have hit mental health, says Gavin Williamson - Evening Standard How many more pupils are feeling angry about Covid? - Times Educational Supplement | TES T level recruitment targets for digital 'unrealistic' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Plans for new ‘streamlined’ MFL courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils ‘expected to know’ up to 1,700 words under reforms to MFL GCSEs - Schools Week The voices of ASN pupils must be heard during Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES The university rent scandal: how students have been left picking up the pandemic bill - Telegraph Exams plan for schools: What we know about 2021 A-levels and GCSEs - Telegraph Children Covid tests: Difference between lateral flow & PCR test plus isolation rules change - Express Thousands of students at risk of losing out on ‘community language’ A-levels and GCSEs, report says - Independent Reflecting on the value of higher education - HEPI Will teachers get a pay rise in 2021? - Metro Fallacy of schools 'catch up' narrative ignores steep learning curve our children have overcome - Scotsman The UK’s international education strategy needs to be genuinely world leading - Wonkhe Scaling up gender diversity in the university spinout ecosystem - Wonkhe What’s going on with part-time study in Wales? - Wonkhe For digitally capable students, the sky’s the limit - Wonkhe Hard-left teaching union boss sensationally admits she was ‘wrong’ to rubbish schools Covid testing blitz - The Sun GCSEs 2021: Language teachers upset at DfE 'blind spot' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrapping GCSEs would be a major set back for lifelong learning - FE News Black staff ‘get least benefit’ from UK Race Equality Charter - Times Higher Education | THE Strike warning over Birmingham’s ‘up or out’ probation plan - Times Higher Education | THE Pupils can ‘ask teachers to hand out better grades’ - Times - New Covid in Scotland: Senior pupils return ‘for just half a day’ - Times - New Move over, Eton: east London state school receives record number of Oxbridge offers - Times - New