News archive for 11th March 2021

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Manchester schools to launch study into children's wellbeing after Covid - Guardian Attainment gap between black students and their white peers 'too high', watchdog warns - Mail Heads in England fear pushy parents will demand better exam grades - Guardian The secret of the state school that has more success than Eton - Telegraph 'Pointy-elbow' parents emailing teachers to boost exam grades - BBC How a school project evolved into a top edtech company - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Hard to repair damage' from DfE's threats to schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers ‘feel deaf’ trying to hear pupils in masks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keegan: Reopening to all learners an 'amazing success' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Complex allocations for the ‘targeted level 3 adult offer’ revealed - FE Week How Brampton Manor Academy in deprived area outstripped posh Eton for Oxbridge offers - The Sun Disadvantaged pupils hit by ‘discriminatory’ English funding change - Financial Times Primary school teacher who was totally drunk left open can of Stella in her class - Wales Online Ofsted chief Spielman wants more time in job - Times Educational Supplement | TES Loss of Erasmus 'ideological assault' by Tories - SNP - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are 'soggy' masks making classrooms safer, ask heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rethink of 6 week summer break 'legitimate', say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Understanding the difference you make: An evaluation toolkit for adult learning and career change programmes - Learning & Work Institute Why every teacher should be a philosophy teacher - Learning Scientists Quick catch-up or recovery over time? A systems perspective on the pandemic (part 2) - IOE London Blog Proportion of NEET young men hits seven-year high - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Prioritise education to tackle pandemic-fuelled inequality, say public - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Schools face ‘tough choices’ about what to teach, says Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman - EYE | Early Years Educator MPs to debate petitions relating to the impact of covid-19 on education - UK Parliament Evaluation of access and participation plan reforms - Office for Students NEET statistics annual brief: 2020 - DfE Improving educational outcomes for learners with specific learning difficulties - GOV.UK Implementing the 2019 review of post-18 education and funding - GOV.UK Changes to the publication of statistics on further education and skills inspections and outcomes - Ofsted Ruth Davidson pregnancy video: Watchdog explains decision to clear teacher - Herald Scotland No detriment seems to have helped disadvantaged students attain their potential - Wonkhe UKRI: most aid-funded research grants face axe after budget cut - Times Higher Education | THE Exams 2021: Leaders fear pressure from parents with ‘pointy elbows and lawyer friends’ - Schools Week Magazine podcast: Vaccines, silence, feedback - Times Educational Supplement | TES Allow school trips in summer term, UK outdoor education centres say - Guardian FE white paper: Employer casts doubt on chambers of commerce leading role - FE Week Covid testing for parents: How to get lateral flow tests for parents - Express More than one-third of teachers have lost enthusiasm for the job since pandemic began, poll suggests - Independent Teachers six-day strike over pensions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sturgeon: Return of pupils to go ahead from Monday - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Swinney under fire after second no-confidence vote - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge exams could stay online after Covid pandemic - Telegraph Why talk of catch-up tells pupils that they're damaged - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Strange' lack of positives from school Covid tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: How to give fair teacher-assessed grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES An alternative Covid roadmap for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES We must remake education - just as we did after the war - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top universities cut places for better-off applicants - Times - New Spielman says deprived schools’ lower grades offset by leadership praise - Schools Week Mental health conditions triple for Neet young people - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rod Grant: The school calendar is my biggest priority for change - Times Educational Supplement | TES The £18m allotted to help young children catch up post-Covid will get us nowhere - Telegraph As Oxbridge welcomes more state school students, Etonians might be better off in America - Telegraph School sparks chaos after sending positive Covid test results to wrong pupils in blunder - The Sun How will schools catch up on routine vaccinations? - Times Educational Supplement | TES London state school gets more Oxbridge offers than Eton - Metro Dear Mr Williamson and Mr Zahawi… - HEPI If we really care about social mobility, we can’t forget about 16-19 year olds - Sutton Trust Top state school in east London gets more Oxbridge offers than Eton - Evening Standard Meeting expectations of student services in the next normal - Wonkhe State school gets more Oxbridge offers than Eton with 55 pupils securing spots - Mirror Call for deprived areas to develop home grown teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Up to 250,000 school pupils could be wrongly ordered to self-isolate after receiving 'false positive' Covid test - Mail Universities must pay the legal costs of exposing their mistakes - Times Higher Education | THE V-cs push for students to return to English campuses next month - Times Higher Education | THE Parents stop children being tested for Covid at school over fears of false results - Times - New