News archive for 12th March 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 12 March 2021 - Education Eye John Swinney at centre of new secrecy row over education report - Herald Scotland Scotland education: Planned strike action by college lecturers next week suspended - Herald Scotland Education Secretary faces legal challenge over face masks in the classroom - Telegraph Government asks Capita for cash back over cancelled SATs - Schools Week Law forcing schools to cut uniform costs a step closer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government will not be scrapping GCSEs, education secretary says - Independent DfE: Turing scheme 'better value for taxpayers' money' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers asked to Covid contact trace over Easter break - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the Turing scheme is no replacement for Erasmus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pillow talk – 'emotional' Williamson on schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Take that, Erasmus! Boris launches £110m post-Brexit global work scheme for students - Express School uniforms: MPs back law aiming to cut costs - BBC What Gavin Williamson told heads today - Times Educational Supplement | TES As schools return, vulnerable children must not be left behind - Social Market Foundation | SMF Professor Steve West CBE, DL elected as next UUK President - Universities UK We are together: students supporting the national effort against Covid-19 - Universities UK Cuts to ODA will limit UK universities’ role in solving global challenges - Universities UK ASCL President's keynote to annual conference 2021 - ASCL Gap in participation at higher-tariff universities narrows - Russell Group 'I thought there'd be more mischief': schools return in England - Guardian Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted News Podcast: First week back - how did it go? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Secretary addresses ASCL conference - DfE A plan for an adult skills and lifelong learning revolution: Education Committee publishes Government response to report - UK Parliament Entire school year sent home to isolate after Covid outbreak in first week back - The Sun Entire year of 230 students is sent home from school after positive Covid tests - Mail Where next for industrial strategy? - Policy Exchange UK: applications open for Turing Scheme funding - PIE News Inside the government’s plan to take tutoring mainstream - Schools Week Teacher ‘prestige’ at ‘the core’ of education reform - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Turing scheme could help students see the world: here's how it works - Telegraph School uniforms: No outright ban on ‘sole supplier’ deals, says Gibb - Schools Week Rae Tooth: The charity boss fighting for social justice - Times Educational Supplement | TES University advice against using 'mother' and 'father' - BBC 'Unacceptable' school meal with half 'raw' potato slammed as Marcus Rashford shares pic - Mirror Law to end school uniform rip-off and save parents up to £340-a-year backed by MPs - Mirror Students have missed out on the ‘university experience’ due to Covid-19, admits minister - Evening Standard Soas students call for director to resign over use of N-word - Guardian Gavin Williamson on coping with 'lonely' leadership - BBC £3m pilot scheme aims to reduce youth reoffending in east London - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Should schools teach pupils about public sexual harassment? - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Seven in 10 positive Covid cases in school children likely to be wrong - Telegraph DfE sneaks in £25m saving with teaching school hubs switch - Schools Week Post-Covid education: Where do we go from here? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Consultation on 2021 SQA appeals process goes live - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson rules out scrapping GCSEs amid criticism of 'outdated' system - Mirror Positive lateral flow test results jumped by nearly 600 on day schools reopened - Evening Standard Students will be able to study and work anywhere in the world with new post-Brexit scheme - Scotsman 'Pointy-elbowed' parents who pressure teachers to boost kids' grades will widen the advantage gap - Telegraph Data analysis targets growth in the childcare sector - survey - Nursery World ‘Not every day has been brilliant’ – Williamson opens up about pandemic challenges - Schools Week Coronavirus: Nurseries and pre-schools start to receive home-testing kits - Nursery World Call for 'too clunky' pupil premium to be 'refocused' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the iQTS consultation is a golden opportunity - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can we teach boys not to become violent men? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Technology in teaching is a big opportunity – but it's how you use it that counts - Office for Students Black and Asian pupils three times less likely to have teachers who look like them - HuffPost GCSEs: We're 'absolutely' keeping them says Williamson - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch-up fund 'only scratches surface', says Williamson - Times Educational Supplement | TES School claimed furlough cash then gave £64k payout to head - Schools Week Gavin Williamson categorically rules out ditching GCSEs - Mail Deprived school has run full timetable of live lessons in lockdown - Wales Online The most popular Skills Toolkit courses revealed - FE Week When will universities open again? Where students fit into the Government road-map - Telegraph Turing scheme to open up global study and work opportunities - DfE Ofsted monitoring inspections find all schools taking ‘effective action’, but verdict ‘limited’ - Schools Week SNP warns Erasmus replacement scheme will leave 'Scottish students worse off' as applications open - Scotsman MPs across the House must unite to make school uniforms more affordable - PoliticsHome Reflections on learning and teaching during Covid - HEPI Misled by short-term performance in lessons: Applying the science of memory in the classroom - BERA Ex-skills minister criticises lack of T Level targets - FE Week Brexit victory! Boris Johnson launches new student exchange scheme with global outlook - Express Seven academy leaders now paid at least £250k - Times Educational Supplement | TES Salaries of our biggest academy chain chiefs revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Harris spends £750k on the wages of its top two earners - Times Educational Supplement | TES Alert over theft of teachers' pandemic pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reopening schools: DfE’s ‘illogical’ Covid testing policy puts pupils in isolation - Schools Week Why a five-term year works so well (as long as we all do it) - Schools Week ‘Absurd’: Small employers blocked from apprentice cash incentives - FE Week Erasmus row: Fears students will be worse off - Herald Scotland Podcast: China, graduate employment, wellbeing, attainment gaps - Wonkhe Varsity blues: Documenting the US admissions scandal - Wonkhe Bridging the trust gap – from engaged learners to lifelong relationships - Wonkhe 'Battered and weary' heads eye post-Covid regeneration - Times Educational Supplement | TES Turing student-exchange scheme opens for applications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Put wellbeing above academic progress, say most parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Turing Scheme: What is the Erasmus replacement? - BBC Boris Johnson's Brexit 'study abroad' scheme blasted for leaving students 'worse off' - Mirror BBC announces new Bitesize learning plans - BBC Turing grants confirmed as UK mobility scheme opens to bids - Times Higher Education | THE Parents pressure teachers for top GCSE grades - Times - New Turing scheme opens for bids - FE Week