News archive for 17th March 2021

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Grades farce as pupils can see exam questions in advance - Mail Student banned for discrimination after saying ‘Rule, Britannia’ - Telegraph Schools are the best place to educate boys about how to respect women - Mirror Campaigners urge government food tsar to back two free school meals a day for all pupils - Mirror A-level and GCSE students will be able to see test papers in advance - Telegraph Bill to end union ‘closed shop’ clears first hurdle - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student Loans Company recruits technology professionals to help transform the delivery of student finance - Student Loans Company Amanda Spielman's speech at the ASCL Annual Conference 2021 - Ofsted Consultation on autumn series 2021 - Ofqual Advanced learner loans funding rules 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Maximum loan amounts for advanced learner loans designated qualifications 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 17 March 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeships: Why focusing on teachers is important - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteacher warns of less-known potential Covid symptoms after school outbreak - Mirror School rebuilding: DfE to announce 50 more projects this year - Schools Week Will Ofsted's curriculum focus help recovery, ask heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government laptop and internet fund fails to hit target - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reuniting children with grandparents will help them learn, Ofsted chief says - Telegraph Bristol University anti-Semitism row 'putting Jewish students off applying' - Telegraph Pupils given access to assessment materials used for grading after Easter break - Mail How to remake Britain: In search of common values - New Statesman 2021 assessment materials to be published online after Easter, DfE confirms - Schools Week Scotland: Proportion of pupils in school doubles - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid leaves teachers ‘drained and frustrated’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inspirational Rob Burrow MBE awarded honorary doctorate by Leeds Beckett University - Leeds Beckett University Hugh Baird College’s staff CPD day – a T Level model to replicate - Education & Training Foundation | ETF When do schools go back in Scotland? Date secondary pupils return - and Covid testing plan explained - Scotsman Primary school hit by 21 Covid cases with dozens of pupils isolating - Wales Online Sketchnoting as a pedagogical tool for teaching - Teacher Toolkit Anger as SNP sign EU study agreement after bloc rejected Scotland's Erasmus scheme plea - Express The future of the student voice? Policy, principles, practice - Advance HE All college leaders required to attend annual MOT meeting - FE Week Building children’s wellbeing and resilience in challenging times - Early Education Universities and FE colleges fear “Hunger Games” battle for students after pandemic - Social Market Foundation | SMF Study buddies? Competition and collaboration between higher education and further education - Social Market Foundation | SMF The risk of experiencing custody aged 16-18 - FFT Education Datalab Festival of Learning announces shortlisted award nominees for 2021 - Learning & Work Institute School that told Muslim girl her skirt was too short admit they were wrong - Mirror Dual coding – how can it be used in languages - UKEdChat Digital teaching and learning must remain long after lockdown is over - AoC | Association of Colleges Strikes to begin across all six Northern Ireland colleges over pay row - UCU Russell Group calls for clarity on funding for UK science and research - Russell Group Bahram Bekhradnia: The White Paper on free speech is intellectually flimsy - HEPI Further Education institutions are integral to helping the country to recover - Careers & Enterprise Company GCSEs & A-levels 2021: 'Car crash' plan to share test materials - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early Career Framework: everything you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher pay: Day of strike action in Northern Ireland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman warns lockdown has created an epidemic of demotivated children - Mail Gloucestershire University buys Debenhams store to use as lecture halls - Guardian Ofsted: A real-life horror story for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extending school time 'must not feel like a punishment' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers in England face 'epidemic' of demotivation in lockdown children - Guardian Scottish college strikes: Classes cancelled - Herald Scotland Children may 'not turn up' if school catch-up feels like punishment, Ofsted chief warns - Mirror How Covid revealed the massive flaws in the curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers face 'epidemic of demotivated children' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Landmark move to enshrine children's rights - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Boarding schools apologise ‘unreservedly’ over abuse - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual publishes proposals for autumn 2021 exam series - FE Week GCSEs 2021: 7 Ofqual proposals for Autumn exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual publishes proposals for autumn 2021 exam series - Schools Week Full Ofsted inspections won’t return until September - Schools Week Coronavirus: Government must take urgent action on children’s lost learning, says spending watchdog - Nursery World School catch-up schemes 'not reaching' disadvantaged children, NAO warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Deprived families describe “impossible choices” over remote education - SecEd Covid-19: The DfE has 'made far too many missteps' - SecEd Full Ofsted inspections won’t return until September - FE Week No return to normal Ofsted inspections until autumn - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE autumn exams: Fear of teacher ‘pressure’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Uni of South Wales postpones graduation ceremonies for second year - Wales Online Colleges 'face Hunger Games battle over students' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How international schools kept their soul during Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK university students accuse Covid patrol police of harassment - Guardian Five-year research programme finds Proficiency in English is central to understanding achievement amongst EAL learners - Bell Foundation Curriculum making as relational practice: A qualitative ego-network approach - BERA Universities warned not to 'inflate' their intakes amid rise in top grades - Telegraph The year ahead: What students can expect from the OfS - Office for Students NAO report on the DfE and support for children’s education during Covid - National Education Union ASCL responds to NAO report on support for education in pandemic - ASCL How the NTP is solving the northern tutoring challenge - Schools Week Profile: Asfa Sohail. Principal, Lewisham College - FE Week Modern languages are far from dead - Wonkhe Seven strategies for international growth in the post-pandemic world - Wonkhe Policing minister urges schools to teach boys how to treat women and girls with respect on Britain's streets - Mail Covid catch-up tutors meet no more than third of demand - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only 44% of catch-up tutoring helps poorest pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES How DfE Covid helpline failed as schools needed it most - Times Educational Supplement | TES £200m in catch-up cash taken out of education funds - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE’s Covid failures revealed: the NAO’s key findings - Schools Week OfS investigates ‘conditional unconditional’ offer ban ‘breaches’ - Times Higher Education | THE Ireland eyes global researchers under plan to double spending - Times Higher Education | THE Fewer than half of kids on flagship Covid tutoring scheme are the most needy - Mirror Grade hikes may swamp universities: Inflated marks for scrapped A levels could lead to record applications - Mail Spending watchdog blasts ministers over long-term adverse effects of children having lessons online during Covid lockdown - Mail Universities told not to swamp courses with students - BBC Schools Covid catch-up programme 'not reaching disadvantaged pupils' - Guardian Covid: Catch-up tuition not helping poorest pupils, says NAO - BBC The English teacher, Oxford University Press, and an accusation of heinous plagiarism - Independent Sarah Everard: Give boys lessons on how to respect women and girls, says minister - Times - New Universities warned about over-recruiting after record numbers apply - Times - New Pupils raise thousands for British teacher stranded in China - Times - New Scotland: Edinburgh University admits it failed student who killed herself - Times - New Scotland: Leading private schools admit failings over abuse of pupils - Times - New Ireland: HSE urges parents to stick to official websites for school Covid figures - Times - New Northern Ireland to ease lockdown and get all children back to school - Times - New