News archive for 18th March 2021

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DfE finally deletes pupil nationality and country of birth data - Schools Week One in 1,700 secondary school pupils tested positive for Covid after returning to classes last week - The Sun Ministers urged to end ‘Hunger Games’ fight between FE and HE - Times Higher Education | THE News briefing: GCSE and A-level 2021 grades - Ofqual’s 7 key points - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extremely vulnerable staff can return to work in April - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents must not 'negotiate' grades with teachers, warns Ofqual - Telegraph Teachers' decisions about A-level and GCSE grades are not up for negotiation - Mail White Paper examines how FE meets industry demand for software skills - Education & Training Foundation Employer and FE provider engagement: national retraining scheme - DfE ASCL annual conference 2021: Ofqual Chair Ian Bauckham, CBE speech - Ofqual Early years funding: spring 2021 and financial year 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Survey of childcare and early years providers and coronavirus (COVID-19): wave 3 - DfE Cost and outreach pilots evaluation - DfE Teachers working in supermarkets ‘to make ends meet’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE brings in temporary change to early years funding to provide 'reassurance' to nurseries and childminders - Nursery World Advance sight of exam board questions might be ‘good learning experience’ for pupils, says Ofqual chair - Schools Week Banned: Teacher who 'invented' assessment marks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sixteen golden nuggets from the December and February OfS board papers - Wonkhe David Willetts: ‘I find the concept of over-education repellent’ - Times Higher Education | THE Adam Habib to ‘step aside’ as SOAS director during racism probe - Times Higher Education | THE GCSEs and A-levels 2021 grade inflation will be 'unsustainable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK’s cut to research funding from overseas aid hits 70 per cent - Times Higher Education | THE Flexible learning fund pilot evaluation - DfE Ofqual chair: Exam grade evidence not a ‘topic for negotiation’ between teachers and students - Schools Week Charities join together to support healthy school holiday programme - Nursery World Pupil premium funding changes ‘wiping out’ Covid-19 catch up grants - CYPN | Children & Young People Now EEF responds to the NAHT survey on pupil premium funding - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF UUK: £1bn funding cut threatens UK “science superpower” position - PIE News How is school accountability linked to teacher stress? - FFT Education Datalab College board reviews service extended to July 2021 - Education & Training Foundation Report: Graduate outcomes in London - Social Market Foundation | SMF Black graduates get worse degrees and earn less than white peers - Social Market Foundation | SMF Teachers point towards school accountability as main driver of stress - Nuffield Foundation Strike ballot to open at prisons across England and Wales - UCU Graduate Outcomes statistics assessed by Official Statistics regulators - HESA UCU response to HEPI report on university admissions - UCU Decolonisation is a welcome contribution, but must not be enforced - HEPI GCSEs and A-levels 2021: No 'Weimar' grade inflation says Ofqual - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A-levels 2021: Don’t let parents sway grades teachers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Genetic nurture: A new approach to understanding genes, environment and education - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Balance: Where curriculum informs assessment - Teacher Toolkit Case study: Nucleargraduates - GOV.UK Celebrating 50,000 teachers: Meet 6 teachers from our community - Premier League Primary Stars Sir Kevan Collins: Covid has shown ‘weakness’ of ‘over-centralisation’ in education - Schools Week Over-centralisation revealed as weakness in education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why make it hard for teachers to find the right job? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Careers: Why students must not get lost in transition - Times Educational Supplement | TES How has Covid changed initial teacher education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES College Covid tests: 246 positives in first week back - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nicola Sturgeon challenged on Scotland's 'thousands of teachers on zero-hours contracts' - Scotsman Catch-up tsar not interested in 'scattergun gimmicks' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour calls on DfE to ‘guarantee’ free school meals support over Easter - Schools Week ‘Teach boys about relationships, don’t scapegoat them’: Plea for tolerance as school sex abuse site deluged with complaints - Evening Standard Is John Hattie about to change assessment forever? - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC: Meetings between ESFA and colleges "a good idea" - Times Educational Supplement | TES Higher Level Skills £5m ESF funding opportunity - ERSA Scotland: Children’s rights enshrined in law in historic passing of Bill - Nursery World Black graduates get worse degrees and earn less than white peers, report says - Independent Exclusions: Should a girl sit in class with her abuser? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Magazine podcast: Covid-19 pandemic one year on special - Times Educational Supplement | TES Just 0.06% of school Covid tests positive last week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Face masks for children are damaging more than just their mental health - Telegraph Small employer apprenticeship cap on starts to ‘reset’ next month - FE Week Students will be able to look up exam board questions before tests, officials say - Independent How is school accountability linked to teacher stress? - IOE London Blog Schools missing out on millions for poorer pupils, say head teachers - Guardian ASCL responds to UCL research on accountability and teacher stress - ASCL UCL on school accountability and stress - National Education Union Report: Where next for university admissions? - HEPI Curriculum making as relational practice: A qualitative ego-network approach - BERA New HEPI report demonstrates that moving away from the use of predicted grades in university admissions could harm, rather than benefit, fair admissions - HEPI Will shorter summer holidays become a 2021 reality? - Schools Week Coronavirus impact risks creating 'lost generation' - Herald Scotland Competition between HE and FE is doing more harm than good - Wonkhe Students have no viable route to claim fee refunds - Wonkhe Can libraries sustain a role in providing learning resources at scale? - Wonkhe England a world leader in teacher stress - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Ofsted pressure' increases stress for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primaries' catch-up cash 'wiped out' by funding shift - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for 'catch-up' fund to tackle disrupted learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pandemic funding for English primary schools absorbed by other cuts - Financial Times Ministers ‘abandoning’ poorest children as £180m pupil premium loss revealed - Schools Week Axeing predicted grades ‘may hinder, not help’ widening access - Times Higher Education | THE Be honest and take sides on big issues, universities told - Times Higher Education | THE How far can EU universities ride the post-Covid spending wave? - Times Higher Education | THE DfE: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (March 2021) - UCET Ask your mothers about sexual harassment, Magdalen College School head tells boys - Times - New Pupils will see GCSE and A-level questions early to level the playing field - Times - New Wimbledon private school is a hotbed of sexual violence, letter to head claims - Times - New