News archive for 19th March 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 19 March 2021 - Education Eye Private schools say anonymous reports of sexual abuse put them in 'difficult' position - Telegraph DfE to spend £7m on hundreds more school cost-cutting consultants - Schools Week Evaluation of the essential life skills programme - DfE Dedicated schools grant: very high deficit intervention - DfE Funding boost for construction skills bootcamps - DfE Area SEND inspections to restart - Ofsted Benefits of educating children at home examined - UK Parliament House of Lords goes woke! Peer demands 'repressive' school uniforms be scrapped - Express Ofsted may grade some schools next term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police warn students to avoid science website - BBC Free speech at universities under threat from 'creeping therapeutic culture' - Telegraph Staff need to feel valued - and pay is key to that - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrap primary school maths ability groups to boost future achievement - London School of Economics | LSE Why opening up access to the creative industries matters - Sutton Trust Do disadvantaged schools tend to be judged by Ofsted more highly for leadership and management than for overall effectiveness? - FFT Education Datalab The level of support offered to children with special educational needs is decided by a ‘postcode lottery’ - Nuffield Foundation The future of children’s food provision - Nuffield Foundation Increasing academic performance through mark withholding - Learning Scientists Launchpad: Ready for take-off! - Villiers Park Educational Trust ASCL responds to EPI report on SEND 'postcode lottery' - ASCL Geoff Barton to serve second term as ASCL leader - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools chase inner-city ‘drive’ - Times - New The Welsh Government has published a new framework for the Apprenticeship Commissioning Programme - NAHT The Welsh Government has published a new framework on a whole-school approach to emotional and mental well-being - NAHT EPI report on SEND postcode lottery - National Education Union NAO on public service pensions - National Education Union Geoff Barton to serve second term as ASCL General Secretary - ASCL BAME history to become mandatory part of Welsh curriculum, government says - Independent Teacher agency in enacting physical education in a period of curriculum change and reform in Ireland - BERA Geoff Barton to serve second term as ASCL leader - Schools Week Meet two award-winning college students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exclusions are never just about an individual child - Times Educational Supplement | TES Less than 10 parent-triggered Ofsted probes - Times Educational Supplement | TES NEU Cymru welcomes report on fair deal for supply teachers - National Education Union A year of Covid: We've all been doing the hokey cokey - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Almost 300 unregistered teachers in independent schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Weekly highlights: Exclusions, ECF, behaviour and more - Times Higher Education | THE Abolish 'repressive' schools uniforms, ministers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Almost 300 teachers unregistered in independent schools in Scotland - Herald Scotland Private schools are not the problem - tackling toxic teenage 'rape culture' starts at home - Telegraph Councils in deficit told to find SEND savings in exchange for £100m bailouts - Schools Week Tutoring scheme for England throws more money at the private sector - Guardian UK tutoring scheme uses under-18s in Sri Lanka paid as little as £1.57 an hour - Guardian Showing students GCSE tests in advance? No problem - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Childminders now able to order home-testing kits - Nursery World New research reveals the financial impact of Covid on early years settings - Nursery World Support for pupils with special educational needs is ‘erratic’ and ‘unequal’ - Nursery World Disadvantaged children missing out on SEND support, major research warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Holiday activities and food alliance launches to support local authorities - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 'This happens in Brazil, not Britain': academics in despair as global research funds pulled - Guardian Systemic racisms and barriers to success in Welsh schools, finds report - Wales Online Full SEND area Ofsted inspections to return from June - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Pushback against pressure on schools to handle appeals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted announces return of area SEND inspections - Schools Week Black history lessons to be made mandatory in Welsh schools - BBC Fact check: Is Ofsted more likely to praise poorer schools’ leaders? - Schools Week ‘All hell was breaking loose’: How hackers forced a mega college to close - FE Week Ofsted pilot to look at whether framework ‘tweaks’ are needed ahead of full inspections - Schools Week Black history lessons to become mandatory in Welsh schools - Guardian Robert Halfon MP comments on postcode lottery of special educational needs provision - UK Parliament ‘Their silence makes them complicit’: The realities of racism at university for Black students - Metro Report: Identifying pupils with special educational needs and disabilities - EPI Vital public services including schools and hospitals “face serious disruptions” as Private Finance Initiative ends - UK Parliament ‘Long overdue’: Colleges welcome ‘nurturing’ conversations with ESFA - FE Week Children returning to school has not led to rise in Covid infections, figures show - Telegraph Mental health: 'Difficult' to be a leader right now - Times Educational Supplement | TES Myth debunking: A post-Easter mass return to halls and rented houses - HEPI Pupils in England less likely to get special needs support in poorer areas - Guardian Minister accused of misrepresenting new level 3 adult offer - FE Week Investigation: 'Come clean' on funding hole DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A-levels 2021 - huge learning loss revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Flimsy’ medical evidence for Greenwich schools Covid legal threat revealed - Schools Week £22m from recovery premium to ‘accelerate’ numeracy and literacy progress - Schools Week Podcast: Science, admissions, protest, tertiary - Wonkhe It’s good news for students in halls in London - Wonkhe Paging Dr Beat – Dance your PhD is back - Wonkhe Average teacher pension drops by 10% since 2000 - Times Educational Supplement | TES School PFI contract end may spark 'serious disruption' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academies 'identifying fewer pupils with SEND' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Postcode lottery' in SEND support, report reveals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Families facing special education needs 'postcode lottery' - BBC UK launches national centre to accelerate AI use in universities - Times Higher Education | THE PM’s intervention ‘only way to stop’ £1 billion UK research cut - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland: Aberdeen University student banned from union for saying Rule Britannia in debate - Times - New