News archive for 22nd March 2021

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Coronavirus lockdown: Devastating audit shows how a year of restrictions has left poorer pupils struggling to cope - Mail The Guardian view on public sector jobs: keep gig economics out - Guardian Williamson behaviour boost claim 'flimsy', say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning 'dominant' academy bosses go unchallenged - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales goes its own way! Ministers launch new Erasmus-style scheme for students - Express NAHT School Leaders' Summit, Ofqual Chief Regulator Simon Lebus - Ofqual Lower reconciliation threshold for ESFA grant funded providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Russell Group welcomes review into research bureaucracy - Russell Group The Fair Access Coalition: 10 requirements for a fair admissions process - HEPI NEU comment on teacher labour market report - National Education Union University of Central Lancashire strikes off as university agrees to suspend redundancies - UCU Systematic racism in Scottish education must be addressed - NASUWT GCSEs 2021: Teachers frustrated by grades guidance wait - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A-levels 2021: How to make grading work - Times Educational Supplement | TES 76% of teachers think they should get vaccine priority - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools warned of 'increasing' cyber attacks - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK research review will target ‘unnecessary red tape’ - Times Higher Education | THE Post-Covid, mental well-being should be built into every course - Times Higher Education | THE Make learners the most employable they can be - Careers & Enterprise Company ASCL responds to NFER report on teacher labour market - ASCL New flexibilities survey launches - IfATE Threshold rate for college adult education under-delivery lowered – but only to 90% - FE Week UK Parliament and teaching democracy in school - Teacher Toolkit UKRI endorses review to reduce red tape for UK researchers - UKRI Universities and students grapple with Covid and Brexit-related issues - MediaFHE Report: Disconnected? Exploring the digital skills gap - Learning & Work Institute Grammar school boys face police probe over 'sex slurs and gang rape references' - Mail Teacher struck off after comparing schoolgirls to ‘prostitutes’ on secret blog - Metro Do primary schools close the attainment gap for disadvantaged pupils? - FFT Education Datalab Covid-19 has led to anxiety and lower happiness among teachers - Nuffield Foundation Wales: Reciprocal exchange program to run alongside Turing - PIE News Irish universities launch Employable You graduate toolkit - PIE News Call for flexible ‘homeworking’ to continue for SEND children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Outcomes for Black graduates - Advance HE Campaigners should not be given a veto over the Prevent reviewer - Policy Exchange The six things state schools always do better than private schools - Telegraph We mustn't abolish school uniforms – but we should cut kids some slack about how they dress - Telegraph Public sector apprenticeship target restated for extra year - FE Week Teacher mocked girls going to prom saying they looked like 'prostitutes' - Wales Online ITT review: Newer teachers may not be 'right' mentors - Times Educational Supplement | TES School leaders feel they've been thrown under a bus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Progress in closing the attainment gap is ‘varied’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Girls’ school head calls for change after claims of sexual harassment by Dulwich College boys - Evening Standard ‘Children must be able to catch up on play too’, says children’s commissioner - Evening Standard Why “academic freedom” is no defence of the Bristol University professor David Miller - New Statesman Why GCSEs 2021 might actually be good for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrap maths ability groups at 7 to boost progression - Times Educational Supplement | TES Closing poverty-related attainment gap is making 'good progress', Scottish Government claims - Scotsman Apprentices: 86.3k beyond their planned end dates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid 'may leave 12 million children unable to read' - Guardian A year of Covid-19: How our colleges have thrived - Times Educational Supplement | TES Diversity in teaching report: key messages - Times Educational Supplement | TES New NFER report shows Covid-19 has led to anxiety and lower happiness among teachers - NFER Movers and Shakers: Edition 347 - FE Week Teens with additional needs 'forgotten' in Scottish school return - Scotsman I was a wisecracking lateral flow tester – until I got demoted - Guardian DfE knuckles rapped by stats watchdog over Skills Toolkit data - FE Week The DfE has failed to work the industrial strategy into the skills white paper - FE Week Erasmus anger: Push for Scotland to re-join EU scheme - Herald Scotland Wonkfest returns to Build Back Higher - Wonkhe Warning of 'catastrophic gap' in digital skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prolonged teacher pay freeze risks supply 'challenge' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A levels: Lack of DfE plan a 'gaping hole' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Revealed: How teacher happiness dropped during pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers’ working hours fell during first lockdown, and 3 other NFER findings - Schools Week New NFER report shows Covid-19 has increased anxiety and lower happiness among teachers - FE News Utilising AEB allocation to increase accessibility in adult education - FE News NFER report: Teacher Labour Market in England - Annual Report 2021 - UCET Magnus Linklater: We must learn from this year of lost schooling - Times - New The UK’s deep ODA cuts are wrong and counterproductive - Times Higher Education | THE Non-EU scientists face exclusion from sensitive Horizon projects - Times Higher Education | THE