News archive for 23rd March 2021

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Furious parents are threatening to launch legal action to force ministers to get rid of masks from the classroom - The Sun Face masks in the classroom are an insult to children - Telegraph 'Dystopian' policy on face masks in classrooms faces fresh legal challenge - Telegraph PM vows to make amends to younger generation who have lost out in education - Mail Call for National Tutoring Programme public inquiry - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education is my 'biggest priority', says PM - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cyber security: Colleges urged to beware of attacks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers and pupils told to Covid test in Easter break - Times Educational Supplement | TES Deal with school 'rape culture' firmly, says Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid catch-up plans ‘barely scratch the surface’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE eyes wider rollout of ‘glasses in classes’ and wellbeing schemes after opportunity areas success - Schools Week Schools lose Covid testing data and student coursework after ‘spike’ in cyber attacks - Schools Week EEF to support creation of new charity to compete for tutoring contract - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Government incompetence on a huge scale - SecEd Increased ransomware attacks: Schools offered help to defend their systems - SecEd Retention problems not over despite teacher training surge - SecEd Schools see highest attendance figures since Covid began - SecEd Covid has exposed universities’ and health bodies’ competing priorities - Times Higher Education | THE Swansea sociologist assembles recollections of a year of Covid - Times Higher Education | THE Tory ex-minister warns PM against ‘devastating’ UK research cuts - Times Higher Education | THE Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 18 March 2021 - DfE Genies, classrooms & the continued disruption of life! - Teacher Tapp How can teachers make global connections? - UKEdChat From ideas to action: making the most of the FE White Paper - FE News UK universities put on ransomware alert - Times Higher Education | THE Strikes across all six Northern Ireland colleges over pay row - UCU UCU Scotland election manifesto launched ahead of education hustings - UCU Stop savage university research funding cuts, union tells Chancellor - UCU ASCL comment on latest school attendance statistics - ASCL Beginners guide to cognitive load theory - Teacher Toolkit Sparking science confidence in children in a post-COVID world - UKRI Post-qualification admissions and further education: the time is now - HEPI Making apprenticeships greener for the future - IfATE Missing pupil premium value 'uncertain', Gibb tells MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Number of ASN teachers hits record low - Times Educational Supplement | TES Award-winning nursery to star in Channel 4 show this summer - Nursery World Covid testing should continue over Easter holidays, says DfE - Schools Week How much school did Year 11 miss in the Autumn term? - FFT Education Datalab Benchmark your school’s financial data - DfE Over 200,000 pupils are self-isolating from Covid after schools reopened - Mail Masks in schools should be for minimum time possible - Wales Online A day in lockdown as an academic mentor - Teach First Kate Green reveals Labour’s education recovery priorities - Schools Week Former Ofsted head to lead new charity set up by EEF to run flagship tutoring scheme - Schools Week Don't force schools into big academy chains, DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Erasmus row: Scotland urged to follow Welsh example - Herald Scotland Scotland: Primary and secondary attainment gap changes revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid absences double in a week as 169K pupils isolate - Times Educational Supplement | TES Training for mental health leads in English schools 'not yet started' - Guardian Five-fold increase in secondary pupils isolating due to in-school Covid contact - Schools Week Private school rape culture row: Ofsted 'stands ready' to intervene - Telegraph Ransomware: ‘Act now, before it’s too late’ - Jisc FE White Paper: 10 steps to implementation - Times Educational Supplement | TES 1 in 10 secondary pupils still not in school last week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academies 'can use revolving doors to end exclusions' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers' pension scheme payments: 2020 to 2021 - DfE Shortlist announced for Festival of Learning Awards 2021 - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Testing times? Inside the reopening of colleges - FE Week Claims of school sexual harassment may become national scandal, warns senior MP - Evening Standard Lockdown anniversary: Pandemic ‘has given greater appreciation of fantastic work that schools and teachers do’ - Evening Standard Boys' school rocked by 'repugnant rape comments' during online safety debate - Express Babies ignored in Government’s Covid catch-up plans, campaigners warn - Nursery World Abuse and neglect in early childhood in ‘urgent need of review’ – study - Nursery World Many heads fear the push to close gap is unsustainable - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Hattie: We need to get better at learning transfer - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We've fallen off the radar': outdoor centres in crisis over lack of Covid help - Guardian We've got ambition burnout in our 20s, thanks to lockdown - Telegraph Audit Scotland report: Scotland's education attainment gap 'remains wide' - Scotsman Teacher who described schoolgirls as 'Eastern European prostitutes' in blog struck off - Mirror Scottish Government urgently needs to tackle attainment gap - Scotsman Profile: Lisa Mannall, Chief Executive, Cornwall Education Learning Trust - Schools Week Pandemic has widened jobs and skills inequalities, putting ‘levelling up’ at risk - Learning & Work Institute Child protection and support in urgent need of reform as Covid-19 increases risk of serious harm to young children - Nuffield Foundation Lancashire school puts Covid catch-up on hold for wellbeing in wellies - Guardian Slashing research funding is a threat to Global Britain - Cambridge Network Fears for poor pupils as education attainment gap persists - Herald Scotland Shopping for degrees - Wonkhe Putting Wales on the world stage - Wonkhe The experience of learning during Covid-19 could help students show us who they really are - Wonkhe 10:15 a.m. - Youth Unemployment Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into youth unemployment, education and skills - Lords Select Committee Scotland: Progress on closing the attainment gap ‘limited’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE treats teachers as 'problem not ally' says Labour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid unemployment: Young people among hardest hit - Times Educational Supplement | TES 9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into home education - Accountability Hearings Chegg: a $12 billion headache for academic integrity? - Times Higher Education | THE 9:00 a.m. - Health and Social Care Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into children and young people's mental health - Accountability Hearings Scotland: Sturgeon 'fails defining mission' of closing attainment gap between rich and poor, report finds - Telegraph Universities offer first climate change degrees - Times - New The King’s School calls in police after pupils share rape jokes online - Times - New Melanie Phillips: It’s time we revived direct grant schools - Times - New Scotland: Poverty gap still fails children five years after SNP vow - Times - New UCET 2021 Easter Newsletter - UCET