News archive for 26th March 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 26 March 2021 - Education Eye Dulwich College 'predatory culture' protest cancelled after students told they would be disciplined - Telegraph News podcast: Online exams, tired heads and PM's pledge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson: I trust teachers - so should parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cartoons of Prophet Muhammad 'had been on school's curriculum for two years - Mail SQA at centre of fresh row over pupil appeals - Herald Scotland 'It's about raising awareness': Muslims in Batley on school protest - Guardian Exam boards warn that students may try to cheat new grading system by submitting work that is not their own - Mail FE podcast: Back to college, Covid testing and T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: How might education change after the pandemic? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who lied about having cancer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children's commissioner warns head teachers they must escalate sex assault claims to police - Mail Farewell to the commissioner – but what comes next? - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: We have tried to reduce burden on teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual drops requirement for heads to declare pupils have learned enough to ‘progress’ - Schools Week Westminster Hall to hold a general debate on the Third Report of the Education Committee, A plan for an adult skills and lifelong learning revolution - UK Parliament Teaching music in schools - DfE New music curriculum to help schools deliver world-class teaching - DfE 'Prophet Mohammed school row death threats are wrong - but so was showing cartoon' - Mirror Has school reopening pushed up Covid cases? - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: 10 key points in new grading guidance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gordon School: Abuse inquiry hears pupils suffered at the hands of staff and fellow boarders - Scotsman LSE tutoring programme helps tackle attainment gap in local schools - London School of Economics | LSE Gender pay gap closes by one fifth after reporting introduced - London School of Economics | LSE Call for organisations delivering pre-employment for under represented young people - ERSA Building back better for gender equality in higher education - Advance HE Environmental and social sustainability – who is leading whom? - Advance HE GSA responds to Everyone’s Invited movement - GSA How a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad has fractured a Yorkshire school - New Statesman The right support at the right time for new teachers - IOE London Blog British Council signs Greek TNE partnership deal - PIE News Over 267,000 Side by Side enrollments since launched in July 2017 - Education & Training Foundation Protecting young children at risk of abuse and neglect: a practice response - Nuffield Foundation Poole teachers take strike action - NASUWT ASCL responds to JCQ guidance on A levels and GCSEs - ASCL JCQ guidance on GCSEs and A-Levels - National Education Union Our seven priorities for a fair and safe recovery for young people and their schools - NAHT NASUWT rejects SQA plans for grading appeals - NASUWT NAHT LGBT+ network - NAHT Russell Group comment on the return of students to in-person teaching - Russell Group Academic developers should be critical in the culture wars - Wonkhe OfS consults on capital and recurrent funding for 2021-22 - Wonkhe Dulwich College protest over 'rape culture' cancelled - Guardian Surge in ‘devastating’ ransomware attacks cripples schools - Schools Week Low-income parents eligible for £500 support payment if schools tell children to self-isolate - Schools Week Teachers told to check authenticity of GCSE and A-level students' work - Guardian Hundreds of schools in England sign up for anti-racist curriculum - Guardian How George Floyd's death inspired change in two Manchester schools - Guardian Batley Muhammad cartoon row: School shuts as situation ‘hijacked by extremists on both sides’ - Independent I experienced rape culture as a 13-year-old girl – and my school publicly blamed me - Telegraph DfE to cover cost of 2021 exam grade appeals - Schools Week GCSEs and A-levels 2021: 8 things you need to know from grades guidance - FE Week Roads to be closed around Newcastle primary schools to create cleaner air - Independent GCSEs and A-levels 2021: 8 things you need to know from grades guidance - Schools Week DfE tells schools study leave ‘may not be applicable’ - Schools Week IA levels: Pupils may face wait to go to university - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dulwich College: Elite London school reports pupils to police over sexual assault allegations - Independent Batley cartoon row 'hijacked by extremists on both sides', says Warsi - Guardian Absenteeism rates in English secondaries double pre-Covid level - Guardian Teacher who sparked angry protest after showing class ‘Prophet Mohammed cartoons’ is now under police protection - The Sun DfE reveals college and provider full reopening roadmap - FE Week Protesters demand councils support schools in tackling harassment & violence against women - Express Why the DfE funding clawback plan has left many raging - Times Educational Supplement | TES Batley Grammar School closes for second day as protesters gather in wake of Prophet Mohammed row - Telegraph Weekly round-up: Pay freeze, Direct Instruction, drones - Times Educational Supplement | TES Profile: Ruth Gilbert, Chair of the Career Colleges Trust - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes Independent School Awards 2021: the shortlist - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should all state schools have to fly the Union Jack? - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Teachers can base grades on oral assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Child poverty hits record high - Nursery World Batley Grammar row: Why are protesters lining up over Prophet Muhammad cartoon? - Independent Building on success: a new focus for Uni Connect - Office for Students Evaluation in a time of crisis - Office for Students £79m for another music hubs extension, but national plan ‘on hold’ - Schools Week GCSEs and A-levels 2021: Key dates revealed - Schools Week GCSEs and A-levels 2021: Exam board grading guidance published - Schools Week GCSEs 2021: Exam board grade guidance finally released - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A-levels 2021: Key dates revealed - FE Week Be 'uninhibited' but 'respectful', teachers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Petition calls for SQA to end 'exams in all but name' - Times Educational Supplement | TES From Beethoven to Queen - DfE's new music curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I create a safe environment for them': meet the hockey-playing teacher helping pupils shoot for maths success - Guardian Sport and science? They’re a natural match for this creative teacher - Guardian Schools forced to make pupils sit tests rather than help them catch up and learn - Wales Online Schools in minister’s own constituency £130k worse-off under pupil premium change - Schools Week Treasury to blame for adult education clawback plans - FE Week The Covid-19 pandemic and the early years workforce: November-February findings - EPI The Covid-19 pandemic and the early years workforce - BERA Least advantaged students gain a lot from going to university – compared to what they would earn if they didn't - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Oxbridge cuts offers to avoid another grade inflation admissions bulge - Schools Week Atkins exit interview: ‘Do I think we’ve got most of it right? Yes – I do’ - FE Week Protests continue at school as teacher ‘threatened’ for showing Mohammad cartoon - Metro Five questions on the minds of senior leaders after UCAS’s January deadline - HEPI Government must not take students’ resilience for granted - Universities UK Scotland: Private schools leader says majority of secondary pupils returned - Herald Scotland Everyone’s Invited: Rape culture website stops naming schools amid fears they take ‘disproportionate’ blame - Schools Week Undergraduate degrees: labour market returns by background characteristics - DfE We must make our schoolboys part of the conversation on consent - Telegraph It can be done: Making the digital leap to online exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE wanted to move 2021 GCSE exams online - Times Educational Supplement | TES How long would it take to introduce online GCSE exams? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Recovery? School leaders need it as much as their students - Schools Week Alternative assessment: Teachers in Scotland face rush to submit grades - Herald Scotland Podcast: Student choice, Student Futures, happiness - Wonkhe The UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission: what do students need to enable their success? - Wonkhe Who benefits from higher education study? - Wonkhe Teacher who showed pupils Muhammad cartoon "under police protection" amid backlash - Mirror Coronavirus: Concern early years sector won't be able to cope with demand for places after lockdown - Nursery World Skills for Jobs White Paper - the level 4 and 5 challenge - FE News Gavin Williamson condemns death threats against Batley Grammar School teacher suspended after showing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed - Mail Nearly half of teachers considered quitting this year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads supply may 'collapse' as under half recommend job - Times Educational Supplement | TES University leaders call for all students to return after Easter amid delay fears - Mail Black graduates 'shut out' of academic science and technology careers - Guardian University helps ‘even out’ earnings gaps between ethnic groups - Times Higher Education | THE Ireland’s once all-male sector leadership nears gender equality - Times Higher Education | THE V-cs fear more delays to full reopening of English campuses - Times Higher Education | THE Schools 'must involve police' in rape claims - BBC Government ‘must not take student resilience for granted’, university body says in call for full return - Independent Gavin Williamson enters row over cartoon of Prophet Muhammad - Times - New Dulwich College reports its boys accused of sex crimes to police - Times - New ‘Devastating’ cuts to UK Research and Innovation funding for science - Times - New Highgate School pupils walk out in ‘rape culture’ protest - Times - New Scotland: Almost 50 sexual assaults revealed by St Andrews - Times - New Scotland now Britain’s Covid capital as schools forced shut - Times - New Scotland: Politics society ban for ‘Rule Britannia’ student - Times - New Ireland: Mental health declined during pandemic, survey finds - Times - New