News archive for 29th March 2021

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Winchester College may reconsider introduction of girls next year - Telegraph Labour: Tories 'have given us five years of FE decline' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for urgent Ofsted inquiry into allegations of school sexual abuse - Guardian Batley teacher, 29, 'fearing for his life after death threats' over Prophet Muhammed row - Mirror Education inspections in the summer term - Ofsted Full Ofsted inspections expected from September - DfE Raise school starting age to seven, Scottish Lib Dems argue - Telegraph Professor Li Wei appointed as Director and Dean of the UCL Institute of Education - IOE London Blog IFS Director Paul Johnson joins new Times Education Commission - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS UK universities dispute practicality of reducing dependance on China - PIE News Autism Awareness Week - Leeds Beckett University The challenge of a just and inclusive society and the implications of COVID-19 one year on - Nuffield Foundation Private schools' leader backs 'rape culture' inquiry - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher who sparked Prophet Muhammad class row fears he’ll be murdered & blasts school for ‘throwing him under the bus’ - The Sun Reopening schools ‘almost certainly’ responsible for Covid rate uptick among young people – PM - Schools Week Research: Do animals in class aid teaching? - Times Educational Supplement | TES We will now see the return of single-sex schools – at least for girls - Telegraph Teacher tells father of fears for his life over Prophet Muhammad row - Mail School abuse: 'Rape culture' warning as 8,000 report incidents - BBC UUK responds to Chinese government sanctions on UK academic - Universities UK Graduate Outcomes 2018/19 data delivery - HESA ASCL comment on lighter-touch Ofsted inspections in summer term - ASCL The Transitional Protection Remedy and your Teachers' Pension - ASCL Action plan for Cymraeg 2050: A million Welsh speakers - NAHT The wider reopening of schools in Wales – your questions answered - NAHT UCU condemns Warwickshire College Group campus closure - UCU NEU comment on plans for Ofsted inspections from September - National Education Union Skills guarantee: 'Adults need another level 3 course' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘I fear I will be murdered’, says teacher who showed Mohammed cartoons - Telegraph Police chief urges parents who suspect their child in school sex scandal to contact officers - Mail Is pornography to blame for rise in 'rape culture'? - Guardian Former private schoolgirl warned Dulwich College headmaster of 'culture of misogyny' at the school five years ago - Mail UCU response to Labour analysis of decline in further education staff, students and colleges - UCU Ofsted to restart inspections in some early years settings from 4 May - Nursery World Funding clawback: Why the DfE must reverse its plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Drug gangs ‘using social media to groom young people’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs ‘shocked and appalled’ by treatment of children at STC - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Everyone’s invited: what is the website for victims of abuse in schools - Scotsman Education secretary urges abuse victims to report their experiences - Financial Times Pupils back suspended teacher in Prophet Muhammad cartoon row and say 'he is not racist' - Express Parents told to call cops on their own sons if they suspect sex abuse - The Sun Batley Grammar School: Parents call for calm as petition supporting teacher passes 60,000 - Independent Dozens of schools suffer ‘vicious’ cyber attack affecting almost 40,000 children - Metro Hackers hit Harris in latest ‘highly sophisticated’ cyber attack - Schools Week Ofsted return adds 'unnecessary pressure’ on teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Now is not the time to be normalising sex work for university students - Telegraph Williamson first education secretary to address NASUWT conference in five years - Schools Week 'Sophisticated' cyber attack hits major academy chain - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children’s tsar: Appeals must not result in downgrades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Sturgeon makes free laptops pledge – but 25,000 children still waiting on promise from May - Express Support National Autism Awareness week (29 March – 4 April) - EYE | Early Years Educator GCSEs and A levels 2021: The assessment guidance so far - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCL Institute of Education appoints new director - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police chief to parents: Hand in your son if he’s carried out sex assault - Evening Standard Police forces in UK must carry out investigations into school rape claims, says officer - Express Which English academy trusts have recorded racism complaints? - Guardian Scotland: Delay school until 7 to give children a flying start - Times Educational Supplement | TES Return of ITT inspections in May is 'kick in the teeth' - Times Educational Supplement | TES State schools included in 'rape culture' reports - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted summer inspection plans revealed - FE Week Police expect biggest increase in reports of sexual abuse since Jimmy Savile scandal - Guardian Ofsted plans ‘lighter-touch’ on-site inspections during summer term - Schools Week ‘Light touch’ Ofsted inspections for schools next term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: FE face-to-face inspections to resume in summer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police aware of 7,000 school sex reports with allegations the 'next national scandal' - Mirror Movers and Shakers: Edition 348 - FE Week To protect academic freedom from external ‘threats’, we must reverse the decline of academic participation in governance - HEPI How the big academy trusts managed to ride out Covid finance hit - Schools Week Scotland: Thousands defend Strathclyde University after Andrew Neil tweet - Herald Scotland For its ‘national recruitment campaign’ the DfE should look to the Armed Forces - FE Week Graduate earnings and HE admissions data mark another 'Groundhog Week' in HE - MediaFHE Children locked up 23.5 hours a day – MPs “shocked and appalled” - UK Parliament School funding: ‘Serious questions’ for government over £100m bailouts - Schools Week Mixed response to restated public sector apprenticeship target - FE Week Scotland: Calls to teach coding at primary schools - Herald Scotland MP calls for inquiry into ‘rape culture’ at independent schools - Independent Textbooks are changing – the way we buy them needs to change too - Wonkhe There’s big problems with the market for academic ebooks - Wonkhe Police are investigating 7,000 school sex crimes - Mail Elite schools covered up sex abuse to protect their reputations, top cop believes as task force probes 7,000 cases - The Sun Call for renewed donations to Mail Force drive for much-needed computers - Mail Mosque leaders call on furious protesters to stop gathering outside Yorkshire school as petition calling for suspended teacher to be reinstated nears 60,000 signatures - Mail Why is the UK government considering a huge cut to research? - Times Higher Education | THE Doctoral funding at risk if further cuts forced on UKRI - Times Higher Education | THE Schools ‘cover-up’ sexual abuse by pupils - Times - New Woman recounts horrific assault by fellow boarder at Westminster School - Times - New China denounced over ‘grave threat to academic freedom’ - Times - New Tens of thousands want Prophet teacher reinstated - Times - New Head teacher Adam Pettitt accused of putting PR before pupils at Highgate - Times - New Soma Sara: Let’s build from the mistakes of the past - Times - New Covid in Ireland: Student nurses in the dark over promised €100-a-week placement grants - Times - New University of Ulster explores how AI can clip the time it takes to search archive video - Times - New If the UK is concerned about women’s safety, it shouldn’t cut the GCRF - Times Higher Education | THE