News archive for 30th March 2021

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Some schools have a ‘Lord of the Flies’ culture where kids battle to survive, Tory MP warns - The Sun Are we raising generation inactive? - UKEdChat Applications invited for 2022/23 Technical Teaching Fellowships - Education & Training Foundation Jisc partners with Unsub to evaluate UK university journal subscriptions - Jisc ECA and London Met announce international college - PIE News Integrating evidence into mathematics teaching – minimising misconceptions - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF COVID-19: the highs and lows for hard-pushed IT and security teams - Jisc 'Vast majority' of positive Covid tests taken in schools likely to be false - Telegraph Ofsted chief asked for greater powers to check for abuse in private schools - Guardian Oxford student accused of racism for singing along to ‘n-word’ rap track - Telegraph Education inspections in the summer term - Ofsted Initial teacher education inspection data summary report (IDSR) guide - Ofsted Principles behind Ofsted’s research reviews and subject reports - Ofsted The road not taken: drivers of course selection - Social Mobility Commission Disadvantaged women face pay penalty due to their subject choice - Social Mobility Commission Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 25 March 2021 - DfE Free school meals: autumn 2020 - DfE Summer schools programme - DfE Kick-start for summer school and activities - DfE Ofsted to publish new series of subject reviews and reports - Ofsted 16 to 19 Bursary Fund guide 2021 to 2022 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Care to Learn Guide 2021 to 2022 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Pupil premium: allocations and conditions of grant 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency NSS review: Phase one report - Office for Students 'It's extremely difficult': heads face a minefield of sexual allegations - Guardian Why the UK’s new study abroad scheme may fail to live up to the EU’s Erasmus - New Statesman The Guardian view on sex abuse in schools: facing up to rape culture - Guardian 'Rape culture': No need for Ofsted, say private schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Young Britons face jobs squeeze if foreign graduates are allowed to remain for two years - Telegraph Art competition - the results are in! - Villiers Park Educational Trust 300,000 more children eligible for free school meals since first Covid lockdown - Mirror UCU condemns decision by Kingston University to suspend recruitment to its Politics, International Relations and Human Rights undergraduate courses - UCU Awarding qualifications in summer 2021: guidance and support materials - NAHT NEU comment on DfE summer schools guidance - National Education Union The NAHT Small and Rural Schools' Network - NAHT College heads condemn education funding ‘clawback’ - Financial Times Early years organisations sign up to updated partnership principles for expansion of childcare in Scotland - EYE | Early Years Educator High-stakes testing vs. anxiety and metacognition - Teacher Toolkit Turmoil at London school hit by flag and hairstyle row - Guardian Why the DfE spread the learning styles 'myth' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary schools dragged into 'rape culture' row as former pupils publish allegations - Telegraph Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon's 'judge me on education' appeal ridiculed in brutal video 'It's a fail' - Express Pupils in Scotland face tough Covid rules for the rest of the year - Times - New Is it time to tighten up the regulation of international agents? - Wonkhe ASCL comment on summer schools - ASCL Scotland: Merchiston School headmaster defends boys-only establishments at abuse inquiry - Scotsman ASCL statement on Everyone’s Invited - ASCL Summer term ITE inspections risk damaging trainee teacher pipeline, cautions MillionPlus - MillionPlus Schools told to justify pupil premium spending - Times Educational Supplement | TES U-turn: Positive school Covid tests need follow-up PCR - Times Educational Supplement | TES Summer schools guidance: All teachers need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Maria Miller: Tory MP says she suffered sexual assault at school as 10,000 report incidents of abuse - Independent Scotland: 'Predatory culture' affects all schools, inquiry told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leaders say harm from ‘destructive’ research cuts will last years - Times Higher Education | THE Tackling sexual abuse not just for schools, say heads - BBC UK universities to consult on changing USS pension benefits - Times Higher Education | THE Rape culture scandal deepens with new dossier - Mail Read the harrowing ‘rape culture’ allegations that have rocked Britain's top schools - Mail Gateshead College turns to Scottish accountant to take the helm after rocky period - FE Week Colleges for learners or employers? Governance adviser to government warns of legal tension - FE Week Food poverty: rising number of children in England eligible for free school meals - Guardian Scottish school to offer International Baccalaureate - Herald Scotland Schools face new checks to ensure pupil premium spending ‘backed by evidence’ - Schools Week Make UK diversity, equality & inclusion and apprenticeship survey - Unionlearn Muhammad cartoon row school launches independent probe into RSE lessons - Schools Week School attendance rates fall again as more pupils self-isolate - Schools Week Another testing U-turn: School tests will need PCR confirmation from next term - Schools Week Ofsted to help teachers decide which work to 'omit' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How did we let ranking little girls on "sexiness" become "normal" in schools? - Express Everyone’s Invited: What is the website with 10,000 sexual abuse complaints and will there be an inquiry? - Independent School Food Matters delivers one millionth breakfast - Guardian £200m summer schools funding details: the 5 things you need to know - Schools Week LEA early years underspend hits £62m - Nursery World Covid school absences rise by 32% in a week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Interview: Caroline Wright, Early childhood director at Bright Horizons - Nursery World Scotland: 1,700 teachers without secure jobs demand action - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland commits to ‘Summer of Play’ for all children - Nursery World Rethinking early childhood services - change from within - Nursery World Secondaries get £298 for each Year 7 for summer schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we're getting formative assessment wrong - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can the DfE help you best? Funding...or music? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools could ban hugs in classroom to stop boys ‘overstepping the mark’, suggests former Ofsted chief - The Sun Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng: ‘Why did it take so long to act on school sex claims?’ - Evening Standard School abuse: 'Raped schoolgirl ignored by teachers' - BBC State schools are hit by surge in sex assault allegations after scandal in private sector - Mail Ofsted hopes subject reviews will help schools prioritise catch-up content - Schools Week Scotland: Students 'will know grades before results day' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why more and more graduates are joining the prison service - Telegraph Parents told to hand sons into police if responsible for sexual assaults - Metro East London school claims it has eliminated bullying by banning unsupervised sports and play at break times - Evening Standard Everyone's Invited founder Soma Sara says rape culture movement is not about 'naming or shaming' schools - Mail Free school meals: 300k more pupils became eligible in first 7 months of Covid - Schools Week More than 300K extra pupils on FSM since first lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES School abuse: 'Rape culture' allegations shocking, says Williamson - BBC Schools braced for flood of sexual abuse allegations 'report your sons to police' - Express Schools warned over 'Lord of the Flies culture' on sexual violence amid calls for inquiry - Mirror I’m a secondary school teacher. What we’ve come back to isn’t school as we know it - HuffPost Jess Philips accuses government of 'failing young people' over sexual abuse in schools - HuffPost Ministers dropped the ball on sexual violence in schools, says Labour - Guardian Reflecting on vlogs, blogs and podcasts in education research, teaching and professional development - BERA How can we ensure quality agent-based international student recruitment? - HEPI Report: Facing the future - employment prospects for young people after Coronavirus - Learning & Work Institute New report finds prolonged youth jobs crisis is set to cost UK economy almost £7 billion next year - Learning & Work Institute Do teachers benefit from delivering an SEL intervention? - Best Evidence in Brief Climate change education coupled with hydroponic gardening may increase science achievement scores - Best Evidence in Brief Cultivating the preK investment - Best Evidence in Brief Gavin Williamson vows to take action amid growing calls for a stand amid accusations of school sex abuse - Mail More than £1m a week for supply teachers in Scotland given an 'F' by Tories - Scotsman Can the government fix the ‘confusing’ careers landscape? - FE Week Child poverty reaches record level, as charities call for ‘credible’ prevention plan - EYE | Early Years Educator Can the government fix the ‘confusing’ careers landscape? - Schools Week Autism and eating disorders - Leeds Beckett University Universities should be beacons of post-Covid local recovery - Wonkhe The post-Covid future for graduation - Wonkhe The NSS gets a reprieve - Wonkhe Youth unemployment 'will cost £6.9bn in 2022' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pay gap: Disadvantaged girls choose low-earning courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES The impact of course choice at 16: what research says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Winchester College may suspend its planned historic admission of girls in the wake of the sex abuse row - Mail Girls should report sexual assault allegations to 'someone they trust', says Gavin Williamson - Telegraph Recruiting more Black PhD students isn’t so hard if you really want to do it - Times Higher Education | THE Wellcome’s eight-year awards to offer researchers ‘freedom’ - Times Higher Education | THE Agents ‘push students to universities that pay the most’ - Times Higher Education | THE OfS: National Student Survey will drop ‘satisfaction’ question - Times Higher Education | THE More than 1,000 jobs at risk at global hubs facing research cuts - Times Higher Education | THE Surge in claims of sexual abuse by pupils at state schools - Times - New Race review chief reveals his schools plan to help white working-class boys - Times - New Covid in Scotland: Pupils face exam results being tainted by pandemic, teachers say - Times - New Scotland: Edinburgh University backs article praising ‘racist’ scientist - Times - New