News archive for 31st March 2021

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Mass Covid testing in schools costing £120,000 for every positive case found - Telegraph Labour claims 9.4m jobs excluded from flagship lifetime skills guarantee - FE Week Labour: 9m jobs excluded from Lifetime Skills Guarantee - Times Educational Supplement | TES Batley teacher’s union donated money to charity that accused him of ‘terrorism’ - Telegraph Emergency review of sexual abuse in English schools to be launched - Financial Times IOE to deliver National Professional Qualifications for teachers and school leaders - IOE London Blog The Sewell commission is a game-changer for how Britain talks about race - Policy Exchange Metacognition in modern foreign language teaching - a perspective from secondary school - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Most ethnic minorities perform better at school than white children, new government report claims - PoliticsHome How to tackle sexism and sexual harassment in schools - PoliticsHome Research England and Jisc launch groundbreaking free benchmarking tool for research - Jisc Birth to 5 Matters guidance is launched - Early Education EdDevTrust selected as lead provider for National Professional Qualifications in England - Education Development Trust | EDT Ofsted to lead urgent inquiry into schools' response to sexual abuse - Guardian School sex abuse helpline and DfE review launched after 11,000 anonymous posts - Mirror Government launches review into sexual abuse in schools - DfE Sexual abuse in schools to be investigated in government review - Independent Helpline opens for sex abuse victims as investigation launched over school ‘rape culture’ scandal - The Sun School children in Pimlico have gone on strike. They are furious - and they're right - Telegraph Pimlico Academy: Teachers passed vote of no confidence in Principal before walkout - Mirror Building resilience to resist conspiracy theories - Education & Training Foundation The National Funding Formula: consideration of better targeting to disadvantaged pupils - EPI TDT selected as a national NPQ Lead Provider - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Missing the story: the UK media’s neglect of Further Education - Social Market Foundation | SMF Learned helplessness - UKEdChat Race and Ethnic Disparities: What teachers need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ground-breaking new Inquiry will help post-pandemic Britain successfully navigate a decade of unprecedented economic change - Nuffield Foundation We need bold and coherent action to ensure young people get their fair share of economic recovery - Learning & Work Institute Clocks changing, hacking exams and catching up - Teacher Tapp Evidencing dispositions: How can we ensure young people develop the behaviours they need to thrive? - Edge Foundation Image project addresses poor employment prospects of autistic university students across Europe - Leeds Beckett University ASCL comment on review into sexual abuse in schools - ASCL CBI responds to Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report - CBI Report fails to grasp the realities and depth of racial injustice - NASUWT ASCL comment on race and ethnic disparities report - ASCL Project deSHAME: resources for teachers and parents to tackle peer-based online sexual harassment - NAHT Strike threat at University of Leicester - UCU UCU responds to Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report - UCU NEU comment on Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report - National Education Union NEU comment on baseline assessment - National Education Union 'A long way to go': Voice Community responds to Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities - Voice Supporting our next generation with post-16 choices - Careers & Enterprise Company Introducing the Knowledge Exchange Framework - Wonkhe Psychologists voice deep concerns about allegations of sexual abuse made by pupils in schools - BPS | British Psychological Society Protecting students if a provider is at risk of closure - Wonkhe Underspend of early years Government funding by local authorities reaches £62m - EYE | Early Years Educator Ambition Institute named as lead provider for national professional qualifications - Ambition Institute Diversity of universities shown in framework that drives improvement - UKRI Pupils at London school stage protest against 'racist' uniform policy - Telegraph Young people tell Committee impact of covid-19 on learning and wellbeing - UK Parliament National professional qualifications (NPQs) reforms - DfE Everyone's Invited: Schools abuse helpline and review launched - BBC Free meals in further education funded institutions: guide for the 2021 to 2022 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Residential Bursary Fund: Guide for the 2021 to 2022 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academic mentors programme grant: conditions of funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency Conditions of acceptance for apprenticeship training providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Residential Support Scheme 2021 to 2022 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Urgent review into sexual abuse in schools as thousands of pupils come forward - Metro ESFA Update: 31 March 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency How can colleges best support London’s economic recovery - Collab Group ISC chief executive welcomes Ofsted review into sexual abuse in schools - Independent Schools Council | ISC OfS gets new powers to protect students if English providers shut - Times Higher Education | THE Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry: Boarding school pupils discouraged from reporting abuse - Herald Scotland Ofsted to launch sexual abuse review - CYPN | Children & Young People Now One in five children eligible for free school meals since pandemic - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Schools urged to ensure disadvantaged children benefit from £200m summer activities plan - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Councils report £62m underspend on funded childcare places - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ministers call in Ofsted to investigate school safeguarding amid ‘rape culture’ claims - Schools Week School day should be extended starting in disadvantaged areas to help pupils catch up on lost learning, says landmark race report - Mail Government launches review into school sexual abuse - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mental health: Support staff report surge in anxiety - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lord Woolley to become first black man to head Oxbridge college - Guardian Scotland: Discouraging pupils from reporting abuse 'a disgrace' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tackling racism: Teaching 'should focus on UK influence during empire' - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK students ‘support mandatory vaccination’ for campus return - Times Higher Education | THE Interim FE Commissioner revealed - FE Week Batley Grammar School announces independent investigation into Prophet Muhammad cartoon incident - Independent The Sewell report displays a basic misunderstanding of how racism works | Kalwant Bhopal - Guardian From better lighting to ‘safe spaces’, students protest across UK to demand action on sexual violence - Independent Primary baseline tests to go ahead in September - Times Educational Supplement | TES Race and ethnic disparities report: The 9 schools recommendations - Schools Week Pimlico academy pupils stage protest over 'discriminatory' policies - Guardian Louis de Bernières reveals 'extreme cruelty' he suffered at prep school - Guardian Summer schools? Children were learning at home - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Rape culture': Children's tsar wants Ofsted 'focus' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Exclusion of looked-after pupils 'to end by 2024' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Race commission shines spotlight on apprenticeship ‘disparities’ - FE Week Students stage sit-in protest at London school over 'racist' uniform policy (video) - Guardian Schools set to make curriculum changes amid testimonies of sexual harassment and violence - Independent School sex abuse claims unlikely to go to court, says ex-prosecutor - Evening Standard When are the Easter school holidays 2021? Start and end dates for break in Scotland - and when schools reopen - Scotsman New Birth to 5 Matters guidance to be published - Nursery World DfE confirms revised EYFS and Reception Baseline statutory from September - Nursery World Academics to create record of children’s play during the pandemic - Nursery World Hey, DfE and Ofsted: stop treating us like children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted plans some full inspections in the summer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Erasmus: Support for moves to protect Scotland's participation - Herald Scotland Childhood obesity: the impact of the pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE names providers for new school leader NPQs - Schools Week ESFA rules out college pleas to soften funding clawback following Treasury intervention - FE Week Schools plan self-defence and uniform changes for girls - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: This 19th-century examination mentality must end - Times Educational Supplement | TES New NPQ school leadership training providers revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of edtech data on helping pupils with disabilities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can Montessori education raise peaceful children? - BERA Higher education in Medialand - HEPI Only a large-scale skills programme can protect against Covid's fallout - Guardian Our recommendations will boost schools’ ethnic minority success - Schools Week Revealed: How online GCSE trials have already begun - Times Educational Supplement | TES Explained: What's it like to sit a GCSE online? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to build back student community and opportunity between now and the new year - Wonkhe What happened to campus sport during Covid-19? - Wonkhe Storm over student visa job reforms as ministers are accused of making 'reckless' changes to the system - Mail Coronavirus: Pupil attendance drops as more self-isolate - Mail Extend school day with deprived areas prioritised, says race commission - Schools Week Labour shadow minister: HE funding ‘shouldn’t individualise cost’ - Times Higher Education | THE Homeopathy researcher criticised over ‘misconduct’ in drug trial - Times Higher Education | THE Essay mills ‘infiltrating university websites’ - Times Higher Education | THE Employers and educators must work together if we are to ‘build back better’ - FE News Louis de Bernières: Horrors of school still haunt me - Times - New Sexual abuse isn’t problem for us alone, insist heads - Times - New Justin Welby backs free speech in Batley Grammar School Prophet cartoon row - Times - New Alice Thomson: Demonising boys won’t change toxic culture - Times - New Scotland: Predatory culture is an issue not just for boys, says Merchiston Castle School head - Times - New