News archive for 4th May 2021

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Everything you need to know about TA apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching unions demand kids keep wearing masks in classrooms until at least June 21 despite record low infections - The Sun Ofqual confirms autumn assessment arrangements - Ofqual Teachers 'having panic attacks' and cancelling Covid jabs because of exam work - Wales Online Ofsted's return to routine inspection activity - Ofsted Keep face masks for school pupils until at least June 21, unions demand - Telegraph Eleven-year-old boys are too small for big school - Telegraph Teaching unions demand schoolchildren wear masks in classrooms until at least June 21 - Mail Exam board criticised for test fees when teachers are marking papers - Wales Online ‘Disappointing’ number of primaries ‘barely out of the starting block’ on languages, Ofsted finds - Schools Week Williamson urged to extend use of masks in secondary schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The time has come to overturn neoliberalism’s hold on early childhood education - IOE London Blog Nearly 60% of female students say they have been sexually assaulted at university, survey reveals - Mail We are professionals: The proletarianisation of teachers - SecEd What is an effective digital experience for learners? - Education & Training Foundation Benchmarking GCSE results using historical data - FFT Education Datalab Choosing schools during a pandemic - EPI Nursery schools forced to make further cuts as government leaves them in the dark over key funding decisions - Early Education Jisc security team earns accolades at international competitions - Jisc Teacher wellbeing, sleep and drinking alcohol! - Teacher Toolkit Letter to John Swinney: Collection of ACEL data - Voice Why it is *not* a choice between ‘university’ and ‘vocational education’? - HEPI Masks still needed to keep millions safe - National Education Union ASCL responds to autumn exam series decision - ASCL Teachers urged to better protect LGBT+ students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Functional skills: Why doesn't the government care? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 4/5 - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK university pension fund aims for net zero - Times Higher Education | THE Leicester hit with union boycott in jobs row - Times Higher Education | THE What next for learning recovery? Evidence from our most recent Teacher Voice Survey - NFER Strict inner-city London school blasts ITV for 'unfair' report after it brought in Britain's 'toughest headteacher' - Mail Scientists urge government to keep face masks in secondary school classrooms beyond mid-May - Independent London mayoral election: Why lifelong learning matters - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do you teach politics when your pupils are voters? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for masks to remain compulsory in England’s schools - Guardian GCSEs 2021: Heads condemn autumn exams plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: 6 Ofqual plans for autumn exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Travellers force two schools to close after camp set up on playing field - Express Just 1 in 300 school pupils tested positive for Covid over two weeks in March - Mirror Are teachers paid enough? Let's do the sums - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Inspectors examine council plans for grading students - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Significant' fall in secondary school staff with Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Big increase in teachers signed off with stress - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is it fair for only some students to sit exams? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The DI-KR lobby-bubble and my part in it (FAO Guy) - Headguruteacher Autumn exam series: Boards only required to offer AS-levels in five subjects - Schools Week Two schools closed after ‘travellers’ set up camp on playing field days after encampment at another school 20 miles away - The Sun Mental health crisis among teachers sees record numbers signed off with stress - Scotsman Why DfE's textbook plan undermines teachers' Covid work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why are public figures lining up to tell teachers off? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish election: What will it mean for colleges? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keep face masks in the classroom for another month, urge unions and scientists - Schools Week GCSEs 2021: Autumn exams offered for all subjects - Times Educational Supplement | TES Autumn exam series 2021: What does it mean for FE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Global boycott of University of Leicester begins today - UCU Keep masks in schools until at least June, say experts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teens, tech and mental health: Oxford study finds no link - BBC University of Edinburgh programme to address national data skills shortage - Scotsman Scottish election 2021: Rise in casual teacher contracts under SNP a 'disgrace' - Scotsman Focus: Do employers set the bar too high for entry criteria to apprenticeships? - FE Week Profile: Sarah Lewis, Chief Executive, Langley Park Learning Trust - Schools Week Schools crisis: Number of teachers off with stress soars - Herald Scotland Russell Group sets out proposals to boost working environment and culture in research - Russell Group The problems with resilience thinking - BERA It’s time for coordinated action to change research culture - Wonkhe Nursery schools 'pushed to the brink', heads warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis - Nursery World 2 Interview: Alice Ferguson, co-director, Playing Out - Nursery World 2 Free webinars to support nursery children with bereavement - Nursery World 2 Nursery schools forced to cut staff and services - Nursery World 2 UK universities urged to cover Indian student quarantine costs - Times Higher Education | THE Two decades on, EU’s single market for science still ‘unfinished’ - Times Higher Education | THE Limit use of one-year research contracts, says Russell Group - Times Higher Education | THE England’s nursery schools driven towards extinction, says survey - Guardian Angry student ‘rang Gavin Williamson to fume over A-level results after finding his number online’ - The Sun University of Liverpool drops William Gladstone’s name from building over links to slavery - The Times OfSTED inspections of ITE (from May 2021) - UCET