News archive for 7th May 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 07 May 2021 - Education Eye NAHT Cymru calls for education to be at the heart of the 2021 Senedd elections - NAHT Russell Group response to OfS consultation on 2021/22 recurrent funding - Russell Group Face coverings should remain in school - Voice Universities and the media - HEPI Kate Green MP pulls out of university event due to course closures and job cuts - UCU ASCL comment on lifting of face masks in classrooms - ASCL Second cycle for Higher Technical Qualifications applications announced - IfATE Peter Roberts Collab Group Bursary 2021 (sponsored by the Skills Network) - Collab Group Coverage of CfEY and University of Oxford’s research - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Windows and Mirrors: Children and young people’s access to diverse literature - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth The state of education – one year into Covid - OECD Teachers plan further strikes over pensions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 7/5 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Delay baseline tests until 2022, say peers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Removing face masks from classrooms unwise when infections remain in schools - Mail Consent workshops and reviews: schools respond to sex abuse claims - Schools Week Junior school deputy head who asked boy if he was gay or bi-sexual is banned from teaching for three years - Mail Pupils should keep wearing masks into the summer, Sage told ministers - Guardian Data about schools and pupil placements in alternative provision - Ofsted Area SEND inspections and outcomes in England as at 31 March 2021 - Ofsted Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2020 to August 2021 - Ofsted Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing in schools and colleges: grant funding - DfE Simon Lebus speech at the Annual Apprenticeship Conference - Ofqual Inequality in education: how colleges can close the gaps - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: Removing school masks and GCSE grading dilemma - Times Educational Supplement | TES How I created a global early years community in lockdown - Teach First Researchers despair as Microsoft shuts down academic services - Times Higher Education | THE Using data to help adapt to challenging times - Advance HE Social and emotional skills: how early childhood living conditions can support or undermine equality of opportunity - IOE London Blog Young offenders to benefit from new Erasmus-funded scheme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Now law, the School Uniform Bill will help keep clothing costs down for struggling families - PoliticsHome 2021 ‘WEA Tutor – Digitally innovative teaching’ winner announced - Education & Training Foundation Safeguarding: Return to education - Education & Training Foundation Weekly highlights: GCSE grading woes and teacher pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tell us why grades will be withheld, say leaders - FE Week Tell us why pupils’ exam grades will be withheld, heads tell Ofqual - Schools Week What would I tell the prime minister about FE? Well... - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A-levels 2021: 'Schools have been well and truly dumped on' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Discouraging the phrase ‘boys and girls’ in school is right but it’s OK to make mistakes - Metro College forced to close following Covid-19 outbreak - FE Week Clear scientific advice 'needed to end school masks' - Times Educational Supplement | TES WorldSkills hosts biggest ever virtual pressure test in run-up to Shanghai 2022 - FE Week Poorest areas ‘most likely’ to have ‘significant weaknesses’ in SEND provision, says Ofsted - Schools Week Half of SEND inspections find 'significant weaknesses' - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA exams 2021: Some exam papers are already on TikTok - Times Educational Supplement | TES First look inside the Welsh town's £30.5m new school - Wales Online Cambridge University: Caesarean Sunday gathering 'slap in the face' - BBC DfE claims Brexit has stalled grammar schools inclusion monitoring - Schools Week Imperfect exam replacement model in Scotland 'is nobody’s fault’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary school pupils no longer advised to wear masks in class, Williamson confirms - Guardian School mask rule set to end despite teacher opposition - Times Educational Supplement | TES New research indicates disadvantaged pupils have fallen further behind in maths as a result of the pandemic - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Have disadvantaged pupils fallen further behind during the pandemic? - FFT Education Datalab DfE set to lift school mask rule despite union warning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Face masks in classrooms ‘to be scrapped from May 17’ - Metro Meet David Russell, the man focused on teacher training - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA boss threatens to put scandal hit college into administration - FE Week Timpson two years on: Exclusions review chair wants action - Schools Week ETF: Pay gap between FE and schools is ‘indefensible’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Special school ‘ineffective’ during pandemic, says Ofsted - Schools Week £125k salary fails to attract boss for ‘orphan’ academy trust - Schools Week Ofsted slams safeguarding failings at apprenticeship giant - FE Week GCSEs and A-levels 2021: Don't 'test, test, test', teachers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES What should we say about September? - Wonkhe Podcast: Levelling up, India, research culture, racism - Wonkhe New Covid study finds no reading loss, but confirms maths drop - Schools Week Facemasks in schools to be scrapped despite warnings and '43,000' infected children - Mirror The end of masks in the classroom as ministers defy teaching unions and plan to end compulsory covering-up from May 17 - Mail Rapid Covid tests rolled out in Scottish colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid 'puts pupils an extra month behind in maths' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How learning was hit hardest by first lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A-levels 2022: 'Teachers need to know changes by Autumn' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Poor pupils fall further behind in maths - BBC Tie-up puts northern universities in big league for spin-offs - Times Higher Education | THE School coronavirus face mask rule to be lifted despite warnings - Evening Standard Disadvantaged primary pupils extra month behind peers due to Covid - study - Mail