News archive for 11th May 2021

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Student rent strikers leave occupied buildings amid legal threats from university - Independent Boost apprenticeships and we can boost jobs, says Euan Blair - Evening Standard Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 11/5 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher found with indecent images of children - Times Educational Supplement | TES SNP ministers and exam chiefs accused of imposing 'grotesquely unfair' assessments on pupils - Telegraph College lecturer 'forged exam papers of three pupils,' hearing told - Wales Online Wales is considering lifting the requirement for children to wear face masks in school - Wales Online Ofsted reveals concerns over primary school geography - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: ‘Very few’ primary teachers trained to teach geography - Schools Week Call for universities to publish annual data on harassment - Times Higher Education | THE Death of the lecture greatly exaggerated, says St Andrews v-c - Times Higher Education | THE Queen’s Speech: bills on skills and campus free speech planned - Times Higher Education | THE Ofsted to ‘review’ its impact on staff wellbeing as part of new charter - EYE | Early Years Educator What do the salsa and a soggy bottom have in common? Find out on National Numeracy Day - National Numeracy Response: Commission responds to UK Government's Queen's Speech - College of the Future What’s in the Queen’s Speech for higher education? - Wonkhe Review of Education announces winners of its Early Career Researchers Award 2021 - BERA Education for sustainability: Connecting learners with nature - BERA What progress have we made since the launch of #ClosingTheGap? - Universities UK Walk through the door and discover where it can lead you - Advance HE Queen’s Speech 2021: Government to ‘prioritise early years’ as Covid-19 restrictions lift - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Prime Minister to revolutionise skills and training opportunities - GOV.UK Laptops, tablets and connectivity data as of 11 May 2021 - DfE How generous is your school? And how good is pupil behaviour at 11am? - Teacher Tapp Pearson response to Queen’s Speech today - Pearson Don't criticise schools 'left in a vacuum', Ofqual told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Sturgeon insists teachers' judgement is key - Times Educational Supplement | TES Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 6 May 2021 - DfE UCU response to Queen's Speech - UCU ASCL comment on Lifetime Skills Guarantee - ASCL ASCL comment on Week 19 school attendance figures - ASCL MillionPlus comment on the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill - MillionPlus MillionPlus comment on the Queen’s Speech - MillionPlus UUK response to government plans to introduce a Skills and Post-16 Education Bill, as outlined in the Queen’s Speech - Universities UK Queen’s Speech 2021: Skills and post-16 education bill ‘central to pandemic recovery’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK universities need to promote freedom of speech within the law - HEPI NEU comment on the Queen’s Speech - National Education Union AELP responds to inclusion of a Skills Bill in the Queen’s Speech - AELP Investment needed if post-16 plans are to be more than empty promises - NASUWT New FE & Skills Bill in Queen’s Speech - Unionlearn NFER Queen's Speech statement - Post-16 Bill - NFER Prime Minister’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee a central part of the Queen’s Speech - FE News Covid: ‘Let us keep masks in class,’ say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus in Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon says teacher judgement will be used for exam results - Scotsman Growth in private school fees slows during pandemic - Financial Times Covid rules from Monday: All schools need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Face masks still needed in Scottish schools next week - Times Educational Supplement | TES More primary pupils off with suspected Covid, but overall attendance remains high - Schools Week Covid: Attendance shows schools 'not out of the woods' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Profile: Keith Hollins, CEO, Staffordshire University Academies Trust - Schools Week DfE finally hits 1.3 million laptop target (5 weeks later than promised) - Schools Week Queen’s speech 2021: What was promised for FE and skills - FE Week Covid school exam fiasco may making cheating more tempting but pupils must resist - Scotsman DfE finally hits target on laptops for disadvantaged - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grade deadline move for ‘unduly disadvantaged’ students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted is a threat to our mental health, not a saviour - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE to offer new headteachers ‘targeted support’ during first two years in post - Schools Week All university students can return to face to face teaching - Evening Standard Queen's Speech: What it said about FE and training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Queen's Speech: Boris Johnson promises post-Covid skills overhaul - BBC We need to help those hardest hit back into training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bid to ban 'essay mills' amid fears students are 'cheating their way to the top' - Mirror SEND centres for excellence model to expand with six new providers - FE Week Oxford chases bright young things from the North as southern students still dominate - Telegraph Universities of Technology are key to the levelling-up agenda - Wonkhe Darling buds: your May 2021 dumb uni rankings update - Wonkhe Record portion of state school pupils gained entry to Oxford University last year - Mail Queen's speech 2021: children's early years identified as a priority - Nursery World 2 Market round-up: Nursery groups continue to grow - Nursery World 2 UK employers lose £2bn in unspent apprenticeship levy funds - Financial Times Drive for more student diversity paying off, says Oxford University - Guardian Union criticises UEL over deals to house firms where v-c had ties - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Rocket fuel’ Queen’s Speech will pledge to level up education - The Times Scottish pupils will fail exams if caught sharing papers - The Times