News archive for 12th May 2021

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At last an end to student snowflakes stifling free speech as universities clamp down on censorship - The Sun Girls' education 'smartest' post-Covid investment, says PM - BBC Research review series: religious education - Ofsted New laws to ensure the UK has the skills it needs - GOV.UK Flexible working: resources for teachers and leaders - DfE Case study: United Learning - DfE Case study: Whites Meadow Primary School - DfE Ofsted publishes research review on religious education - Ofsted ESFA Update: 12 May 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Termination of ESFA funding agreements - Education & Skills Funding Agency Adult education budget (AEB) funding rules 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Adult education budget (AEB): funding rates and formula 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills, Gillian Keegan MP, questioned - UK Parliament Robert Peston gets schooled after saying teachers did ‘not very much teaching’ in lockdown - HuffPost DfE to launch cyber-security advice tool after spate of attacks - Schools Week Self-censorship on China biggest freedom of speech issue facing universities - Mail Decision to axe £15m catch-up resources ‘not taken lightly’, says DfE - Schools Week Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 12/5 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid inquiry must probe DfE response, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student unions who 'cancel' speakers on campus could be fined £500,000 under Boris's new free speech law - Mail Scottish pupils sharing past papers online could face shock in exam hall - Scotsman Cambridge Uni redefined ‘tolerance’ after Stephen Fry hit out at ‘muddled’ woke thinking - Express Careers education toolkit launched to boost 'parity' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish pupils face ‘mental health crisis’ due to lack of exam support - Guardian Russell Group response to Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill - Russell Group School masks rule may be reintroduced in response to ‘localised outbreaks’, DfE says - Schools Week UUK response to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill - Universities UK MillionPlus comment on the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill - MillionPlus Covid inquiry must focus on education - NASUWT What’s on the menu for post-pandemic international strategies? - HEPI The top 10 best schools in Scotland ranked by teacher estimates - Scotsman It’s 1986 all over again as free speech on campus gets a bill of its own - Wonkhe Science minister’s junior role ‘may harm R&D funding push’ - Times Higher Education | THE Jo Johnson: self-censorship on China ‘biggest free speech issue’ - Times Higher Education | THE Remote working ‘boosting managerialism’ in academia - Times Higher Education | THE New research brief finds UK admissions system an international outlier - Sutton Trust New mental health and wellbeing app launched for colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges Thousands of childcare providers closed this year, government figures reveal - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Will we have a Beveridge Report for ending the attainment gap? - IOE London Blog Third space professionals and the challenge of CPD - Advance HE Black students’ mental health, wellbeing, and unbelonging in UK higher education - Advance HE Post-qualification admissions reform - EDSK Building Bridges Towards Future Jobs – new research from City & Guilds Group - Edge Foundation The mind's CEO: Executive function - Learning Scientists Schools perplexed after PM's mask ruling goes against SAGE advice - SecEd Schools urged to adopt Education Staff Wellbeing Charter - SecEd Designated mental health leads: Funding finally emerges - SecEd ETF completes free EdTech training offer mapped to the Digital Teaching Professional Framework - Education & Training Foundation Ofsted: Six ways to improve RE teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Freedom of Speech Bill is a huge step towards saving the soul of university education - Telegraph Scottish teacher’s reference did not mention warning for touching students, inquiry told - Scotsman ESFA to launch another European Social Fund tender - FE Week New Covid rules: 8 questions that still need answers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers 'being set up to take the fall' over exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-proof next year's 11-plus tests, grammars advised - Times Educational Supplement | TES Post-covid classrooms: what will they look like? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tory free-speech drive is a savvy electoral move - Telegraph Campus free speech law in England ‘likely to have opposite effect’ - Guardian India and China fuel British international school surge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam details on TikTok are symptom of flawed system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Speed read: Ofsted’s guide to a ‘high-quality’ RE curriculum - Schools Week DfE pulls £15m Covid catch-up aids contract - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning over 'unacceptable' TikTok GCSE paper trading - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can English departments choose the right texts? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted 'too close to DfE' to run school sex abuse probe - Times Educational Supplement | TES Caterer Compass repays furlough cash after free school meal parcel row - Schools Week Real skills will help the young go far in 'levelled-up' Britain - Express Teachers are all grading this year's A-levels and GCSEs differently - Wales Online GCSE and A-level papers being sold on social media for £1 - Guardian Universities to comply with free speech duties or face sanctions - DfE Most primary children ‘will be unable to swim length of a pool by 2025’ - Telegraph ‘Strategic misstep’: arts education cuts risk UK cultural leadership, government told - Guardian UCU slams government free speech plans as Trojan horse for increasing power over staff & students - UCU ASCL Cymru survey shows Welsh schools want significant reduction in exam fees - ASCL John Swinney warned over SQA results 'disaster' - Herald Scotland Should student recruitment stay digital-first post Covid? - Wonkhe Concerns over impartiality of school abuse review - BBC Universities could face fines over free speech breaches - BBC NDNA supports campaign to explore a ‘colourful rainbow of fruit and vegetables’ - Nursery World 2 More than 2,000 early years providers lost since the start of the year - Nursery World 2 Union calls for 'substantial' pay rise for 'undervalued' school support staff - Nursery World 2 English universities fear legal minefield under free speech bill - Times Higher Education | THE Strengthening free speech laws `will counter chilling censorship on campuses - Mail Call for universities to publish annual data on harassment - Times Higher Education | THE New laws to protect university free speech - The Times First decline in private school pupils for ten years - The Times Alice Thomson: This exam shambles is worse than last year - The Times Scotland: Edinburgh University chief urged to quit over free speech - The Times Scotland: Pupil assessments not exams by subterfuge, insists Sturgeon - The Times Scottish school league table 2021: Pupils raise the bar on Highers - The Times Scottish school league table 2021: Best-performing schools mainly teach the wealthy - The Times Lindsay Paterson: Scottish school league table grades show institutions are stuck in their bubbles - The Times Ireland: Schools affect teenage behaviour more than neighbourhoods, ESRI finds - The Times