News archive for 14th May 2021

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Will pupil premium 'cut' risk teacher jobs? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils in areas of England´s North West told to carry on wearing face masks - Mail Kids in Covid hotspots told to keep face masks on in class despite UK restriction ending - Mirror Still time to do right by young people on assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford University decolonising inch by inch, with imperial measurements the next target - Telegraph Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 14 May 2021 - Education Eye Covid Indian variant: Pupils keep face masks in parts of North West - BBC Under-fives are forgetting how to play with toys or put on shoes as more miss learning goals since Covid pandemic began - Mail 'Rocket fuel' will need to be paid for, Mr Johnson - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney accused of presiding over second Covid exams crisis in two years - Telegraph Coronavirus cases reported at seven Newport schools - Wales Online Coroner in Ana Uglow inquest will write to schools to raise sepsis awareness - Guardian Exam appeals process to be published soon as John Swinney doubles-down on controversial assessments - Scotsman SQA crisis: John Swinney told alternative assessment is 'new parliament's first scandal' - Herald Scotland Weekly highlights: Mask anger and job interview clues - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2022: Covid could stop geography fieldwork again - Times Educational Supplement | TES Around £13.5bn needed to help children catch-up from pandemic, think-tank finds - Independent Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 14/5 - Times Educational Supplement | TES News podcast: School leaders anger at handling of GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students face 'up to 43 exam-like assessments' - Times Educational Supplement | TES College lecturer behaved in an 'inappropriate' manner towards student - Wales Online The problem with numeracy sums up our skills crisis - The Times Boosting regional research and development: The role of regional university networks - HEPI Why we need a manifesto on education for environmental sustainability - BERA Realising our potential: Backing talent and strengthening UK research culture and environment - Russell Group Russell Group response to Sutton Trust report on measuring disadvantage - Russell Group Voice Community comments on education recovery report - Voice NFER response - House of Lords Youth Unemployment Committee inquiry - NFER ASCL comment on EPI’s £13.5bn education recovery proposals - ASCL 257 children self isolating after Covid cases in Cardiff schools - Wales Online Online schools are going to be the future after their emergence during lockdown - Express Walk to Nursery Week in support of the Half a Million Miles challenge - EYE | Early Years Educator Queen’s Speech is a promising start to Government plans for FE and adult education - Social Market Foundation | SMF How research institutes have responded to Covid-19 and gender equality - Advance HE Measuring Up: Identifying students for contextual admissions - Sutton Trust Mental Health Awareness Week shines light on student wellbeing - PIE News Children with SEND not supported at mainstream schools, Ofsted finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children in kinship care to receive more support to secure school place - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Open Survey: Improving access to good work for young people - ERSA FE podcast: The Queen’s speech and First Dates’ Fred - Times Educational Supplement | TES NEU comment on EPI report on education recovery - National Education Union Cornwall ‘beach school’ aims to offer hope for vulnerable children - Guardian Tech firms given chance to work with computing teachers on curriculum - Public Technology Indian Covid variant: Secondary school kids in Bolton and Bury will keep wearing masks in class - The Sun The power of pandemic maths - Financial Times Student rent strikers face threat of debt collectors - Financial Times Face masks likely to stay in classroom as schools set to defy guidance - Telegraph ‘The stakes are high’: how a Dutch HR firm landed the flagship tutoring contract - Schools Week GCSEs 2021: 'Heads misunderstand exam board workload' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam details shared on another social media platform - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual doesn't trust teachers on GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES MAT leaders warn exam boards over GCSE bills - Times Educational Supplement | TES We should take the opportunity to break the cycle of harmful student behaviours - Wonkhe Podcast: Free speech, Queen’s speech, admissions, transitions - Wonkhe Ofqual consults on coursework and fieldwork changes for 2022 GCSEs and A-levels - Schools Week GCSEs: 'DfE mustn't forget its pledge to trust teachers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is Covid catch-up just blustery rhetoric? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chris Whitty inspires surge in medicine and nursing students - The Times Three in five workers say pre-school children are behind with early development - Mail WorldSkills centres expand to ITPs - FE Week Urgent action demanded on home education after deaths of ‘invisible’ children - Schools Week Is the government fulfilling its £300m mental health promises? - Schools Week GCSES 2021: 'We need to keep an eye on grade inflation' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Peter Kyle is named new shadow schools minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Young London SOS: Return to school ‘no quick fix for anxiety children suffer’ - Evening Standard Banned: 9 firms join the ‘suspended’ list on the apprenticeships register - FE Week GCSEs 2022: Exams are still 'plan A', says Ofqual - Times Educational Supplement | TES Modern studies teacher elected as an MP - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wood Review of multi-agency safeguarding arrangements - DfE Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel: first national review - DfE 2022 non-exam assessment and fieldwork requirements consultation - Ofqual Apprenticeship levy funding: the truth is out there - FE Week Julie Nugent: Proving the power of skills devolution - Times Educational Supplement | TES Loans provider slammed for accepting ‘identical’ learner work - FE Week ‘Expulsions’ expelled: Critics persuade DfE to U-turn on exclusions lingo - Schools Week West Midlands has no plans to claw back AEB funds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Profile: Helen Rowland, Chief Executive, Focus Trust - Schools Week Mary Beard to fund classics students from under-represented groups - Guardian Self-isolation exam worries in Wales - BBC Teachers 'thrown under bus' on school masks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted branded ‘disingenuous’ over wellbeing review - Schools Week ‘Skills taxonomy’: new algorithm planned to seek out skills cold spots - FE Week League tables are a pointless insult to teachers and pupils - Herald Scotland SQA crisis: Schools 'face chaos' due to results extension - Herald Scotland Will pupil premium 'cut' risk to teacher jobs? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland's school league tables are a pointless insult to teachers and pupils - Herald Scotland Education recovery and resilience in England - EPI Commonly used markers of disadvantage ‘not effective’ at identifying low-income students - Sutton Trust Government ‘exaggerating threat to freedom of speech to push through new laws’, says university union - Independent EPI: Extend courses by a year to make up for lost time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid catch-up needs £13.5bn over 3 years, say experts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid catch-up plan: Pay teachers to work in poor areas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes Schools Awards 2021: the shortlist - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: £13.5bn education package ‘needed to prevent pupils from being left behind’ - Nursery World 2 Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders report widening attainment gap among disadvantaged under-fives - Nursery World 2 Grants available for children’s speech, language and hearing development - Nursery World 2 Half of students rated as `disadvantaged´ not from low-income background - Mail Helping pupils in England catch up on lost learning will cost £13.5bn – report - Guardian Mary Beard’s retirement gift to diversify ‘very white’ Classics - Times Higher Education | THE Call for longer school days as part of £13.5bn education recovery package - Mail Half of students rated as disadvantaged not from low-income background - Mail £13.5bn education package needed to reverse pandemic learning loss - FE News Universities reject plan for pupils to apply after results - The Times Covid in Scotland: Focus on play for pupils’ catch-up - The Times Scotland: We’re being hunted, say Edinburgh University lecturers - The Times