News archive for 18th May 2021

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Need to know: The Skills and Post-16 Education Bill - Times Educational Supplement | TES A death knell for degrees as universities reveal plans for online teaching for yet another year - Mail Skills and Post-16 Education Bill published - FE Week Pimlico Academy headteacher steps down after row over ‘racist’ uniform policy - Independent Labour: Conservatives' FE failings are hitting the NHS - Times Educational Supplement | TES Evidence shows ‘bias’ against boys in teacher assessments, exam regulator says - Independent Oxford University ridiculed over 'absurd' attempts to 'decolonise' imperial measurements - Express Headteacher of Pimlico Academy who sparked race row revolt quits - Mail Pimlico Academy head resigns after row over ‘racist’ uniform policy - Telegraph Vaccine rollout to children faces backlash - Telegraph Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 18/5 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pimlico academy head resigns after race discrimination row - Guardian School backs down after refusing to let girl with hair loss wear cap to class - Metro Forced college mergers – and other Skills Bill revelations - FE Week Nicola Sturgeon appoints John Swinney Covid Recovery Secretary in post-election reshuffle - Telegraph Give struggling pupils four years to retake GCSEs, says catch-up tsar - Guardian Catch-up tsar: Extended school day should be compulsory - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let pupils take GCSEs over four years not two, says education tsar - Telegraph John Swinney appointed Covid Recovery minister in early SNP reshuffle announcement - Scotsman Need to know: relaxation of Scottish Covid rules - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: John Swinney moved out of education role - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pimlico Academy head resigns after row over ‘racist’ uniform policy - The Times Daniel Finkelstein: A new free speech law will harm free speech - The Times Advance HE working in partnership with Wellcome to improve board diversity in research - Advance HE Froebel Trust invests £1m into the early years - EYE | Early Years Educator How can we encourage lifelong learning in the workplace? - Nesta Essex apologises to academics disinvited over gender views - Times Higher Education | THE Lecturer registration: 400 FE staff sign up in pilot - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Sturgeon makes education promises after election as FM - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swearing, uniform and mobile phones! - Teacher Tapp MPs call for oracy education to be post-Covid priority - SecEd Five ways to use diagnostic assessment in the mathematics classroom - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Skills and Post-16 Education Bill presented in Parliament - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Understanding and engaging stakeholders in higher education – the Board’s role - Advance HE Post-16 Capacity Fund - DfE Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 13 May 2021 - DfE Skills and Post-16 Education Bill: impact assessment and JCHR memorandum - DfE EdTech demonstrator schools and colleges: successful applicants - DfE Challenging Ofsted blogging policies and free speech - Teacher Toolkit Interrogating the notion of the seaside idyll in the context of initial teacher training - BERA Diversity Role Models - NAHT Recognition of overseas teachers - NAHT Celebrating the incredible contributions school business leaders make to their schools and the wider community - NAHT ASCL comment on Week 20 school attendance statistics - ASCL UCAS response to publication of Skills and Post-16 Education Bill - UCAS Balancing act: measuring our progress on minimising regulatory burden - Office for Students New legislation to help transform opportunities for all - DfE Edtech demonstrator programme phase 2: What schools need to know - Schools Week Struggling pupils could be given four years to do GCSEs rather than two - Mail Why Ofsted is wrong about TA support for SEND pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Struggling students could get four years to pass - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted may temporarily extend inspection window to seven years - Schools Week Schools 'need' plan to cope with new Covid variants - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Teachers and students boxed in by assessment rules - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: School shares intensive revision plan for students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fury, despair and burnout – welcome to GCSEs 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Letters and Sounds phonics 'not fit for purpose' - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE providers to face Covid security 'spot checks' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tackling the disability employment gap must be a priority after the pandemic - Learning & Work Institute Keegan: We'll keep 'quality' level 2 apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities keeping lectures online into autumn term - BBC Confusion in schools as heads tell children to keep masks on - Evening Standard UK universities plan to continue Zoom lectures in the autumn term - Mail John Swinney 'must be replaced' as education secretary due to 'litany of failures' - Scotsman Schools could go longer without Ofsted visit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keegan: DfE still worried about ‘middle-class grab’ on apprenticeships - FE Week DfE considers buying 360,000 abacuses to aid maths catch-up in schools - Schools Week Cambridge University to offer short online courses for professionals - BBC The road to 2.4% is long, bumpy and full of obstacles – and we may never arrive - HEPI Why it's time to deal the death blow to league tables - Times Educational Supplement | TES The slow death of adult residential education? - FE Week Post pandemic, the sector needs to get to work on employment for students and graduates - Wonkhe To reimagine the future universities need less efficiency and more care - Wonkhe Skills bill: £83m to future-proof further education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid and schools: Release heads from test and trace duty to stop exodus - Times Educational Supplement | TES NAHT: Leaders have spent 7 extra school days ‘propping up’ test and trace - Schools Week Former nursery apprentice denies sexually abusing children - Nursery World 2 Family friendly employers now key to a productive and happy workforce, says survey - Nursery World 2 Coalition calls for 'credible' plan from Government to end Child Poverty - Nursery World 2 Ending the absurd distinction between higher and further education: Introducing the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill - FE News The Skills and post-16 Education Bill and £83 million Post-16 Capacity fund launched - sector reaction - FE News 9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence in its accountability hearings - Accountability Hearings Cambridge signals major shift towards online learning - Times Higher Education | THE DfE launches £83m fund to ‘future proof’ places for 16-19s - FE Week UK schools object to unpaid ‘propping up’ of Covid test and trace system - Guardian Skills Bill to reveal extent government taking back control of colleges - FE Week Universities told to stop ‘foot dragging’ over antisemitism definition - The Times Scotland: Investigate false claims, pleads accused student - The Times Education Secretary John Swinney on the brink as Sturgeon ‘strongly considers’ sacking SNP chief - Express