News archive for 19th May 2021

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More exercise could help poorer pupils, study says. - BBC Trust Capacity Fund (TCaF) award recipients - DfE Teaching teachers during COVID-19 - Ofsted Opportunity areas insight guides - DfE Diocesan multi-academy trust pilots - DfE More support for local areas to drive up school standards - DfE ESFA Update: 19 May 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Thousands more young people to benefit from Opportunity Areas - DfE Two Colchester Grammar students accused of rape as Ofsted announces inspection over ‘toxic male culture’ - The Sun Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford college should go, says independent report - Guardian Race report chair says religious minorities set for Oxbridge as they're 'good at ritual' - Mirror Universities where most students fail to land a graduate job after their degree revealed - Telegraph Ethnic minority pupils outperform their white peers becuase of 'immigrant optimism' - Telegraph For better results in the classroom, send your children to the playing field - Telegraph Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 19/5 - Times Educational Supplement | TES New junior education ministers announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES Less than half of university students will find jobs or new course places shortly after graduation - Mail Pimlico Academy parents welcome head teacher's departure after rows over 'racist' uniform policy - Mail Job prospects vary widely for graduates in England, data shows - Guardian FE colleges need employers' help in the skills revolution - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scaling up ‘a challenge’, admits national tutor scheme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Launch of the future research assessment programme - UKRI Premier League Draw Together - Be inspired and take part! - Premier League Primary Stars Ofqual: More exam tech change on the way - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government funding to boost education for children in disadvantaged areas - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Mental health impact of pandemic on children ‘could last a lifetime’, Barnardo’s warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Open book exams: open season for cheaters or a better form of assessment? - IOE London Blog Ingredients for good higher education governance - Advance HE How lockdown has affected children’s speech – and what parents can do to help - The Conversation Parents' evenings 'to stay on Zoom after pandemic' - BBC UKRI to review ‘one principal investigator per grant’ rule - Times Higher Education | THE Proceed with caution: new metric will ‘inevitably’ aid regulation - Times Higher Education | THE Edge response to Skills and Post 16 Education Bill - Edge Foundation Not eligible! Thousands of children in poverty are denied free school meals - SecEd SEND: Ofsted report tackles co-production, SENCOs, and EHCP delays - SecEd Welsh exam bosses deny claim a 'mutant algorithm' is being used for this year's GCSEs and A-levels - Wales Online ASCL comment on Ofsted’s teacher training report - ASCL HESA widening participation and non-continuation statistics to lose ‘Performance Indicator’ branding - HESA Measure for measures - HESA Call for local authorities to support students with free wifi in public spaces - Jisc Andrew Clapham appointed as New Chair of RAAC - BERA Russell Group comment on university policies on donations - Russell Group Ofsted on teaching teachers - National Education Union Projected completion and employment from entrant data (Proceed): Updated methodology and results - Office for Students Proceed with caution – measuring positive outcomes needs context - Wonkhe What should the new education secretary do first? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE's 'levelling up' plan: all teachers need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gordon Marsden: Why Right2Learn is right for now - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid has killed the school parents' evening – here are six reasons why we'll miss it - Telegraph Extended school day could bring teachers flexi working - Times Educational Supplement | TES What did John Swinney achieve as education secretary? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 7 new faith school trusts at the heart of the DfE’s academies drive revealed - Schools Week Ofqual predicts more technology in exams after pandemic ‘catalyst’ - Schools Week £10m ‘levelling up’ support will come from existing DfE budgets - Schools Week Pimlico Academy boss resigns after 'racist' uniform rules and flag row storm - Mirror Students say they’re being ‘scammed into paying for glorified lecture slides’ as universities keep lectures online - Evening Standard GCSEs 2022: Ofqual to consult on making exams ‘fair’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: ITE curriculums not ‘sufficiently ambitious’, and 5 other findings - Schools Week School principal quits after pupils' protest over 'racist' uniform policy - Express Why the proposed changes to MFL get it all wrong - Times Educational Supplement | TES Shirley-Anne Somerville is new education secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills and Post-16 Education Bill: The sector reacts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher trainers not 'ambitious' enough, Ofsted finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: NQTs need extra help after Covid disruption - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteacher quits over ‘racist uniform policy’ that sparked mass walkout - Metro School shuts entirely except for nursery after 28 Covid cases - Wales Online Acting together for the sake of our students - MillionPlus ASCL comment on PM’s plan for ‘stronger schools’ - ASCL What does ‘Levelling Up’ R&D look like? - HEPI New research: It’s National Numeracy Day, let’s make it count - National Numeracy Cambridge University: Record number of BAME admissions in 2020 - BBC Half of teachers need more help on pupil sexual conduct - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rape and revenge porn in secondary schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Alarming' pupil sex misconduct in primaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should the UK join the Phi Beta Kappa club? - Wonkhe Still waiting for skills reform - Wonkhe Scotland's teachers and school pupils are suffering sleepless nights with stress over exams in all but name - Scotsman Lockdown: Maths was hardest to teach, say most parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES PM's £10m 'stronger schools' plan questioned by heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Taskforce launched to attract skills investment - Times Educational Supplement | TES PM announces £18m opportunity areas expansion, and £10m to boost quality of teaching - Schools Week Free music training on offer for early years practitioners - Nursery World 2 Meet WorldSkills UK’s new Skills Taskforce for Global Britain - FE Week Proportion of black and minority ethnic students at Cambridge at record high - Mail 9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds - Accountability Hearings Online parents’ evenings are given top marks - The Times Universities ‘turn blind eye’ to suspicious foreign donations - The Times Cambridge takes record numbers of ethnic minority and state pupils - The Times Essex University chief sorry after free speech row - The Times Scotland: John Swinney loses education secretary role after SNP pledge failures - The Times Neil McLennan & Robert White: Scottish exam boards must learn lessons of last year’s ineptitude - The Times Ireland: Monaghan school removes mural of fascist leader Eoin O’Duffy after pupils protest - The Times Ireland: University course to attract bee plus students - The Times