News archive for 20th May 2021

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Tories reveal new team of shadow education ministers - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Middle-class grab’ on apprenticeships confirmed by new analysis - FE Week Cambridge accused of creating ‘police state’ where dons can be reported for raising an eyebrow - Telegraph Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 20/5 - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'National flag isn't racist!' Britons erupt as headteacher quits in Union Jack uniform row - Express Oxford college criticised for refusal to remove Cecil Rhodes statue - Guardian Rhodes statue: government opposition makes removal too costly, says Oriel College, Oxford - The Times Is Boris Johnson really going to sacrifice arts degrees for the Conservative cause? | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Art students seek to take university to court over ‘heartbreaking’ clearout - Guardian UCU condemns Leeds college job cuts as attack on women - UCU Celebrating the incredible contributions school business leaders make to their schools and the wider community - NAHT Graduate Outcomes SOC 2020 update - HESA Oriel U-turns on removing Cecil Rhodes statue - Times Higher Education | THE Early in-class maths ‘ability’ groups, early teacher judgements & primary schoolchildren’s later maths self-concept - BERA Voice Community welcomes EPI’s teacher pay report - Voice Comparative policy analysis: An insightful use of PISA data - NFER New report looks at Republic of Ireland’s reading policy to explain high PISA performance - NFER Bosses of Oxford's Oriel College reject calls to tear down statue of British colonialist - Mail 3 reasons to teach problem-solving using coding - Teacher Toolkit UKRI publishes an analysis of Covid-19 PhD student support - UKRI Cross-party MPs urge Education Secretary to announce Covid catch-up plan for students - AoC | Association of Colleges Third of Covid education spending 'to come from existing budgets' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Put early years at the heart of Covid-19 recovery, Sutton Trust says - CYPN | Children & Young People Now City College Norwich share employers’ views on employing a learner with SEND - Education & Training Foundation The impact of specialist staff from a parent’s perspective - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Derby College reflect on anticipating inclusion needs (SEND) in Further Education settings - Education & Training Foundation International Btecs: How (and why) they are thriving - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boarding pupils failed by decades of 'systemic failure' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Right2Learn campaign to host inaugural conference tonight - FE Week What parents really think about Ofsted revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Magazine podcast: Influencers, writing and retrieval - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cecil Rhodes statue will not be removed by Oxford College - BBC SQA appeals details not expected until next week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted national education director Sean Harford to take early retirement - Schools Week New powers in Skills Bill point to radical loss of autonomy for colleges - FE Week Scottish colleges overspend by £54m - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted's Sean Harford to leave watchdog - Times Educational Supplement | TES International partnerships announced to boost post-pandemic skills recovery - FE Week The purpose of education - Montrose42 30% of COVID-related spending on education in England due to come from existing budgets - Nuffield Foundation Ofsted: 9 in 10 parents say their child’s school handled Covid well - Schools Week Rhodes will not fall, despite ruling that Oxford statue should go - Telegraph GCSE and A-level 'inconsistencies' mean pupils could have longer to sit same exam in different schools - Mail Schools’ handling of Covid backed by 90% of parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid catch-up: MPs urge DfE to announce a plan for FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES End the scandal of temporary contracts in education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reverse adult education clawback plans, says cross-party group of MPs - FE Week Teacher pay policy: One size fits all? - EPI Teacher grading 'influenced by students' personality' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Physical activity 'can help to close achievement gap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Herald's Higher Education Awards: Hard work and dedication pays off for finalists - Herald Scotland Teachers may be influenced by personality traits when awarding grades, research suggests - Independent The black children wrongly sent to 'special' schools in the 1970s - BBC 30% of Covid-related spending on education in England due to come from existing budgets - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS A Fair Start? Putting the early years at the centre of education recovery - Sutton Trust Sutton Trust calls for early years to be at heart of education recovery plan - Sutton Trust Local pay and teacher retention in England - EPI ASCL comment on IFS findings over Covid-related funding for education - ASCL ASCL comment on Sutton Trust’s call for early years to be at the heart of education recovery - ASCL ASCL comment on EPI’s teacher pay report - ASCL Pay system should recognise and reward teaching as a high status profession - NASUWT IFS on Covid-related spending - National Education Union Sutton Trust on early years - National Education Union EPI on teacher pay and retention - National Education Union The case for putting foundation years on more stable ground - HEPI Teachers give better grades to good boys and girls, study claims - Telegraph Focus on preschools during Covid recovery, UK ministers urged - Guardian Keep ‘sports-hall pen and paper’ exams in the past, report suggests - Jisc Apprenticeships and traineeships: May 2021 - DfE Graduate outcomes (LEO): postgraduate outcomes in 2018 to 2019 - DfE School workforce census 2021: technical information - DfE Nearly 9 out of 10 parents say their child’s school handled COVID-19 well - Ofsted Education Secretary addresses Centre for Social Justice - DfE Learn from disabled students so everyone benefits from the digital revolution - Office for Students Learn from disabled students so everyone benefits from the digital revolution - Office for Students Uni Connect national evaluation: An analysis of young participation in higher education in England in the areas targeted by Uni Connect - Office for Students Third independent review of evaluation evidence submitted by Uni Connect partnerships - Office for Students Emerging insight report: COVID-19 and Uni Connect - Office for Students Formative evaluation of Uni Connect phase two: Findings - Office for Students Countdown to apply for student finance in Wales - Student Loans Company Annual parents survey - Ofsted Prison education inquiry: Education Committee evidence session on employability, skills and training - UK Parliament SQA 'misses deadline' to confirm appeals process for exams in 2021 - Scotsman School pupils must not face repeat exams fiasco - Scotsman Will SNP continue to ignore child poverty scandal? - Scotsman What can the HE sector learn from Essex’s free speech cases? - Wonkhe OfS’ new metric will help students make sense of career prospects - Wonkhe A letter to those leading universities for the future - Wonkhe Target teacher pay to stop post-Covid exodus, DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lockdown lack of play harmed young pupils, parents say - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads' growing 'fears' over recycled Covid cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE raids existing budgets for a third of £4.3bn Covid spending - Schools Week Global childcare report reveals market buoyancy - Nursery World 2 Majority of parents believe their child’s school has handled Covid-19 well - Nursery World 2 New £1m programme to increase understanding of the Froebelian approach - Nursery World 2 A fifth of pre-school children have physical development impaired due to lockdown - Mail International students cautious about recruitment agent ‘bias’ - Times Higher Education | THE Scrapping foundation year funding ‘would end vital second chance’ - Times Higher Education | THE Teachers' grades biased to more 'agreeable' pupils - BBC Access and participation to higher education - Time for reflection and reconsideration? - FE News Youngsters' job hopes 'crushed' by coronavirus pandemic, warns youth expert - Mirror Stonewall ‘gave bad advice’ to university in free speech row - The Times Pimlico Academy: school staff strike amid row over ‘racist uniform’ - The Times Duke and duchess to revisit university where they met - The Times Scotland: No sanctions for students who abused Edinburgh University senior lecturer online - The Times Scotland: Hackers hit IT systems at Glasgow Caledonian University - The Times