News archive for 26th May 2021

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Batley school protests: Teacher allowed back in Prophet Muhammad image row - BBC Teacher 'ordered schoolgirls to wash pro-Palestine messages off their hands' - Mirror Batley teacher suspended after showing Charlie Hebdo image can return - Guardian SQA appeals: Education Secretary to make statement next week - Herald Scotland Batley Grammar teacher allowed back to school but Prophet Mohammed picture should not be used again - Telegraph Covid: Schools close sites after surge in Indian variant - Schools Week Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 26/5 - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE to finally publish ‘summary’ of school condition data - Schools Week Why face-to-face student enrichment must return - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lockdown laptops scheme 'hugely successful', claims DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anger over British teachers’ response to pro-Palestine protests - Guardian Statement on 2021 appeals process expected next week - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCAS research shows students struggle to access information on apprenticeships - UCAS Sturgeon’s education priorities for the first 100 days - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top ten tips for primary language learning - UKEdChat New EEF case studies - Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF DfE not learning lessons from Covid failures, warn MPs - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ‘I’m okay, just scanning proof that my leg is still amputated’: how can academia become less ableist? - IOE London Blog Over 400,000 more pupils eligible for free school meals amid pandemic, says Labour - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Wharton: ‘wrong’ pick for free speech job would mean ‘challenges’ - Times Higher Education | THE The role of sustainability-focused degrees: Embodying interdisciplinarity & the development of generalism as specialism? - BERA Delivering our new strategy: closing the attainment gap for disadvantaged children - Nesta Supporting better use of destinations data - Careers & Enterprise Company Nursery staff fear for their mental health, with high levels of anxiety and frustration - EYE | Early Years Educator ESFA Update: 26 May 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Improving opportunity and choice for mature students - Office for Students Taking Teaching Further programme - DfE SQA criticised for holding teachers and pupils in 'contempt' as statement on appeals expected next week - Scotsman Top 10 highest paid college leaders in 2019/20 revealed - FE Week Teacher MP grills Dominic Cummings over Covid handling - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mick Jagger and Sting support school tribute concert - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: How can access be improved? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Combined authorities step in to save Northern College - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Insulting’ school support staff’s 1.5% pay rise offer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson ‘failed children with lack of coronavirus pandemic plan’ - Evening Standard Teacher productivity data should not be a zero-sum game - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge dons celebrate removal of 'micro-aggressions' website - Mail Department for Education had no Covid plan, say MPs - BBC HE admissions service to ‘act as a digital Baker Clause’ - FE Week School leavers will find it easier to apply for apprenticeships under new Ucas plans - Mail ASCL comments on Public Accounts Committee report - ASCL NFER statement: Carole Willis' response to the PAC report - NFER NFER statement: Response to NAHT’s Blueprint to recovery - NFER GCSEs and A-levels 2021: Parents contact lawyers over grading 'bias' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities and public libraries engaging society - Wonkhe Credit frameworks in a lattice of learning - Wonkhe “No Covid plan” Department for Education “surprisingly resistant” to lessons-learned exercise amid concerns over catchup offer and scale of “hidden harm” - UK Parliament 'No-plan' DfE 'resistant' to learning Covid lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads launch 7-point action plan for Covid catch-up - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE needs ‘proper lessons-learned’ Covid review, and 4 more demands from MPs - Schools Week Sikh boy, 5, has ‘sacred hair cut by bullies’ in shocking attack at South London school - The Sun Labour calls for free school meals in school holidays, as eligibility rises - Nursery World 2 Latest data shows early years attendance has risen slightly - Nursery World 2 Coronavirus: DfE had 'no plan', MPs' report finds - Nursery World 2 Early years a ‘top priority’ in union’s education recovery report - Nursery World 2 Headteachers publish blueprint to help pupils recover from pandemic as Tories drag feet - Mirror Department for Education had no plan for dealing with Covid disruption - Mail DfE had no plan for dealing with a pandemic, says critical report by MPs - Guardian Universities grant administrators’ post-Covid home-working wish - Times Higher Education | THE Department for Education was ‘unprepared’ for Covid-19 challenges, parliamentary committee finds - Independent More European staff leaving UK for universities abroad post-Brexit - Times Higher Education | THE Allerton Grange School head’s ‘call to arms’ apology accepted - The Times Ucas to drive more teenagers towards apprenticeships - The Times Pandemic taught students vital lessons about life - The Times Apprenticeships gain prestige as debt-free route to lucrative jobs - The Times Gavin Williamson ‘failed children with lack of pandemic plan’ - The Times Spy team to advise universities on national security threats - The Times Scotland: Protect university free speech by law, Conservatives demand - The Times