News archive for 27th May 2021

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Oak bosses’ bid for £41m payday revealed - Schools Week ‘Micro-aggressions’ list was a mistake, admits Cambridge vice-chancellor - Telegraph England’s £11bn school repair bill goes back to Michael Gove cuts - Guardian Schools and the tyranny of merit - The Learning Spy Repair bill for schools in England doubles to over £11bn, finds survey - Guardian Homework ruins family life and stops children having hobbies, says Prof Robert Winston - Telegraph DfE snubs calls for sprinklers in all new schools - Schools Week Today's school, education and teacher news: LIVE 27/5 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pro-Palestinian protests in schools ‘being stoked on social media’ - Telegraph Indian variant schools data 'not robust', says PHE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson: Not valuing FE would be a 'calamity' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unions demand ‘immediate’ release of Covid-19 variant school outbreaks data - Schools Week ESFA Education and Skills agreements 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Amanda Spielman to continue as Ofsted Chief Inspector - DfE Education Secretary sets out Skills Bill opportunities - DfE The complete curriculum programme pilot: research reports - DfE Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn term 2020 - DfE RSHE: school practice in early adopter schools - DfE Building Bulletin 100: fire safety design for schools - DfE Review of Building Bulletin 100: design for fire safety in schools - DfE Delayed school admissions for summer born pupils (2020) - DfE Post-16 education and labour market activities, pathways and outcomes (LEO) - DfE Schools lacking condoms for sex education lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fears teacher training provider cull could hit supply - Times Educational Supplement | TES College Covid tests: Positive results continue to drop - Times Educational Supplement | TES School apologises for giving reference to sex predator - Times Educational Supplement | TES Using checklists to improve college teaching - Learning Scientists Employers to receive £1,000 for every T Level student - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Even high-achieving pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds miss out on some university opportunities - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS UK Research and Innovation budget falls as overseas aid cuts bite - Times Higher Education | THE English tuition fee cut a ‘myth’, says universities minister - Times Higher Education | THE Part-time students 'locked out' of university education, says UCU - UCU ASCL comment on pupil absence in autumn term - ASCL ASCL comment on reappointment of Amanda Spielman - ASCL Collab Group principals and CEO's reflect on Covid-19 - Collab Group Burnout fears for children’s mental health workers amid increasing demand - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Student Loans Company appoints new Executive Director, Operations - Student Loans Company Students in England should still apply for student finance - Student Loans Company Using load reduction instruction to manage cognitive load - Teacher Toolkit Colleges in Scotland to see funding boost in 2021-22 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers urged to release data on Covid variants in English schools - Guardian Students facing increased competition for university places - Wales Online Watchdog raps UK's Pisa data reports over transparency - Times Educational Supplement | TES Magazine podcast: The purpose of schools; exclusions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should homework be banned? Experts clash over whether teachers are to blame for not making it more 'appealing' - Mail Repairing England’s schools will cost £11.4 billion, DfE admits - Schools Week Ten areas hardest hit by Covid school absence revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Amanda Spielman stays as Ofsted chief for 2 more years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Archive of physicist Stephen Hawking left to academia and museums - Financial Times Spielman bags two more years as Ofsted chief inspector - Schools Week Pupils missed 33 million days of in-person education due to Covid last autumn - Schools Week Spielman bags two more years as Ofsted chief inspector - FE Week GCSEs and A-levels: 7 key trends from provisional 2021 entries data - Schools Week Covid saw 60% of pupils miss school in the autumn term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents use survey to ‘bemoan’ SQA performance - Times Educational Supplement | TES City & Guilds fined £50K over ‘unfit’ qualifications - FE Week Universities will be crucial to the nation’s economic and social recovery - Telegraph ‘What’s good for the city is good for the university’: higher education’s vital role in the post-Covid recovery - Universities UK University partnerships will help UK build back better faster - Universities UK What does the future hold for the National Tutoring Programme and volunteer-led tuition? - HEPI Cash boost for T Levels - DfE Teacher suspended for showing Prophet Muhammad cartoon can return to classroom - Metro Employer incentive payments for employers offering a T Level industry placement - Education & Skills Funding Agency T Level industry placements employer guide - Education & Skills Funding Agency Tuition fees must not be cut, vice-Chancellors warn - Telegraph SNP under fire over 'shared' Gaelic-English schools campus - Herald Scotland Universities can drive economic recovery if everyone plays their part - Wonkhe Should universities involve parents in their student’s on-campus life? - Wonkhe Universities need a blended approach to freedom of expression - Wonkhe Oxford students demand new name for university's Sackler library - Mail T levels: Employers to get £1k per placement - Times Educational Supplement | TES New guidance for early years settings on potty training - Nursery World 2 Cash boost for nurseries hosting T Level placements - Nursery World 2 Coronavirus: Call for 'Summer of Play' to restore children's wellbeing - Nursery World 2 Boost to employer cash incentives for T Level industry placements - FE Week Is the age of the campus bookshop over? - Times Higher Education | THE Prophet cartoon row teacher can return to class - The Times Let’s move to . . . affordable towns with best schools - The Times Call to rename Oxford library over OxyContin links - The Times Ireland: University tech staff help HSE recover after hack - The Times