News archive for 30th September 2021

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Angry teachers and parents learn of exams shake-up from media - Independent DfE U-turns on move to weekly school attendance collection - Schools Week Youngsters demand Rishi Sunak boosts funding for mental health prevention hubs - Mirror SQA 'failure' on human rights duties leads to resignation demands - Scotsman GCSE and A-level exam changes: 'A brave decision by Ofqual but issues abound' - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA resignations demanded over equality failings - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE and A-level exam changes explained - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Formal dispute over teacher pay declared by unions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland extends master’s scholarships to Europe post-Brexit - Times Higher Education | THE IOE alumna shortlisted for Global Teacher Prize - IOE London Blog What is Jisc doing to support implementation of UKRI’s open access policy? - Jisc Understanding research papers: A guide for teachers - Learning Scientists Report looks to exciting future for agriculture and animal care training - IfATE Oh my days: linguists lament slang ban in London school - Guardian Transforming perceptions and driving up standards for hair and beauty - IfATE SQA boss faces calls to quit over equality failures - Herald Scotland NCFE relaunches as an educational charity and leader in vocational and technical learning - ERSA School-led tutoring: conditions of grant - Education & Skills Funding Agency Student Success – perspectives from our global membership - Advance HE Teacher pay Scotland: Committee declares formal dispute over 'unreasonable' pay offer to Scotland's teachers - Scotsman Strategic Advisory Groups fully appointed - Advance HE Pupils are not just citizens in waiting. They are already citizens, and they need more than political literacy - IOE London Blog A fair start? Extending early years funding - Sutton Trust Face masks must be brought back in secondary schools to curb surging infections, Independent SAGE member says - Mail EPI responds to the government’s plans for 2022 exams - EPI What impact will Ofqual’s chosen grading system in 2022 have? - FFT Education Datalab Report: Signal failure - How can we get more value and less waste from our education system? - Social Market Foundation | SMF Edge Foundation Spending Review 2021 representation - Edge Foundation NASUWT comments on qualification plans for 2022 - NASUWT NAHT & NEU call for Boris Johnson to ‘keep his promise’ on education in the Comprehensive Spending Review - NAHT Response from minister of education to NAHT(NI) regarding member concerns with PHA school track and trace arrangements - NAHT Adaptations in 2022 summer exams - Voice Annual review 2020/21 - HEPI Russell Group response to Ofqual’s approach to grading exams and assessments in 2022 - Russell Group £2.5 billion investment to support government’s R&D ambitions - UKRI Twelve things we learned from July’s OfS board papers - Wonkhe Nine in 10 teachers concerned about kids arriving at school without eating breakfast - Mirror Schools advised to run termly assessments under back-up plan for cancelled exams - Mail Covid: Jab uptake gap between affluent and deprived teens - BBC Holland Park School head teacher to retire amid ‘toxic culture’ claims - The Times 2022 exams: What you need to know about plan B - FE Week GCSEs and A levels 2022: Ofqual's teacher grades plan B - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Survey shows children's mental health has not improved since lockdown - BBC Brexit: Scotland funds £2.5m EU student scholarship programme as applications to universities half - Herald Scotland Back to school: How are pupils being kept Covid-safe? - BBC Starmer pledges major investment in children’s mental health support - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The pandemic ought to be the turning point in the debate about private schools - Guardian Nine in ten teachers concerned about children coming to school without eating breakfast - Express 2022 exams: What you need to know about plan B - Schools Week Exams overhaul call as pandemic signals need for 21st-century testing system - Herald Scotland It's time to throw exam papers in the bin for good - Herald Scotland School admission appeals flexibilities extended again to September 2022 - Schools Week What changes are being made to GCSEs and A-levels next year? - Independent New framework to set out the purpose of academy trust CEOs - Schools Week Exams: Covid grade inflation to be wound back over two years - BBC Covid: Testing asymptomatic children should end, experts say - BBC Plans for 2022 summer exams announced - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges ASCL comment on exam arrangements for 2022 - ASCL UCU criticises report calling for lower earning graduates to be hit with tuition fee repayments - UCU Joint unions submission ahead of Comprehensive Spending Review - National Education Union Ofqual on 2022 summer exams - National Education Union How to boost higher education and cut public spending - HEPI Awarding qualifications in summer 2022 - DfE Contingency arrangements: GCSE, AS, A level, Project and AEA - DfE DfE guidance on vocational contingencies published - Ofqual Adaptations in 2022 summer exams to ensure fairness for students - DfE (Re-)Introducing the Teaching and Learning Toolkit - Schools Week Ofqual’s approach to grading exams and assessments in summer 2022 and autumn 2021 - Ofqual Report: Boosting higher education while cutting public spending - HEPI A graduate tax is still the fairest way for graduates to contribute to the cost of their study - Wonkhe Are universities even clusterable? - Wonkhe Covid catch-up: PM told to 'keep promise' on education - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A levels 2022: How will exams look next year? - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A levels 2022: Lowest grade levels since 2019 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Vile Nazi graffiti appears at primary school as vandals paint red swastika on wall - Mirror Exams to be marked leniently next year as ‘safety net’ plan unveiled - Metro 2022 exams: Adaptions and grading plan finally confirmed - Schools Week 2022 exams: Adaptions and grading plan finally confirmed - FE Week GCSEs and A levels 2022: Exams plan 'far too late' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils in England to return to sitting GCSEs and A-levels in 2022 - Financial Times New science minister ‘has one month to save £22 billion pledge’ - Times Higher Education | THE Extra cash for Covid-hit PhDs and research culture but QR frozen - Times Higher Education | THE Tackle ‘signalling’ head on to ward off criticism – thinktank - Times Higher Education | THE Willetts: Tories risking ‘red wall’ if they cut university places - Times Higher Education | THE Architect of £9,000 tuition fees calls for faster loan repayments - Guardian GCSE and A-level pupils to be awarded fewer top grades in 2022, says Ofqual - Guardian Normal GCSE and A-level exams won't return until 2023 as full plans unveiled - Mirror Calls to give kids second jab as it ‘could stop 56,000 cases of teen long Covid’ - Mirror GCSE and A-level exams will return... and they'll be even tougher, officials say - Mail Pupils to be given advance notice of exam focus and choice of topics in 2022 - Mail Student loan repayment threshold must be cut to tackle depressing rising debt - Mail DfE: Allocations for the 2022 to 2023 academic year - UCET Chancellor praises workers as Plan for Jobs enters next stage - FE News Give all teens double Covid vaccinations to avoid long Covid, say experts - The Times Exam grades to fall sharply as help for students is scaled back - The Times Statue of black head teacher Betty Campbell unveiled in Wales - The Times Scotland: Boss of SQA exams board accused of blaming others for pandemic grades fiasco - The Times Tony Blair helped millions of students get useless degrees - and his son Euan has made a fortune proving his folly - Mail