News archive for 8th April 2022

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 08 April 2022 - Education Eye Government may stop working with NUS and report it to Charity Commission over anti-Semitism claims, minister warns - Mail Covid in Wales: Fears GCSE and A-levels may be unfair amid sickness - BBC School holiday dates and term times in Wales for 2022 - Wales Online Reflections on Senior Fellowship - Advance HE Better Society Awards: We've been shortlisted! - ERSA UK universities torn over travel to combat climate crisis - PIE News UK universities reveal twinning initiative with Ukrainian institutions - PIE News Report: Student loans reform is a leap into the unknown - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Pupil premium support resource for schools - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF City of Oxford College rugby trio get Six Nations call up - Activate Learning ETF and IoD announce new partnership to offer board review service - Education & Training Foundation Five things we’ve learned this term about pupil absence - FFT Education Datalab Emergency planning and response for education, childcare, and children’s social care settings - DfE Student Loans Company Appoints TCS as Strategic Partner - Student Loans Company Opportunity North East delivery plan - DfE Further reductions in the burden of OfS regulation - Office for Students Student engagement is a top priority for OfS - Office for Students ASCL comment on guidance on summer exams and Covid-19 - ASCL Leaders and teachers have acted while government has served up only platitudes - ASCL EPA Awards – deadline extended! - FAB | Federation of Awarding Bodies What governing boards and school leaders should expect from each other – updated guidance published today - NAHT Supporting Ukrainian refugee students - OECD A gap in disability research: ‘Preparedness’ of teachers with disabilities amid Covid-19-inspired online learning - BERA Podcast: How schools are reacting to the impact of Covid and under-funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lower earners to lose £30,000 from student loan changes, think-tank says - Financial Times Skills and Post-16 Education Bill completes passage through Parliament - UK Parliament GCSEs & A-levels 2022: Teens can miss an exam if Covid positive – but they’ve been told not to test - i News Football star's TV plea for a more diverse curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Fears over the end of Covid tests for inspectors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads fear Covid-free students could miss exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils with high temperature should not sit exams, new guidance states - Schools Week Student loan changes in England will cost middle earners £30k, analysis says - Guardian Student loans reform is a leap into the unknown - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS When are the summer holidays 2022? Dates UK schools break up and how to find term times for your area - i News Year 11s still missing one in 10 lessons as exams near - Schools Week College staff warn of strike action if pay doesn’t increase by 10 per cent - FE Week Education Secretary urged to protect excluded children from exploitation - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Take a gap year to save £20k, IFS tells students aiming for better paying jobs - Telegraph How school exclusions entrench child criminal exploitation - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Early years research company Ceeda to close next month - Nursery World Nursery group and childcare training company join club to address chronic skills shortages - Nursery World Warning as norovirus on the rise in schools – the 6 signs you need to know - The Sun Scotland: Exam grading 'must allow for disruption faced by students' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex education at my school taught me nothing about consent withdrawal – no wonder so many have bad experiences - i News The continuing digital divide - Sutton Trust A case study on embedding employability within the student experience - HEPI Ofsted: Schools should focus on 'factual information' and teach empire 'in balanced manner' - Mail NI transfer tests: Eight post-primary heads to run new common test body - BBC Refugee pupils with no school places have lessons in Manchester car parks - Guardian What does it really take to secure a place on a university degree course? - Wonkhe Podcast: Covid harms, Michelle Donelan, Scandinavia - Wonkhe Learn Latin by translating Taylor Swift lyrics? Give me Trojan War stories any day - Mail Imperial College reinforces European links with French partnership - Financial Times NUS may be cast out over antisemitism allegations - The Times GCSE and A-level exams staggered in England to avoid Covid disruption - The Times Scotland: University ski club leaders deny using fees for own trips - The Times Scotland: Children’s speech and social skills stalled during pandemic - The Times Drama college closure spotlights struggle for acting courses - Times Higher Education | THE Late reprieve allows scientists with UK grants to publish in Nature - Times Higher Education | THE