News archive for 21st April 2022

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Periods: TikTok gives better education than schools, say teens - BBC Wales: Teacher sacked for sending maskless vulnerable boy out of class - BBC New natural history GCSE will educate next Sir David Attenborough, says Zahawi - Mail The inside story of the new natural history GCSE - Schools Week Why we must help pupils think – and speak – on their feet - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2022: Schools 'desperate' over exam invigilator shortage - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE climate change strategy: New FE teachers will be required to build sustainability into their teaching - FE Week Feeling the squeeze? Catch-up and cost of living crisis impacting schools - Sutton Trust Insights from Skills Builder Partnership’s Essential Skills Tracker - Edge Foundation Postgraduate initial teacher training targets: 2022 to 2023 - DfE SEND green paper could ‘further restrict’ support for disabled children, campaigners warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The benefits of reducing smartphone use - Learning Scientists DfE launch of Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy - National Education Union Minister for Science, Research and Innovation meets young innovators - UKRI Ethical educational supplier Cosy Direct awarded Queen’s Award for Enterprise - EYE | Early Years Educator ASCL response to DfE announcement of new natural history GCSE - ASCL Reconceptualising the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) mentor–mentee dynamic - BERA Tops Day Nurseries and Cosy Direct win Queen's Award for sustainable development - Nursery World Government’s new Climate and Sustainability Strategy - Early Education Grammars in selective-school MAT bid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Guernsey teachers face "hardship" in wait for pay rise - BBC GCSEs 2021: Teacher grades saw rise in appeals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrapped early-career payment scheme boosted teacher retention - Times Educational Supplement | TES Placing requests: how the Scottish school system works - Scotsman Government announces measures to help nurseries and schools be more environmentally sustainable - Nursery World Share of researchers valuing preprints leaps during pandemic - Times Higher Education | THE Nearly 50,000 tutors to be trained under new £18m National Tutoring Programme - Schools Week Teacher recruitment targets hiked as DfE predicts post-Covid exodus - Schools Week DfE raises new teacher targets to tackle expected leaver 'rebound' - Times Educational Supplement | TES South Lanarkshire College failed to meet governance standards, say auditors - Herald Scotland Headteacher of school where Child Q was strip-searched steps down over health issues - Independent DfE finalises its climate change strategy: What schools need to know - Schools Week DfE launches new £18m catch-up tutoring bid - Times Educational Supplement | TES I don’t usually praise this government – but introducing a climate GCSE is a great idea - Metro Child Q impact: 'Our voices need to be heard' - BBC Sustainability and climate change strategy - DfE UK to lead the way in climate and sustainability education - DfE The British Academy’s Early-Career Researcher Network: A view from one ECR - HEPI ASCL comment on Sutton Trust survey into schools funding - ASCL Two thirds of primary heads report insufficient catch-up funding - Sutton Trust Routine reset or routine re-teach? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Impact of family background on children’s education unchanged in a century - UKEdChat Why we need to get back to tackling teacher workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stop arguing over the new natural history GCSE and be glad it exists, say ecologists - i News Government reveals new Natural History GCSE from 2025 to connect teens with wildlife and fight climate change - i News How much is your degree worth? The worst value qualifications revealed - Telegraph Young children do better at school if their dads draw, play and paint with them regularly, study finds - i News Sorry, but we probably do need more graduates - Wonkhe Poll: 7 in 10 primary heads say catch-up cash ‘insufficient’ - Schools Week New 'natural history' GCSE unveiled - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most heads report Covid catch-up underfunding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-thirds of primary heads report underfunding for Covid catch-up - Mail UK schools warn lack of ‘catch-up’ funding is hitting lost learning - Financial Times Mary Colwell: the woman behind the UK’s new nature GCSE - New Statesman Tony Blair report: HE expansion ‘props up’ UK economy - Times Higher Education | THE First day at British village school for Ukrainian refugee children - The Times Nadhim Zahawi: NUS is antisemitic and not trusted by Jewish students - The Times Natural history GCSE isn’t hot air and will focus on climate change and biodiversity, says exam board - The Times Scotland: Let us take risks to improve results, teachers demand - The Times Ireland: Russian-speaking children ‘being bullied’ in schools - The Times