News archive for 26th April 2022

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UK universities could end up like those in authoritarian states unless free speech defended, minister claims - i News Essay mills offering incentives to cheating students, experts warn - Guardian Colston School to be renamed Collegiate School, Bristol - BBC Scottish council elections: key education manifesto pledges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vice-chancellors told to promote free speech or ‘be on the wrong side of history’ - Telegraph Bristol school founded by Edward Colston renamed 'Collegiate' but says it is not trying to 'change or deny' its history - Mail Music director at top school dismissed after safeguarding probe - Herald Scotland Putting trigger warnings on Harry Potter books to 'protect students' is doing them a 'disservice', minister - Mail Ofsted announces focus on early years in new five-year strategy - EYE | Early Years Educator Forget ‘balanced’ literacy; we need balanced learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister Donelan addresses Policy Exchange - DfE LSE expert shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022 - London School of Economics | LSE IOE at 120: Imagining the education of the future, 1932-1942 - IOE London Blog Climate change strategy: Carbon literacy training, sustainability leads & emissions reporting for schools - SecEd Who wants to be a headteacher and are attendance awards on the decline? This, and more… - Teacher Tapp Is A level maths a requirement for A level physics and computer science? - FFT Education Datalab Bracknell students take part in The Lexicon’s Forest Springs - Activate Learning New Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education sets out bold vision at launch event - IOE London Blog Ofsted’s new strategy and focus on the early years - Early Education Universities to be hit by marking boycott, union confirms - UCU International employability: When policy halts progress - HEPI ASCL comment on Ofsted’s publication of its 5-year strategy - ASCL Teachers send united message as they vote for industrial action - NASUWT Assess the learning: Formative and summative assessment strategies - Edmodo Supporting babies’ and young children’s development during and after the Covid pandemic - BPS | British Psychological Society The role of educational psychology in promoting inclusive education - BPS | British Psychological Society Wales: Pupils' vaping and social media sparks fears - BBC UCU announces marking boycott and 10 days of strikes over pay - Times Higher Education | THE Judge contract cheating law ‘on culture change, not prosecutions’ - Times Higher Education | THE What can we do to ensure a level playing field for all students? - OECD The power of visualisers - Teacher Toolkit Inspiring children through a combined in-person and virtual Primary Futures event - Education and Employers Isle of Man schools could close two days early at Christmas - BBC Life-long learning shake-up will boost UK growth, says minister - Financial Times Scotland's pupils begin first exams in three years - BBC More top-flight UK researchers join ERC’s Brexit waiting room - Times Higher Education | THE Government to look at ways to reduce childcare costs - Nursery World Ofsted launches five-year strategy to take account of pandemic's impact on youngest children - Nursery World Ofsted to boost focus on early years improvement - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Donelan: academic freedom bill critics ‘on wrong side of history’ - Times Higher Education | THE EU tries to bully 98 UK scientists with letter threatening to withdraw £145m funds - Express Number of headteachers quitting within five years of starting on the rise, data shows - Independent Edinburgh university apologises after rector accuses Rwanda president genocide - Herald Scotland Education must agree its purpose - or remain a polarised profession - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children more worried about climate change than crime, racial inequality and Brexit, poll finds - i News Children who daydream fall behind at school, study says - Telegraph School leader retention rates in England declining, DfE data shows - Guardian Northern Ireland: QUB study explores the effect of daydreaming in young - BBC Ofsted strategy 2022 to 2027 - Ofsted HMCI commentary: Ofsted's strategy 2022 to 2027 - Ofsted Every child deserves the best start in life - Ofsted SQA exams begin after Covid disruption and revision support row - Herald Scotland Using digital tools in learning and teaching means playing around to see what works - Wonkhe The Home Affairs committee reports on student spiking - Wonkhe Cops off clubs: an abolitionist take on anti-spiking activism - Wonkhe More head teachers quitting within five years of taking jobs in England - BBC Ofsted: More schools to get 'longer' inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 1 in 3 secondary heads leave within 5 years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to review how it inspects FE and skills, new strategy states - FE Week A third of new secondary heads ‘leave profession within five years’ - Schools Week Ofsted’s 5-year strategy promises more longer inspections - Schools Week Academic research ‘failing to analyse Islamic extremism’ - Times Higher Education | THE Levels of cheating in online exams soaring, say invigilators - Times Higher Education | THE The post-Covid future of work: Implications for FE - FE News Ofsted will step up early-years focus to address lockdown impact - Guardian Scotland: Edinburgh University principal has to apologise for rector’s Rwanda genocide ‘denial’ - The Times Robert Halfon: What Tony Blair gets right — and wrong — about the future of education - The Times