News archive for 27th April 2022

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Katharine Birbalsingh: Girls dislike hard maths, says education adviser - BBC Post-16 qualifications inquiry: 5 interesting things we learned from former education ministers - FE Week SEND review consultation may be extended as accessible versions delayed - FE Week Girls don’t like physics as they won’t do the hard maths, says social mobility tsar - Telegraph Ofsted criticises archdiocese over ban on gay author’s visit to Catholic school - Guardian Ofsted: Inspections will help hold 'failing' MATs to account - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND review consultation may be extended as accessible versions delayed - Schools Week Don’t ‘pick and mix’ Oak curriculum resources, warns Spielman - Schools Week Social mobility head Katharine Birbalsingh claims girls shun physics because ‘there’s a lot of hard maths’ - i News Fury after tiger head and social mobility tsar claims female pupils shun A-level physics because they dislike hard maths - Mail Social mobility tsar: Girls shun physics due to 'hard maths' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Case study: Improving attendance: good practice for schools and multi-academy trusts - DfE ESFA Update: 27 April 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency T Levels resources for teachers and careers advisers - Education & Skills Funding Agency ‘Strictest headteacher’ Katharine Birbalsingh claims hard maths puts girls off physics - The Times Why grammar schools should embrace joining mixed-model MATs - Times Educational Supplement | TES High depressive symptoms in adolescents increased by 6% due to pandemic - IOE London Blog Organisational wellbeing - Connect Benefit Series 2021-22 - Advance HE EdDevTrust selected as lead provider for two new National Professional Qualifications - Education Development Trust | EDT UK government response to Scottish university report “baffling” - PIE News How will the energy crisis affect schools? - Teach First Climate change in vocational education: the EXPECT project visits Latvia - AoC | Association of Colleges MillionPlus comment on the government’s response to the Scottish Affairs Committee Universities and Scotland report - MillionPlus Staffordshire University faces fourth day of strike action today - UCU IFS research proves student loan requirements "attack on the working class" - UCU MRC launches National Mouse Genetics Network - UKRI School pupils 'abusing staff and punching holes in walls' in startling cry for help from Welsh headteachers - Wales Online Girls shun physics A-level as they dislike ‘hard maths’, says social mobility head - Guardian Herrington: ‘We’ll miss targets if trusts act in their own interest’ - Schools Week Amanda Spielman's speech at the 2022 Schools and Academies Show - Ofsted Social mobility tsar casts doubt on literacy and numeracy targets - Schools Week Education Development Trust hosts National Symposium on Girls’ Education - Education Development Trust | EDT Scotland: Just 1 in 10 LGBT+ young people rate school experience ‘good’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years leaders slam Prime Minister’s reported plans to relax childcare ratios - EYE | Early Years Educator Eight ideas to support a child with anxiety - Teacher Toolkit 45 leading UK academics awarded Advanced Grants by European Research Council - Russell Group Michael Fabricant MP replies to NAHT's complaint about his school lockdown drinks comments - NAHT Higher ITT targets are meaningless until we fix retention rates - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK and India ‘should learn from US’ on researcher mobility - Times Higher Education | THE Early years leaders criticise ‘ludicrous’ plans to reduce child ratios - CYPN | Children & Young People Now PM's plans to reduce staff to child ratios in nurseries to cut childcare costs slammed as 'ludicrous' - Nursery World Over one million babies and young children are living in poverty - report - Nursery World Call for £75m to end school breakfast club 'lottery' - SecEd Deep concern at falling leadership retention rates after FoI revelations - SecEd First Oxbridge college signs up to Government pledge on gagging clauses - Mail Watchdog probes SIMS provider over ‘abusing dominant position’ - Schools Week Cancellation of LGBT author's Catholic school visit left pupils unnerved - Mail Ofsted: Banning of gay author from Catholic school left pupils and staff upset, angry and confused - i News Proposed minimum eligibility requirements for student loans could reduce higher education participation for ethnic minorities and poorer students - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Report: The impact of student loan minimum eligibility requirements - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS How should further education and apprenticeships change post pandemic? - Sutton Trust Blogging and time: Reasons to start blogging...today! - UKEdChat Phoenix from the flames? Free speech and academic freedom legislation lives to fight another day - HEPI The end of the primary head? A warning from Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘They can really fly’: how to teach a refugee child - Guardian Building study habits and revision routines - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Exam board adds new plays by writers of colour to drama GCSE and A-Level - Guardian England’s punitive exam system is only good at one thing: preserving privilege - Guardian Brexit: UK ministers under fire over support for Scottish universities - Herald Scotland Children going hungry to class because schools are charging £25 a week for breakfast clubs - i News University GCSE entry requirements could exclude a quarter of black undergraduates, study finds - i News Teamwork and employability – assessing process or outcome? - Wonkhe Is there life on MERs? - Wonkhe The government should get over its university hang-up – our future prosperity depends on it - Wonkhe Warning schools in Wales aren't doing enough to tackle peer on peer sexual harassment - Wales Online IfS: 1 in 4 poorer pupils could lose out under proposed student loan grade thresholds - FE Week Extra funding 'urgently needed' to tackle pupil hunger - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish children ‘too hungry to learn’, says charity - Times Educational Supplement | TES IfS: 1 in 4 poorer pupils could lose out under proposed student loan grade thresholds - Schools Week IFS: England’s student loan change to hit poor and minority ethnic people harder - Guardian Minimum entry requirements for loans will impact poor and minority students - Mail Revamping Higher Technical Education (HTE) could be key in the Government’s plans to revolutionise UK skills - FE News UK universities split on return to in-person exams - Times Higher Education | THE 9:30 a.m. - Education Committee to hear evidence on the future of post-16 qualifications - Accountability Hearings English entry bar would hit poorest students hard, ministers told - Times Higher Education | THE Lady Margaret Hall is first Oxford college to ban non-disclosure agreements - The Times Bristol school drops Colston from name to be ‘inclusive’ - The Times