News archive for 28th April 2022

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Ministers plan to publish school-level tutoring take-up – and Ofsted will check - Schools Week Katharine Birbalsingh: Not every discrepancy is caused by discrimination - Telegraph School leaders debate intervention from Zahawi over cancelled gay author visit - Mail Schools can help eradicate outdated myth that physics isn’t for girls - Schools Week Wellbeing in schools - creating a culture of care - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Skills Bill clears way for IfATE to unify system - IfATE Survey of childcare and early years providers and coronavirus (COVID-19): wave 4 - DfE The early years workforce: recruitment, retention, and business planning - DfE Providers’ finances: survey of childcare and EY providers 2021 - DfE Apprenticeships and traineeships: April 2022 - DfE Apprenticeships in England by industry characteristics: 2020 to 2021 - DfE School leadership in England 2010 to 2020: characteristics and trends - DfE Teenagers’ wellbeing seems to have little effect on GCSE performance - IOE London Blog Welcoming refugee children: Advice and guidance for schools 2 - Bell Foundation A guide to mnemonic learning techniques and its awareness in psychology students - Learning Scientists Schools and businesses need to work together better - here’s how - Teach First Teachers’ pension grant: 2022 to 2023 allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teachers’ pay grant: allocations for 2022 to 2023 financial year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Skills Bill becomes law - DfE FE COVID-19 learner and apprentices experience survey report - DfE Level 2 and 3 attainment by young people aged 16 to 25 in 2021 - DfE Pupils with special needs travel hundreds of miles to school - Schools Week Children and families minister posts Twitter video in response to ratios row - Nursery World Teachers striking at Catholic school say they are fighting for an inclusive education after gay author banned - i News Female teachers 'significantly less likely' to become heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Internet firms told to remove adverts as England bans essay mills - Times Higher Education | THE Scrap GCSEs, says Sir Michael Wilshaw - Rethinking Assessment 60-second CPD: Extending pupils’ responses - Teacher Toolkit Diversity by design: Why we must design children's services with inclusion in mind - Nesta Rona Tutt’s SEND summary – April 2022 - NAHT NAHT Cymru question local election candidates on plans for future of education - NAHT AELP react to Skills and Post-16 Education Act receiving royal assent - AELP Online learning in a pandemic era: Visually impaired students’ perspectives on accessibility - BERA ASCL Cymru comment on Estyn’s publication of peer-on-peer sexual harassment leaflet - ASCL Highly selective UK visa for world’s top grads launching in May - PIE News Skills Bill receives Royal Assent: AoC response - AoC | Association of Colleges Children's reading ability in Wales lags behind other parts of the UK - Wales Online Croydon Catholic school closes due to strike over LGBT book talk - BBC Early career reform 'tweaks' will 'sort teething problems' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Furious mum slams school for 'barring' pupils from using loos during class time - Mirror Durham University slammed over 'anti-white indoctrination' sessions in Rod Liddle row - Express Scottish exam changes to continue into 2023 - Scotsman SNP urged to scrap 'Thatcherite' approach to pupil testing - Herald Scotland Covid exam changes to continue in Scotland next year - BBC Scotland: Ten years of the Daily Mile celebrated worldwide - BBC Birbalsingh clarifies girls' choices on maths and physics A-levels - BBC The skills bill’s ambition cannot become reality without colleges - FE Week Leading Welsh academic Richard Wyn Jones attacks Welsh Government funding for universities - Wales Online Striking staff praised by gay author after his Catholic school visit is cancelled - Mail Perfect storm ahead for higher education, Belfast university chief warns - Mail Women and non-white staff far less likely to promoted, DfE leaders study shows - Schools Week Is there is a link between Year 11s’ wellbeing and their GCSE grades? - IOE London Blog New Advance HE member, Iqra University, focuses on Fellowship - Advance HE EEF commissioned evaluations of Read Write Inc. Phonics - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Is there is a link between Year 11 pupils’ wellbeing and their GCSE grades? - FFT Education Datalab Most parents don’t recognise role of universities in tackling climate change - Universities UK Teachers experiencing unsustainable mental and physical toll - NASUWT Defend – don’t defund – proven qualifications for school leavers - HEPI Report: Holding talent back? What is next for the future of level 3? - HEPI Strawberry DNA opens the eyes of our children to a future in STEM - Cambridge Network Hundreds of schools cuts teaching hours because they can’t afford energy bills - Metro Children in custody: Secure training centres and secure schools - National Audit Office Glasgow prepared to pay more to avert further USS pension strikes - Times Higher Education | THE GCSEs 2022: Long covid could spark exam exemption, says JCQ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Delivery challenges ahead as skills bill finally gains royal assent - FE Week Daily Mile: Pupils boost memory and fitness from daily activity, say researchers - Scotsman SQA exam changes to stay in place for another school year - Herald Scotland ECF ‘teething problems’ can be fixed with ‘tweaks’, claims ITT adviser - Schools Week SEND review must take lessons from 2014 reforms, Ofsted’s chief inspector says - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Interview: Dame Andrea Leadsom, Chair of the Early Years Healthy Development Review - Nursery World Civil service to deliver thousands of high quality apprenticeships across the UK - FE News Analysis: Settings raise concerns after bad inspection experiences - survey - Nursery World SQA: Covid-era course modifications to remain next year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Girls and physics: what Scottish data tells us - Times Educational Supplement | TES Small employer apprenticeship starts rise for first time in 5 years - FE Week Understanding of exams plummets after switch to teacher grades - Schools Week Headteacher demands parents are fined because so many pupils are not in school - Wales Online The Tories have decimated children’s futures. Now, they want more nursery cuts - Guardian Human rights campaigner says schools shouldn't tell parents their child is transgender - Mail Data exposes disturbing increase in number of children relying on free school meals - Express The spiralling cost of a broken SEND system revealed - Schools Week Secondary school pupils turn to graphic novels and shun harder books - The Times Northern Ireland: Teaching union NASUWT to take industrial action from 9 May - BBC How the pandemic reshaped international leader relationships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools cut lesson times and lay off staff to save money on soaring energy bills - Telegraph Scotland: The untold story of Britain's first black school teacher - BBC Teachers at Catholic school ‘threatened with sack’ over strike action after gay author visit scrapped - i News Pupils boost memory and fitness from daily activity, say researchers - Mail When does free speech about harassment become harassment itself? - Wonkhe Where have all the students gone? - Wonkhe Climate change: Don't let doom win, project tells worriers - BBC Headteachers expect 100% increase in school energy bills - Independent No place to go: Special schools’ capacity crisis revealed - Schools Week First secure school 3 years behind schedule and £31m over-budget - Schools Week 1 in 6 heads expect energy bills to treble - Schools Week Investigation: The broken special needs system - Schools Week New investment areas 'miss underperforming schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools forced to cut teacher numbers owing to energy price rises - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most teachers feel job hit wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Girls don’t choose A-level physics because they dislike ‘hard maths’, claims social mobility tsar - Independent DfE: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (April) - UCET BTECs offer ‘critical alternative route to HE’ - Times Higher Education | THE