News archive for 29th April 2022

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 29 April 2022 - Education Eye Ban primary exclusions, and 5 more recommendations from ex-children’s tsar - Schools Week Schools may be forced to hand back late catch-up cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES New DfE powers to ban online teachers amid grooming fears - Schools Week College and ITP teachers will be in scope for lifetime bans, DfE confirms - FE Week Fundraising: large donations ‘mask’ downward trends in UK - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Golden triangle’ will be crucial to ‘levelling up’, says Freeman - Times Higher Education | THE The massive row about sexual harassment in schools - Wales Online Heads ask 'what century are we living in' over rising food bank use - Mail Beauty and the Beast fairytale helping teachers inspire children - BBC Teacher pay Scotland: what the parties said at EIS hustings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five dimensions of feedback for implementing authentic assessment - Advance HE Edinburgh students’ research could lead to smartwatches charged by the human body - Public Technology UK reveals Ukrainian student support package - PIE News Apprentices will raise our game to meet tomorrow's challenges - PoliticsHome ACS and Jisc partner to enable open access publishing for researchers across the UK - Jisc What can we learn from implementation and process evaluations? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Latest evaluation reports focus on findings from process evaluations - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Championing professionalism in the FE and training sector - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Piloting international future skills at Highlands College - Edge Foundation Supporting your GCSE Maths and English exams - Activate Learning New Chief Executive announced for Universities UK - Universities UK School leaders call for fair funding for schools in Wales, as impact of Covid staff absence revealed - NAHT A Guinness World Records official attempt for National Numeracy Day - National Numeracy To whom an EdD may concern: Pragmatic reflections and useful considerations - BERA Inspecting lead providers of the ECF and NPQ programmes - Ofsted Consultation outcome: Teacher misconduct - regulating the teaching profession - DfE Level 2 ICT qualifications: removed funding from 1 August 2022 - DfE Data sharing framework for the GRADE project published - Ofqual Government should create IB-style qualification to meet employer needs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are these the biggest issues in Welsh education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council academy plan will spark 'dramatic' expansion - Times Educational Supplement | TES South-west triumphs as AoC Sport National Championships returns after 2-year absence - FE Week Missed opportunity: flagship edtech scheme ends after 2 years - FE Week DfE bins flagship edtech demonstrator programme - Schools Week Girlguiding UK launches programme to teach girls how to code - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Longfield commission sets out plan to end ‘perverse exclusion culture’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Parents still experiencing technical problems with Tax-Free Childcare as Government looks to promote scheme - Nursery World Universities UK names Vivienne Stern as chief executive - Times Higher Education | THE New DfE research emphasises the impact of Covid on early years sector - Nursery World St John Ambulance faces apprentice recruitment suspension - FE Week Katherine Birbalsingh claims female pupils shun physics because they are more 'empathetic' than boys - Mail Black children are ‘over-policed’ due to 'adultification', new report says - Mail Employers losing interesting in T Levels, survey reveals - FE Week Instead of obsessing over learning facts, let’s teach children how to think - Guardian Commission on Young Lives calls for an end to 'exclusions culture' as part of a new era of inclusive education - Commission on Young Lives Auditing apprentice pay will not be part of routine inspections, Ofsted promises - FE Week The pandemic changed ITT, but is it for the better? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Longer school day: Wales pupils learn new skills - BBC Northern Ireland: Queen's University may have to cut 1,500 student places by 2025 - BBC Getting on, not just getting in - HEPI ASCL reaction to report by Anne Longfield’s Commission on Young Lives - ASCL Well-being seems to have little effect on GCSE performance - UKEdChat Partygate undermines teaching of honesty and decency, says union chief - Guardian Scotland: I'm trans so I've never used the school toilets - BBC Balancing options: making further and vocational education a real choice post-16 - Sutton Trust DfE begs Education and Training Foundation to return up to £7.5m - FE Week Spielman blames ‘vested interests’ for Ofsted ‘fear’ - Schools Week The pupil premium reforms we need for a post-Covid recovery - Schools Week Now is the time to take lifelong learning seriously - Wonkhe Podcast: Blair, spiking, minimum entry, free speech - Wonkhe Working together on access and participation evaluation - Wonkhe Acting up in the Houses of Parliament - Wonkhe Is it students or universities that need to change? - Wonkhe Black children over-policed in schools, report says - BBC Call to ban permanent exclusions in primary schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Send ministers back to school to learn leadership, union boss says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Should every child be guaranteed a week-long school trip? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Partygate making it harder to teach ‘honesty and integrity’ – union boss - Schools Week Ban permanent exclusions from English primaries, says ex-children’s tsar - Guardian ERC grant winners quitting UK amid ‘backstop’ uncertainty - Times Higher Education | THE Some students ‘would pay higher fees for sustainable university’ - Times Higher Education | THE Report calls for primary school exclusions to be banned by 2026 - Mail Send Government back to school to learn leadership, says heads' leader - Mail Stop taking payment for essay-cheat websites, Mastercard and Visa told - The Times Alex Burghart: We’re calling time on university cheats - The Times Boy was excluded from reception class 17 times - The Times