News archive for 2nd February 2022

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Levelling Up: Ambushed by waffle - FE Week Levelling up: What schools need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Levelling up white paper: The key reforms for FE and skills - FE Week Levelling-up white paper: 9 things schools need to know - Schools Week Schools send entire year groups home to work remotely amid staff Covid absence crisis - Wales Online Scottish Government suggests chopping the bottom off classroom doors to tackle Covid in schools - Scotsman Why specialist sixth forms could tackle regional inequalities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Levelling up: More areas to be offered devolved adult education budgets - FE Week UK ‘should seek to recruit 1 million international students’ - Times Higher Education | THE Susan Lapworth to be interim head of English sector regulator - Times Higher Education | THE Linking skills and employability provision - ERSA Levelling up: IPPR welcomes government’s ‘bold ambition’ but says a detailed plan and cash are needed to deliver it - IPPR Will the Advanced Research and Invention Agency be Dominic Cummings’s lasting policy legacy? - Policy Exchange We need to overhaul student finance – not burden graduates with a stealth tax - PoliticsHome Supporting high-quality interactions in early years - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Use of psychology by teachers can boost maths grades - Education & Training Foundation Sutton Trust responds to Levelling Up White Paper - Sutton Trust Pay attention to our wellbeing or risk headteacher shortage, teachers tell MPs - Mail Delivering training on the Business and Administration route course - Education & Training Foundation CPS welcomes White Paper, but says private sector must be at the heart of levelling up - Centre for Policy Studies What are the Covid rules in schools and will they stay open this term? - BBC Russell Group responds to Levelling Up White Paper - Russell Group Government white paper - levelling up education - National Education Union NFER statement on Levelling Up White Paper - NFER AELP reacts to the Levelling Up white paper - AELP Employers' latest pension proposals "deeply disappointing" - UCU The inequity of exams: How our assessment system perpetuates harmful stereotypes about disadvantaged groups - Rethinking Assessment IAC report on the future of assessment and qualifications in England - New Era Assessment NASUWT comments on UK Government’s levelling up plans - NASUWT Susan Lapworth appointed interim chief executive of OfS - Office for Students Using tenor, vehicle and ground to analyse metaphors - The Learning Spy NASUWT comments on Government’s levelling up plans in England - NASUWT Action needed to tackle spiralling IOM teacher workloads - NASUWT ASCL Cymru comment on school attendance figures - ASCL UK Government’s levelling up plans leave Scotland behind - NASUWT UUK response to Government's Levelling Up White Paper - Universities UK Switching off Treasury cash for apprenticeships is a big mistake - FAB | Federation of Awarding Bodies The place of education in the government’s draft sustainability and climate change strategy - BERA NAHT briefs MPs on the leadership crisis in England’s schools - NAHT Alternative provision: year 11 transition funding - DfE British schools overseas: inspection reports for accredited schools - DfE Want to improve class ventilation? Chop doors down to size - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills levels of 16 to 64 year olds by local authority - DfE Apprenticeship training provider accountability framework 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Higher Technical Qualifications: provider delivery toolkit - Education & Skills Funding Agency In-year growth for 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 2 February 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Classroom doors to be chopped off in Scotland to tackle Covid spread - Telegraph Primary school 'burns to the ground' in huge inferno - Mail Primaries can work together on curriculum, says Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES How the poorest school pupils have lost the most funding - New Statesman No need to design your own curriculum, Ofsted tells primaries - Schools Week Levelling Up White Paper: key points for the children's sector - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Levelling Up White Paper a ‘missed opportunity’ to support young people - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Relationships and sex education: Too many still not being taught the basics - SecEd Primary school horror blaze: Building burnt to ground as thick black smoke engulfs homes - Express Covid: SNP Education Secretary 'wants to chop up class doors' - Herald Scotland Centralised planning: how well does it work? - Times Educational Supplement | TES What is the future for Northern Ireland's small schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Exciting’ UK plan for rival funder ‘may change minds’ on Horizon - Times Higher Education | THE Levelling up: New UK-wide online academy planned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plans to bring in a longer school day in Wales criticised by headteachers - Wales Online Covid: Learning abroad in pandemic invaluable, say students - BBC Covid-19 in NI: How are isolation rules affecting schoolchildren? - BBC Smartphone and tablet use in early childhood - Best Evidence in Brief Were online supports equally effective during Covid-19 lockdown in China? - Best Evidence in Brief Does small group mathematics instruction work for all students? - Best Evidence in Brief A replicable identity-based intervention reduces the Black-White suspension gap at scale - Best Evidence in Brief Swap ‘cliff-edge’ GCSEs for ‘test when ready’, says exams review - FE Week One in three adults say they want to change job, but most think they lack the skills to switch - Learning & Work Institute Developing thinking strategies for teaching with ICTs - UKEdChat Government to target 55 'cold spots' in bid to level up education - Express ASCL comment on IAC report into the future of assessment and qualifications in England - ASCL International students – the silent engine in levelling up - HEPI Helping Black Asian and minority ethnic postgraduate researchers - Cambridge Network Exams: Reform GCSEs and let students take them when they are 19, independent review says - i News Eton could help run new elite state sixth forms in North of England under Boris Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ plans - i News Empowering black people to become academics ‘should be top priority’ as data reveals poor diversity levels - i News Disabled students are still being segregated within FE institutions - FE Week PSNI's domestic abuse alert scheme extended to 77 additional schools - BBC Addressing poverty means financial education in primary schools - Financial Times Why the Canadian government is raising the graduate repayment threshold - Wonkhe What can we learn from business schools about the social purpose of higher education? - Wonkhe Ash Green Primary School ‘burns to the ground’ after huge blaze breaks out as 50 firefighters tackle flames - The Sun Warning over heads' 'spiralling mental health crisis' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs should not be fixed at age 16, says report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swap ‘cliff-edge’ GCSEs for ‘test when ready’, says exams review - Schools Week Education: Longer school day trial begins in Wales - BBC We are ‘scapegoats’ for government failures, say headteachers - Guardian End 'arbitrary' exams at age 16, says review - Mail We have been scapegoated for Government failure - teachers - Mail UK regions promised research funding boost under ‘levelling up’ - Times Higher Education | THE Oxford postdoc ‘pushed out’ after authorship row, tribunal hears - Times Higher Education | THE Michael Gove’s 12 commandments for levelling up Britain to be set in stone - Telegraph The UK government’s 12 ‘levelling up’ missions – key points - Guardian St Mary’s college, razed by Henry VIII, is unearthed in Oxford - The Times Covid pandemic cut poor pupils’ chances of passing GCSEs - The Times Scotland: SNP blames Westminster for school failings and child obesity - The Times Scottish pupils given exam topics in advance to make up for lost learning - The Times Ireland: Pupils won’t lose out after Leaving Cert inflation, Foley vows - The Times Gove unveils Levelling Up White Paper that will transform UK – sector response - FE News