News archive for 11th March 2022

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MPs explore diversity and inclusion in STEM education - UK Parliament School Standards Minister questioned on Government support for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils - UK Parliament Number of early career teachers and mentors participating in the early career framework - DfE Kaukab Stewart MSP visits SLC during Scottish Apprenticeship Week - Student Loans Company National tutoring programme: courses started up to February 2022 - DfE Education Secretary addresses Association of School and College Leaders conference - DfE One million tutoring courses delivered to help children catch up - DfE Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 11 March 2022 - Education Eye The Guardian view on schools: it is ministers who require improvement - Guardian Zahawi to overhaul Covid catchup tutoring after criticism of provider - Guardian Podcast: Oak academy plans, teacher pay changes and Ukraine - Times Educational Supplement | TES British schools preparing to welcome 100,000 Ukrainian refugee children - Mirror School skirt length rules can be victim-blaming, head teachers are told - Mail Mask rule in Northern Ireland classrooms to be lifted - Mail Oxford and Cambridge lead the way in return of Benin bronzes - The Times DfE to help schools on PFI handover – but guidance ‘too late’ - Schools Week PFI firm makes millions as taxpayers pay £870,000 a year for empty school - Schools Week The head taking on PFI firms over new school ‘riddled’ with leaks - Schools Week Tes' 10 questions with... Shirley-Anne Brightman - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE’s creation of body to share curriculum resources - National Education Union Ukrainian refugee children coming to UK to get online lessons in Ukrainian, Nadhim Zahawi says - i News Lecturer sacked for punishing ‘drunk’ students loses unfair dismissal claim - The Times Covid-19: Masks no longer required in NI classrooms - BBC How can we build more sustainable social prescribing services into learning to improve mental health? - Learning & Work Institute Report: Social prescribing and adult education in London - Learning & Work Institute ETF committed to practitioner research - Education & Training Foundation Today’s teacher retention challenges call for innovative solutions - Teach First Government confirms long-term funding for EEF - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Sutton Trust responds to new report on education recovery by the Education Select Committee - Sutton Trust Equalities plus: how can higher education leaders create inclusive institutions? - Advance HE IFS report adds to overwhelming evidence on pay cuts - NASUWT College granting staff access to campus foodbanks "indictment" of entire sector - UCU ASCL President’s speech to ASCL Annual Conference - ASCL Around half of all children ‘not ready’ to start school, survey finds - EYE | Early Years Educator BPS renews calls to prioritise children’s mental health and wellbeing in schools following Education Committee’s catch up report - BPS | British Psychological Society Northern Ireland abuse victims given long-awaited apology - Times Educational Supplement | TES High Court issues council ‘wake-up call’ on special needs delays - Schools Week Judge praises Crawley College staff for disarming gunman - The Times LSE an ‘orgy of debauchery’, says academic in £4m claim - The Times AET issued government warning over troubled school - Schools Week Two-thirds of primary schools sign up to early language scheme - Nursery World Britain's schools will throw their doors open to 100,000 Ukrainian children says Nadhim Zahawi - Mail Muir report: what happens next in Scottish education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE: More 'flexibility' on ECF as mentors dip - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Extreme concern’ Covid inquiry won’t focus enough on education - Schools Week National tutoring catch-up scheme failing disadvantaged pupils, say MPs - Nursery World Strip Randstad of NTP contract if targets not met, MPs urge - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Oak to roll out lessons in Ukrainian for refugees - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tutoring standards watered down as £65m moved into schools pot - Schools Week Nadhim Zahawi speech at ASCL conference: 5 things we learned - Schools Week Poland to replace Russia as host for EuroSkills 2023 - FE Week Parents concerned about the lack of mental health support for children - Nursery World Online translated lessons for Ukrainian refugee children - Mail Scotland: Fresh push for 'significant' rise in teacher numbers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid Scotland: School absences jump as new strains circulate - Herald Scotland Nottingham College appoints new permanent CEO - FE Week Durham University reviews speaker policy after Rod Liddle row - BBC Zahawi to switch £65m NTP catch-up cash to schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Home Office offers concessions on Ukrainian students’ visas - FE Week ‘Consider the context’: colleges defend against gender pay gap Twitter bot - FE Week Four thoughts on the Education Select Committee’s analysis of catch-up - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Three policy turning points that changed the higher education employability agenda - HEPI Schools are being “thrown to the wolves” by league table decision - ASCL Teachers not adequately trained to respond to mental health problems in children - UKEdChat Supporting revision and the ​‘seven-step model’ - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF The FFT Regional Attendance Tracker - FFT Education Datalab The even longer squeeze on teacher pay - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS How to put our broken support system back together - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers ‘buckling under strain’ of pupils’ mental health crisis - Guardian Focus feature: The realities of research in FE - FE Week Election 2022: Councils 'must reverse nursery teacher cuts' - Herald Scotland Walker promises flexibility after early career framework ‘straitjacket’ complaints - Schools Week Nearly 10% of year 11s still absent from school as exams loom - Schools Week Exams: is there an alternative to ‘back to normal’? - Schools Week Education Secretary promises to harness ‘energy and expertise’ of teachers - DfE Will accessibility gains be lost in the “new normal”? - Wonkhe Disabled students are still being failed - Wonkhe Podcast: Ukraine, Augar, Digifest, Admissions - Wonkhe Covid pandemic fuels deepening education inequalities in England, say MPs - BBC Zahawi: New Oak to stop teachers ‘reinventing the wheel’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE league tables: 'Schools thrown to the wolves' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keep school Covid tests free to avoid exam disruption, Zahawi told - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘A terrible way to treat a profession’: ASCL president slams league tables publication plan - FE Week Oak academy to move into public hands with ‘no privatisation’ and independence condition - Schools Week IFS: Most teachers will still be worse off after pay rise - Schools Week Thousands of teachers will have suffered '£7,000 pay cut' by 2023 as inflation skyrockets - Mirror Senior teachers will endure long pay freeze under DfE plans, study finds - Guardian Exams must move on from 'unsafe sweaty sports halls', say headteachers - Mail Government teacher pay plans risk real terms cut for experienced teachers - Mail Online classroom Oak National will lead on curriculum design - Mail Schools being 'thrown to the wolves' over league table decision - Mail Eton to open state schools in Midlands and northern towns - The Times Engineers encouraged to become physics teachers - The Times