News archive for 18th March 2022

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 18 March 2022 - Education Eye The case for a long-term strategy to support, nurture and develop young people’s wellbeing - FED | Foundation for Education Development Invasion of Ukraine: ISC statement on schools helping crisis response and government sanctions - Independent Schools Council | ISC Reflections on Aston-based research on employability and its effect on policy and practice - HEPI NASUWT ballots members over industrial action - NASUWT Chancellor must act to avert a new education funding crisis - ASCL Activate Learning and Lincoln College Group merger to not take place - Activate Learning UK unis must ‘redouble efforts’ on security issues - PIE News No cliché… Something innovative from global teaching practices - Advance HE Schools must teach children 'how to think, not what to think' - Zahawi - Mail Downgraded school head accuses Ofsted inspectors of lacking SEND experience - Schools Week Toffs to toughs: Why Eton schoolboys are dressing down - Telegraph Research review series: PE - Ofsted A level playing field – all pupils entitled to high-quality PE - Ofsted Interview with John Blake, OfS Director for Fair Access and Participation - Office for Students Heads fear a worrying rise in Covid cases after free tests stop - Mail ONS Covid infection survey - National Education Union Building psychological fitness: the purpose of education - FED | Foundation for Education Development Assessing creative thinking - Rethinking Assessment Activate Learning and Lincoln College Group drop merger plans - FE Week Ofsted’s guide to ‘raising the quality’ of PE - Schools Week SNP ministers urged to scrap Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence - Scotsman Swearing at teachers has become accepted in some schools, union chief warns - Scotsman Teachers union raises fears over rise in 'disruptive violent behaviour' - Herald Scotland 1 in 5 secondary teachers report merged classes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Popular teacher sacked by college after 30 years prompting outrage from staff - Mirror Donation or detention: school’s Red Nose Day threat to students - Telegraph Parents' fury at 'vile' and 'inedible' school dinners served at a Welsh secondary school - Mail MPs to investigate lower post-university employment rates for lower-income students - UK Parliament DfE urged to make full and relevant qualifications list 'easier to understand' - Nursery World Online safety bill: Five key measures aimed at protecting children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UKRI promises action over ‘threatening’ Researchfish tweets - Times Higher Education | THE School serves watery spag bol, anaemic bacon and sausage that needs a few more minutes - Metro Banning children from school in pandemic was a mistake, says Zahawi - Express Education in Scotland: Curriculum for Excellence 'should be axed' - Herald Scotland Most teachers 'lack training to support deaf pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands more children sent home from school because so many staff are off across Wales - Wales Online Cardiff University: Students want 'graduation they deserve' - BBC Conflicting principal views on Eton’s elite sixth form plans - FE Week Ofsted downgrades new provider after ESFA apprentice pay tip-off - FE Week Tactical subcontracting deal abandoned in mayoral combined authority - FE Week Covid: Ex-teacher call to arms falls flat as 1 in 3 make it to classroom - Schools Week Parents of older learners will be sceptical about the SEND review - FE Week NI schools face transport disruption due to Unite union strike - BBC University: Student drop-out rate in NI lowest on record - BBC Disadvantaged children are not being pushed as hard as they can be - Times Educational Supplement | TES College in fresh transparency row over 'stalled' report after misconduct claims - Herald Scotland How can we improve attendance in the wake of Covid? - Schools Week White paper: the all-MAT system needs governance buy-in - Schools Week Would teachers stop the police strip-searching your child? - Telegraph Many DfE cost-cutters couldn’t find schools savings, survey reveals - Schools Week Podcast: Quality, demand, blended, disabled students - Wonkhe If we stop looking at race inequality, will it just go away? - Wonkhe HESA Spring: Non-continuation UKPI - Wonkhe Students must be taught to engage in academic writing, not to fear the Spanish Inquisition of plagiarism detection - Wonkhe Student dropout rate falls to the lowest on record due to ‘periods of economic uncertainty’ - Mail Sats 2022: Most school leaders want tests to be cancelled - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents claim ‘vile & inedible’ school dinners are ‘not big enough to feed a 4-year-old’, leaving kids starving - The Sun Girls face more pressure to be a perfect teenager - BBC Parents rage at 'awful' school dinners they claim are being served to their children - Mirror Lukewarm reception from Europe for UK’s Global Talent visas - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland: Ministers tried to cut criticism out of report into education - The Times Curriculum for Excellence should be axed, say Scottish Tories - The Times Levelling up participation by 16-18 year olds - FE News