News archive for 22nd March 2022

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AAC Apprenticeship Awards 2022 winners revealed - FE Week Teaching assistant beaten up by five-year-old boy wins £140,000 payout - Metro Now is not the time to scrap free Covid tests for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why children are not dead birds and exams create 'losers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Soaring Covid-related absences could seriously damage exam grades, say heads - Mail Covid Scotland: Schools forced to close as staff absences rise - Herald Scotland Why copying ‘best practice’ doesn’t work in education - Times Educational Supplement | TES College students stage mass walk out over ‘stop and search’ knife crime security checks - FE Week Are KS4 performance statistics still doing their job? - Schools Week Is OfS asleep or woke at the wheel? - Wonkhe What are the reasons for dreading classes and how does your school’s marking policy differ? This, and more... - Teacher Tapp Rising childcare costs and decline in availability of places needs ‘immediate’ action by Government - EYE | Early Years Educator Failing to teach prisoners to read is 'huge missed opportunity' - Ofsted Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: 23 March 2020 to 17 March 2022 - DfE Prison education: a review of reading education in prisons - Ofsted Record funding for university 'spin-outs' - Telegraph Scotland: Schools closed over staff Covid absence rates - BBC MPs will ‘not let it lie’ after Tony Sewell stripped of degree - Evening Standard Education in Scotland: Curriculum for Excellence has failed and should be replaced by a focus on knowledge and discipline - Scotsman Strike ballot for Isle of Man teachers as union rejects 2% pay offer - BBC Education reform: Conservative plans 'would take Scotland back to 1950s' - Herald Scotland Gentle marathons and concrete building: Making the most of CfEM Action Research Mentors - Education & Training Foundation ESRC invests £11 million to tackle productivity puzzle - UKRI Investment in culture and nature to boost the nation’s health - UKRI The complex and contested role of personalisation in online learning - BERA ASCL comment on school attendance figures - ASCL ASCL Cymru comment on £25m government investment in Community Focused schools - ASCL IOM teachers balloted for industrial action - NASUWT My NPQ for Leading Teaching (NPQLT) experience so far - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Classroom leadership vs classroom management - UKEdChat How I use the debrief to support mathematical problem-solving - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Graduate contribution scheme (tax?): An alternative to the government's proposals on student fees and loan repayments - HEPI More than 50 private schools to cut pension scheme for new teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I feel like I’m drowning' – young carers face lack of in-school support - SecEd Attendance data for 17 March - National Education Union Covid school absences triple in two weeks - Evening Standard Covid absences in schools in England triple in two weeks - Guardian Covid: Pupil absence more than triples in two weeks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid school absences triple in two weeks as 202,000 pupils off sick or isolating in England - i News Ofsted downgrades England’s biggest free school amid safety concerns - Schools Week Thrive Childcare and Education's new director of people to focus on recruitment and retention - Nursery World Bristol picks King’s vice-president Evelyn Welch as v-c - Times Higher Education | THE Sewell controversy at Nottingham ‘shows free speech bill needed’ - Times Higher Education | THE Unfair & fragile: The growing case for exam reform - SecEd Councils report sharp fall in childcare availability - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Brampton Manor state school in Newham gets 89 Oxbridge offers - Mail Covid pupil absences triple in two weeks and almost 1 in 10 teachers off - Schools Week Inspectors find ‘enormous and enduring’ failures in prison education - FE Week What people said about bringing back fines for parents whose children miss school - Wales Online Glasgow School of Art rebuild: £62million project goes out to tender - Herald Scotland National Tutoring Programme ‘failing pupils and taxpayers’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships in green skills sectors require joined-up thinking - FE Week Interview: Sally Dicketts, Chief Executive, Activate Learning - FE Week Time to take SOC: Graduate reflections on the design and nature of their work by occupation - HESA Sutton Trust and JP Morgan Chase – celebrating the first Opportunity Bursary cohort - Sutton Trust Interview: Oliver Caviglioli, education illustrator and author - Schools Week Scotland: Fears over teacher safeguarding investigations - BBC Love Island star visits University of Leicester to talk mental health - BBC Let’s learn from Estonia and say goodbye to the old normal - Schools Week Research on impact of making art in early childhood to be carried out across Scotland - Scotsman Why all the silence on higher education provider information? - Wonkhe Brief encounters of the evaluation kind - Wonkhe We need different conversations to fix higher education - Wonkhe Social sciences park ‘will support innovation and job security’ - Times Higher Education | THE 10:00 a.m. - Education Committee will investigate lower post-university employment rates for lower-income students - Accountability Hearings ‘Immediate’ Government action needed on rising childcare costs and drop in availability of places - Nursery World State sixth form gets record number of Oxbridge offers - Telegraph University of Edinburgh academic Tim Hayward accused of spreading propaganda - The Times Scotland: Schools ‘covering up pupil violence to avoid scrutiny’ - The Times Survey shows UK parents are locked out of work due to rising childcare fees - Guardian