News archive for 25th March 2022

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 25 March 2022 - Education Eye Heads say using SATs as part of Ofsted judgment on curriculum makes 'no sense' - Mail Randstad: Reducing catch-up challenge to a political football is wrong - Schools Week Preston College becomes SET Corporate Partner - Education & Training Foundation How do universities support the creation of new businesses? - Universities UK The white paper, academisation and a tidying-up exercise - ASCL ASCL comment on use of 2022 SATs and GCSE results by Ofsted - ASCL LGA on free school meals - National Education Union Serious risk ‘levelling up’ will make lives of disadvantaged children even tougher - NFER Public Accounts Committee on academies - National Education Union Ofsted use of 2022 SATs and GCSE results - National Education Union 28 things we learned from February’s OfS board papers - Wonkhe Child Q staff were not aware strip search had taken place, school says - Guardian First session of post-16 education inquiry to investigate how UK compares to other OECD countries - UK Parliament Child Q: School apologises for strip-search of black schoolgirl - BBC Two-thirds of UK adults back call for investment in outdoor education - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Don’t let your energy contracts expire, DfE warns schools - Schools Week Masks no longer required in Northern Ireland's post-primary schools after Easter - Mail Eton will pump an extra £1m-a-year into its three new 'levelling up' sixth forms in the North - Mail Scotland: Young people on first climate strikes since COP26 - BBC Best-paid trust CEOs’ wages rise fastest, but some rein in pay - Schools Week GCSEs and Sats will be used for Ofsted gradings this year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19 in NI: Masks will no longer required in school communal areas - BBC School dinner debt to councils 'should be written off' - Herald Scotland Isle of Man schools lead exam board changes to 'benefit students' - BBC Nursery group's 'open letter' calls for Government action to save sector - Nursery World Parents choosing between paying for food and childcare as providers forced to raise fees - Nursery World Government urged to extend free school school meals to reach children on the 'cusp' of food poverty - Nursery World DfE plans £5m 'attendance mentors' to tackle absence - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leader of Scotland's largest teaching union Larry Flanagan to leave post in summer - Scotsman Sunak’s ‘new austerity’: Spring statement offers no new money for education - FE Week Ofsted will use 2022 SATs and GCSE results to judge curriculum impact - Schools Week Leader of Scotland’s largest teaching union to step down - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education in Scotland: EIS teaching union boss to stand down - Herald Scotland Marine specialist takes aim at Ofsted after grade 4 report - FE Week 10 questions with... Emma Knights, Chief Executive, National Governance Association - Times Educational Supplement | TES College pauses ‘stop and search’ security checks after student protests - FE Week Spiralling childcare forcing parents to quit work because they're spending more than a third of their pay on fees - Mail DfE starts secret talks on future of National Tutoring Programme - Schools Week ASCL responds to PAC report on academy trust finances - ASCL Two thirds of university staff considering leaving sector, new report reveals - UCU When you care about your students, you empower them - UKEdChat “Separate politics from education”, sector told at PIE Live 2022 - PIE News Inclusive institutions - a variation on keynote listening - Advance HE Modifying the journey to graduate employment through changes to work-based learning - HEPI Treasury plays down apprenticeship levy review - FE Week UK universities facing ‘staff exodus’ because of demoralised academics, University and College Union says - i News Multi-academy trusts pay record number of staff more than £100,000 a year - Telegraph MPs accuse DfE of failing to control academy leaders’ excessive salaries - Guardian Plaid Cymru leader's free secondary school meals pledge - BBC Tens of millions of public money used to “prop up” poorly managed academy schools with potentially excessive levels of pay - UK Parliament 10 questions with... Brian McLaren, Headteacher, Langlees Primary School - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eton commits £1m annual top-up for ‘elite’ sixth forms - Schools Week Persistently absent pupils to be mentored under £5m trial - Schools Week Inclusive Britain: a chance to right our history curriculum - Schools Week Eton: ‘Elite’ sixth form plans impossible without our £1m top-up - FE Week Why higher education needs graduate workers’ perspectives - Wonkhe Teaching excellence policy must not remain race-blind - Wonkhe Something is going very wrong with the awarding gap for first class degrees - Wonkhe Podcast: Spring statement, UKRI strategy, social mobility - Wonkhe MPs want more transparency over academy trust bailouts - Schools Week Chancellor snubs schools as 500,000 children ‘fall into poverty’ - Schools Week Academy pay: DfE has 'no handle' on 'excessive' salaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Report shows nearly two thirds of academics set to leave HE sector - Mail Three in five UK university staff ‘set to quit within five years’ - Times Higher Education | THE Nadhim Zahawi wants grammar schools to help raise standards - The Times Scotland: Glasgow University distances itself from tutor who called war in Ukraine ‘a panto’ - The Times Ireland: Ivana Bacik pledges free childcare as she takes over as Labour leader - The Times