News archive for 29th March 2022

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Boris Johnson set to launch radical shake-up of childcare rules to help ease cost of living crisis - The Sun Church of England leaders object to keeping slave trader memorial in college - Guardian Maddy Lawrence: University rugby player, 20, dies from hospital infection - The Times Most teachers already fulfil 'Parent Pledge', new data reveals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reading fluency practice in the primary classroom - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Improvements proposed for UK Turing scheme - PIE News Jisc announces operating partner for new managed firewall service across UK research and education providers - Jisc SEND Green Paper: AoC response - AoC | Association of Colleges EPI response to SEND and alternative provision green paper - EPI Reading College students investigate a fake crime scene - Activate Learning Supporting your GCSE Maths and English exams - Activate Learning New evidence on the relationship between poverty and child abuse and neglect - Nuffield Foundation SEND and AP green paper: responding to the consultation - DfE Influential Pen Green children’s centre saved from closure after council U-turn - Guardian SEND review: right support, right place, right time - DfE Early career teacher (ECT) induction: coronavirus (COVID-19) absence exemption - DfE NASUWT comments on SEND Green Paper - NASUWT ASCL comment on SEND green paper - ASCL Pen Green: Families protest at nursery funding change - BBC Fewer than one in five teachers think 'Parent Pledge' will make a difference - Mail Covid: Alister Jack and Jamie Hepburn under pressure over testing - Herald Scotland Scotland: School attainment gap funding to drop by £16.5m - Times Educational Supplement | TES Research into supporting science teachers to engage with and carry out research - NFER Dr Mary Bousted comment on SEND Green Paper - National Education Union Study investigates ways to support science teachers to improve their teaching practice - NFER You win some, you lose some - and that's as it should be - Independent Schools Council | ISC To professionalise, or not to professionalise, that is (part of) the question - HEPI Number Hero competition to give away £5,000 worth of prizes to schools and youth groups - National Numeracy Visionary researchers awarded Ernest Rutherford fellowships - UKRI Top UK universities change student contracts to protect against refunds for Covid disruption - i News White Paper 'risks watering down' pupil premium - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: No school vaccinations after this week - Times Educational Supplement | TES How many classrooms is it normal for a teacher to teach in, and which teachers have got Covid the most? This, and more… - Teacher Tapp Child Q: Charities sign open letter calling for better safeguarding - BBC An intervention for high school chemistry and physics - Best Evidence in Brief Does a preschool intervention work? - Best Evidence in Brief Improvements to evidence standards - Best Evidence in Brief Teachers at John Fisher School being balloted for strike action after gay author banned and governors sacked - i News Families tired of waiting for special needs support, Zahawi says - Mail Headteachers to receive half a billion pounds to help close attainment gap - Scotsman SEND review: Children to receive earlier support in new government plans - BBC SEND review won’t repeat ‘mistakes of the past’ – Zahawi - Schools Week Covid: In-school vaccination programme to end this week - Schools Week SEND Green Paper: Why the DfE needs to win families' trust - Times Educational Supplement | TES The betrayal of the Covid lost generation continues - Telegraph Children and families minister to look at regulation of childcare sector with visit to France - Nursery World SEND Green Paper: A chance to fix problems plaguing special schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish teacher pay offer: EIS members vote to accept - Times Educational Supplement | TES Consider ending energy deals with Russian firms, heads told - Times Educational Supplement | TES I’ll spread the DNA of grammar schools so all pupils can benefit, says Nadhim Zahawi - Express Attainment gap fears: Scottish headteachers get £0.5bn - Herald Scotland SEND review ‘disappointing’ for FE - FE Week White paper: A new era for local authorities and collaboration? - Schools Week New Schools Network loses DfE free schools support contract - Schools Week Interview: Diana Lawton, MD of Our Monkey Club and member of the early years apprenticeship trailblazer group - Nursery World SEND review: Sector 'cautiously welcomes’ plans to fix special needs support system - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government launches SEND green paper - Nursery World Call for more funding as Government sets out plans to overhaul special educational needs system - Evening Standard New teachers won’t have to extend induction because of Covid absence - Schools Week White Paper: Why the evidence doesn't stack up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools White Paper: Why school leaders have been left so frustrated - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND review: The proposed reforms to alternative provision - Schools Week Five of the best universities in Scotland, according to student reviews - Scotsman Ambitious reform for children and young people with SEND - DfE Interview: Carol Dewhurst and Tessa Mason, Chief Executive and Chair, Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust - Schools Week Interview: Nikki Davis, incoming Principal, Leeds College of Building - FE Week Influential Pen Green children’s centre faces closure due to council cuts - Guardian Government sets out plans to overhaul special educational needs system - Guardian Covid has raised new barriers for pupils in greatest need - Schools Week A student-centric approach to online education - Wonkhe Redefining research collaboration in Scotland - Wonkhe Directing schools to admit pupils with SEND will be 'game changing' - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND Green Paper: everything you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES University assessment chaos feared as external examiners quit - Times Higher Education | THE Plans to give kids with special educational needs and disabilities better access to schooling to be unveiled - The Sun Headteachers welcome publication of SEND paper but bemoan lack of urgency - Mail