News archive for 4th May 2022

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Grammar school pupils must not be discriminated against, MPs tell Oxbridge - Telegraph Investigation finds school failed vulnerable children and misled Ofsted - Guardian Staff at Holland Park School engaged in ‘exploitative’ relationships with students - Telegraph Stop acting like private school pupils “own” Oxbridge places - New Statesman Scotland: New award for schools that celebrate success of all pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to support pupils with ADHD, according to a psychologist - Times Educational Supplement | TES Holland Park probe reveals pupil humiliation, racism and Ofsted misled - Schools Week Pens down: England’s exams regulator exploring online A-levels and GCSEs - Guardian Cambridge University to slap 'trigger warnings' on English classics to protect students - Express Winners of the most prestigious awards in further education announced - AoC | Association of Colleges K12: solution for Ukrainians in UK and Ireland created - PIE News Five ways the new sustainability and climate change strategy for schools in England doesn’t match up to what young people actually want - The Conversation Engaging students in meaningful, active participation - Advance HE Professional Standards for teachers refreshed by the ETF - Education & Training Foundation Windmill Hill Day Nursery shut over safeguarding concerns - BBC All things toilets and would you encourage your children to become teachers? This, and more... - Teacher Tapp Quantitative skills training shown to boost social science graduates’ employment prospects - Nuffield Foundation UCU members back marking boycott in pension dispute - UCU Raise pay and prevent strike action during GCSEs, North West college bosses told - UCU ASCL comment on Ofqual plan for use of technology in exams - ASCL Ability setting: No longer ‘best practice’ - UKEdChat 60-second CPD: Creating beautiful work - Teacher Toolkit Making youth work work: reflecting on policy and practice - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Mastery mathematics: Pedagogically powerful or massively misunderstood? - BERA Secretary of State letter to schools and local authorities about supporting Ukrainian children to integrate into English schools - DfE New Ofqual 3-year plan puts students and apprentices at its heart - Ofqual ESFA Update: 4 May 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: 23 March 2020 to 28 April 2022 - DfE Behaviour and discipline in schools - DfE ISC responds to Professor Stephen Toope's comments about Oxbridge admissions - Independent Schools Council | ISC Ofqual's 3 year plan for examinations - National Education Union Attainment cash: ‘Would I like to keep the £2.8m? Of course’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Duchess of Cambridge’s old school Marlborough College fails safeguarding inspection - i News Kate’s old school ‘fails to carry out safeguarding checks on new teachers’ - Evening Standard Online testing which adapts to suit students' ability level could be rolled out in three years - Mail University student complaints over courses hit record - BBC Lockdown laptops can be lent to Ukrainian pupils, schools told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales: Sexual harassment not being reported in schools, says minister - BBC Brexit blamed for fall in numbers of EU students at Oxford - Mail ‘Riot’ at London school sparks call for Department for Education to step in - Evening Standard Hundreds back campaign against relaxation of childcare ratios - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Oxford launches foundation year for students with BBB grades - Times Higher Education | THE Bright Horizons acquires Australian nursery group - Nursery World Deaf Awareness Week: Benefits of teaching British Sign Language in school - Mirror Teacher caught on CCTV hitting pupil on the head during lesson - Wales Online Headteachers appalled by Nadhim Zahawi bank holiday letter - Mail School leaders slam 'underhand' plan to publish tutoring data - SecEd Zahawi accused of breaking own wellbeing pledge with tutoring letter - Schools Week Watchdog looks to scrap handwritten exams at A-level and GCSE - The Times Ofqual to look at replacing pen and paper with computers in GCSE and A-level exams - i News Ofqual to consider use of technology in exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual’s 3-year plan for exams: what you need to know - FE Week Ofqual’s 3-year plan for exams: need to know - Schools Week Private school pupils will lose out on Oxbridge places to state school peers - Mail Fit your own mental health oxygen mask before fitting others - FE Week Cambridge defends 'woke' trigger warning on Little House On The Prairie and Shakespeare classics - Mail The issues with university complaints processes in accommodation and how they could be improved - HEPI Communication with academy trust auditors - National Audit Office The level 2 qualifications review is deafeningly silent on key problems - FE Week Universities have a complaints problem. Here’s how to fix it - Wonkhe Do students have the energy to make complaints? - Wonkhe Complaints over Covid disruption rose in 2021, student watchdog says - Guardian Online university during Covid pandemic sparks surge in complaints from students not happy with learning - Mail Universities pay out record compensation as complaints rise - Times Higher Education | THE As UK industrial disputes drag on, should union rethink tactics? - Times Higher Education | THE Why colleges should care about STEM retention - FE News Student complaints about universities rise - The Times Scotland: Head teachers will leave over cuts, warns NSPCC - The Times Scotland: Universities ask how many deprived pupils have right grades - The Times Ireland: Third-level fees may be cut from this autumn - The Times