News archive for 5th May 2022

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Local elections hit schools again, but fewer used as polling stations - Schools Week Universities offer places to disadvantaged children with three grades lower than middle-class students - Telegraph School food standards: resources for schools - DfE Adaptations to exam arrangements 2022 teacher survey - Computing at School MillionPlus comment on potential higher education reforms - MillionPlus For the Lifelong Loan Entitlement to deliver on its promise, maybe we need some new ideas - HEPI Russell Group warns of long-term squeeze on UK skills pipeline - Russell Group Five ways to: Weave reading into the curriculum - Teacherhead Finished school? What’s next? - OECD Eight ways to empower teachers and lessons - Teacher Toolkit UK Committee on Research Integrity panel members announced - UKRI LEYF launches charity bond to help fund the acquisition of more nurseries - EYE | Early Years Educator Thousands of signatures for petition launched against reducing ratios in early years - EYE | Early Years Educator Alliance launches second National Week of Play focused on protecting the planet through play - EYE | Early Years Educator Statement on BBC safeguarding report - Voice My autistic son has been rejected by 12 schools – the special educational needs system is absolutely broken - i News Welsh education: ‘radical reform’ is everywhere - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reflections on the Assessment and Feedback Literature Review (2016-2021) - Advance HE Student revolt forces King’s College London to scrap online classes - The Times South Lanarkshire College celebrates Foundation Apprenticeship 'Class of 2022' - Herald Scotland Emma Duncan: We’re hurting Oxbridge in the name of equality - The Times Scotland: My dyslexic son was suicidal because our school ignored his needs, says mother - The Times 10 tips for dyslexic friendly classrooms - Teacher Toolkit NFL Academy set to touchdown in Loughborough College - FE Week Why don’t the effects of interventions last? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don’t sideline grammar school pupils, top universities told - The Times Cambridge University defends 'trigger warnings' on Shakespeare - Express DfE: Schools may get 'extra' energy price-hike help - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE in dark on SEND targets, admits adviser - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children suffer sexual abuse, assaults and neglect in after-school clubs - Mail How plans for multi-school heads could sideline early years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minimum entry bar would ‘undermine British values on aspiration’ - Times Higher Education | THE England’s first secure school gains royal assent - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Inquiry launches into mental health and behaviour in schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Thousands of parents and childcare staff back petitions against PM’s plans to relax ratios - Nursery World LEYF launches charity bond to help achieve plans to double number of nurseries - Nursery World Welsh language: 'Boring' poems put students off study - BBC Teachers beg for help as disruptive teens kick holes in walls and swear at staff - Express Holland Park School rife with exploitation and fear, report finds - BBC Scores of safeguarding complaints at after-school clubs - BBC London medical students say they cannot live on NHS bursaries - BBC SNP warned over cash cuts for schools in deprived areas - Herald Scotland Widening access to HE starts in early childhood - Wonkhe Oxford will allow in pupils with three B grades to help young people who have suffered 'grave disadvantage' - Mail Inquiry will examine mental health impact of exclusions and isolation - Schools Week Teacher Educators Subject Networks newsletter: Primary - UCET Funding shortfall on each UK undergraduate ‘will double to £4K’ - Times Higher Education | THE Black historian claims Bristol used her as ‘human shield’ - Times Higher Education | THE The lifelong loan entitlement, apprenticeship levy and employer funded training – policy contradictions and practical implications - FE News Degrees underfunded by £1,750 per student, Russell Group says - Guardian Freezing tuition fees will put pressure on funding for teaching - Mail Elite state school is accused of a string of failures including safeguarding breaches and 'exploitation' - Mail Teacher Educator Subject Networks newsletter: Secondary - UCET ‘Socialist Eton’ condemned as hotbed of bullying and racism - The Times Three B grades enough for Oxford University foundation year - The Times No more three-hour finals for some Cambridge students - The Times Marlborough: Duchess of Cambridge’s old school failed to check staff - The Times Students say NUS chief Shaima Dallali is ‘victim of a smear campaign’ over antisemitism - The Times Scotland: Striking academics condemn ‘insulting’ £500 Covid bonus - The Times