News archive for 6th May 2022

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 06 May 2022 - Education Eye School attendance, improving the consistency of support: new burdens assessment - DfE Absence and attainment at key stages 2 and 4: 2018 to 2019 - DfE Working together to improve school attendance - DfE Consultation outcome: Regulating independent educational institutions - DfE School attendance consultation response - DfE Queen’s speech set to include crackdown on unregulated schools - Guardian Private schools may face suspension over safeguarding fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: School club bans kids with the 'wrong surname' leaving parents without childcare - Mirror Illegal schools will shut down after Ofsted warned that 'tens of thousands' of children are exposed to extremism - Mail Unite strike: NI industrial action over pay suspended - BBC Welcoming refugee children: Advice and guidance for schools 3 - Bell Foundation Research on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on schools - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Teach First Research Roundup: May 2022 - Teach First Edge response to the level 2 consultation - Edge Foundation NAHT comments on Ofqual exam proposals - NAHT GCSEs must be reformed for the sake of pupils’ mental health - ASCL Driving change through strategy – a case study from the University of Sussex - HEPI UCU wins recognition deal at Royal College of Arts - UCU Podcast 133: CPD tips for further education teachers - Teacher Toolkit Exercise helps boost pupils’ memory and fitness, says new study led by chartered BPS member - BPS | British Psychological Society UK Engineering Biology receives £20.6 million funding boost - UKRI The teaching timewarp... and why it’s time to back away from the vol au vents - UKEdChat Graduations at risk as UK marking boycott planned from 23 May - Times Higher Education | THE School staff quit for better paid jobs in supermarkets as cost of living crisis bites - Mirror ‘Blame game’ as Zahawi moves to publish tutoring take-up - Schools Week England's worst primary schools as 100 rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted - Mirror New Schools Network to close after losing free schools contract - Schools Week DfE to let councils invest absence fines in attendance support - Schools Week Scotland: BAME teachers ‘significantly underrepresented’, finds report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free school charity closing after losing DfE contract - Times Educational Supplement | TES National school absence fines plan greenlit despite parent opposition - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools and university partnership working: Why evaluation and collaboration is the cornerstone of widening participation - Office for Students Incidents of Covid in nurseries far higher than originally published - Nursery World Furious parents told to fundraise £50k for school’s toilets in ‘outrageous’ plan - The Sun Where is ministers' energy and ambition for Scottish education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES King's College London ditches online-only classes amid return of face-to-face lessons - Mail ‘Why were we ignored?’ ask Holland Park whistleblowers - Schools Week Teaching union wishes Ofsted an ‘unhappy birthday’ and renews calls for it to be replaced - Nursery World ‘Tragically ironic’: Accessible SEND review still missing six weeks on - Schools Week DfE to get new suspension powers for ‘unsafe’ private schools - Schools Week Delay (again) in accessible versions of SEND review - FE Week SEND: School leadership 'shift' needed on inclusion - Times Educational Supplement | TES New TikTok social media trend torments school pupils - Schools Week UCU threat: Raise pay or we’ll strike on exam day - FE Week Exam stress: how to help children cope with GCSEs and A-levels - Guardian Pupils in England showing high anxiety in run-up to GCSEs and A-levels, teachers say - Guardian 'A police officer, a mental health nurse...' The wish list a headteacher says would help his school tackle the huge issues education is facing - Wales Online Tutoring stats will expose NTP issues, not school failure - Schools Week College to trial four-day week - FE Week Is it time to get rid of the term ‘dyslexia’? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford University launches scholarship scheme to provide free places for Ukrainian refugees - i News ESFA pleads for more traineeships as recruitment struggles continue - FE Week Chartered College president wants to double membership and get royal status - Schools Week Post-Covid Ofsted ratings lift in secondary schools - Schools Week Podcast: Complaints, consultations, student suicide, in-person teaching - Wonkhe What will MERs actually achieve? - Wonkhe Mid-career female researchers ‘need bespoke research grants’ - Times Higher Education | THE Devi Sridhar: pandemic vitriol ‘has taken its toll’ - Times Higher Education | THE Cambridge college Gonville & Caius drops ban on flying LGBT pride flag - The Times