News archive for 11th May 2022

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Going to school ‘non-negotiable’, warns Nadhim Zahawi in crackdown on truants - Telegraph Nadhim Zahawi: Excellence should not be the exception in schools - Telegraph Cash pulled from popular BTecs in move to T-levels - BBC SEND review: DfE apologises for accessible consultation delay - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE boss: Tutoring league tables ‘not a stick to beat schools with’ - Schools Week Two years ‘at least’ before Education Scotland changes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Staff set to strike over plan to 'Fire & Rehire' over 100 teachers at Richmond upon Thames College - UCU Strike warning over failure to tackle violence and abuse at Glasgow school - NASUWT MillionPlus comment on the REF 2021 results - MillionPlus The Research Excellence Framework: Time for change? - HEPI Filton and Bradley Stoke MP visits Association of Employment and Learning Providers - AELP Why student number caps will hurt everyone, not just universities - Universities UK Object oriented vs procedural programming paradigms - Computing at School Have primary assessments "gone rogue"? - Rethinking Assessment The art of partnership and the partnership of arts - FED | Foundation for Education Development The Free Speech Bill is back – but there’s still plenty of problems - Wonkhe 60-second CPD: 15 fabulous ideas for year 6 leavers - Teacher Toolkit SLC launches application service for part-time and postgraduate study - Student Loans Company Review of post-16 qualifications at level 3 in England - DfE Qualifications that overlap with T Levels - DfE Progress check at age 2 - DfE Teenage boy was permanently excluded from school after calling a teacher a 'slut' - Wales Online ESFA Update: 11 May 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Green jobs delivery steps up a gear - DfE T Level rollout takes next steps - DfE Stress, anxiety and developing our teachers - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Connect to College Week - Activate Learning John Blake speaks at Wonkhe Access All Areas event - Wonkhe DfE leadership face staff anger over call to return to office four days a week - Public Technology Exploring neurodiversity and race in higher education - Advance HE Primary school children get little academic benefit from homework - The Conversation Using worked examples to support mathematical problem-solving - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Overcoming barriers to achieving outstanding computing - Computing at School 38 BTECs facing the chop to clear way for first T Levels - FE Week 38 BTECs facing the chop to clear way for T-levels - Schools Week Scotland: Dundee teachers to strike over faculties plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Duchess of Cambridge meets ‘tiny teacher’ - the baby helping children learn about their feelings - Telegraph Kate cuddles baby as she learns about innovative education project - Mail Brooksbank School in Elland deemed unsafe by Ofsted - BBC Liphook Bohunt School teacher banned from profession - BBC How can teacher training solve the staff retention crisis? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers at Glasgow school could strike over ‘persistent’ pupil violence - Scotsman Education in Scotland: Secondary teachers to go on strike - Herald Scotland Home economics 'disappearing' from Scottish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can schools improve literacy? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads blast 'ridiculous' waits for help during Sats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gran's rage at school where 'kids sexually harass each other and racism is norm' - Mirror Race against time: Schools struggle to find exam invigilators - SecEd Schools Bill: Funding remains the elephant in the room - SecEd Attendance policy requirements spelt out in new guidance - SecEd SEND review consultation extended - CYPN | Children & Young People Now National Week of play to focus on helping children build relationship with the natural world - Nursery World Glasgow teachers threaten strikes over violent pupil behaviour - Herald Scotland ESFA buckles to sector pressure on ‘unfair’ apprenticeship drop-out rule - FE Week Our primary school kids are being messed up by gender identity lessons - Express Tony Blair's millionaire (Yale educated) son Euan says it would 'not be a bad idea' to scrap GSCEs - Mail Reforming post-18 education - Sutton Trust Repeat suspensions and exclusions during compulsory schooling - FFT Education Datalab The onslaught of fake news - UKEdChat Stress and anxiety among exam students is higher than pre-pandemic, say most heads - ASCL Research assessment – time for a rethink? - HEPI Celebrity line-up announced for The Big Number Natter on National Numeracy Day - National Numeracy Childhood trauma experienced by four in 10 NI young people - BBC Half of MATs offered DfE attendance advice reject it - Times Educational Supplement | TES Easing of exam assessments will end next year as Covid measures are dropped - Telegraph GCSEs and A-levels 2022: Exam stress and anxiety worse than before Covid pandemic, most headteachers say - i News Learning design is the key to assuring the quality of modular provision - Wonkhe UK elite skills team to go for gold at Worldskills - FE Week Schools brace for Covid exams disruption as pupil anxiety rises - Schools Week 4 in 5 heads face more demand for extra exam space - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam stress for pupils greater than before pandemic, headteachers tell survey - Mail Rise in reports of children abusing other children - BBC UCU set for showdown over transgender rights stance - Times Higher Education | THE Study shows more time on research means lower scores for students - Times Higher Education | THE Abolish flawed GCSEs, says Euan Blair - The Times Sir James Dyson: Britain has to bridge arts and science - The Times Dame Kate Bingham, the vaccines tsar who’d give schools a shot in the arm - The Times The future of exams is in question . . . but can the answers be found online? - The Times Psychologist calls for rethink on GCSEs - The Times Why the founder of Teach First went back to nursery - The Times