News archive for 13th May 2022

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 13 May 2022 - Education Eye FGM fears as Birmingham police raid unregistered school with bed and medical gear - Express Scotland: Teachers threaten walkout over pupil violence at Glasgow school - BBC Podcast: Schools Bill, attendance, MAT CEOs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Group coaching: the answer to coping with increasing student welfare and wellbeing issues? - Advance HE Scotland recognised for world-class research - Public Technology AoC comment and analysis on DfE's latest Level 3 defunding plan - AoC | Association of Colleges London universities plan “leading” international strategy - PIE News Does taking A-Level maths improve your grades in physics and computer science? - FFT Education Datalab Why do we ask for your school? - Teacher Tapp The narrow curriculum in state schools is levelling down creative opportunities for young people - Edge Foundation Resource #1: Good, great, fantastic... - UKEdChat Bracknell and Wokingham College open new Care Skills Training Centre and Pharma Sciences - Activate Learning Beauty therapy students learn how to treat people with long-term illness at The Randolph Hotel - Activate Learning How would proposed reforms impact the economic contribution of universities? - Universities UK NAHT receives response to National Tutoring Programme (NTP) letter - NAHT Student anxiety has emerged as the biggest challenge of exams season - ASCL Research assessment: By the people for the people - HEPI Queen's Speech 2022 analysis - Russell Group Community criticises plans to relax ratios - Voice BPS reaction to Research Excellence Framework 2021 results - BPS | British Psychological Society The Times Education Summit calls for a radical rethink of our flawed assessment system - Rethinking Assessment Covid in Wales: Exam help to continue for GCSEs, A-levels - BBC Children and families minister confirms consultation on plans to change childcare ratios - EYE | Early Years Educator Racial harassment in Higher Education: MPs ask how Government can address inequality - UK Parliament Headteachers and experts questioned on low uptake of physics and maths by girls - UK Parliament Learning at Work Week is here - GOV.UK Education Committee to hold business roundtable on post-16 qualifications - UK Parliament Open letter to heads of schools and colleges, May 2022 - Ofqual First set of free Jubilee commemoration books arrive in primary schools - DfE TASO to lead work to develop 'what works’ resources of student mental health support - Office for Students Changes to degree classifications over time – media coverage - Office for Students What works to support student mental health? How evaluation can help develop effective practice - Office for Students SSTA: Prioritise teacher retention, not just new recruits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Which new Stem teachers will get levelling up premium - Times Educational Supplement | TES Zahawi apologises to heads for Bank Holiday tutoring letter - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why it may take a recession to halt the teacher recruitment crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cheating headteacher is struck off for telling staff to fiddle school's attendance figures - Mail Zahawi apologises for bank holiday tutor league tables announcement - Schools Week Headteacher sacked for covering up more than 28,000 pupil absences - Metro Heads fear national tutoring data will be 'de facto league table' - Mail Job satisfaction among heads and teachers hits new low - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three colleges remain ‘outstanding’ more than a decade after last Ofsted visits - FE Week Cheating headteacher ‘covered up 28,000 pupil absences over five years’ - Telegraph Wales to continue additional Covid exam support next year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Councils start school talks over spin-off academy trusts - Schools Week Children’s minister reveals plans to consult on relaxation of childcare ratios - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government to launch consultation on childcare ratio changes before summer - Nursery World Headteacher struck off for telling staff to falsify pupil attendance figures - Wales Online ‘People are so open-hearted’: Ukrainian families find refuge in English schools - Schools Week The great levelling up debate – the role of graduate employability in regional prosperity - HEPI Just for fun: 20 school site manager traits - Teacher Toolkit Levelling up premium payments for teachers - DfE Cost of private education hits £5,200 a term and more middle-income parents could struggle to pay - Mail Teacher bonuses and funding for schools to level up education - DfE Police raid unregistered school over female genital mutilation fears - Mail GCSE and A-level exams: Ofqual tells us all you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES T Levels will make the qualifications system less confusing - FE Week CMI earns record turnover as management apprenticeships soar despite pandemic - FE Week Cost of living: Supporting families to access help pays off - Schools Week Parents must pay if pupils miss exams, school warns - Schools Week High Court challenge lodged over £121m Institute of Teaching - Schools Week South Lanarkshire College: Auditor General hints at need for police probe - Herald Scotland An industrial turn for LEO - Wonkhe OfS goes on the attack over “unmerited” grades - Wonkhe Podcast: REF results, Queen’s speech, Access all areas - Wonkhe £3k teachers retention bonuses: How they will work - Schools Week Proportion of students getting top degrees doubles in a decade, report shows - Mail Putting digital skills at the heart of education - FE News White private school boys are the new disadvantaged, says Cambridge academic - The Times Leicester overtakes Oxford for medical research - The Times