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Sexual harm is rising in schools - but is there enough resource to tackle it?
As a ÌÇÐÄVlog investigation highlights the increase in sexual violence and sexual harassment in schools, experts call for more training and support to respond to the problem
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Lockdown: Number of teachers and pupils in school rises
More than half of primary teachers now in school compared to less than a quarter of secondary teachers
Not ‘appropriate’ to strike over 8 March, says NEU boss
NEU joint leader Mary Bousted says it would not be achievable to organise a national ballot by the school reopening date
Catch-up funding not ‘sufficient’, says DfE tsar
Early years catch-up provision is a 'good start but not a recovery plan', says commissioner
Williamson wants ‘far more schools’ moving into MATs
Government is looking at finding ways to move more schools into multi-academy trusts by 2025, says education secretary
Covid catch-up tutoring scheme to reach 750,000 pupils
But total reach represents barely half of 1.4m children on free school meals that Labour believes should benefit from NTP
New Institute of Teaching ‘is an unnecessary symbol’
Former schools commissioner criticises DfE's plan for a new teacher training organisation
GCSEs: National Reference ÌÇÐÄVlogts to show Covid ‘impact’
ÌÇÐÄVlogt will not be used to inform GCSE grading but 'will provide important evidence about the impact of lost learning'
Revealed: Early career teacher trainers selected by DfE
Chosen providers will deliver face-to-face and online training programmes for new teachers and their mentors
Call to cancel qualifications for students staying on
Cancelling qualifications for S4 students – apart from those leaving school – would alleviate pressure, says union
Schools to get £1,200 for training each new teacher
Schools will also receive separate funding for mentors as part of the Early Career Framework, DfE says
Exclusive: Catch-up tutors snubbed by schools in North
Poll suggests 81% of North East schools not using National Tutoring Programme and 31% of those that do may not continue
#BackToSchool advertising campaign aims to reassure
Radio and social media adverts booked by government as poll finds 27% of public oppose 8 March school openings
IGCSEs 2021: Tens of thousands demand exam cancellation
International students say cancelling IGCSE and IA-level exams in the UK but going ahead with them overseas is unfair
International Baccalaureate ‘algorithm defies logic’
Head compares IB's approach of using historical data to allocate grades to the flawed GCSE algorithm of 2020
Scottish teachers not prioritised for Covid vaccines
Scotland and England target age groups for Covid vaccination, deciding against fast-tracking teachers
Exclusive: Fears teachers will be ‘vilified’ over GCSEs
The 'whole burden of last year’s fiasco' is being placed 'on an unsuspecting workforce', warns Chartered College chief
One in 10 places on secondary teaching courses unfilled
But some subjects exceeded student-teacher recruitment targets in Scotland – as did primary-teaching courses
Exams 2021: DfE won’t regulate to stop overseas exams
DfE says it will not prohibit exam boards from setting exams overseas – although most have been cancelled already
GCSEs 2021 a terrible tangle, says DfE’s Ofqual adviser
Sir Jon Coles, who advised Ofqual on 2021 GCSEs and A levels, says the plan risks an outcome 'much worse than last year'
GCSEs 2021: Questions may come from defunct exam papers
GCSE and A-level students could sit questions from pre-reform exam specifications because of a lack of past papers
Exclusive: DfE won’t say where catch-up cash came from
DfE doesn't rule out the possibility that Covid recovery cash has been drawn from existing education budgets
GCSEs 2021: Grading won’t be pegged to any other year
Tethering 2021 GCSE and A level results to a certain year would 'probably entail the use of some form of algorithm' says Williamson
GCSEs and A levels 2021: Coursework to go unmoderated
Coursework marking will not be moderated by boards, despite 55% of Ofqual consultation responses arguing it should be
GCSEs 2021: No minimum requirement for content studied
A-level and GCSE students will not have to have covered a minimum percentage of the syllabus to get grades this year