Wednesday
News briefing: What the catch-up tsar wants for schools
From ‘billions’ in funding to handpicked tutors – all we learned from the recovery commissioner’s talk at today’s Schools North East event
‘Imperative’ to compensate for Erasmus loss
Erasmus played ‘massively important role’ in creating confident languages teachers, warn linguists
I’m here to ‘stop bad things happening’, says Collins
Catch-up tsar says some people will accuse him of making ‘a disaster’ of things but that his ‘bigger challenge’ is securing resources
Schools could get more control over catch-up tutoring
Government catch-up tsar wants to give schools freedom to pick their own ‘verified and qualified’ tutors, unlike National Tutoring Programme system
Catch-up tsar: Asking teachers to do more has a price
Catch-up funding must be ‘in the billions’, says recovery commissioner Sir Kevan Collins as he talks of ‘extending’ the ‘educational experience’
Tuesday
Will government’s £750k crackdown on rape culture work?
The government has set aside £750k to tackle rape culture in schools – but is money alone enough, asks Ian Rivers
Exclusive: Teacher trainers’ Covid cash cut by a third
Trainees not on track to qualify by summer can extend courses into next year – but financial help for providers is cut
Exclusive: £121m for Institute of Teaching over 6 years
DfE seeking bidders for Institute to train 1,000 new teachers a year – but trainers question ‘value’ of the scheme
‘Up to £15bn needed’ for Covid catch-up
Call for Sir Kevan Collins’ work as recovery commissioner to be backed up by ‘much larger’ government funding levels
Monday
Primary schools ‘kept guessing’ over £320m PE fund
Headteachers say DfE’s ‘non-committal’ response on whether sports fund will continue next year is ‘badly judged’
£750K scheme to target ‘sexual bullying’ in schools
Government plans bullying crackdown as Ofsted investigates concerns of a ‘rape culture’ in schools
