The study, by the Higher Education Policy Institute found current students were more likely to support measures that restrain freedom of speech or expression on campus, and approve of removing offensive materials and memorials, compared with their predecessors six years ago, when it last conducted the survey.
Michelle Donelan, the higher education minister for England, said the report showed "a shocking growth in support for censorship across a wide range of indicators”.
Before Incorporation is a timeline of key initiatives and policies shaping Further Education in England prior to 1992 by Professor Ewart Keep (Oxford) and Professor Lorna Unwin (UCL)
Inspired by FETL’sHonourable HistoriesEdge have developed a ‘prequel’ identifying policy interventions and the significant activities that contributed to the development of FE prior to 1992.
Many of these interventions are still relevant today and to the future of FE and vocational education in England. Find out more and read the reporthere.
The Department for Education will rebrand its school performance website to “reduce the emphasis on comparison” after a backlash among school leaders at resuming league tables despite Covid’s impact.
Students held sleepovers with classmates, parents organised car-sharing rides and teachers drove minibuses to ensure that those affected by the national rail strike would make it to their exams on time.
Students experienced “infuriating” and “unacceptable” mistakes to GCSE and A-levels this year, headteachers said, after a series of errors - including pupils being given wrong information about what would be on exams.
Schools will be ordered to provide pupils with six “encounters” with further education and apprenticeship providers, or risk being hit with a legal direction from government. More here.
Attainment 8 in 2022 - a new blog from FFT Education Datalab.
Further and adult education
Plans to develop a new T Level in marketing were announced. Ministers want the qualification up and running from 2025. It would become the 24th available T Level. Further details here.
A training provider dropped High Court action against the Department for Education after an undisclosed settlement was agreed. Abis Resources Limited launched a challenge in 2019 after the firm’s FE loans and apprenticeship contracts were “unconscionably” terminated.
Higher education
Staff are asking universities to set up food banks because they are struggling with rising bills and say they cannot afford to eat properly. Young academics on casual contracts and low-paid support workers such as porters and cleaners are on the breadline.
Students face delays in receiving their exam results this summer as staff at England’s largest exam board were balloted to strike over a pay dispute. Unison and Unite unions are rejecting a 3% pay rise, plus a £500 payment, for staff at AQA.
