ISC Daily News Summary

New research from the National Literacy Trust suggests early learning suffered during lockdown, with parents spending less time reading, chatting and playing with their children. By Donna Ferguson, The Observer.

Writing in The Sunday Times, Lindsay Paterson, professor of education policy at Edinburgh University, warns Scottish ministers against replacing exams with continuous assessment, arguing that exams have helped to deliver high standards in Scottish schools for decades.

According to Tes, 46 per cent of the initial teacher training (ITT) age phase partnerships have been rated less than "good" under Ofsted's new framework since inspections began last year. By Matilda Martin.

Now Teach, an organisation trying to close the gender divide in the teaching profession, is looking to recruit middle-aged men from a range of industries to the classroom after data revealed 105,000 female students undertook teacher training degrees at university last year, compared with 31,000 men. By Nicola Woolcock, The Times.

Education experts have warned minsters that academy trust growth must be “secure and sustainable”, after two recently expanded trusts received school performance warnings. By Freddie Whittaker and James Carr, Schools Week.

A mother whose daughter has struggled with symptoms of dyslexia since the age of three has urged culture secretary Nadine Dorries to do more to help dyslexic children, after she cited dyslexia as the reason she finds it “difficult” to find the correct expression when speaking. By Aasma Day, iNews.

Schools Week takes a closer look at five new members of the Parliamentary Education Committee who have joined since last July. By Freddie Whittaker.

In an interview with The Times, Sir Michael Wilshaw, the former chief inspector of schools in England, shares his ideas for education reform. By Nicola Woolcock.