News archive for 4th August 2021

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Marcus Rashford: Poor families missing out on food vouchers - BBC Vaccinators to be sent into schools as experts suggest all teenagers could get Covid jab - Telegraph Covid: Jabs for 16 and 17-year-olds to start within weeks - BBC All over-12s could get Covid vaccines as health chiefs ‘open door to wider roll out’ - The Sun Head teacher at elite state school accused of bullying staff - Telegraph AoC: Vaccination will help keep disruption to a minimum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid jabs could be 'part of school vaccination' offer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Landmark early years policy all set after Covid delay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should not be responsible for policing jabs for pupils, says union - Mail Vaccines to be offered to 16 and 17-year-olds ‘within weeks’ - Schools Week SQA boss on exams turmoil and 18 months of Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Turing Scheme to support 14,000 fewer young people than Erasmus+ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK to offer vaccines to 16- and 17-year-olds in policy U-turn - Financial Times MPs call for action to ‘stabilise’ youth work sector - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Vaccinations extended to 16 and 17-year-olds - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges NAHT Cymru comments on vaccines for 16 and 17-year-olds - NAHT ASCL comment on Covid vaccines for over-16s - ASCL Former FTSE 250 CEO and leading force at the British Chambers of Commerce is new Institute chair - IfATE Successful colleges announced in Turing Scheme fund - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges UK Turing bids exceed estimates and will fund 40,000 places from September - PIE News ESFA Update: 4 August 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency BPS supports #SummerofPlay campaign - BPS | British Psychological Society Government agrees to vaccination of 16-17 year-olds - National Education Union A second teaching union has called on the government to pay for ventilation in schools - PoliticsHome DfE's state vs private schools A-level grade gap fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA chief defends 'assessments' replacing Nat 5 and Higher exams - BBC A-levels: What's different with this year's exams? - BBC University of Liverpool staff begin 10-day strike - BBC SQA chief refuses to apologise over last year's grades debacle - Scotsman Heads must not be made to police student Covid jabs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland's delayed nationwide expansion of 1140 hours childcare launches - Nursery World When is A-Level Results Day 2021 – and what time are the grades released? - Mirror Student Loans Company appoints new Chief Financial Officer - Student Loans Company Allegations of ‘toxic’ working environment at top London school - Guardian Early years Alliance files complaint over DfE refusal to release funding data - Nursery World New Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education chair named - FE Week Full list of schools in England offering summer holiday catch-up classes - Mirror Expert says there a good chance of new variant emerging in school holidays without young vaccinated - Express Face masks still required even after teen vaccinations - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam results helpline will give Scottish pupils guidance and advice in testing times - Herald Scotland Covid Scotland: What are the rules for going back to school? - Herald Scotland Third of London’s early years care forced to shut due to isolation - Evening Standard Schools and coronavirus: The government’s handling of education during the pandemic - Institute for Government Rights respecting education – putting values first - UKEdChat Who said disability wasn’t sexy? - HEPI Lack of government Covid plan for English schools ‘unforgivable’, says report - Guardian Students apply to UK version of Erasmus foreign study scheme - Guardian Government’s ‘refusal’ to make contingency plans led to exams chaos, report finds - Telegraph Vaccinologist Barbie: Prof Sarah Gilbert honoured with a doll - Guardian 40,000 students to study across the globe as part of new Turing Scheme - DfE How to make hybrid learning work in higher education - Wonkhe Turing Scheme: the colleges and schools due to benefit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Williamson 'not involved' in key school decision - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Lack of plan B on Covid was 'unforgivable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The FE providers to win Turing Scheme funding revealed - FE Week Boris Johnson told officials not to make lockdown contingency plans, new report claims - Schools Week Boris Johnson told officials 'not to make contingencies' for education chaos during Covid pandemic - Mail UK to storm ahead with post-Brexit Erasmus rival for 40,000 students - Express Devastating verdict on Tories' handling of school closures during pandemic - Mirror 16 and 17-year-olds will be called for vaccinations within weeks in bid to head off autumn surge in schools - Mail UK’s education policies during Covid under fire in damning report - Financial Times Oxbridge v-cs and unions call for ‘urgent’ pensions redesign - Times Higher Education | THE Turing scheme launches with 120 universities on board - Times Higher Education | THE Ethnic minority awarding gap ‘largely down to low exam grades’ - Times Higher Education | THE