News archive for 19th August 2021

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University becomes the first in the UK to ban unvaccinated students - Telegraph Bristol university students to be housed in Bath due to 'high demand' - BBC FE Podcast: Keegan on results, T levels and the future - Times Educational Supplement | TES English schools told to delay seeking help with small Covid outbreaks - Guardian New strain threat makes school mitigations ‘essential’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid 'surge' likely when schools return, expert warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Numeracy, the Scottish STEM Ambassador Hub and Education Scotland announce new project - National Numeracy Universities need a bold strategy for UK-Africa exchanges - Wonkhe The Office for Students’ Student Panel in their own words - HEPI Major teaching reforms in England will erode the intellectual basis of teacher education - UCET £20m to provide more early help for vulnerable families - DfE High needs funding arrangements: 2022 to 2023 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA appoints interim Funding Director - Education & Skills Funding Agency Admission appeals in England: academic year 2020 to 2021 - DfE National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2022 to 2023 - DfE Seven universities demand students wear masks on campus when term begins again in September - Mail Spain-bound UK students face visa delays - PIE News Government has planned a "commemorative book" for primary schools to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee - PoliticsHome Latest updates and information from Ofqual - NAHT The Department of Education Northern Ireland (DENI) issues revised covid guidance for the new school year - NAHT HE Provider Data: Estates Management environmental information published - HESA Reading strategies for college students - Learning Scientists The removal of BTEC qualifications will 'massively impact disadvantaged students' Government is warned - Nursery World NCFE launches £1 million fund to discover the future of assessment - FE Week Scotland: Reverting to exams this year is ‘most sensible option’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES BERA response to the public consultation on the ITT Market Review (ITTMRR) - BERA School development priorities for 2021-22 - Teacherhead Magazine podcast: Skills, research, cover lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES If children are to live with the climate crisis, we must green the curriculum - Guardian Children can get free school travel - who qualifies and the way to get it - Mirror Panel tasked with scrapping SQA and reforming Education Scotland to complete work within six months - Scotsman Teaching union calls for caution in removal of Covid mitigations in Scottish schools - Scotsman Brexit: Visa delays hit students planning to study in Spain - Independent SQA and Education Scotland reform team is revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Diversity in academy trust leadership needs to improve. What can the sector do about it? - Schools Week Sector views sought on domestic abuse guidance - FE Week Scottish pupils could face 'treadmill' of tests in exam plan - BBC Most disadvantaged children ‘locked out’ of crucial early years education, report finds - EYE | Early Years Educator Secondary school admission appeals fall for first time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government invests £20 million to provide more help for vulnerable families - Nursery World Family Hubs scheme receives £20m boost - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Make 30 hours funded childcare universal to close the attainment gap - Nursery World The hysterical criticism of results show class-based elitism is alive and well - FE Week Help urged for Afghan educators after Taliban takeover - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keeping school exams is the only correct answer - Herald Scotland The ventilation situation: What schools should know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary school admission appeals fall for first time in six years - Schools Week Corby: Anthony Horowitz among authors to back appeal over burned books - BBC Covid-19: Schools can continue to teach some in class bubbles - BBC Visa chaos for 4,500 British students due to study in Spain within weeks - Mail Disadvantaged three- and four-year-olds ‘locked out’ of crucial early years opportunities - Sutton Trust Poorest children ‘locked out’ of early years education, Sutton Trust warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sutton Trust report on childcare in early years - National Education Union Covid-19: Ulster University asks students about vaccine status - BBC ASCL comment on Sutton Trust report into ‘locked out’ disadvantaged early years children - ASCL Free childcare policy ‘damages life chances’ of poor children in England - Guardian Schools should ‘move outside if five pupils test for Covid’, education chiefs say - Mirror Schools should ‘move classes outside this autumn if five pupils test positive for Covid’, education chiefs say - The Sun Visa delays hit UK students heading to Spain to study - BBC Is STEM growth really stunting the humanities? - Times Higher Education | THE Universities should look to Aria to help find diamonds in the rough - Times Higher Education | THE Academics speak out on rising tensions at UK-China branch campuses - Times Higher Education | THE New study shows almost a quarter of a million worse-off children are 'locked out' of nursery education - Mail Frosty reception from unions as Government suggests teachers should hold classes outside to prevent spread of Covid - Mail One Scottish school in ten poor on wellbeing - The Times Scotland: School inspection scores to avoid expulsion plan - The Times Ireland: Sinn Féin lays out route to extra 17,000 school bus places - The Times Bristol University could send students to live 15 miles away in Bath - The Times Cambridge University threatens to stop training new teachers - The Times Scotland: National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher pupils to be tested on fewer topics in next spring’s exams - The Times