News archive for 23rd August 2021

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Inquiry urged into why boys underperform at school compared with girls - Wales Online Call for answers on boys' 'underperformance' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rhondda Cynon Taf council reviews trans guidance after row over pupil - BBC UK Covid deaths average 100 a day with fears of rise when schools return - Guardian Just 5 per cent of nursery books feature characters in non-stereotypical gender roles - Nursery World Covid: College attendance data collection to go weekly from October - FE Week DfE invest £25 million in carbon dioxide monitors - EYE | Early Years Educator College 'learned lessons' from £500K embezzlement case - Times Educational Supplement | TES Advance HE launches new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Advice Service for its members - Advance HE Newcastle University expands digital exam system - Public Technology Government responds to consultation on changes to payment process for school business rates - NAHT Six weeks off, right? The three phases of a holiday - UKEdChat Retaining aspiration in the year ahead - ASCL School pupils will return up to a week late due to Covid tests as 'chaos' slammed - Mirror How South Lanarkshire College's new Associate Principal aims to build future careers - Herald Scotland GCSEs 2021: 2 in 5 say teacher assessments 'easier' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: School attendance data collection to go weekly from October - Schools Week UK schools becoming centre of culture wars as curriculum watered down - Express FE Heroes: 'Staff are confident and want to try things' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School reopening delayed as a whole week taken up with covid testing - Express Schools 'carrying an emotional load' after pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Staggered school starts 'inevitable' say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Manchester council ordered to review alternative education policy - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Youth employment scheme receives funding boost - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Get Covid vaccine now, 16-year-olds told amid fears of school return chaos - Evening Standard Staff wellbeing: Self-care isn’t selfish - SecEd Scotland: Covid-positive education secretary keeps working - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Systemic bias against boys’? Unexplained differences in Teacher Assessed Grades between boys and girls in this year’s A level results - HEPI Teachers to be offered overtime for one-to-one tuition in latest catch-up proposals - Telegraph Scottish colleges open to trialling pioneering four-day week - Herald Scotland Universities can help drive national innovation vision - Wonkhe The sheer scale of change faced by the sector should concern us - Wonkhe Public engagement in pedagogy is long overdue - Wonkhe Oxford college bosses face criticism over target to boost number of ethnic minority admissions - Mail Reopening of schools in England to be delayed with first week spent testing pupils for Covid - The Sun Boys losing out at A-level is a ‘sign of bias’ in grading system - The Times Universities host events but teaching stays online - The Times Scotland: ‘Exhausting demands’ lead to mass exodus of teachers in their fifties - The Times Covid in Scotland: Education minister Shirley Anne-Somerville off with Covid-19 - The Times