News archive for 24th August 2021

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Covid in Scotland: Some students face £2,300 hotel quarantine bill - BBC Jewish school refusing to teach pupils LGBT issues should not be expanded, says Ofsted - Telegraph When are the October school holidays in Scotland? Start and end dates of autumn half-term break - Scotsman Coronavirus: government commits £25m to provide all state schools with CO2 monitors - Public Technology Grant call for six Essential Digital Skills Champions - Education & Training Foundation Designing tasks for Desmos Classroom - Education & Training Foundation Significant rise in ‘high-risk’ behaviour during second lockdown - IOE London Blog University of the Highlands and Islands staff recognised for teaching excellence with CATE and NTF 2021 - Advance HE Operation Encompass: Child's victim support code - NAHT New online resources to help students starting university - Russell Group The future of exams: two fundamental principles that must be honoured - HEPI A broader perspective on data - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring The direction for RoATP is becoming much clearer - FE News Start of term, results week and the continuation of bullet-tip vs chisel tip! - Teacher Tapp Ofqual ‘pleased’ with ‘small’ number of penalties issued for cheating in vocational exams last year - FE Week Applications for the UK Government’s Chevening Scholarships open 3 August 2021 - GOV.UK Getting started with Mandarin - UKEdChat Online video lessons worth watching - Teacher Toolkit Supporting teachers’ use of ICT in upper secondary classrooms during and after the COVID-19 pandemic - OECD This year’s students will not give universities the benefit of the doubt when it comes to online learning - Wonkhe What’s the relationship between where you come from, where you go to university and your opportunities for a well-paid graduate job? - Office for Students UCAS announces major core technology contract with Infosys - UCAS More than 1,300 VTQ penalties issued in 2019 to 2020 - Ofqual Report: Education system falls short on sustainability - Times Educational Supplement | TES Almost 4,000 lecturers invited to register with GTCS - Times Educational Supplement | TES Muslim head teacher faces jail for running illegal Islamic private school that did not promote British values - Mail Scotland: Keeping schools open is ‘top of list’, says Sturgeon - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers trained in Great Britain face NI work registration delay - BBC What you need to know about plans for a new international QTS qualification - Schools Week International college membership body appoints England-based principal as new chair - FE Week Teachers to train for qualified status abroad from 2022 - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE praises 'quality' ITT - despite plan to overhaul it - Times Educational Supplement | TES Expert calls for major inquiry into why boys continue to underperform in school - Independent DfE’s skills and productivity board chair replaced after a year - FE Week Bristol school opening delayed amid places shortfall - BBC The FE sector needs more support to tackle global issues facing the world, warns new report - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Consultation outcome: Introducing international qualified teacher status (iQTS) - DfE Teacher training needs reform, but the government’s review isn’t nearly ambitious enough - Schools Week School uniforms are a waste of time. Let's get rid of them - Herald Scotland Should Scotland's university academics mark entrance papers to find ‘the right kind’ of student? - Scotsman Sustainability issues could be prioritised in qualifications to break down barriers to teaching - FE Week Digital assessments could be a vital tool for reducing the digital skills gap - FE News Archaeology can help with climate change, claims campaigner - Times Higher Education | THE The FE sector needs more support to tackle global issues facing the world, warns new report - FE News Covid in Scotland: Most councils failed to challenge pandemic exam system - The Times Covid in Scotland: colleges ‘keen to try a four-day week’ - The Times Covid in Scotland: rising infections may force schools to close again - The Times Scotland: Shame on councils who didn’t speak up about exams - The Times