News archive for 26th August 2021

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Teachers in Scotland will be given 'white privilege' lessons and 'anti-racism learning resources' to help 'decolonise' the school curriculum - Mail 4 in 5 teachers not reassured by CO2 monitors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Confusion over Covid jabs for over-12s in England ahead of new school term - Guardian ‘White privilege test’ for Scottish teachers - Telegraph Teachers in Scotland given guidance on decolonising the curriculum - Guardian Afghan Chevening scholar relieved after evacuation to UK - Guardian How the OECD whitewashed the failings of Scotland’s education system - New Statesman Pandemic students have already paid a price - their loans need a rethink - Financial Times Sickness bug warning as schools prepare to reopen - Times Educational Supplement | TES Get help with technology: conditions of connectivity support grants - Education & Skills Funding Agency Coronavirus (COVID-19) mass testing funding for schools and colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency Schools blended delivery case studies - DfE SLC prepares to pay record number of students - Student Loans Company New Race Equality Charter awards for three HE institutions - Advance HE Heads question how much DfE will spend on ventilation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Open educational resources offer promise for more equitable teaching and learning - BERA NEU comment on Government's back to school campaign - National Education Union Afghan Chevening scholars arrive to start studies in UK - PIE News Student Loans Company urges students to prepare for payment - Student Loans Company Remote Education Temporary Continuity (No.2) Direction: explanatory note - DfE Apprenticeships and traineeships: August 2021 - DfE Scotland: 'Oil leak school' in Gartly recommended for closure - BBC Extend jabs rollout to children aged 12-15, urges public health expert - Mail Covid-19: Pandemic had severe impact on young people, says report - BBC 'It’s not really the uni experience': Swansea student's anger at decision to hold lectures online again - Wales Online Teenagers likely to be fed up with regular Covid tests amid Government plea - Mail New £75 ‘connectivity support grants’: What you need to know - FE Week New £75 ‘connectivity support grants’: What you need to know - Schools Week Rural areas hardest hit by youth work cuts, NYA warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Anti-racism teaching to be ‘embedded’ into school life in Scotland - Scotsman Edinburgh Rabbi calls on city council to combat racism in schools - Scotsman Social medial channel launched to support apprentices - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government moves to ‘embed anti-racism’ in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is funding reform really making things simpler? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children in the UK less happy than ten years ago - Nursery World Childhood happiness in steep decline over last decade - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Covid cases creep up two weeks in a row as pressure mounts to vaccinate 12-year-olds - Mirror Extend jabs rollout to 12- to 15-year-olds, says expert - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of Liverpool: Course cancelled amid surge in demand - BBC Private providers excluded from DfE’s latest Covid safety scheme - FE Week Parents warned of 'sickness bug' as children return to school - HuffPost Five ways to protect against norovirus sickness bug as schools prepare to reopen - Mirror Parents ordered to test school children twice a week when term starts to ‘avoid a new wave’ - The Sun NHS planning Covid vaccines for children from age 12, reports say - Guardian NHS ‘preparing vaccine plan for 12 to 15-year-olds as schools return’ - Metro Why the iQTS is welcome news - home and abroad - Times Educational Supplement | TES University deferral deals: Current students brand them unfair - BBC ASCL comment on back to school campaign launch - ASCL Norovirus: Warning over outbreaks of winter sickness bug as schools prepare to reopen - Independent Higher education institutions are right to innovate teaching delivery, but students’ expectations must be managed to avoid disappointment - HEPI Back to school campaign launches - DfE Unions criticise English schools ‘more normal year’ campaign as naive - Guardian Podcast: Why aren’t children being vaccinated in the UK? - Guardian SQA row: Fears pupils will be penalised as assignments axed - Herald Scotland Remote lessons: Schools hit with 'unhelpful' legal duty - Times Educational Supplement | TES Media reassurance campaign to get pupils back to school - BBC Service cuts may expose rural youth to county lines - BBC DfE reintroduces remote learning legal duty for 2021-22 academic year - Schools Week Schools 'could keep masks and social distancing' - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK universities experience ‘quietest’ clearing period for a decade - Times Higher Education | THE School pupils should be tested for Covid twice a week when term starts 'to avoid a new wave' - Mail Joy and relief for Kabul students allowed into British universities on Chevening scheme - The Times NHS plans to jab children aged 12-15 ‘from first week of term’ - The Times Covid in Ireland: 1,500 unjabbed pregnant school staff asked to return to workplace - The Times Ireland: 60,000 students face financial struggle after maintenance payments delay - The Times