News archive for 1st December 2021

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Students call for tuition fees refund as lecturers' union begins three-day strike over pay and pensions - Mail Winners of the 2021 National Apprenticeship Awards revealed - FE Week On the picket line at Leeds University: ‘I will strike for as long as it takes’ - Guardian Covid Scotland: Labour's Michael Marra urges Scottish Government to put two air purifiers in each school classroom - Scotsman University strikes: Students react as staff walk out - BBC SEND review will be 'huge overhaul' of system, MPs told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government reforms to teacher training will 'narrow student choice', union says - UCU What next for Initial Teacher Training? - MillionPlus The ITT market review – the government response has finally landed - Headteachers' Roundtable OfS responds to industrial action - Office for Students Supporting pupil access to catch-up tutoring - Teacher Toolkit House of Lords Committee on Youth Unemployment: Recommendations for Rethinking Assessment - Rethinking Assessment Children’s University: Unlocking learning beyond the classroom - FED | Foundation for Education Development In conversation with David Gallagher - FED | Foundation for Education Development Voice Community disappointed by ITT review - Voice NEU Cymru comment on Estyn Annual Report 2021 - National Education Union Children's Minister speaks to the National Network of Parent Carer Forums - DfE ESFA Update: 1 December 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Plans to develop world class teachers through high-quality training and support - DfE University strikes: tuition fee refunds for students missing teaching should be considered, watchdog says - i News Addressing the digital skills gap - Training Journal How children at urban schools can benefit from learning in nature - The Conversation Students back striking staff as regulator highlights disruption - Times Higher Education | THE Research detective wins standing up for science prize - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland: Teachers fear new reality of cold classrooms, MSPs hear - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE teacher training plans: What teachers need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lecturers at 58 UK universities strike over pensions and pay - Financial Times Deputy CEO to step up at top primary trust - Schools Week Schools are still waiting for carbon monoxide monitors promised for every classroom at the start of term - Wales Online Maths anxiety in the UK is officially the worst in the world - and girls suffer more - Mirror University strikes: Students react as staff walk out - BBC Universities could offer students fee refunds amid strike disruption - Mail Schools warned over Omicron test email scam - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government wants schools open until Christmas, MPs told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Biggest primary academy chain appoints new chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Engage schools or teacher training shake-up "will fail" - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: SQA backs a new joint curriculum and assessment body - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hull College welcomed as SET Corporate Partner - Education & Training Foundation Shining a spotlight on reading fluency - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Collective passports cutbacks concern UK study travel providers - PIE News Autism and Christmas: Teachers, are you ready? - UKEdChat SEND review has ‘taken too long’, and comms ‘regrettable’ – minister - Schools Week Will schools close early? Whether online learning could return after Omicron variant tests in UK classrooms - i News ASCL comment on initial teacher training review consultation response - ASCL Closing the gender pay gap in education: A leadership imperative - NAHT NASUWT calls for reintroduction of Covid mitigations in Manx schools - NASUWT New report shows gender pay gap in schools has worsened over the last decade - ASCL MillionPlus comment on the government’s ITT Market Review response - MillionPlus Children's minister: Schools will stay open until Christmas holidays - Mail University strikes begin after bosses refuse to budge on pensions, pay & working conditions - UCU BERA statement on the UCU industrial action - BERA Huge numbers of staff and students on campus picket lines up and down the country - UCU UK government announces financial safety net for Horizon Europe applicants - Russell Group Who wants to be an academic? - BERA NEU comment on government’s response to the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) review - National Education Union Covid Scotland: Teachers raise fears over 'patchy' provision of classroom ventilation monitors - Herald Scotland Gen Z brains and innovation in assessment: Making use of neurological studies to inform how we best learn, teach and assess - Rethinking Assessment Five ways to: Scaffold classroom dialogue - Teacherhead We’re dreaming of a white paper - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Covid: Pupils told to stay at home amid staff shortages - BBC Refund students hit by English university strikes, says watchdog - Guardian Preliminary UCET response to the government’s response to the ITE Market Review consultation - UCET Thousands of Scots university staff strike over pay and pensions dispute - Herald Scotland Universities should consider student rebates over lecturer strike, says watchdog - The Times Thousands of university staff start three-day strike over pensions, pay and ‘worsening’ work conditions - Independent One in three councils targeted by DfE over SEND - Times Educational Supplement | TES ITT chair: Reforms a 'once-in-a-generation opportunity' - Times Educational Supplement | TES An approach to tackling attendance that really works - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kathleen Stock: free speech bill could have saved my Sussex career - Times Higher Education | THE ITT market review: what you need to know about new reforms - Schools Week Schools targeted by scam NHS emails offering Omicron PCR tests - Schools Week SEND review to be published in spring, children’s minister insists - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sector concerned DfE mentoring programme will put added pressure on nurseries - Nursery World Every day I make decisions that scare me - SecEd A maze of eligibility criteria: Anger at Covid workforce fund limitations - SecEd Going backwards: Academies responsible for widening gender pay gap - SecEd Support staff seek work elsewhere as pay in schools is too low - SecEd London schoolchildren choose to cover faces in class to beat Covid - Evening Standard Staff at Scottish universities begin striking over pay dispute - BBC Schools: Parents 'should prepare' for disruption before Christmas - BBC DfE pushes teacher training shake-up start back to 2024 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Prioritising wellbeing essential, education inspector says - BBC DfE delays ITT market review reforms for a year - Schools Week Scotland strikes begin after bosses refuse to budge on pensions, pay and working conditions - UCU The (intended or unintended?) threat to higher education standards posed by the Skills Bill - HEPI Scottish University strikes: Up to 6,000 staff at 10 universities in Scotland start three-day strike - Scotsman When do UK schools break up for Christmas 2021? School holidays start date in England, Scotland, Wales and NI - i News University strikes: bosses point finger at leftwing union ‘faction’ as 58 unis face action over pension change - i News Wales' schools watchdog has detailed the huge effects of the pandemic on children's learning - Wales Online OfS annual review emphasises importance of quality provision - Office for Students Scots engineering giant to support £1bn English schools building programme - Herald Scotland Marking? Explain it in football terms - Wonkhe Christmas comes early as OfS leaves its annual under the tree - Wonkhe Mum slams school after son, 4, put in 'freezing cold' Covid isolation 'shed' - Mirror 10:00 a.m. - Education Committee to hear evidence in its accountability hearings - Accountability Hearings Gender pay gap: Female heads £17k worse-off by end of their careers, report finds - Schools Week Older female headteachers 'paid £17K less than men' - Times Educational Supplement | TES More misery for students as lecturers begin three-day strike action over pay and pensions - Mail ‘More assertive’ OfS reassures universities on quality plans - Times Higher Education | THE Universities told they must act on standards and abuse - The Times Striking lecturers ‘captured by the hard left’ - The Times