News archive for 2nd December 2021

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New shadow ed sec to push Zahawi on Omicron plans - FE Week New shadow education secretary to push Zahawi on Omicron plans - Schools Week There should be no place for censorship in our universities - The Times ‘Inconsistent quality’ of degree apprenticeships at university slammed - FE Week Heads blast ministers as Covid thwarts nativities again - Schools Week Headteacher wellbeing and sources of 'streth' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The SNP is shutting its eyes to the crisis in Scottish schools - New Statesman The Welsh schools recognised for their hard work over the pandemic - Wales Online CO2 monitors: cumulative delivery statistics up to 26 November 2021 - DfE Higher education student finance 2022 to 2023: equality analysis - DfE Initial teacher training: trainee number census 2021 to 2022 - DfE Support for vulnerable young people in serious violence hotspots - DfE National Apprenticeship Awards 2021 national winners unveiled - Education & Skills Funding Agency Seriously, how are you? - Teacher Toolkit Government misses its target for recruiting secondary school teachers – with just 22% of physics target met - i News ITT figures reflect the Government's failure to invest in teachers - NASUWT Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children three years behind at school, report warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Omicron variant: Updated Covid-19 guidance for children’s social care, education, early years and youth work providers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Diversity monitoring data and the UK Athena Swan Charter - Advance HE International postgraduate students still favour on campus - PIE News LSE student wins market-making competition - London School of Economics | LSE We need better systems to stop marginalised teenagers falling into the hands of criminal gangs - PoliticsHome My experience as a peer researcher - Learning & Work Institute How to use the EAL learner proficiency, attainment and progress maps - Bell Foundation ASCL comment on the initial teacher training census - ASCL Care experienced students in higher education: Building a fuller (data) picture - Office for Students Spotlight On: Inspiring girls to be their own boss - Independent Schools Council | ISC Government must act to tackle early years staffing crisis - Voice The pervasive belief in low aspirations could undermine the Government’s ‘reboot’ of widening the doors to higher education - HEPI Response to the Department for Education announcement on reforms to initial teacher training (ITT) courses - Russell Group Policy and practice fellow – International Education Funders Group - UKFIET | Education and Development Forum Five ways to: Check for understanding - Teacherhead National Day Nurseries Association has announced its 2022 awards are open for nominations after a two year break due to the pandemic - EYE | Early Years Educator Early years staffing shortages reach ‘crisis point’ new survey by Early Years Alliance shows - EYE | Early Years Educator Government announces new Covid-19 measures for early years settings and schools to prevent spread of new Omicron variant - EYE | Early Years Educator Strengthening early childhood education and care in Ireland: Review on sector quality - OECD NEU comment on the publication of the teacher training census - National Education Union Can children go to school if family members have Covid? Self-isolation rules explained and guidance for children - i News Covid revealed 'desperate need' for exams reform - Times Educational Supplement | TES Facebook, Google and TikTok promise to share more data to protect kids as Zahawi vows ‘I’m doing this for my daughter’ - The Sun Scottish teachers second best paid in the UK, says study - Herald Scotland Shropshire schools could face higher catering charges - BBC Schools in youth violence ‘hotspots’ to lead £30m taskforces scheme - Schools Week Survey highlights 'sector-wide' early years workforce crisis - Nursery World Why schools and trusts can now hire 'expert governors' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Decline in student mental health ‘outlasting Covid’ - Times Higher Education | THE Integrated education in Northern Ireland is urgent – why can’t our leaders see that? - Guardian Secondary teacher trainee pandemic boost evaporates - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE misses secondary teacher recruitment target as Covid boom crashes - Schools Week The educational outcomes of refugee and asylum-seeking children in England - EPI ASCL comment on EPI research into outcomes of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children - ASCL NI secondary school investigated over staffing and finance issues - BBC Unaccompanied refugee children three years behind in GSCE studies and more likely to be excluded from school - i News Hybrid work to crisis management, staff survey assesses outlook from pandemic - Wonkhe Criminalising essay mills will make a huge difference - Wonkhe Will we ever know where students live? - Wonkhe Crime 'hotspot' schools to get county line gang support - Times Educational Supplement | TES The bitter irony of lecturers' strike is their actions hit poorest students - Mail How has the role of finance professionals in further education shifted over the past year, with the enforced move to remote working? - FE News Sheffield Hallam flexes ‘levelling up’ power in South Yorkshire - Times Higher Education | THE Universities should consider refunding students over lecturer strike, says watchdog - The Times Scotland’s Rural College rugby team forced new player to eat cat food and strip - The Times Scotland: Digitise schooling to let teachers escape class, says education body - The Times Scotland: Superhead Derek Curran ‘failed in handling of sex abuse complaint’ - The Times Ireland: Covid infection rate among 11-year-olds is twice that of population - The Times Ireland: Let us teach remotely until we get Covid booster jabs, plead high-risk Trinity College lecturers - The Times Ireland: Apprenticeships soar by 25 per cent after employers are given grant and courses expanded - The Times