News archive for 10th December 2021

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You must keep schools open come what may, Boris Johnson told - Telegraph Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 10 December 2021 - Education Eye Change to maximum Plan 2 and Plan 3 student loan interest rates - Student Loans Company Secondary school makes kids do US-style shooter drills with pupils told to ‘run and hide’ and stay away from windows - The Sun Scrapping of school ‘bubbles’ in England ‘has reduced overall absences but increased pupil sickness rate’ - i News Covid: Ofsted warns schools must be allowed to put education first - Evening Standard Universities should move lessons online to protect students before Christmas - Mail Podcast: Christmas review of 2020-21 - FE Week Climate change and the curriculum: what needs to change? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Finding creativity and taming the online activity beast - Advance HE UCU response to government's Plan B - UCU MillionPlus letter to Robin Walker MP, Minister for School Standards - MillionPlus BPS responds to Health and Social Care Committee’s report about children and young people’s mental health - BPS | British Psychological Society Spotlight on: Funded partnerships teachers at RGS Newcastle - Independent Schools Council | ISC A quiet revolution: post-pandemic UK university system is refocusing itself around local social and economic needs - Cambridge Network How to help ex-offenders into skilled jobs – Education Committee will question business leaders - UK Parliament Institute acts fast on Covid-19 flexibilities following latest government guidance - IfATE Ofsted to assess ITT provider reaccreditations - Schools Week Employability and Careers directorate reaccredited to the Matrix Standard - Education Development Trust | EDT First Omicron Covid case confirmed at English primary school as all pupils told to stay home and get tested - The Sun How has sex education evolved since the 1970s? - Times Educational Supplement | TES I will bust a gut to keep schools open despite variant spread, vows Sturgeon - Mail IfATE grants extensions to more apprenticeship assessment flexibilities - FE Week Scotland: Children's commissioner wants sex survey paused - BBC Omicron: What a Plan B for education should have looked like - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers are discussing shutting schools early for Christmas - Wales Online Omicron: move teaching online for last week of term, says UCU - Times Higher Education | THE Imperial puts more teaching online as Omicron spreads on campuses - Times Higher Education | THE Let’s talk about SAKS: Provider scores top Ofsted marks - FE Week Coronavirus vaccination could be extended to five-year-olds in the UK - Nursery World AQA keeps exam fee rises to ‘bare minimum’ after backlash - Schools Week Youth work programmes ‘boost political participation’ in young people - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Progress stalled in achieving a degree-led workforce, figures suggest - Nursery World Outsourcing of Turing Scheme to Capita branded ‘shameful’ by critics - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How to encourage teachers to raise concerns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: Education Committee to question Solihull Council over death of six-year-old boy - UK Parliament Omicron in schools: A guide to the variant - HuffPost What Plan B Covid restrictions mean for schools - Telegraph Moulton rises from the ashes: College climbs out of ‘inadequate’ - FE Week Scottish budget: University and college bosses attack plan - Herald Scotland School 'makes pupils eat their lunch outside in freezing cold temperatures' to prevent spread of Covid - Mail New DfE skills board: scanty minutes lead to ‘closed shop’ accusations - FE Week Top university places up 28% after record A-level results - FE Week How to put kindness at the heart of a school - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK-India higher education and research - HEPI Catch-up mentors used as teaching cover, report reveals - Schools Week UK students pay 60% more for halls of residence than decade ago - Guardian Scotland: Student accommodation rents 'up by a third in three years' - BBC Scots ministers dismiss calls by nation's children's commissioner to halt sex census for kids - Herald Scotland Training and more testing to help people become HGV drivers - DfE T Levels: 9 in 10 providers miss enrolment targets - FE Week A class of their own: The school that enrolled one T Level student - FE Week A class of their own: T-levels school recruits just one student - Schools Week The year we forgot all about Gavin - Schools Week Podcast: Plan B, admissions, staffing, “one nation” - Wonkhe Get in a room and show us the (student housing) plan - Wonkhe Accommodation costs are pricing students out of education - Wonkhe Why the UK should deepen research ties with China and India - Wonkhe Student stalked at university calls for change - BBC Winners of the £34m HGV bootcamps tender revealed - FE Week GCHQ forms first research partnership with UK universities - Times Higher Education | THE Skills for every young person: The financial impact of youth unemployment - FE News The British Council is being let down by penny-pinching - The Times Scotland: Call to stop survey of pupils’ sex lives over privacy risk - The Times Covid in Ireland: Schools were not closed in Storm Barra because windows have to stay open, says government - The Times