News archive for 15th December 2021

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Boris Johnson: Vaccinate your children over the holidays to avoid schools closing in January - Telegraph School embroiled in row over ‘racist’ uniform rules downgraded by Ofsted - Telegraph School run from 'hell' outside primary as parents 'forget the kids and shout abuse' - Mirror Pupils hardly stuffing themselves with Christmas lunch 'that looks like prison food' - Telegraph Boris Johnson tells 12-15 year olds to get their next jabs now during the holidays with no promises of a return to classrooms in January - Mail Retired teachers should step up and keep schools open, MP says - Mail Teachers urged to get booster during holidays - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers urged to get booster jabs, as schools given ‘flexibility’ for January return - Schools Week Grammar school apologises for serving 'pathetic' £3.50 Christmas dinner after complaints from parents - Mail First-in-family female graduates earn less - study - BBC Schools given 'flexibility' on January return date - Times Educational Supplement | TES School apologises for ‘awful’ Xmas lunch after suffering Covid staff shortages - Schools Week Boris Johnson says 12-15 year olds can book their second jabs from next week - Mirror The success of every single school in getting pupils into Oxford and Cambridge revealed - Telegraph How a Leadership Institute can support the FE sector - Education & Training Foundation Catch up learning accelerates with £10m for maths and literacy - DfE Still standing: Tips for a healthy work-life balance - Edmodo Investment in skills and innovation key for levelling-up and post-pandemic prosperity, says new CBI Yorkshire & Humber Chair - CBI First generation female graduates face economic disadvantage - Nuffield Foundation EDI and safeguarding – what binds us together - Education & Training Foundation T Levels: A catalyst for change - Education & Training Foundation Case study: Minerva Learning Trust - Education & Skills Funding Agency School resource management adviser programme – 3 years on - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 15 December 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted's FE education recovery report - College representatives respond - AoC | Association of Colleges Land-based college handed finance warning as commercial income takes £1m hit - FE Week School at centre of student discrimination protest rated ‘good’ - Schools Week Embedding values and attitudes in curriculum: Shaping a better future - OECD Diversity and sustainability at centre stage of ‘month of learning’ - Education & Training Foundation School closures: Government refuses to guarantee schools will reopen in January amid rising Omicron cases - i News Do not take children out of class ahead of Christmas, No 10 warns parents - Mail Law student successfully sues landlord over university accommodation - Independent Legacy of degree standards professional development for external examiners secured - Advance HE Expertise in being a generalist is not what student teachers need - IOE London Blog 2021: Advance HE year in review - Advance HE EEF announces new work to facilitate and support evidence-based practice - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Twenty things to make your computing lessons more inclusive - Computing at School Nativity plays and school prayers: what children think of Christianity at primary school - The Conversation Colleges and universities must urgently patch code flaw to avoid ‘severe’ risk of cyber attack - Jisc Teachers in Scotland can 'volunteer' not to self-isolate - Times Educational Supplement | TES National trials: Teaching for mastery - Education & Training Foundation UUK calls for visa reform to curb expected drop in EU exchange students - PIE News Developing a mastery approach with GCSE resit at Leyton Sixth Form College - Education & Training Foundation | ETF EPI comments on announcement of additional recovery funding targeted at regions - EPI TA, or not TA? Inclusion at all levels - UKEdChat Russell Group universities join national vaccination effort - Russell Group The HE sector must lead on short-term decarbonisation and break free from fossil fuel influence - HEPI Trends in careers education - Careers & Enterprise Company The Irish example: Towards high quality, affordable early childhood education and care - OECD No promise schools will reopen in January as parents told boosters will give ‘best chance’ for normal term - The Sun Schools ‘preparing to stay closed in January’ if Omicron runs riot - Metro UKRI issues statement on bullying complaint - UKRI Government announces new national cyber strategy - UKRI Fairer start local: Closing the disadvantage gap - Nesta The playful academic - BERA Building the EEF’s pipeline of programmes through the DfE’s Accelerator Fund - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF NEU Cymru welcomes Relationship and Sex Education Code - National Education Union Labour call for government to protect education - National Education Union GCSEs 2022: School exam fees rises 'below inflation' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary schools may shut for longer over Christmas to get students tested for Covid - Mirror 'De facto school closures' ahead, warns MP - Times Educational Supplement | TES India’s Poonawalla family donate £50m for Oxford vaccine centre - Guardian Good for Me, Good for FE on track to reach £1m volunteering target - FE Week Researchers raising Covid lab leak theory ‘branded anti-science’ - Times Higher Education | THE Three in five LGBTQ+ young people abused online - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Just one pupil permanently excluded last year in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most universities see lack of funding as obstacle to going green - Times Higher Education | THE £10m catch-up schemes to help schools with most learning loss - Schools Week The fears of five-year-olds: how young children cope with Covid anxiety - Guardian Online safety: Why educating parents matters - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid Scotland: Jason Leitch says schools will return 'at all costs' in January - Scotsman Schools 'prepared' for closure in January over fears of Omicron Christmas surge - Mirror Schools drawing up plans to stay shut in January as Omicron fears grow - The Sun School closure warning: Will Omicron see schools close early? Javid offers ‘no guarantees' - Express Birmingham plans sustainable construction skills centre - BBC To make a success of Turing, we need visa reform for exchange students - Universities UK Northern Ireland: Two new schools for refugee children to open in new year - BBC Covid's effect on children's education risks blighting Scotland for generations to come - Scotsman A universal digital learner ID would help universities better understand their students - Wonkhe Why the UK immigration system must stay attractive to exchange students - Wonkhe Overcrowding: School doesn't understand why I fall asleep in class - BBC Schools could stay shut after Christmas amid concerns about the 'sweeping' Omicron variant - Express Extend visitor visas or risk ‘undermining’ Turing scheme, UK told - Times Higher Education | THE Covid in Scotland: Classes won’t close if a pupil tests positive - The Times