News archive for 17th December 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 17 December 2021 - Education Eye Schools in England face Christmas holidays uncertain over re-opening - Mail More than 1 in 20 primary pupils have Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government pledges to help former teachers get back in schools amid Covid staff absences - Independent What home schooling does to your children, at every age - Telegraph Fury over Oxford University plan to hire academics based on how woke they are - Telegraph The Guardian view on the British Council: an institution to be valued - Guardian Pupils face prospect of bubbles in new term in effort to blunt Omicron spread - Scotsman Instagram shuts parents out of account of daughter who killed herself after viewing self-harm sites - Telegraph Covid savings fuel record turnaround in maintained school finances - Schools Week LSE graduate wins AI Hackathon competition - London School of Economics | LSE Omicron: Will schools be open in January? - BBC Zahawi asks STRB for two-year pay plan to help achieve £30k salary pledge - Schools Week A case study on English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) at Redbridge Institute - Education & Training Foundation | ETF NASUWT comments on updated Covid-19 guidance for Scottish schools - NASUWT Supply teacher crisis cannot be ignored - NASUWT Metro Mayor Nik Johnson, visits Road Haulage Association with AELP to discuss transport skills in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough - AELP NEU comment on the Education Secretary’s pay remit letter to STRB - National Education Union Concerns raised over recruiting ex teachers plan - Voice SNCT – Teachers' Pay Claim 2021 - Voice Voice Community concerned by plan to use student teachers as substitute cover in Northern Ireland - Voice Want to make a career change after Covid-19? - The Educator Teaching internship programme: summer 2022 - DfE School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) remit letter for 2022 - DfE 16 to 19 funding: information for 2022 to 2023 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Contact bubbles and staggered start and end times will return to schools in Wales - Wales Online Teacher pay: New offer unanimously rejected - Herald Scotland Scottish teacher pay offer is rejected - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Essex schools prepared to move to online learning - BBC College left ‘surprised’ as Ofsted grades apprenticeships ‘inadequate’ - FE Week Will schools close early? Why some UK schools are closing before Christmas as Omicron Covid variant spreads - i News New Covid safety guidance for Scottish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Katharine Birbalsingh: New social mobility chief challenges assumptions - BBC DfE worried own catch-up plan ‘insufficient’ to fix learning loss - Schools Week School term dates: When do schools reopen in January 2022? - Express Geoff Barton: Education can't go on like this, yet here we are again - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE lost over £12m supporting national colleges last year - FE Week DfE lets Harris and Oasis off the hook for £9.4m academy sponsor contributions - Schools Week School pupil sex survey: Edinburgh council approves controversial questionnaire - Scotsman Omicron hits schools as teacher and pupil absences surge - Herald Scotland Covid catch-up efforts may be 'inadequate', admits DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Christmas: Winsford teaching assistant's daily costumes 'bring joy' - BBC T Levels attract 5,450 new students in 2021 - FE Week Youth services cuts exceed £1bn in a decade - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Early years settings warn of an impending 'crisis' as Covid worsens staff shortages - Nursery World ETF Enhance Platform EdTech 50 recognition - Education & Training Foundation Report: 2021 Diversity and Inclusion Statistics (August) - Teach First Report: 2021 Diversity and Inclusion Statistics (February) - Teach First School closures latest: Will your school close? All we know ahead of January term - Express Support for vulnerable young people in serious violence hotspots - DfE T Level Transition Programme Framework for Delivery 2022 to 2023 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Preston housebuilding must halt until schools built, councillor says - BBC Under-fives advised to get PCR test 'immediately' if they live with someone with Covid-19 - Nursery World The 10 most popular THE rankings stories of 2021 - Times Higher Education | THE Retired teachers asked to return to work and cover for staff hit by Covid - Metro The new sex education law in Wales that has caused controversy - Wales Online Department for Education chief paid £278,000 to leave after exams fiasco - Independent How important is FE to ‘levelling up’? - FE Week FE base rate to increase from August 2022 to £4,542 - FE Week Will schools reopen in January 2022? - Express First local authority in Wales confirms all teaching will be done remotely at the start of January - Wales Online Keep schools open by double jabbing pupils, says MP - Express Help! I’ve got a child with autism in my class - UKEdChat Evaluation of Leadership Lite - NFER EEF publishes three new evaluation reports - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Why we need to stop using the term widening participation - HEPI OfS opens nominations for specialist provider panel - Office for Students Periods 'should be talked about more often' in NI schools - BBC Concerns over using student teachers as substitute cover - BBC OfS announces the allocation of £135 million of capital funding - Office for Students Skills boost to support more people into jobs - DfE Teachers asked to come out of retirement to help keep Covid-hit schools running - Mirror T Level action plan - Education & Skills Funding Agency T Level resources for universities - Education & Skills Funding Agency New short courses give students flexible opportunities to learn - Office for Students Education in Scotland: More doing online Advanced Highers - Herald Scotland Fantasy land – It’s the 2022 fictional universities ranking - Wonkhe Ten notes of caution on making the mental health charter mandatory - Wonkhe Exploring the impact of regulatory change on staff - Wonkhe Moves to tackle skills shortages announced by Government - Mail How to make school Christmas dinner inclusive - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Scrapping fees alone won't keep the music playing in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES The winners in the £120m Institutes of Technology wave 2 competition revealed - FE Week Universities and colleges announced for new £2m short HE course trial - FE Week DfE launches £150m capital fund for wave four T Level providers - FE Week How education fell for the social mobility con - Times Educational Supplement | TES How the increase in autism diagnoses affects schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swiss struggles signal a difficult voyage to alternative Horizon - Times Higher Education | THE English economic model ‘unravelling’ as more students miss out - Times Higher Education | THE Exams fiasco chief Jonathan Slater given £277,000 to quit post early - The Times Call for volunteer army of former teachers to help keep schools open - The Times