News archive for 2nd November 2021

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Robert Halfon: A longer school day will help kids learn and may save lives - The Sun Oxford's Linacre College ditches its name in favour of airline billionairess after she hands it £155 million - Mail Bill to prevent future emergency school closures - BBC Westminster School scraps plans for linked institutions in China - Financial Times PM set to be banned from ordering Britain’s schools to shut down ever again - The Sun MP to introduce Bill calling for 'triple lock' to prevent school closures - Mail ‘Triple lock’ test must be introduced to prevent future school closures, say former ministers - Telegraph Covid: 'Triple lock' proposed to stop school closures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Westminster School pulls out of China after Communist Party insists lessons are approved by Beijing - Telegraph Oxford college to be renamed after budget airline tycoon who made £155m donation - Telegraph ASCL comment on Bill to prevent future school closures - ASCL Award finalists rise to ‘The Covid Employability Challenge’ - ERSA National assessments of primary school children skewed by average age of class - London School of Economics | LSE LSE announces the Firoz Lalji Global Hub - London School of Economics | LSE NEU comment on latest school attendance data - National Education Union Who wants to be a headteacher? This, and more findings... - Teacher Tapp Putting the brakes on changing the world - UKEdChat Reception Baseline Assessment - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Delivering high-quality technical education to support Jersey’s construction industry - Edge Foundation Data Futures Beta phase: register your interest - HESA ASCL comment on latest school attendance statistics - ASCL Is a new higher education white paper for England imminent? - HEPI Unions call for quality climate education - National Education Union Why is the Doctor of Education programme becoming increasingly popular among educational professionals? - BERA Rise Education Systems Diagnostic Framework pilot project - UKFIET | Education and Development Forum Call for papers: Distance education - a brave new world? - UKFIET | Education and Development Forum How the OECD is helping foster high quality and digitally enabled higher education - OECD Use parallel practice for social-emotional learning - TeachBoost UK Research and Innovation shows its stripes at COP26 - UKRI Making net zero a world reality: here’s how - UKRI Making net zero a world reality: here’s how - UKRI SEED: Government-funded study shows benefits of quality early education and care - EYE | Early Years Educator Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: 23 March 2020 to 28 October 2021 - DfE Five ways working memory has changed my teaching - Teacher Toolkit ‘Chronic’ lack of investment in UK primary school libraries revealed - Guardian Around 248,000 pupils off school due to Covid in week before half-term - Independent A MAT-based school system: what problem are we trying to solve? - Headteachers' Roundtable Would a longer school day help children catch up after the pandemic? Here’s what the evidence says - The Conversation Teacher and pupil absence 'wreaking havoc', say leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly a quarter of a million pupils off school before half-term due to Covid - Mail Level 2 business admin apprenticeship replacement ‘some distance off’, warns quango chief - FE Week Do longer school days work? Lessons from history - Times Educational Supplement | TES 250k Covid absences in week before half term, with south west worst hit - Schools Week City & Guilds appoints first female chair - FE Week Disadvantaged pupils' education hit hardest by pandemic - CYPN | Children & Young People Now No evidence that children's social and emotional development worsened during the pandemic - SEED study - Nursery World City & Guilds announce first female Chair - Dr Ann Limb CBE DL - FE News School day could be extended ‘by at least half an hour’ to help pupils catch up - Metro 'Excellent examples!' Education Secretary says he will look at lengthening the school day - Express Learning through lockdown: Findings from the 2020 Adult Participation in Learning Survey - Learning & Work Institute School day ‘should be extended to at least 6.5 hours’ - Telegraph Why we need greater diversity in our Higher Education Institution boards - Advance HE Showing how computer science can save the world might encourage girls to study it - Wonkhe Here comes the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill - Wonkhe What do we really know about how students use learning resources? - Wonkhe 10:00 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into prison education - Accountability Hearings Difficult words should be removed from exams in equality drive to avoid 'demotivating' pupils - Mail Analysts ‘cautiously optimistic’ on Chinese students’ return - Times Higher Education | THE Major publisher embraces ‘researcher journey’ journal format - Times Higher Education | THE Ofqual wants to turn over a new leaf with idiom-free exams - The Times Scotland: Call to reverse SNP school test reforms - The Times