News archive for 4th November 2021

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University strikes: Academics at 37 institutions support action - BBC UK university staff to strike over cuts to pension benefits - Guardian Pupils to be recognised for climate action through Duke of Edinburgh-style award - Mail Green issues are to be covered in primary school for the first time - Mail COP26: Pupils to be recognised for climate action - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Energy pods’ and bird feeders: Zahawi sets out school climate measures at COP26 - Schools Week Kathleen Stock: Trans row professor ‘forced out’ by tweets - Telegraph ‘Significant’ barriers to rollout longer school days, DfE review finds - Schools Week ‘Driving up skills will take 300 years at current rate’, Labour warns, as Keir Starmer woos business figures - i News Scotland: School asks boys and girls to wear skirts to show 'clothes have no gender' - Mirror DfE review of longer day warns about teaching capacity - Times Educational Supplement | TES A was average A-level grade at independent schools in 2021, DfE data shows - Guardian Student union leader tried to block ‘another white man’ opening new campus - Metro Elective home education: Education Committee publishes Government response to report - UK Parliament Richard Morrison: This government of Gradgrinds must breathe life back into schools - The Times University students expelled after gang rape probe - Independent Majority of school CO2 monitors not yet delivered - Times Educational Supplement | TES Changes made to improve school ventilation ‘very small’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Further Education teachers will be required to integrate sustainability into their teaching - FE News Should we leave cameras on during video lectures? - Learning Scientists Strategic Fund to become a core part of our research funding - Nuffield Foundation Activate Learning officially opens new £3million hospitality and catering facilities at its Oxford city centre campus - Activate Learning UK Overseas Campuses Network launched - PIE News Colleges stand ready to do everything they can to create a sustainable future - AoC | Association of Colleges Three ways to support pupil catch-up - Teacher Toolkit NEU comment on education measures on climate change - National Education Union UCU members back strikes over pension cuts - UCU ASCL comment on Education Secretary’s speech at COP26 - ASCL A plea for Annika - Headteachers' Roundtable £50 million in funding for UK quantum industrial projects - UKRI Key stage 4 performance 2021 - DfE Learning beyond classrooms - FED | Foundation for Education Development Minimum entry requirements would prevent levelling up - Wonkhe CO2 monitors: cumulative delivery statistics up to 29 October 2021 - DfE New research to take in-depth look at how racial equality in teacher workforce can be improved - NFER European research community calls for swift UK association to Horizon Europe - Russell Group The problem of positioning international students as cash cows - HEPI How can we teach for transformative disciplinary learning in history and social studies in a high autonomy curriculum? - BERA T Level industry placements delivery guidance - Education & Skills Funding Agency A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2021 (provisional) - DfE £5.3 billion in student finance paid so far this year - Student Loans Company ASCL comment on widening of KS4 disadvantage gap - ASCL Nottingham teachers take strike action - NASUWT Lessons must be learned from grooming investigation - NASUWT Dispute at United Colleges Group ends as college agrees deal on contracts - UCU ‘Left-behind’ areas missing out on university access and graduate jobs - Office for Students Firth Park Academy: Bringing the justice system to life with project-based learning - Edge Foundation Social and emotional learning: An evidence review and synthesis of key issues - EPI LSE becomes the first Carbon Neutral verified university in the UK - London School of Economics | LSE UCU members back strikes over pensions but turnout falls short - Times Higher Education | THE Review of time in school and 16 to 19 settings - DfE CO2 monitors: Almost half of promised devices delivered - Schools Week First details of how exams in Wales will be graded next summer if they are cancelled again - Wales Online Teachers and pupils speak out at COP26 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Malala and COP26: climate crisis harms girls' education - Times Educational Supplement | TES T Level placements can be done remotely, DfE announces - FE Week Pupils across the UK told to wear masks again amid rise in Covid cases - Metro Call to boost catch up funds to close disadvantage gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Avoid ‘lift and shift’ transnational education, universities told - Times Higher Education | THE Horizon Europe deal for UK ‘rapidly approaching crunch point’ - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland: Primary school encourages boys to wear skirts - The Times How Sussex University failed Kathleen Stock - New Statesman Inspectors uphold Scottish Health Secretary’s complaint over ‘discriminatory’ nursery - CYPN | Children & Young People Now GCSEs 2021: How teacher grades changed the landscape - Times Educational Supplement | TES EBacc target even further off as entries fall again - Schools Week EU scientists demand bloc finalise UK’s membership of £80bn programme - Guardian Covid: Hertfordshire schools asked to bring back masks - BBC Covid: Infection among pupils leads to record high rate - Times Educational Supplement | TES Northern Ireland: Extra £350m needed for 'inescapable pressures' - BBC ‘I’ve always aimed big’: Vietnamese tycoon behind £155m Oxford donation - Guardian NI universities can spend EU Erasmus scheme money until 2023 - BBC Graduate Outcomes PIs: past, present, and future - Wonkhe Scotland: Primary school asks boys (and teachers) to wear skirts to class to 'promote equality' - Mail Why free nursery childcare can come with costly extras - BBC Use of social media metrics in research evaluation ‘narrow’ - Times Higher Education | THE London School of Economics claims carbon neutral status - Times Higher Education | THE Student spikings: universities told to step up prevention efforts - Times Higher Education | THE Universities ‘should ban sex offenders’ - The Times Scotland: Humza Yousaf’s complaint against nursery upheld by inspectors - The Times Ireland: Dublin City University provides free sanitary products for students - The Times