News archive for 5th November 2021

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Oxford University accused of ‘hypocrisy’ over multi-million-pound Mosley donation - Telegraph How Oxford University is making the most of a fascist legacy - Telegraph Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 05 November 2021 - Education Eye UK university staff back strikes over pay and conditions - Guardian Thousands of children bunk off to join Greta Thunberg at Glasgow 'youth strike' climate protest - Mail UK universities face fresh wave of strikes over pension dispute - Financial Times University staff back more strikes over pay - BBC The gap between Wales' richest and poorest children getting top GCSE grades has doubled in the pandemic - Wales Online University staff support strike action in pay and conditions dispute - Mail Greta Thunberg addresses pupils at COP26 rally - Times Educational Supplement | TES University strikes: Chaos looms for students as staff back strikes at 58 UK unis in row over pensions and pay - i News Students face more disruption as unions back strike action - Telegraph The essay mills undermining academic standards around the world - Financial Times Three academy leaders guilty of misconduct over off-rolling scandal avoid bans - Schools Week Thousands of school pupils march for climate action at COP26 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can air purifiers halt the Covid spread in schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Designing and sustaining pupil premium strategies - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Welsh universities get funding boost for data analytics - Jisc New guide for schools to support their pupil premium strategy - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF School not key factor in rising levels of poor mental health in teenagers - IOE London Blog Now for something completely different - Advance HE How do mental health problems vary during secondary school? - IOE London Blog Schools need to learn how to talk about Covid vaccine, warns teacher - Evening Standard Turnout hampers strike plans in UK university pay dispute - Times Higher Education | THE COP26: School boards urged to reduce carbon footprint - Times Educational Supplement | TES CIPD call on Government to act on labour shortages - Training Journal Headteacher's fury after 80 students and parents hit by school coronavirus outbreak - Mirror Covid infections dip among secondary schoolchildren in England - Guardian Climate proposals welcome but more ambition needed - NASUWT Big mandate for strike action at UK universities over pay & working conditions - UCU Finding the balance between parenting and a new teaching career - Teach First College Collaboration Fund (CCF) insight report - DfE National professional qualifications framework - DfE British Council highlights roles of education, culture, and creativity in addressing climate change at COP26 - British Council Support the support staff - UKEdChat Farnham College welcomes Italian students for a very British experience - Activate Learning Improving employment opportunities for learners with SEND - Activate Learning MPs to hold a general debate on the provision of school-based counselling services - UK Parliament Detailed check of Professional Qualifications Bill continues - UK Parliament ASCL calls on Ofsted to defer school inspections on request - ASCL Institute leading way with green skills in drive to net zero - IfATE Voice Community welcomes DfE’s climate change announcement - Voice How to make higher education admissions fairer, quicker and better - HEPI Russell Group response to UCU ballot on pensions - Russell Group Delivering, commissioning or partnering: Education policy beyond the school gates - FED | Foundation for Education Development Ofsted boost for school in ‘David and Goliath’ court battle against academisation - Schools Week COP26: Climate awards scheme for pupils is a welcome step to engage young people with the green transition - IPPR Lessons from Lewisham - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth New research to take in-depth look at how racial equality in teacher workforce can be improved - Ambition Institute COP26: School teachers must not back Extinction Rebellion or Insulate Britain in class, Government says - i News Top Tory warns parents risk fines if children skip school for COP26 protests - Mirror Do not encourage pupils to join climate protests, says draft DfE strategy - Guardian Programme launched to tackle climate anxiety in young people - UKRI Podcast: White paper, Wales, PRES, ONS - Wonkhe Net zero in FE: ‘Why aren’t we doing this yet?’ - FE Week Girls 'face more mental health issues in secondary' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted investigates rise in primary-age children in alternative provision - Guardian Amanda Spielman: A loophole is leaving the most vulnerable pupils in England at risk - Guardian ‘Written off – at five’: children in England dumped in unfit ‘schools’ - Guardian 15k schools will be at ‘significant flood risk’ by 2050, with half already in danger - Schools Week The DfE’s 29 new school climate change policies - Schools Week ASCL demands Ofsted let Covid-hit schools defer inspections - Schools Week Podcast: Special educational needs provision, sustainability and the spending review - FE Week Heads call for halt to Ofsted inspections on request - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why longer school days are a victim of lack of ambition - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Secretary tells pupils not to miss school to protest about climate - Mail Kathleen Stock — free speech and fear on campus - Financial Times ‘Stock’ Covid statement in Ofsted reports ‘not good enough’ - Schools Week Spending review: You can’t spend rhetoric on classroom upgrades or staff pay awards - FE Week COP26 Summit: Fight against climate change put at the 'heart of education' - Nursery World When are the Christmas holidays in the UK? 2021 School holidays in England, Scotland, Wales and NI compared - i News The Edge Foundation at the Conservative Party Conference 2021 - Edge Foundation Nadhim Zahawi: Climate change will be taught at primary school (video) - Mail COP26: Zahawi: 'Don't miss school for climate marches' - Times Educational Supplement | TES AELP conference round-up: Top officials talk traineeships, achievement rates and T Levels - FE Week Climate change to be taught to schoolchildren as young as 5 in major shake-up - Express Schools told to hike contributions to boost repairs grant bids - Schools Week Ministers play down BTECs cull - Schools Week Profile: Robin Walker, Minister of State for School Standards - Schools Week ‘Everything goes at 18’: Ofsted warns of SEND cliff-edge - FE Week Will schools close again? Shocking data shows hundreds of thousands pupils not in school - Express Lecturers' union boss refuses to condemn ousting of feminist professor Kathleen Stock - Mail Insolvency Service to take no action against directors of collapsed provider 3aaa - FE Week Welsh study shows impact of Covid on 10- and 11-year-olds - Guardian NHS trust delays HPV jabs over Covid vaccine pressure - Schools Week Ministers play down BTECs cull - FE Week COP26: Government to launch ‘Duke of Edinburgh-style’ award scheme to reward teens for tackling climate change - i News COP26: Studying geography has never been more important - Times Educational Supplement | TES College pleads for lifting of apprenticeship ban - FE Week Pay rises must be met from schools’ core budgets, minister confirms - Schools Week The education for sustainability teachers and students really want - Schools Week How to tackle climate uncertainty without the anxiety - Schools Week COP26: New Duke of Edinburgh-style climate award to be launched - BBC Understanding where your graduates are - Wonkhe Academics and frontline student support staff should need a licence to practise - Wonkhe Education Secretary puts climate change at the heart of education - DfE COP26: Climate school strikes like the one led by Greta Thunberg have Scottish Labour's full support - Scotsman Thousands of young people to join climate strike - BBC Students facing new disruption as university lecturers vote to strike - Mail Covid: How remote learning changed during pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Festive foodbank campaign relaunches as part of Good For Me, Good for FE - FE Week Youth activists to march through Glasgow demanding climate action at Cop26 - Mail Schoolchildren who think Guy Fawkes invented the fork and why today's woke lessons actually do more harm than good - Mail Should the West recruit more students from Global South? - Times Higher Education | THE Education ministry spent £600,000 on Stonewall schemes - The Times Duke of Edinburgh-style youth award scheme tackles climate change - The Times