News archive for 9th November 2021

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Teacher filmed punching horse suspended from job as she ‘goes into hiding’ - Metro Welsh school will close after concerns rejected - BBC Northern Ireland: TikTok school videos 'causing real distress' - BBC Downgraded ‘outstanding’ schools may have actually improved, says Ofsted director - Schools Week Infants school tells children to wear extra layers so it can save money on its £30,000 heating bill - Mail Children who film TikTok videos at school could face exclusion, parents warned - i News Stafford primary school introduces meditation and mindfulness (video) - BBC One in four autistic children wait over three years for school support, poll finds - Guardian Huntswoman filmed kicking and slapping horse is suspended from her primary school job - Mail Study claims Pfizer's Covid jab is safe for children and should be 'urgently' rolled out to youngsters - Mail Portsmouth and Edith Cowan to offer dual degrees - PIE News 3,000 new apprenticeships created in Swansea Bay City Region - GOV.UK New Esports room opens at Reading College - Activate Learning Gateshead teachers begin 19 days of strike action - NASUWT Five steps for planning and designing professional development - TeachBoost 1000 stories of success - UKRI Youth Futures Foundation announces £6.1m employment fund - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Still locked out: Breaking down the barriers to disability inclusive employment - ERSA Equality, diversity and partnership in assessment and feedback - Advance HE Beacon Awards 2021/22 commended colleges announced - AoC | Association of Colleges Facebook, the metaverse and the monetisation of higher education - The Conversation MATs and other school groups: Can schools achieve efficiency in numbers? - EPI Absence in primary schools so far this year - FFT Education Datalab Value of FE practitioner research highlighted by new anthology - Education & Training Foundation | ETF On teaching additive reasoning: Building sound conceptual understanding in maths - UKEdChat Adult Participation in Learning Survey: Five key takeaways from our 25th year - Learning & Work Institute Pride, pay, and learning: Do these matters to teachers in their job? (This and other weekly findings…) - Teacher Tapp UCU writes to university bosses setting out how to avoid pre-Christmas campus strikes - UCU Celebrating British and Irish Authors of African and Caribbean Heritage – free resources - ASCL The climate emergency and universities: Our chance, our challenge, our change - HEPI Learning to be alone: How positive solitude can benefit international students - BERA When are the Christmas holidays in the UK? 2021 School holiday dates in England, Scotland, Wales and NI - i News Cambridge University society bans speaker over Hitler impression - BBC Northern Ireland primary school starting age consultation begins - BBC What is the new University of Austin for? - New Statesman To level up, we must get more people into tech apprenticeships up north - FE News Early Career Framework: what works - and what doesn't - Times Educational Supplement | TES Donelan and Olusoga top programme for THE Campus Live UK&IE - Times Higher Education | THE 'Deep concern' as teachers targeted on TikTok - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrapping BTECs is bad for levelling up and for BAME students - FE Week TikTok accused of failing to act as teachers targeted in offensive videos - Schools Week Sustainability should be part of all that schools do - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Inspections 'fair' despite Covid 'pressure' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities need to take a stake in students' success - Express Green skills and their role in a fairer future for the North - IPPR Deepfake videos are the latest cruel form of school bullying – parents and teachers must watch out - i News Nicola Dandridge to leave OfS in April 2022 - Office for Students Post-16 Capacity Fund 2021 to 2022: successful applications - DfE Remembrance Day: School pupils uncover tales of black and Asian veterans who fought in the Second World War - i News New teaching facilities as more people enter post-16 education - DfE Our universities under fire over philanthropy problem - Telegraph University collaboration at forefront of innovation drive - Wonkhe There’s no substitute for student engagement in quality - Wonkhe 39 post-16 providers to share £83m to accommodate demographic boom - FE Week 39 sixth forms and colleges to split £83m post-16 capacity fund - Schools Week OfS chief stepping down next spring - FE Week Survey of RE ITE support 2021 - UCET Don’t rush potential higher education White Paper, Zahawi urged - Times Higher Education | THE Nicola Dandridge to step down from Office for Students next year - Times Higher Education | THE Nobel winners challenge Oxford over Mosley cash - The Times Scotland: Private school teacher lied about death for a week off - The Times Ireland: Trinity lecturers fear spread of Covid in windowless rooms - The Times