News archive for 12th November 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 12 November 2021 - Education Eye Ofsted strips two in three top-rated schools of outstanding status - i News 'Absolutely disgraceful' Head refuses to feed kids who owe school as little as a penny - Express Dad-of-four offers to clear school's entire dinner debt 'so kids don't go hungry’ - Mirror School meals: Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle U-turn on 2p debt threat - BBC Council apologises for school meal debt fiasco and promises no child will be refused food - Wales Online The best state schools in the UK for getting a place at an Oxbridge university - Telegraph Spike in online teacher abuse sparks hotline surge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish teachers' unions reject 'insulting' pay offer from Cosla - Herald Scotland Scotland's largest teaching union has warned of a 'growing clamour' for industrial action after dismissing 'derisory' pay deal - Scotsman Ofsted warns schools over 'unbroken' KS3 music teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted questions arts ‘carousel’ at KS3 - Schools Week Fifth of schools face 5-year wait for full-fibre broadband - Schools Week DSC Chair to deliver keynote at disability equality event - Advance HE Scottish surgeons to use digital simulation in training - Public Technology Using serious games to teach entrepreneurship - Advance HE Contingency plans confirmed for GCSEs, AS and A levels - Computing at School Ofsted strips three in four top-rated schools of 'outstanding' status in first round of inspections - Mail TNE in United Arab Emirates sees 84% satisfaction rate - PIE News Governors urge review after school dinner debts row - Mail Nominations open for Festival of Learning 2022 Awards - Education & Training Foundation | ETF SNCT – Teachers' Pay Claim 2021 - Voice Engaging with difference - UKEdChat Residential provision at Merrist Wood College achieves Outstanding Ofsted grading for fourth time - Activate Learning ONEFILE and Pearson confirmed as season 4 sponsors of the Skills World Live Radio Show, broadcast by FE News - FAB | Federation of Awarding Bodies SNCT teachers' panel rejects latest pay offer - NASUWT Taking a stand against bullying - NAHT Pay deal agreed at South Thames Colleges Group - UCU Vice chancellor pay exposes "cavernous" gap between staff & management - UCU We should not abandon the link between qualifications and student loans, but radical reform is necessary - HEPI A moment to breathe: How reflection can reduce teacher maths anxiety - BERA TikTok: it's time for protection from online danger - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: 'Derisory' teacher pay offer is rejected - Times Educational Supplement | TES AEB business case outcomes delayed - FE Week Dad offers to clear school's entire dinner debt 'so kids don't go hungry' - Wales Online Podcast: Industry and FE, tertiary sector reform and Lifelong Learning Week - FE Week Durham University defends training offered to students who work in sex industry - City AM Durham University offers students training lessons via Zoom on how to be prostitutes - Mail From Arctic oil exploration to teaching – three people who changed careers to go back to school - i News Government sets out improvement plan for Oakhill STC - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Early years settings invited to take part in No Pens Day Wednesday - Nursery World Degree-level practitioners sought for DfE mentoring programme - Nursery World Centenary celebration of LWI sees Princess Royal back prison education reform - FE Week Levelling up will only happen if maths and English improve - FE Week College forced to reveal secret A-level inquiry results - FE Week Why Ofsted’s new inspection framework may see ‘outstanding’ providers marked down - FE Week NHS trust apologises as it exits the apprenticeship market - FE Week We are at a critical juncture on lifelong learning - FE Week Children’s education is being damaged by “chronic underfunding” of schools in Wales, school leaders warn - Wales Online BLM demands Oxford should hand back 'dirty' Mosley money as backlash grows over £12m donations - Mail Making progress: The future of assessment and accountability in primary schools - EDSK SEND college censured for safety concerns and ‘inappropriate’ teaching - FE Week Covid-19: Majority of NI schools yet to request CO2 monitors - BBC ‘Outstanding’ schools not inspected for 15 years downgraded in first Ofsted reports - Schools Week Investigation: The long wait for justice - Schools Week Office for Students releases latest analysis on senior staff pay - Office for Students New FE Commissioner interview: ‘I want to change perception from one of fear to one of support’ - FE Week The next few years of OfS will be the same, but harsher - Wonkhe Podcast: OfS, COP, student experience, antisemitism - Wonkhe Call to scrap 'unfair and inaccurate' high-stakes Sats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three university bosses raked in a fortune last year as lecture halls sat empty for months during Covid pandemic - Mail Exciting progress for apprenticeships as over 260 standards transferred from the Institute’s EQA service to Ofqual - FE News Disadvantaged graduates earn half as much as privileged peers in first job - Guardian Expect strikes before Christmas, Grady tells UK vice-chancellors - Times Higher Education | THE Ex-UCL head Arthur paid £25,000 extra to postpone retirement - Times Higher Education | THE University bosses paid ten times the average staff salary - The Times David Laws and Natasha Porter: Poorer students lose out when jobs fairs are virtual - The Times Student’s clean power invention wins global prize - The Times Scotland: Marist Brothers apologises to children subjected to abuse in boarding schools - The Times