News archive for 18th November 2021

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School removes names of Winston Churchill and JK Rowling to be more ‘diverse’ - i News School removes Churchill and JK Rowling house names in diversity push - Metro Zahawi claims to have evidence there will be enough employers for T Level placements - FE Week Covid-19: Schools get extra £5m for students' wellbeing - BBC TikTok: PSNI receive more than 80 reports over bogus content - BBC Digest #157: Exam preparation tips - Learning Scientists Oxford University vice-chancellor steps down to lead Carnegie Corporation - Telegraph Plea for action over 'damaging' Ofsted visits ramps up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: 1,000 air cleaning units for SEND and AP schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE widens eligibility criteria for academic mentors scheme - Schools Week Pupils face return of masks in schools, by order of councils - Telegraph DfE to provide 1,000 air cleaning units for AP and special schools - Schools Week JK Rowling and Churchill axed as school house names to ‘boost diversity’ - Telegraph ‘Teachers like me’: Building ethnic diversity in the staff room - GSA AELP welcomes Skills Bill progress, but reforms must go further to maximise learner and employer choice - AELP Latest information and updates from the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) - NAHT Latest updates and information from Ofqual - NAHT Gender pay gap in schools has worsened over the last decade, say education experts - ASCL Growing the culture of apprenticeships in schools - ASCL 'No data' on school Covid contact tracing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are Scottish students the world's 'most over-examined'? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The effect of observation length on teaching quality - Teacher Toolkit Division of Educational and Child Psychology publishes new guidance for welcoming and supporting refugee children in schools - BPS | British Psychological Society Forward looking approach to meeting engineering and manufacturing skills needs - IfATE Sharp rise in Covid-19 cases across pupil year groups - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs & A-levels: Computer-based exams matter of ‘not if, but when’, with online tests possible in three years - i News CO2 monitors: cumulative delivery statistics up to 12 November 2021 - DfE Amanda Spielman at the 2021 Schools & Academies Show - Ofsted Call for closure of Glasgow primary following Covid outbreak - Herald Scotland Early education use and child outcomes up to age 3 - DfE Early education and outcomes to age 4 - DfE Final ITT review ‘more implementable’, says DfE adviser - Schools Week Mental health: Anxiety, depression and self-harm on rise among teens - BBC DfE director Jonathan Duff to become east of England RSC - Schools Week Reform 30-hour childcare to support disadvantaged families, charity urges - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Global pandemic not over for taught postgraduate students - Advance HE University of Surrey signs China Scholarship agreement - PIE News Charities call for a renewed focus on children who have lost a parent during Covid-19 - Nursery World Competition for graduate jobs at a “record high” - PIE News Gender pay gap in education has worsened over the last decade - FE News Did no one call the plumber? Analysis of the Heat and Buildings Strategy’s approach to skills and workers - Social Market Foundation | SMF Fair and appropriate regulation and monitoring - HEPI HE provider data: Finance – open data release 2020/21 - HESA Teenager stabbed at student halls at red brick university - Express ‘To fit in at school, you have to be a robot’: Do care farms offer a viable alternative? - BERA Alliance launches ‘Winter Toolkit’ to help early years settings face seasonal challenges - EYE | Early Years Educator Urgent reform of the 30 hours funding needed to bridge attainment gap in disadvantaged children - EYE | Early Years Educator Far-right ideology biggest cause of Prevent programme referrals - Mail Majority say children should learn about climate in primary school or earlier - Mail Spielman grilled by heads over Ofsted's return - Times Educational Supplement | TES Higher education's moral failure - Montrose42 Durham University student sex workers 'made hundreds of pounds' - BBC Louise Richardson to leave Oxford for Carnegie Corporation - Times Higher Education | THE “Forgetting to call the plumber puts Net Zero at risk” – think-tank - Social Market Foundation | SMF Letter: Indexation in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme - Voice Fake sugar daddies are 'conning students out of thousands of pounds' by posing as rich older men - Mail Suffolk New College to build £2m health and care centre - BBC ‘It’s the right time’: Amanda Spielman defends inspecting Covid-hit schools - Schools Week Delta variant pushes Covid rates back to January levels with most Coronavirus infections among schoolchildren - City AM Parents call for British army college to be shut down after abuse claims - Guardian Warning over potential Covid school surge in new year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gender pay gap in schools 'widened over last decade' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cautious optimism for Christmas but Covid cases likely to shoot up after, expert claims - Mirror Staff absences: Why cover teachers are in short supply - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents beg for help over nightmare school run that will 'kill a child' - Express Gender pay gap in schools growing wider - Independent Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2021 shows effect of pandemic on student satisfaction - Advance HE A Fair Start? A practical way of levelling up - Sutton Trust One in five teachers are still uncomfortable discussing LGBT topics with children - Metro Almost three-quarters of Scottish university students report low wellbeing - Scotsman Educational underachievement 'a factor in NI's poor productivity' - BBC School attendance peaks in NI as Covid absences decrease - BBC Call for action as one in three Scots students suffer depression and half cover up mental health issues - Herald Scotland Build back greener? Creating impact with campus sustainability plans - Wonkhe Enabling social mobility means taking risks - Wonkhe New research supports call for 30 hours to be extended to vulnerable children - Nursery World Should graduate employment data be used to decide course funding? - Times Higher Education | THE Shutdowns drive master’s students’ workload and contact concerns - Times Higher Education | THE Covid in Scotland: Primary children ‘more violent’ after lockdown - The Times Scotland: Proposal to give teenagers news vouchers - The Times Covid in Ireland: Leaders clash over teachers’ isolation policy - The Times Students lose thousands to sugar daddy con artists - The Times Teenagers who catch Covid can’t have vaccine for three months - The Times