News archive for 19th November 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 19 November 2021 - Education Eye School uniforms to be made cheaper under plan to ‘remove branded items’ - Metro Citizen science makes breakthrough post-pandemic - Times Higher Education | THE The Times view on lecturer walkouts: Strike Out - The Times Schools cancelling Christmas as children pushed back into Covid bubbles - Telegraph Redmaids' High schoolgirls walk through Bristol in tradition dating back to 1634 - Telegraph Wales: Primary schools are now being hit hardest by Covid - Wales Online Primary schools are now being hit hardest by Covid as overall absence figures fall - Wales Online New guidance will help colleges and universities assess the strength of their cyber security - Jisc Raising the profile of FE technical teaching through Technical Teaching Fellowships - Education & Training Foundation ELTons 2021 winners revealed at hybrid event - PIE News Schools are cancelling Christmas concerts and festive lunches - Wales Online DfE apologises to academy finance staff over data blunder - Schools Week Oxford University identifies 145 artefacts looted in Benin raid - Guardian Kathleen Stock: Every British university has people like the ones who cancelled me - Telegraph School uniform: is your policy truly inclusive? - Times Educational Supplement | TES New rules to drive down cost of school uniform for families - DfE ASCL comment on cost of school uniform guidance - ASCL NEU comment on new statutory guidance requiring schools to keep the cost of uniforms down - National Education Union NEU comment on NAO report looking at Government preparedness for Covid-19 pandemic - National Education Union Community cohesion: how students can support recovery among social enterprise, charities and small business - HEPI Mobilising critique through Twitter: Exploring the ITE sector response during the ITT market review - BERA Does the government really care about academic freedom? - Wonkhe Podcast: Regulation, industrial action, PGTs - Wonkhe Promoting apprenticeships and vocational education – the business perspective - Careers & Enterprise Company Good regulation welcomes critical and robust challenge - Wonkhe Innovate UK Plan for Action for Business Innovation launched today - UKRI Should education leaders be listening to children? - OECD ESRC announces winners of its 2021 Celebrating Impact Prize - UKRI Cuts to early years have led to vulnerable children ‘crisis’ - EYE | Early Years Educator How will Ofsted work with schools this term? - The Educator Lords debates government policy on new teachers - UK Parliament Schools in England will be required by law to keep uniform costs down - Mail Single-school trust with £280k head given finance warning - Schools Week Children refused food as parents rack up more than £176,900 in school meal debts across Wales - Wales Online Scotland: Plan for huge cut in headteachers sparks petition - Times Educational Supplement | TES West Suffolk College lecturer wins equality and diversity award - BBC Why the increase in inspections is damaging for Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy trust appeals to court after losing special needs contract - Schools Week School uniforms cheaper from August 2022 as supermarket ‘own-brand’ options to be accepted under new rules - The Sun Majority of pupils excluded from Glasgow schools are white boys - Herald Scotland Child vulnerability crisis sparked by decade of early help cuts, Lords warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Professor Kathleen Stock and the toxic gender debate - The Times Level 3 adult offer to be widened for low earners - FE Week Surge in online child sexual exploitation over lockdown - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New uniform guidance: What schools need to know - Schools Week ‘Outstanding’ provider not inspected for 11 years downgraded in first Ofsted report - FE Week First two Ofsted full-inspection reports bring ‘good’ news to colleges - FE Week Somerville: No timeline yet for cutting contact time - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Strike early’ to cultivate tomorrow’s researchers - Times Higher Education | THE MPs have their say on the Skills Bill - FE Week Nursery that puts children's rights at the heart of learning welcomes Children's Commissioner - Nursery World Schools told to hold off on three-year MIS contract - Schools Week Dr Jo Saxton: I won’t be hiding away in the Ofqual attic - FE Week Traineeships flop: less than half 16-18 expansion cash allocated - FE Week School uniforms: guidance for schools - DfE Cuts led to vulnerable children “crisis”: restore support to 2010 levels, peers tell ministers - UK Parliament Cost of school uniforms - DfE How computer-based GCSE and A-level exams could work - i News Branded blazers on way out as schools told to bring uniform bills down a size - Telegraph Extremists using online gaming and Covid conspiracies to recruit youngsters - Guardian Dr Jo Saxton: No one will be able to say I hid away in the Ofqual attic - Schools Week Academies minister asks top LA schools to ‘share the love’ - Schools Week New learning loss data can help schools plan the recovery - Schools Week ‘Wrong message’: leaders criticise ending of T Level maths and English requirement - FE Week Meet the original 18-year-old champion of free school meals - HuffPost School uniforms: New legally-binding rules will force schools to cut uniform costs for parents - i News Crypto in the classroom: Lucy Kellaway on the kids’ new craze - Financial Times DfE tells schools to slash uniform costs after new law - Times Educational Supplement | TES School uniform costs: 'It amazes me how much I spend on my children' - BBC Primary pupils should learn about climate change - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE lacked plans for 'mass pandemic school disruption' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cross-party Lords urge ministers to reverse cuts to early years services - Nursery World DfE: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (November 21) - UCET Ageing workforce in non-science fields ‘not good news’ for UK - Times Higher Education | THE Relief as UK’s ‘very high quality’ global research hubs saved - Times Higher Education | THE School uniform set to be cheaper from Autumn 2022 as 'branded items' removed - Mirror Schools required to help keep uniform costs down from autumn 2022 under guidance - Mail School meals: Head teacher of 2p debt threat 'thrown under bus' - BBC Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School ditches Churchill to boost diversity - The Times Warwick University ‘captured’ by Stonewall equality drive - The Times Army recruits ‘abused and humiliated’ by college staff - The Times Louise Richardson, first female vice-chancellor of Oxford University, moves on to US job - The Times School uniforms to be more affordable - The Times Charity Commission puts pressure on Christ Church to repay dean’s legal fees - The Times