News archive for 22nd November 2021

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Woke generation know nothing about the world – their ignorance is dangerous & fuelled by TikTok and Instagram lies - The Sun If we lose the word ‘snowflake’ we need to lose the offensive ‘boomer’ too - Telegraph ‘Standing in a street with a banner’ is unlikely to make a difference, says headteacher - Metro More parents keeping their daughters in girls’ schools after Everyone’s Invited abuse accounts, heads report - i News Education chief: Parents may keep girls at single-sex schools over abuse fears - Mail Pupils at Ofsted top-rated schools suffer more stress - The Times Anti-vaxxer school protests a matter for police, says education secretary - Independent Impact of pay freeze on the Teachers’ Pension Scheme calculations - NAHT Speaking other languages ‘important’ for understanding different cultures and places, say over 70 per cent of Year 9 pupils in England - British Council UK universities look to support incoming boarding alumni - PIE News New poll shows mixed public priorities for ‘Levelling Up’ - ERSA A social media network analysis of Gavin Williamson MP - Teacher Toolkit School exclusion reviews data collection 2022 - DfE Labour unveils new council of skills advisers - FE Week Zahawi: Anti-vaxx protesters should not be anywhere near schools - Mail New fear over strikes hitting Scots exams as 84.4% back industrial action in row over plans to scrap SQA - Herald Scotland Tory schools chief says anti-vaxxer 'exclusion zones' aren't the answer - Mirror ‘She believed in every one of us’: ex-pupils on their inspirational teachers - Guardian Pupil sent headteacher TikTok death threat in a bid to get more likes and followers - Mail Nadhim Zahawi: Anti-vaxx protesters 'should go nowhere near teachers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Identity and belonging at the centre of new models of learning - Advance HE DfE appoints partner to support delivery of up to 500,000 homeschooling laptops this winter - Public Technology Digitising a country's examinations - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA The wildest classroom in the world: It’s what education should be all about - UKEdChat Bringing universities into the 21 Century: supporting onsite teaching with virtual learning - HEPI British Academy Global Professorships - UKFIET | Education and Development Forum Education Policy Outlook 2021: Shaping responsive and resilient education in a changing world - OECD Balancing the urgent and the important is key to resilience in education - OECD Zahawi rejects exclusion zones to keep Covid anti-vaxxers away from schools - Guardian Three key changes needed to keep new teachers in education - Times Educational Supplement | TES TikTok school abuse: Teachers quitting over paedophile slurs - BBC Forgotten and invisible: Time to end the daily exploitation of supply teachers - SecEd The value of religious education: Are we listening? - SecEd Learning to read starts earlier than you might think: five tips from an expert - The Conversation E-ACT chief executive suspended - Schools Week Don't call young people 'woke', says leading head teacher - BBC Candidates revealed for RSC advisory board elections - Schools Week Anti-vaxxers who threaten schools and pupils ‘will be arrested’ – Zahawi - Schools Week Child obesity: Why has the situation got so bad? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Movers and Shakers: Edition 370 - FE Week Governors: A college's biggest supporters - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA NEU members ballot for strike action at independent sector Girls’ Day School Trust - National Education Union Ignored: 80% of colleges fail on legal requirement to inform the visually impaired on accessibility - FE Week Private school teachers to vote on first national strike over pensions - Telegraph Why investing in staff reflection time is money well spent - FE Week Pupils 'risk becoming repeat targets for sexual harassment' - Herald Scotland Making inclusion count against persistent disadvantage - Schools Week How can we meet the pledge to put climate ‘at the heart of education’? - Schools Week University access fear over BMAT entrance test glitch (again) - Schools Week DfE pays £124k for failed free school’s pension shortfall - Schools Week East Lothian teacher builds castle out of 500 pupils names during Scotland's Covid lockdown - Scotsman Wonkhe community survey 2021: a sector pulled into too many directions - Wonkhe Rebuilding diverse student communities is at the top of vice chancellors’ post-Covid agenda - Wonkhe Head teacher of leading private school defends 'woke' pupils - Mail Teachers to vote on strike at 23 schools over pensions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers' duty to help 'woke pupils fight for beliefs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don’t mock young people for being ‘woke’ – they are ‘just being kind’, says top headteacher - i News Get school experience - UCET Academics back creation of pan-Irish higher education area - Times Higher Education | THE Get us out of Afghanistan, plead British Council researchers - Times Higher Education | THE Adults are wrong to criticise ‘woke’ children, says Benenden head - The Times Covid-19 vaccinations for children? It depends who you ask - The Times Scotland: Government has too much control over education, heads complain - The Times Scotland: Private finance initiatives for new schools strain council budgets - The Times Scotland: University seeks to return skulls looted from tribes - The Times Covid in Ireland: 600 teachers tested positive in first two weeks of November - The Times ‘Woke’ sneers could sap young people’s drive for change, says top headteacher - Guardian