News archive for 23rd November 2021

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Covid jab wait for 12- to 15-year-olds in England could be up to five months - Guardian Tories slow booster jab rollout will leave some kids unvaccinated until 2022, Labour says - Mirror Some children may not get Covid-19 jabs until February, claims Labour - Mail Alice Thomson: Gen Z deserve our respect not ‘woke’ insults - The Times All-girls grammar school blasted for 'draconian' rules for pupils using the loo - Mirror Bangor school Glenlola Collegiate criticised over toilet rules - BBC Will school Scrooges put paid to children’s Nativity dreams? - Telegraph Echo of ‘Nazi stars’ in yellow badges for pupils exempt from wearing face masks - Telegraph Education union ‘increasingly concerned’ over government’s ‘poor’ ventilation advice, watchdog told - Independent Top construction employer to share industry expertise with T Level teachers - Education & Training Foundation How to enhance your primary English curriculum with these easy-to-navigate tech tools - Computing at School What do you think of your school’s behaviour policy? This, and more… - Teacher Tapp Graduate apprenticeships are what employers want - Edge Foundation Time to change: From PE chic to maths geek - UKEdChat Thoughts on the development of T levels - Collab Group Educating for equality - NAHT Who controls higher education policy? - HEPI Schools impose Covid ‘circuit breakers’ that parents fear are precursor to full closures - Telegraph What we know about the Welsh Government's plans to offer free school meals and childcare for two year-olds - Wales Online ‘First student-written’ bill calls for climate crisis to be taught across school curriculum - Independent Derby school's attendance rise helped by 'uniform shop' - BBC Scotland: Funding to close school attainment gap revamped - BBC Scotland: School attainment gap funding to be expanded to all 32 local authorities - Scotsman MPs launch inquiry into ‘effectiveness’ of post-16 qualifications - Schools Week Coronavirus (COVID-19) mass testing funding for schools and colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency National Apprenticeship Week theme ‘Build the Future’ announced for 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teaching internship programme: summer 2022 - DfE Leading Glasgow employer launches recruitment campaign - Student Loans Company Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2021 - Ofsted Zahawi says police has enough resources to deal with anti-vaxxers (video) - Mail Ofsted now inspects over 2,000 FE providers, and 5 other findings from latest inspection data - FE Week The role of a digital learning coach - TeachBoost How can we make a real change to research culture in the UK? - Universities UK As a teacher, I know exactly how Ms McDonald felt to hear Adele thank her - Metro Scotland: Only half of schools have any Covid cases, as Nicola Sturgeon confirms ban on live audiences at school Christmas concerts - Scotsman Ofsted alarm at teacher trainers 'selling' one pedagogy - Times Educational Supplement | TES School pension row 'could trigger more teacher strikes' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland's attainment gap programme faces overhaul - Times Educational Supplement | TES ITT providers ‘alarmingly selling specific pedagogies’ as ‘be all and end all’, Ofsted says - Schools Week MPs launch inquiry into ‘effectiveness’ of post-16 qualifications - FE Week Do post-16 qualifications prepare young people for the future world of work? - UK Parliament Pupils left anxious by routine tests amid fears over possible teacher grades - Mail Make climate education mandatory in schools, Labour MP says - Mail Devon free school meal vouchers double for Christmas - BBC ‘Nepotistic’ journals fast-track hyperprolific authors - Times Higher Education | THE Council threatened with legal action over Covid-19 school attendance rules - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Interview: Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s national director for regulation and social care - Nursery World Analysis: Doubts raised over the impact of next year's rise in funding - Nursery World 2 Wales plans to make free childcare for two-year-olds universal - Nursery World Angels’ delight: nativity plays make cautious comeback in UK schools - Guardian 'Grave concerns' over teacher mentoring - Times Educational Supplement | TES No compulsory redundancies at SQA, vows Somerville - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exclusion zones could be put around schools to stop anti-vaxxers targeting kids - Metro How have changes in higher education participation and degree class awards impacted graduate earnings? - HESA Reflecting on ethical dilemmas as a teacher-researcher: Taking a virtues-based stance - BERA Students who have lived in UK since childhood denied loans – report - Guardian Interview: Iesha Small, Head of change for education and families, Youth Endowment Fund - Schools Week I struggled to come out for years as a gay primary school teacher who grew up under Section 28 - i News Interview: Asi Panditharatna, Director of employment services, The Forward Trust - FE Week 'Bizarre': Row over threat to Scots exams after 84.4% back industrial action over plans to scrap SQA - Herald Scotland Integrated education needs more political support, says report - BBC Harnessing the power of parental engagement - Schools Week Futures industry: Preparing students for the next stages of life - Wonkhe Is a first still worth it? - Wonkhe There's nothing 'kind' about the tyranny of woke indoctrinating our children - Mail MPs ramp up pressure to make schools anti-vaxxer no-go zones - Mail Ministers ‘might as well bite bullet’ on retrospective loan hike - Times Higher Education | THE Concern over Oxbridge dominance at UK’s oldest law journal - Times Higher Education | THE ITT Criteria FAQs document 2021/22 - UCET Adapted Assassin’s Creed Valhalla video game brings Vikings to life for pupils - The Times