News archive for 25th November 2021

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Robert Halfon: Every child must have chance to climb the ladder of opportunity - Express International Inequalities Institute at LSE launch LIS Satellite Office in the UK - London School of Economics | LSE Race and ethnic disparities in higher education – diagnosis demands prescription of a cure - Advance HE Award winners announced in ‘The Covid Employability Challenge’ - ERSA Partners celebrate ‘robust’ student outcomes in UK - PIE News New Community of Practice for Digital Skills and EdTech - Education & Training Foundation ETF launches Further Education Governance Maturity Matrix - Education & Training Foundation | ETF EU study trips to be funded by ex Aberystwyth Uni student - BBC Assessment in English - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Language associations, unions and exam boards unite in call for rethink of reform of GCSE Modern Foreign Languages - ASCL ASCL comment on Teacher Wellbeing Index 2021 - ASCL In conversation with: Baroness Valerie Amos - Universities UK Manx government must invest in teachers' pay - NASUWT NASUWT comments on Teacher Wellbeing Index - NASUWT Write a letter to raise awareness of the challenges facing NI's schools - NAHT BERA AGM papers published - BERA £1.7 million grant to cut plastic pollution - UKRI From fear and nerves to becoming a Numeracy Champion: Kelly’s story - National Numeracy New training programme launched to support disadvantaged children’s development - EYE | Early Years Educator The start of term opens up the school uniform debate again - The Educator The Queen recognises five colleges’ excellence in her Anniversary Prizes - FE Week Report: Improving gender equity in education - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth How the UK's teacher of the year inspired me at school - BBC Northern Ireland: Primary school rewarding children for reading - BBC Teachers reject plans to have pupils learn 1,700 words for language GCSEs - Guardian Aberdeen City Council approves extension of free school meals - Herald Scotland Scotland's largest teaching union backs Covid vaccines for children over five - Scotsman Majority of teachers struggle to find time for NPQs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Further education and skills: November 2021 - DfE Employability programmes and work placements in higher education - DfE Apprenticeships and traineeships: November 2021 - DfE Education and training statistics for the UK: 2021 - DfE Digital functional skills: DfE backtrack after SEND exclusion warning - FE Week New qualifications aim to give students core digital skills - Ofqual Evaluation of the 2017 National Professional Qualifications - DfE Experiences of relationships and sex education (RSE) - DfE Participation measures in higher education: 2006 to 2020 - DfE State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2021 - Ofsted Times Higher Education Awards 2021: winners announced - Times Higher Education | THE New leadership appointments at the Apprenticeship Ambassador Network - Education & Skills Funding Agency AELP welcomes introduction of lifelong learning accounts - AELP Staff at 42 universities to be balloted for strikes - UCU Report shows university staff are force for social good - UCU Psychological burden of student debt shows loan system is toxic - UCU Prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize awarded to Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment - London School of Economics | LSE Rethink ‘flawed’ MFL GCSE reforms, heads and exam boards urge - Schools Week Former teacher shares what a child's role in the Nativity really says about them - Mirror Covid: EIS leader backs primary school vaccination in Scotland - Herald Scotland Covid: Scottish education leaders back ban on 'unnecessary' school nativities - Herald Scotland Most teachers 'wouldn't earn more in different job' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Drop in resits following teacher grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Heads and exam boards reject 'risky' MFL reforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-safe teaching helps to add £1 million to campus gas bill - Times Higher Education | THE Fresh strike ballots at dozens of UK universities - Times Higher Education | THE Covid a ‘kick up the backside’ on pedagogical strategy - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland's 1,140 hours has exacerbated the decline in childminders - Nursery World Outdoor play is 'every child's right' - Nursery World Early years funding for three-and four-years-olds to rise by 17p an hour - Nursery World First Minister Mark Drakeford gives more detail about plans to change school terms and the school day in Wales - Wales Online Why heads should not face pressure over Christmas shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Public sector apprenticeship target missed, and 4 other things we learned from today’s DfE data - FE Week Uniform law changes: The issues on headteachers' minds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Autumn GCSE exam entries drop two thirds - Schools Week Dad received 'no reply' after offering to pay pupils' £1,800 school dinner debt - Wales Online Marcus Wareing calls for practical subjects return: UK needs chefs, builders, electricians - Express Largest debt amassed by student in England is £189,700 - Guardian Report: Financial sustainability of schools in England - National Audit Office ASCL responds to National Audit Office report on financial sustainability of schools - ASCL Report: Hidden voices – graduates’ perspectives on the student loan system in England - HEPI Graduates reveal the financial and psychological burden of student loan debt: ‘It makes you feel sick and horrible’ - HEPI NEU comment on NAO report on financial sustainability of schools in England - National Education Union Report suggests mixed views of the REF among researchers - Cambridge Network Maths school to open with help from Cambridge University - BBC Mental health: Western Trust sees rise in children treated for depression - BBC Bristol University alumni students' friend-finding app fights loneliness - BBC Educating snowflakes: Why our public schools have gone woke - Telegraph Are we really all back on campus? - Wonkhe Report finds number of childminders has plummeted in Scotland - Scotsman Covid taking bigger toll on school staff wellbeing, study finds - Schools Week Investigate trusts amassing ‘sizeable reserves’, watchdog tells DfE - Schools Week Teacher's heartfelt plea to ban anti-vaxxers from school gates as they try to convince young girls they'll be left infertile - Mail Teacher work stress worsened during 2021 due to Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Watchdog calls for probe into academy trust surpluses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Welsh tertiary regulator ‘could be model for England’ - Times Higher Education | THE Post-2012 English graduates ‘dread ever-present loan debt’ - Times Higher Education | THE Seven things you need to know about VTQs in 2021/22 - FE News Some secondary schools face significant financial pressures, watchdog says - Mail Report shows graduates experience psychological disturbance over student loan debt - Mail American School in London accused of ‘racial indoctrination’ - The Times Scotland: St Patrick’s High School: Police called in over pupils’ TikTok jibes - The Times Scotland: Fettes College ‘like Lord of the Flies’ in 1970s - The Times Scotland: Rules for school nativity plays branded illogical - The Times Ireland: Activists demand ban on sex being taught with a religious ethos - The Times