News archive for 26th November 2021

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Elite girls' school Rodean starts teaching pupils outdoor survival 'bushcraft' skills - Mail Pearson Teaching Awards: Londonderry teachers win national awards - BBC Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 26 November 2021 - Education Eye Toby Young’s free speech campaign takes on university for silencing gender-critical scholars - Telegraph Schools must not ‘push any sort of agenda’ with diversity drive, warns Nadhim Zahawi - Telegraph Heads' fears over Covid disruption amid low jab uptake - Times Educational Supplement | TES Zahawi praises teachers for using diverse texts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Staff have to ‘drop something’ to fit in ECF, provider admits - Schools Week WorldSkills UK medal winners announced on C4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch - FE Week Schools in England told to set up Covid-19 testing stations for return to class after Christmas - i News Cardiff Metropolitan University named University of the Year 2021 by the Times Higher Education - Wales Online Secondary schools asked to test pupils on-site when they return after Christmas - Mail Teacher training applications drop to pre-Covid levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Secondary schools to test returning pupils on-site in January - Schools Week Celebrating 150 years of state education (live recording) - FED | Foundation for Education Development The Gesher community – a think piece - FED | Foundation for Education Development Walking in circles? Inclusion and social justice - FED | Foundation for Education Development ERSA Kickstart report: Extend, expand and empower! - ERSA Supporting reading comprehension in Key Stage 2 - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Reinvigorating learners using ‘lived experience’ perspectives - Advance HE Improving literacy in Key Stage 2 - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF EEF publishes updated Key Stage 2 literacy guidance - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Don’t just SATs there, do something! - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth ASCL comment on plans for on-site Covid tests in schools - ASCL We broke down the ‘us and them’ feeling between middle and senior leaders - Teach First Improving social mobility in the workplace - Sutton Trust Government must match rhetoric on skills with action to tackle persistent youth unemployment - PoliticsHome ETF’s latest report shows only 1 in 200 post-16 enrolments are studying for qualifications with strong ESD coverage - Education & Training Foundation 'Skills for every young person' - AoC responds to HoL Youth Unemployment Committee report - AoC | Association of Colleges MP, Angela Richardson and Kathy Slack, Chief Executive of Enterprise M3 LEP, open new Care Skills Training Centre at Guildford College - Activate Learning Nativity plays ‘should go ahead’ this year despite Covid, says schools minister - Metro Education Secretary applauds teachers who use more diverse texts - Mail Prevent referrals in higher education: approaches and practices - DfE New guidance for AOs on prevention of malpractice - Ofqual Free period product scheme for schools and colleges extended - DfE New measures to reduce pupil absence - DfE NASUWT calls for reintroduction of Covid mitigations in Guernsey schools - NASUWT NASUWT calls for the reintroduction of Covid mitigations in Jersey schools - NASUWT NEU comment on the Government’s new measures to reduce pupil absence - National Education Union Investment in modern universities is investing in Scotland’s future, says MillionPlus Principal - MillionPlus Creating an inclusive and sustainable future for estranged and care experienced university students - HEPI Podcast: Access and participation, social mobility, student loans - Wonkhe BERA Council – Elections 2022 - BERA Why we’re facing an exodus of early years staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES Diving into SLC provider level data - Wonkhe GCSEs: Pupil cash rewards 'could halve attainment gap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools told to run on site Covid tests in January - Times Educational Supplement | TES Announcing Innovate UK KTN - UKRI East Stanley Primary School and Rainbow Laces - Premier League Primary Stars New early years funding rates for councils: increase not enough to cover costs warns sector - EYE | Early Years Educator Impact of Covid-19 on early years ‘could harm health of a generation’, new report suggests - EYE | Early Years Educator Important life lessons are taught at a nativity play – schools throw these away at their peril - Telegraph Victory for staff at three London colleges as deals are agreed on pay, leave, workload and lesson observations - UCU Burden of research excellence framework ‘outweighs the benefits’ - Times Higher Education | THE London college group settles pay dispute after strike - FE Week Nearly 80% of school staff struggling with mental health issues from work - Metro Grant Shapps urges teachers to stop cancelling Christmas events while No 10 insists they 'can go ahead' - Mail Let little stars shine at school nativity plays, urges minister - The Times Podcast: Plans for higher education, adult participation in FE and Ofsted - FE Week Stressed students prove education metrics must change - Times Educational Supplement | TES More action needed to protect pupils from anti-vaxxers, say head teachers - Evening Standard Christmas: School pantos and nativities hit by Covid again - BBC New research illustrates the negative impact of the pandemic on young children - Nursery World Government reveals £2.4 billion underspend on Tax-Free Childcare - Nursery World Fresh faces likely as voting opens for academy advisory boards - Schools Week Hiring 'five attendance advisers' ignores real issues - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Sort out school ventilation 'failure', Somerville told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lords suggest major reforms to tackle youth unemployment - CYPN | Children & Young People Now CYP Now Awards 2021: Winners revealed - CYPN | Children & Young People Now DfE confirms increase in funding rates for childcare places - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Low pay forcing school support staff out of ‘job they love’ - Nursery World Ofsted at odds with mayoral combined authority’s provision - FE Week School heads forced to act like ‘Covid police’ during pandemic - Guardian Government strips popular Lords amendments from Skills Bill - FE Week Do better: schools urged to up £4.30-an-hour apprentice TA wage - FE Week Chartered Institution for FE admits 6 new members - FE Week Meditation could replace school detention, suggests councillor - BBC Powys removed from list of local education authorities causing 'significant concern' - Wales Online ASCL comment on new government measures to reduce pupil absence - ASCL ASCL comment on Lords committee’s youth unemployment report - ASCL Let T Level students study other quals at the same time, says new Ofqual chief - FE Week The nativity show must go on, minister urges schools - Telegraph Children harmed by school streaming into lower ability groups, UK study shows - Guardian Report: Employment support - The Kickstart Scheme - National Audit Office Urgent action needed to tackle and prevent youth unemployment - UK Parliament Classroom carbon dioxide levels three times above watchdog guidelines - Schools Week Apprentice teaching assistants: Exploitation or opportunity? - Schools Week Ofsted reform is needed now to rebuild trust in inspections - Schools Week Being a student is risky – so what should universities do to mitigate? - Wonkhe Cambridge sculpture makes a stand on culture wars - BBC Schools to get 'advisers' to tackle persistent absence - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stage 'important' live nativity shows, schools told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kickstart breaks down: NAO reports on massive underspend and ‘deadweight’ jobs - FE Week Lords committee urges levy spending focus on the young and on lower level courses - FE Week DfE appoints just 5 attendance advisers (after years of council cuts) - Schools Week UK’s Kickstart jobs scheme underdelivers, says audit office - Financial Times UK student visas acceptances hit record annual high - Times Higher Education | THE Elite universities less attractive due to precarity, says v-c - Times Higher Education | THE Nativity plays should be staged in schools this Christmas despite Covid fears - Mail Schools could use home visits and phone calls to help reduce absences - Mail Watchdog questions effectiveness of Kickstart job placement scheme - BBC Ministers can’t tell if Kickstart jobs scheme is working - The Times Scotland: Schoolgirls rejecting mixed toilets over boys’ bad behaviour - The Times Covid in Ireland: Vaccines for young children ‘as soon as possible’, after jabs are approved in Europe - 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