News archive for 1st October 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 01 October 2021 - Education Eye Fears school closures 'inevitable' as pupil cases soar - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A levels 2022: Exams special news podcast - Times Educational Supplement | TES Report fuel crisis disruption, Zahawi tells heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES The FE Week podcast: S1 E01 - FE Week Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre branded inadequate by inspectors - Ofsted UK nursery shuts down 'due to serious safeguarding concerns' after child dies - Express Cardiff University students furious as they're allowed to party in uni's club without a facemask but 'can't get into lectures' - Wales Online Covid: Schools in Wales see more than 10,000 cases - BBC Lord Woolley becomes first black man to head Oxbridge college - BBC Lorry driver shortages impact school dinners - which areas are affected? - Express Face coverings to be reintroduced in secondary schools in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and RCT - Wales Online DfE considering return of Sats at 14 and axing teaching hours limits - Guardian Hundreds of schools are told to be 'proactive' and bring back suite of Covid curbs - Mail Covid vaccine uptake stalled at 55% in 16-18 year olds and only a few percent of healthy 12-15 year olds have had first jab - Mail Scotland: Anger as exams are dismissed as ‘British Victorian relic’ - The Times Ofsted chief quizzed over 'normal times' inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES What changes are being made to GCSE and A-Levels? - Metro What the Covid school alert levels mean in Wales and what has to happen to go up or down - Wales Online Wales records 10,551 Covid cases in schools but the numbers dropped sharply this week - Wales Online Introducing and using the Teaching and Learning Toolkit - Research Schools Network To tackle youth unemployment, we must break down inequality barriers - Edge Foundation The Sutton Trust submits its representation to the Comprehensive Spending Review - Sutton Trust Outstanding rated schools on Ofsted inspection alert - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'There are no monsters': four keys to vulnerability scanning success - Jisc David Miller: Bristol sacks professor accused of antisemitism - Times Higher Education | THE Liverpool strikes off as compulsory redundancies averted - Times Higher Education | THE Bristol University: Professor David Miller sacked over Israel comments - BBC University of Liverpool staff call off strike action - BBC ASCL calls for £5.76 billion education funding boost - ASCL Checks and balances: Learning points for academies from ESFA assurance findings - ASCL Paul Whiteman, general secretary of NAHT, shares his reflections on Black History Month 2021 - NAHT Scottish teachers' pay offer unacceptable to NASUWT - NASUWT NASUWT calls on Government to take action to end sexual violence, harassment and abuse - NASUWT Podcast: Spending review, party conferences, graduate outcomes, posters - Wonkhe Policy is temporary, practice is permanent: Five ideas for our new Education Secretary - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Pay scales for teachers and leaders in England from September 2021 - Schools Week Labour’s policies reveal dividing lines are forming - Schools Week Building a school leadership team from the ground up - Teach First Bristol University sacks professor accused of antisemitic comments - Guardian England's MMR vaccine postcode lottery: Just 60% of children in some London boroughs have had the life-saving jab - Mail Ministerial portfolios: Who’ll be doing what in the new DfE team - Schools Week Pearson’s spotlight on workforce skills report: The key recommendations - FE Week GCSE and A-levels 2022: What changes are being made? - The Sun Labour education plans hint at a change of direction - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour conference: Your guide to the party’s new education policies - Schools Week Improver and inspector: Green fleshes out Ofsted reform proposals - Schools Week School bans children from saying ‘that’s long, oh my days and like’ - Metro Young people to lead on peer-to-peer research project - CYPN | Children & Young People Now First mainstream schools set to get CO2 monitors – 4 weeks after rollout started - Schools Week Headteacher to give her own lessons on public speaking - Evening Standard How other testing regimes compare with the UK's - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy CEO diversity audit: More women bosses, but work to do - Schools Week Spending review: will it be trick or treat for the sector? - FE Week Wales to become first UK nation to make teaching Black, Asian and minority ethnic histories and experience mandatory at school - Wales Online National consultation on Scottish education launches - Times Educational Supplement | TES St Andrews students' fury as they are told they must 'pass' diversity and consent modules before they can begin studies - Mail College defends keeping A-level inquiry secret amid community backlash - FE Week Teaching unions declare formal dispute with Scottish Government over pay offer - Herald Scotland HEPI announces the next stage in its development - HEPI Northern Ireland: General Teaching Council staff shortage hitting teachers' registrations - BBC Clumsy, complex and slow: business puts the boot into Kickstart - FE Week Sheffield: arrests over assaults on Chinese students - PIE News Listen to us, Mr Zahawi, but we’re listening to Mr Sunak - Schools Week Council urges immediate stricter Covid controls across all schools - Schools Week Pandemic, what pandemic? Heads worry Ofsted is failing to take Covid into account - Schools Week Covid: Parents ‘denied’ the right to speak with teachers - Herald Scotland Cambridge sets guidelines to reduce overseas engagement risks - Financial Times Face masks must be brought back in schools to halt rising infections, Independent SAGE member says - The Sun School bans slang terms such as 'like' and 'bare' in the classroom to raise literacy standards - Mail Wales will be the first UK nation to make ethnic minority history compulsory for every child - Mail Scotland: Teachers' leader calls for end of ‘dictating from the top’ in education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Russell Group wants £200 million ‘deep-tech university seed fund’ - Times Higher Education | THE Western: ‘elitist’ ministers want access cut to ‘hold on to power’ - Times Higher Education | THE Letter from Robin Walker, MP, Minister of State for School Standards (1st October) - UCET Overseas collaborations must continue – with eyes wide open - Times Higher Education | THE St Andrews university sets bias test for entry - The Times Keep slang out of lessons, students told - The Times Save academics from smears, Dr Neil Thin tells Edinburgh University - The Times What more can the education sector do to support students post pandemic? - FE News