News archive for 4th October 2021

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Parents still wearing dressing gowns on school run despite plea from headteacher - Mirror A call for maths, humanities and a foreign language to be mandatory at A-Level - Express School for children in care celebrates success as more students land top university places - Express Schools link as Rugby proves Covid-19 hotspot - BBC SNP under pressure as fewer two-year-olds taking up free childcare - Herald Scotland Head gives slipper to parents wearing dressing gowns and pyjamas on school run - Telegraph Nadhim Zahawi: Full text of Tory Conference 2021 speech - Schools Week 'Disconnect' between aspirations and experience of policy for Scottish children with additional support needs - Scotsman Zahawi: White Paper on 'illiteracy' in new year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Devolve skills budgets ‘to help universities drive local growth’ - Times Higher Education | THE Feedback strategies that improve learning - Teacher Toolkit Guidance for schools: coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Focus on local research and skills, says Tory manifesto author - Times Higher Education | THE Rishi Sunak unveils £34 million for AI research and bursaries - Times Higher Education | THE School asks parents not to drop kids off in 'inappropriate' dressing gowns - Express Our Future Derby: New findings from ground-breaking regional project - Education and Employers Guide to assessment in the first term - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring £500 million Plan for Jobs expansion announced - FE News Response to Plan for Jobs expansion announced at Conservative Party Conference on 4 October - Learning & Work Institute Realising the many benefits of artificial intelligence - Russell Group Education Secretary speech to Conservative Party Conference - National Education Union Zahawi to ‘tackle innumeracy and illiteracy’ with white paper next year - Schools Week Covid vaccines for 12 to 15-year-olds: What we know so far - BBC Level 2 ‘won’t be forgotten’, promises new skills minister - FE Week Research plays vital role in meeting climate targets - UKRI Stakeholder engagement is the only way out of the higher education drugs problem - HEPI Full steam ahead for the fourth wave of T Levels - IfATE Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic histories added to the new Welsh curriculum - NASUWT PM must outlaw fire and rehire - NASUWT Do we dare to live outside our comfort zone enough? - UKEdChat How schools can support the language needs of refugees from Afghanistan - Bell Foundation Why school inspections don't make sense right now - Times Educational Supplement | TES Steaming ahead for the future! - Computing at School Gender differences in subject choice leads to gender pay gap immediately after graduation - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Celebration for 2021 NTF and CATE winners as nominations for 2022 awards open - Advance HE Why dyslexia support for university students can feel ‘like going to a sexual health clinic’ - IOE London Blog Awarding bodies for 2023 T Levels revealed - FE Week PM must stop schools 'firing and rehiring' union warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wait for NTP training is 'disgraceful' say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers reportedly planning to change staff: child ratios for under-twos 'to cut childcare costs' - Nursery World Sector leaders vow to oppose relaxation of childcare ratios - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Monitoring of teaching capital funding allocated in financial year 2020-21 - Office for Students New exam dispensation rules: what you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hints and tips for EpAOs on designing multiple choice questions and answers - FE News Three per cent? This must change - SecEd Scotland should consider a ‘school graduation certificate’ in place of traditional exams - Scotsman Calls for A-Level maths, humanities and a foreign language to be mandatory - Mirror Covid masks could return to schools in ‘contingency plan’ to protect lessons, education secretary hints - Independent 3 in 5 pupils want teamwork to be tested in GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Child behaviour has got worse, say 1 in 5 parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES School census and catch-up funding: the key details - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sunak extends apprenticeship employer incentives and Kickstart scheme - FE Week Teachers bombarded with threats by anti-vax campaigners as roll-out for under 15s begins - Wales Online Don’t scrap BTECs. Raise the rate. Leave us alone. A 16-19 manifesto in 9 words - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Why opening up access to the creative industries matters - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Covid vaccine offers for ages 12 to 15 in Wales by half-term - BBC Richer trusts get richer by investing spare cash - Schools Week SQA exams: CBI Scotland policy chief in call for overhaul - Herald Scotland Research: What do teachers really think of CPD? - Schools Week Let’s stop talking about summer learning loss - Schools Week Wonkhe community survey 2021: equality, diversity, and inclusion - Wonkhe Universities can deliver on levelling up - Wonkhe Poll shows three in five wish GCSEs assessed teamwork and communication skills - Mail Most students happy they took GCSEs... as long as they passed - The Times Clare Foges: Purity tests damage students and universities - The Times Purge of administrators leaves UK universities exposed - Times Higher Education | THE