News archive for 6th October 2021

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Schools reintroduce face masks at the urging of ‘militant Lefty’ council health chiefs - Telegraph Labour accuses Boris Johnson of recycling teacher payment scheme - BBC School exams: What will they look like this year? (video) - BBC Surrey teenager died after reading about suicide on school iPad - Guardian Transgender pupil guidance: Teachers step back from call - Herald Scotland Silverwood 'super school' approved by Wiltshire Council - BBC Covid-19: Teachers isolating more of a concern, head says - BBC Teachers slammed for failing to monitor ‌internet activity of autistic girl before she took her own life - Mail Teenager killed herself after spending hours online at school reading about suicide - Telegraph Diversity and inclusion initiatives generating apathy and cynicism - London School of Economics | LSE The promise of assessment in a business school - Advance HE Minouche Shafik extends term as LSE Director - London School of Economics | LSE Supporting schools to use evidence - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Queen Mary London partners with Huazhong - PIE News Jisc supports government move to make essay mills illegal - Jisc Joint statement on access to e-book and e-textbook content - Jisc School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document for 2021 - NAHT NEU comment on Prime Minister’s speech to Conservative Party Conference - National Education Union Wear Red on 22 October 2021 to add your support to the anti-racist cause Show Racism the Red Card - NAHT Why proposals to reform USS pensions are needed to keep it affordable (video) - Russell Group Networking vital to help teachers through lockdown - Cambridge Network We need to call race by its name in teacher education - BERA Ofqual’s second in command leaves after 7 years at watchdog - Schools Week New dataset gives a full picture of outreach across England - Office for Students David Olusoga: Teach black history ’off grid’ so Tories can’t weaponise it - The Times Work-based learning is a winning formula for secure careers - Herald Scotland A defining moment for Curriculum for Wales – why we must act now to bridge the old world with the new - Education matters ESFA Update: 6 October 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Case study: Implementing the early years foundation stage reforms - DfE Salary boosts for new maths, science and computing teachers - DfE Student finance eligibility: 2021 to 2022 academic year - DfE Recovery premium funding - DfE FE professional development grants pilot - DfE Education Policy Institute responds to the PM’s teacher ‘levelling up premium’ - EPI Scotland: Somerville under fire over literacy and numeracy data - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vaccine problem stops UK teachers overseas coming home - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Limitations' to Scottish Parliament education control - Times Educational Supplement | TES Maths teachers will get £3,000 ‘levelling up premium’ to work in deprived areas - Telegraph 'Unethical' essay mills to be made illegal under new education reform - Independent Boris Johnson offers top teachers £3,000 'levelling up premium' in bid to woo them to underperforming schools - Mail Kids get maths & science boost as Boris Johnson hands teachers £3k ‘levelling up premium’ to move to poorest parts of UK - The Sun 'We are on our knees' say headteachers as they struggle with Covid chaos - Wales Online Nobel Prize for Chemistry won by Scottish-born Professor David WC MacMillan - Herald Scotland MPs call for better support for children with cerebral palsy - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Exams 2022: Schools frustrated at contingency plan delay - SecEd More than 79,000 children in Scotland taking up their 1,140-hour place - Nursery World Loneliness, sleeping problems and eating disorders drive mental health crisis - SecEd Female teachers' pension pots a third smaller, analysis finds - SecEd Schools battle on alone amid 'grim' Covid absence figures - SecEd Some teachers to get paid £3,000 more in ‘levelling up premium’ - Metro Heriot-Watt University hires JLL to 'relaunch' capital research park in historic year - Scotsman Back to school: How are pupils being kept Covid-safe? - BBC £3k ‘level up premium’ to send ‘best’ teachers to in-need areas - Schools Week Boris Johnson: £3K payments for maths and science teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils sitting GCSE and A-level exams in Wales next summer will be awarded fewer top grades - Wales Online Lower exam grades possible for 2022 Welsh students - BBC The 22 colleges and adult ed providers leading FE professional development grant pilots revealed - FE Week Eight tips on creating an inspiring school culture for your staff - UKEdChat Seven takeaways from the Tory Conference - HEPI Black scholarship students start University of Bristol courses - BBC Why aren’t the early careers of FE teachers given proper attention? - FE Week Libraries and publishers must make e-books accessible for all - Wonkhe Essay mills: 'Contract cheating' to be made illegal in England - BBC University essay-writing companies to be outlawed - The Times Schools must act over futile TV watershed, says Ofsted head - The Times Scotland: Free milk funding row heads for court - The Times Covid in Scotland: recovery plan for pupils ‘too timid and short on detail’ - The Times Ireland: Call for action as disadvantaged children lose out in national childcare scheme - The Times