News archive for 7th October 2021

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Hundreds of schools told to stockpile food to make sure children are fed this winter - Mirror Marcus Rashford admits "bittersweet" feeling as he receives honorary doctorate - Mirror Covid cases in schools fuel two-tier pandemic with children and their parents more exposed - i News University defends ‘academic freedoms’ after calls to sack professor - Guardian Heads urge Nadhim Zahawi to end teacher pay freeze - i News Heads urge Nadhim Zahawi to end teacher pay freeze as Education Secretary reveals he is in pay ‘negotiations’ - i News HGV shortages: Caterer tells schools to stock up to make sure pupils have ‘some form of food’ this winter - i News Pro-transgender activists try to ‘bully’ university into sacking professor who questioned their views - Telegraph Giving up on spelling is a betrayal of the young - Telegraph Suffolk: Extra Covid measures brought in at schools - BBC NI grammar schools back common post-primary transfer test - BBC Enhancing Programme Leadership participants first to receive brand new Advance HE digital badges - Advance HE The Sutton Trust partners with Rare Recruitment to promote employability skills - Sutton Trust Oxford’s exports contribute £732m to UK economy - PIE News Improving employment opportunities for learners with SEND - Education & Training Foundation How free school meal eligibility has been changing and why we might need new measures of disadvantage - FFT Education Datalab Teacher Development Trust to become a Forum Strategy Trust Leaders partner - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Taughtology: The incorrect science of teaching wrongly - Learning Scientists Leeds Beckett academic announced as Racial Justice Commission member - Leeds Beckett University ASCL Cymru comment on National Education Workforce Survey report - ASCL Universities must take account of gender when designing bystander interventions to prevent sexual violence - HEPI Supporting teachers who have trained during the pandemic to thrive in their first year of teaching - BERA Bio-researchers of the future get £22.5 million boost - UKRI Pandemic impacting on children’s language development, say parents - EYE | Early Years Educator Investment in outstanding early years staff announced in education secretary’s first speech to the sector - EYE | Early Years Educator Scottish Government 'following in footsteps of Margaret Thatcher' in defence of standardised assessments - Scotsman Sussex University students campaign to have ‘transphobic’ professor Kathleen Stock sacked - The Times Back to school: How are pupils being kept Covid-safe? - BBC Extend PhD support to four years to ease stress, UK funder told - Times Higher Education | THE Kent professor Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Prize in Literature - Times Higher Education | THE Zahawi warned over NHS school Covid tracing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales pledges £36.6m to support Covid recovery for children and families - Nursery World Fun ways to embed IT skills - Computing at School My top ten tips on EdTech tools to support the curriculum - Computing at School The huge numbers of school leaders in Wales considering leaving their jobs - Wales Online Pathways to success - Social Mobility Commission Skills and Post-16 Education Bill: impact assessment and JCHR memorandum - DfE Apprenticeships and traineeships: October 2021 - DfE An Inspector writes... - Teacherhead Searching English publications only ‘misses vital research’ - Times Higher Education | THE School choice and accountability: Does it matter? - Teacher Toolkit The education skills crisis: Urgent action needed - FE News New episode of ​‘Evidence into Action’: Unpicking the updated Teaching and Learning Toolkit - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Young people hit hardest again in full-year apprenticeship figures - FE Week Cambridgeshire schools asked to bring back masks - BBC Green light for £38m special school in Wiltshire - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Zahawi squirms as he dismisses claims of 'recycling' discarded education plans - Express Nadhim Zahawi admits masks could return in schools to thwart Covid this winter - Mail 60 Scottish primary schools sign up to Young Enterprise Scotland's 'Circular Economy Challenge' - Herald Scotland ‘No return to school bubbles’ despite 200,000 pupils missing class - but masks could return - Independent Nobel winner: I owe my success to Scottish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Zahawi: Masks in class could return to curb Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools can seek Ofsted deferral for vaccine clashes - Schools Week Masks face returning to schools this winter to tackle Covid surge - The Sun More than 10,000 children missed school for Covid reasons last week in Wales - Wales Online Professor David WC MacMillan: Success wouldn’t have happened if I wasn’t Scottish - Herald Scotland Seven-year pension gap for Anglesey teachers 'should be investigated' - BBC 2021 autumn A-level ‘resit’ entries plummet 56% - Schools Week Education sex abuse helpline granted three-month lifeline - Schools Week Live lectures with full capacity start again at Welsh universities - Wales Online Nadhim Zahawi: pupils may have to wear masks again if Covid cases rise - Guardian Universities should take spelling and grammar into account when marking exams, England’s regulator says - Independent Just 2% of promised CO2 monitors delivered to schools - Schools Week When is October half term and what are the remaining 2021 UK school holiday dates? - Mirror £3,000 bonus pay for teachers to work in failing schools praised as 'a good idea' - Express Schools in Wales told to improve BAME history teaching - BBC New EPI research on school efficiency: your feedback needed - EPI Covid-19: NI schools warned about hoax vaccine letters - BBC Poor spelling by students must not be tolerated, universities told - Telegraph Scotland's students face accommodation 'nightmare' - BBC Powys parents pledge legal action to stop school closure - BBC MPs urge ministers to look at ways to provide 'greater security' to childcare sector - Nursery World Universities must not disregard poor spelling and grammar - Office for Students Scientists develop model to assess COVID-19 infection risk in offices and schools - Cambridge Network Covid is rising in schools, here's what it means for you - HuffPost Understanding the differences and similarities between HE providers is an art - Wonkhe How will universities score in the great OfS spelling bee? - Wonkhe Ministers must 'catch up' with recovery effort - heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Inclusive assessment’ is lowering spelling standards in higher education – OfS - FE Week Universities ‘failing to mark down students’ for poor writing skills - Guardian OfSTED Inspections of ITE: a briefing paper for UCET members - UCET Robin Ince: scientists ‘love mucking around and playing with ideas’ - Times Higher Education | THE OfS threatens action on spelling and grammar standards - Times Higher Education | THE London bearing the brunt of skills shortages, say city bosses - City AM Stop ignoring poor spelling, watchdog tells universities - The Times Pupil killed herself after reading suicide stories on school’s iPad - The Times Scotland: Glasgow graduate wins Nobel prize with ‘magic wand’ for making drugs - The Times Scotland: National primary tests will continue - The Times University grade inflation fears as tutors ignore poor English in policies to drive 'inclusivity' - Mail