News archive for 8th October 2021

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Could computers mark pupils' work to save teachers time? Nadhim Zahawi believes technology could help reduce workload - Mail Scotland: Luxury student complex in Glasgow 'unfinished and filthy' - BBC Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 08 October 2021 - Education Eye How employers are benefitting from T Level industry placements - Education & Skills Funding Agency Early years foundation stage profile handbook - DfE Senior mental health lead training grant funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency Liverpool school begins inclusive children's book scheme (video) - BBC Marcus Rashford: Receiving honorary degree is bittersweet (video) - BBC 1 in 15 secondary pupils now test positive for Covid - Schools Week 1 in 14 pupils at English secondary schools have Covid, ONS data shows - Guardian World Mental Health Day: Key concerns, best practice and research around young people’s mental health - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Memorandum of understanding between Ofsted and DfE: independent schools - Ofsted Bouncing back with Number Confidence Week 2021 - National Numeracy BERA ECR Career Development Fellowship Award & BERA Undergraduate Award winners - BERA What do proposed ‘covenant protection measures’ mean for USS? (video) - Russell Group Peter Scott: How do we tackle the crisis of mass higher education? - HEPI Peer learning - greater than the sum of the parts - Advance HE Statement in memory of John Callaghan - AoC | Association of Colleges Employers have lost faith in inflated exam grades - The Times University of Sussex backs professor in free speech row - BBC Clean-air monitors for schools in Wales delayed by 'supply chain hold ups' - Wales Online Why levelling up must focus on 'The Forgotten Third' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The variety of life: Why teach secondary? - UKEdChat PhD supervision ‘undervalued’ by UK universities - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Little sign of progress’ on UK association to Horizon Europe - Times Higher Education | THE Skills skills skills: a view of Conservative Party Conference 2021 - FE News It’s time to rethink how we support the most disadvantaged to make the jump from school to work - Edge Foundation College brings back face masks after rise in Covid cases - FE Week Capital City College Group welcomed as SET Corporate Partner - Education & Training Foundation | ETF ITV news reports: why workplace role models matter in primary schools - Education and Employers New teacher support research - Education & Training Foundation | ETF EEF publishes new guidance on professional development - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Maximising the benefit of professional development - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF ‘It was war’: school-run parents tackle petrol crisis traffic chaos - Guardian Covid infections among young secondary pupils increase - Mail Number of secondary students with Covid hits 1 in 15 - Times Educational Supplement | TES How the funding gap between state schools and private schools has dramatically widened - New Statesman Scotland: Council votes to stop money from £1.6million trust fund being spent on local children's education - Mail Tributes paid after death of ‘larger than life’ principal John Callaghan - FE Week Gap in spending per student between private and state schools has more than doubled over the last decade - Nuffield Foundation Trustees leave as new investigation opens at Holland Park - Schools Week Mandatory college visits in pipeline for pupils’ careers education - Schools Week Safeguarding failures exposed in trust’s failed High Court challenge - Schools Week Covid vaccinations in schools lag behind demand - Schools Week Lords in Skills Bill dissent - FE Week Directed time cap safeguarded as schools extend hours - Schools Week Give us coherence, not competition, please chancellor - FE Week Baker to take on government over ‘inadequate’ careers guidance laws - FE Week Marcus Rashford: universal credit cut comes at ‘most difficult’ time - Guardian Funding gap between state and private schools has widened, report finds - Independent The growing gap between state school and private school spending - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Drawing teachers to areas of need: A path well-travelled is a path better-known - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Parents threaten to sue school if kids given Covid jabs without parental consent - Mirror NCFE scoops £38m prize in battle for T Level contracts - FE Week ASCL comment on IFS analysis of state and private school spending gap - ASCL The state of higher education at the start of the 2021 academic year - HEPI English private school fees 90% higher than state school spending per pupil - Guardian Ministers criticised for ‘haphazard’ Covid jab rollout for teenagers in England - Guardian The Universal Credit cut is also a cut to education - Schools Week Experts challenge ministers over £3k ‘levelling up premium’ - Schools Week Glasgow schoolchildren dig in for Queen's 70th Jubilee tree planting initiative - Herald Scotland Red tape forces small firms to turn their backs on apprenticeship cash incentives - FE Week Schools swap salmon for sandwiches as food supply problems bite - Schools Week PhD supervisors need better support, recognition and reward - Wonkhe We won’t win the argument on EDI by hiding under some coats - Wonkhe Schools told to stock up on tinned food amid fears of shortages - Independent School dinner choice is slashed and staff told to stockpile 'long-life, dried, tinned and frozen food' - Mail NAHT wants more support to ease heads’ workload - Schools Week Private school fees vs state funding gap doubles - Times Educational Supplement | TES Listen to us to avoid more U-turns, heads tell Zahawi - Times Educational Supplement | TES Study shows state and private schools cash gap doubles - BBC State vs private school funding gap widens - Schools Week Education funding gap in England doubles over 10 years - Financial Times Forcing vaccinated international students to isolate ‘unfair’ - Times Higher Education | THE Spending gap between private and state schools doubles as they spend £6,500 more per pupil - Mail Schools dinners cut back as deliveries held up by HGV and fuel crisis - The Times State spending per pupil half of average private school fee - The Times