News archive for 9th October 2021

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Focus on ‘equality of opportunity’ not quotas, Government urged - Telegraph Allow young children to use vaccine centres to accelerate ‘incredibly slow’ rollout, government told - Independent Bring back school bubbles system amid rising Covid cases, says union - Telegraph The government’s mystifying failure to ‘level up’ schools - Financial Times Not enough black headteachers in England, says Nadhim Zahawi - Guardian Universities have a moral duty to defend dissident academics like Kathleen Stock - Telegraph Schools must employ more black headteachers, says Nadhim Zahawi - Telegraph Coronavirus: Safety measures in schools - National Education Union Thousands oppose ‘hateful’ anti-abortion society at Exeter University amid ‘free speech’ row - Independent Lack of black headteachers ‘not good enough’, says Education Secretary - Metro Headteachers call for ‘pointless’ Sats exams in 2022 to be cancelled amid ‘unfair’ Covid-19 disruption - i News 'Not enough black headteachers' says Zahawi - Times Educational Supplement | TES Zahawi won’t set ‘arbitrary deadline’ for academy ambition - Schools Week Rookie teachers are quitting before the end of their first year in class over pay and too much work - The Sun SEND review is a 'high priority', Zahawi tells heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: 'Ridiculous' to hold Sats in 2022, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Delays set to push Covid jabs for teens in England into Christmas period - Guardian UK unions call for tighter Covid safety measures in schools as cases surge - Guardian Act now to control Covid 'surge' in schools, DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unions demand return to school bubbles and masks in classrooms - Metro Move to scrap teacher hours cap an 'insult', say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford college’s wealth boost exposes academia’s haves and have-nots - Guardian Bring back bubbles and masks in classroom, unions tell Zahawi - Schools Week Universities see EU students halve post-Brexit as non-EU numbers rise - BBC Teachers who use term 'white privilege' should be reported as extremists says Tory - Mirror Dear Nadhim Zahawi, the Tories vowed to ‘eradicate illiteracy’ years ago. What went wrong? - Guardian ‘Big squeeze’: UK university applicants facing stiffest competition in years - Guardian Complexity: Is it time to consider the need for simplicity? - UKEdChat Warm words from the Conservative Party conference must be matched with money - FE Week Calls grow for reform of ELQ rules - FE Week A new era for Further Education - FE News Policy conference - day one roundup - NAHT Education Secretary addresses NAHT Conference - DfE ETF mulls scheme to bring out-of-work professionals into FE teaching - FE Week Thousands oppose ‘hateful’ anti-abortion society at Exeter University amid ‘free speech’ row - Independent Nadhim Zahawi vows to tackle persistent pupil absences 'head on' - BBC Zahawi: I'll put wellbeing at heart of schools policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Zahawi pledges to put wellbeing ‘at the centre of everything we do in schools’ - Schools Week Education Secretary vows to tackle persistent absenteeism of children head on - Mail Socialist Eton ‘belittled pupils who struggled’ - The Times Professor hits back in ‘toxic’ transgender row - The Times Nadim Zahawi interview: ‘Millions of children are jabbed in the US and Europe. It’s the right thing’ - The Times Manmade? That’s sexist, students told - The Times Pupils warned after acting out Netflix’s Squid Game - The Times Ireland: Affordable housing crisis forces Dublin students to commute for hours - The Times