News archive for 10th October 2021

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UK’s ‘strictest’ headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh made social mobility chief - Guardian England’s ‘strictest headteacher’ Katharine Birbalsingh appointed social mobility tsar - i News Strictest head teacher Katharine Birbalsingh gets levelling-up job - Sunday Times Pupils don’t know enough about Wales’ diverse cultural history, report finds - Wales Online School bans teachers from using ‘good’ or ‘bad’ to describe pupil behaviour - i News Building understanding: Supporting students to assemble their own schema - Teacherhead Scottish Labour calls for school ventilation update in Parliament - Scotsman Devon teenagers inspire English schools with mental health resources - Guardian Proof that shows teachers are not at greater risk of catching Covid in school - Mirror Feminist university professor is told to get bodyguards after balaclava-clad students demanded she be sacked - Mail Liz Truss says Whitehall and business should ditch quotas as she hires Britain's toughest head teacher to become new social mobility tsar - Mail Covid in Wales: Measures failing to help schools, unions say - BBC Professor accused of Islamophobia blasts university bosses for saying they 'recognised students' concerns' - Mail University World News - UK and global edition: week ending 10th October 2021 - University World News Britain needs more private schools, not fewer - Telegraph Is Britain's record breaking vaccine rollout faltering for children? - Mail Tory MP says the phrase 'white privilege' is racist and teachers who use it should be disciplined - Mail Pick the wrong degree and even wedding bells are less likely - Guardian Teachers who use term 'white privilege' should be reported as extremists, MP claims - Express Katharine Birbalsingh to become government’s new social mobility tsar - Schools Week Universities spend tens of thousands of pounds on 'hate crime and racism investigators' - Mail There’s no point moaning about media coverage of FE - FE Week Technology in the classroom – challenges & opportunities - UKEdChat Marking, marking, marking - Teacher Toolkit NAHT policy conference comes to a close - NAHT Birbalsingh to be appointed as chair of Social Mobility Commission - Social Mobility Commission LA schools left out of new ministers’ travel plans - Schools Week Children denied access to after school sports clubs across Scotland - Scotsman Schools focus on basic skills to improve poorest children’s chances - Financial Times Journals launch ‘citation justice’ to make academics include ‘diverse’ races and genders in footnotes - Telegraph Schools urged to keep sports courts open to help drive down obesity rates - The Sun Female students at Cambridge to be told: You risk childlessness - Sunday Times Covid in Scotland: Exam year pupils can cast off masks in Scots schools - Sunday Times Kathleen Stock, the Sussex University professor in trans row, urged to get bodyguards - Sunday Times Why are the vast majority of under-16s unvaccinated? - Sunday Times