News archive for 12th October 2021

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Gordonstoun has a 'moral obligation' to help its abuse victims, says ex-pupil - Mail Fertility experts say if we’re teaching girls fertility lessons, we should be teaching boys too - i News Professor says career ‘effectively ended’ by union’s transphobia claims - Guardian The challenges of effective assessment in the modern business school - Advance HE Expanding our employability provision: Sutton Trust Careers and Pathways Online - Sutton Trust Three new Research Fellows join EPI - EPI Mentoring support for senior leaders available now - Education & Training Foundation | ETF How can we get more young people to achieve Level 3 qualifications? - FFT Education Datalab NPQ courses are now fully government funded for you and your staff - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Leeds Beckett’s first full degree apprentice student celebrates graduation - Leeds Beckett University Do you embrace unread emails or does it make you scream? This and other findings… - Teacher Tapp BERA announces new committee members - BERA What’s in a name? The rise of the practitioner academic and time to reconsider standardised induction support - BERA Trusts and LA-maintained schools: Would a formal trust partnership work for you? - ASCL UKRI seeks new Director of International - UKRI DfE expands free development and training - Ambition Institute Black History Month: Betty Campbell - NAHT RISE Education Systems Diagnostic Framework pilot project - UKFIET | Education and Development Forum Former Gordonstoun pupil was groped by physics teacher at school, inquiry hears - Scotsman Becoming a science superpower: Why the Government should set an ambitious trajectory to invest £22 billion in R&D - HEPI Covid: DfE tells schools to limit extended absences - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lecturers' union has 'effectively ended' my career, says professor at centre of gender identity row - Telegraph Senior black scientists claim research in the UK is 'institutionally racist' - Mail 12-15 vaccine take-up just 3% in some areas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Responses to the OfS's review of assessment practices for spelling, punctuation and grammar - Office for Students Case studies on post-16 transition - DfE Student Loans Company pays Maintenance Loan support to a record number of students - Student Loans Company Covid: Hertfordshire schools introduce stricter measures - BBC Kathleen Stock: UCU statement ‘ends my career’ at Sussex - Times Higher Education | THE What works for K-6 students at risk for failure in math and reading - Best Evidence in Brief Mathematics interventions for adolescents with mathematics difficulties: A meta-analysis - Best Evidence in Brief The importance of monitoring the success of an intervention program - Best Evidence in Brief The medium-term effects of tutoring - Best Evidence in Brief School bans teachers from using ‘good’ and ‘bad’ to describe behaviour - Independent Back to school: How are pupils being kept Covid-safe? - BBC Teachers need help to win over parents on sex education, says charity - Evening Standard Scotland: Vaccination progress 'needed before mask rule change' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Need to know: SQA exams 2022 - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK’s ‘strictest headteacher’ to lead Social Mobility Commission - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Long-term youth unemployment increasing, ONS warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Union throws feminist professor under a bus in transphobia row - Mail Muslim headteacher continued teaching after she was convicted of running illegal Islamic private school - Mail Green Party welcomes inclusion of climate and nature priorities in Skills and Post-16 Education Bill - FE News British science research is institutionally racist, say professors - The Times 'Sticks in the throat': Private schools spend at least £6,800 more per-pupil - SecEd When is October half-term 2021? Date of the next school holidays around UK explained - i News Children aged 12 locked in youth jail rooms for up to 23 hours a day for crimes - Mirror Glasgow School of Art appoints interim chairwoman after Muriel Gray stands down - Herald Scotland Parents warned vaccinate your kids or they could be kicked out of school lessons - Express £184m NPQs funding now available to all schools after DfE U-turn - Schools Week Glasgow School of Art appoints interim chair as search to replace Muriel Gray continues - Scotsman It’s a delicate business, this assessment reform - FE Week The battle for the future of assessment: ‘We must hasten slowly’ - Schools Week Over £300 million to attract and develop world-class teachers and leaders - DfE Funding: initial teacher training (ITT) - DfE Universities have a key role in ensuring that Black Careers Matter - Wonkhe It’s report stage in the Lords for an unwieldy Bill - Wonkhe Beyond the counselling room, what could university mental health support be? - Wonkhe U-turn: DfE revives teacher trainee bursaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Robin Walker: Teacher development and recruitment are key - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sage needs more disciplinary and geographic diversity, say MPs - Times Higher Education | THE English universities await clarity on impact of GCSE entry bar - Times Higher Education | THE DfE: Financial incentives for ITT courses starting in 2022/2023 (October 21) - UCET False positive lateral flow tests in children double in a week - Telegraph Let’s stop being so quick to axe funding when colleges falter - FE News Teachers urged not to read out n-word if it appears in literature - The Times Behaviour is never ‘bad’, school rules - The Times Graduate trainees offered £15,000 to teach ‘elitist’ Latin - The Times Rhodes plaque is overly critical, say Oxford dons - The Times Universities union backs trans rights over threatened professor Kathleen Stock - The Times Ireland: Council boss slammed for telling students to build own accommodation - The Times