News archive for 14th October 2021

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Covid: Ozone machine school plans scrapped over safety - BBC Use cheap but accurate Covid tests at half-term - The Times How do you solve a problem like academies? - Schools Week This is how many children were off school for Covid-related reasons in Wales last week - Wales Online Bomb squad called to school after pupil brought hand grenade into history lesson - Mirror Cambridge University halts £400m deal with UAE over Pegasus spyware claims - Guardian Kingston University's new social and study space 'Town House' wins 2021 Riba Stirling Prize for architecture - Mail Gap between poor and affluent students going to university widest for 14 years - Mail Academic calls on universities minister to defend her freedom of speech - Guardian British deputy head shortlisted for $1m global prize - Times Educational Supplement | TES Faith school which segregated staff finally shut down - Schools Week Who’s Left 2021: Looking at the extent to which pupils leave schools and where they go - FFT Education Datalab More time needed for Welsh schools to implement major curriculum and qualification reforms - NASUWT ASCL Cymru comment on independent review into attendance statistics in Welsh schools - ASCL ASCL Cymru comment on Qualifications Wales ‘Qualified for the Future’ proposals - ASCL Social justice through non-violence: Not purely an intellectual endeavour - BERA Speech to the World Universities Network: The landscape for globally engaged research universities - HEPI Wales national conversation on qualifications - National Education Union NEU comment on UCL research showing families in need turning to schools for support with clothing and food - National Education Union £2.8 million for research to improve the lives of children and families - Nuffield Foundation Toolkit: Apprenticeships that work for all - Social Mobility Commission Widening participation in higher education: 2021 - DfE Inspectorates: Urgent action needed at Oakhill Secure Training Centre - Ofsted Amanda Spielman letter to the Secretary of State for Justice about Oakhill Secure Training Centre - Ofsted New employment figures raise further recruitment concerns for early years - EYE | Early Years Educator Celebrating T Levels one year on - Education & Training Foundation Improving the life chances of children in care – Education Committee to quiz experts - UK Parliament Activate Learning appoints new chief executive - Activate Learning Covid crisis reveals how schools are ‘propping up a failing welfare state’ - IOE London Blog Living and learning during a pandemic: what can children tell us? - IOE London Blog Rethinking social mobility for the levelling up era - Policy Exchange A year of Future Leaders - Villiers Park Educational Trust A fair start? Increasing funding for disadvantaged children in early years settings - Sutton Trust 71% of international students intend to stay in UK to work after graduating - PIE News UK independent providers plan export growth - PIE News The big questions about the GCSE exams set to go ahead in Wales next month - Wales Online The picture on widening HE participation gets worse the closer you look - FE Week GCSEs: New subjects launched as part of overhaul in Wales - BBC Schools should only allow absences arising from Covid pandemic ‘in exceptional circumstances’, heads reminded - Independent 204,000 pupils absent from class due to Covid - Evening Standard Zahawi's first month: What we know so far - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted subject reviews 'risk schools having 2 masters' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Activate unveils new chief exec and plans for another merger - FE Week Schools 'propping up welfare state' during pandemic, researchers warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Improvement notice issued over ‘unlawful’ use of force at Oakhill STC - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Five-year University of Oxford study will look at how to improve the lives of children and families - Nursery World Teachers brand new tests for four- and five-year-olds 'a waste of time' - Nursery World Schools acting as ‘first responders’ to families impacted by Covid - Nursery World Schools gave food and clothes to poor families due to lack of welfare safety net - Mirror A levels: Teachers to get compensation for 2021 appeals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools told to crack down on Covid absences after 200,000 children missed lessons last week - Mail Concerning rise in Covid cases in young as R rate in parts of UK ‘as high as 1.6’ - The Sun The reported effects of the pandemic on pupils in special schools and colleges and what they need now - NFER ASCL comment on UCL research into how schools are ‘propping up a failing welfare state’ - ASCL Paying more for less? Careers and employability support for international students at UK universities - HEPI Liverpool teacher shortlisted for $1m global teacher prize - Guardian British teacher in final for million dollar global prize - Mail 1,000 schools connected to top-of-the-class full fibre broadband - DfE UCAS statement following HEPI and Kaplan’s report on international students’ expectations and experiences of careers and employability support - UCAS Global Teacher Prize: Liverpool man named $1m global award finalist - BBC GCSEs: New subjects launched as part of overhaul in Wales - BBC Poorer children should be allowed to garden at school to help mental health after lockdowns, study finds - i News Careers and employability support “critical” to drive enrolments - PIE News New GCSE subjects announced in Wales but with fewer traditional science, maths and languages exams - Wales Online The vast sums spent by Welsh councils on supply teachers in schools - Wales Online International students need more relevant careers support if UK is to remain a destination of choice - HEPI Brexit: Lecturers and students pile on pressure over Erasmus - Herald Scotland Three ways to help underrepresented groups into higher education - Wonkhe The room where it happens – and who can enter it - Wonkhe Pupil abuse in special school secure rooms filmed on CCTV - BBC Shadow women's minister wades into Sussex University professor trans row - HuffPost Christian parents to sue the Government over school's transgender policies - Mail 9 in 10 teachers say baseline test is 'waste of time' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid 'has exposed the impact of poverty on schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Schools ‘picking up the pieces’ amid lack of support services - Schools Week Covid cases among pupils 'high and rising', study shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Embed climate change education into all degrees, academics urge - Times Higher Education | THE Four in 10 UK PhD students ‘at high risk of suicide’, says study - Times Higher Education | THE International students struggle to access work experience opportunities in UK - Mail Schools providing basic needs like food to struggling families, report finds - Mail Michelle Donelan: Intimidation of Kathleen Stock is an attack on democratic ideals - The Times Schools told to curb virus-related pupil absences - The Times Schoolboy’s parents sue over Church of England school’s gender-neutral rules - The Times University of Sunderland is latest to be hit by cyberattack - The Times Scotland: Courses threatened by big fall in EU student numbers - The Times