News archive for 19th October 2021

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Durham University blasted over tweet about how students can 'prevent' being spiked - Mirror Scottish teenagers may have to wear face masks in class until next year - Telegraph MPs and nursery staff petition Downing Street over early years funding - Mail Record 111,000 pupils missed school with Covid last week - twice as high as figure last month - Mail Open University professor ‘shunned’ for ‘transphobic’ views set to take legal action - Telegraph Colleges ‘key’ to net zero strategy, says government - FE Week DfE commissioner to take over ‘failing’ Birmingham SEND provision - Schools Week Covid: Where is pupil and teacher absence heading? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Supply cover warning as teacher Covid rate doubles - Times Educational Supplement | TES Good Estate Management for Schools (GEMS): Taking a strategic approach - ASCL ASCL comment on school attendance statistics - ASCL Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: 23 March 2020 to 14 October 2021 - DfE Hundreds of school staff march on Downing Street to save nursery schools - Early Education Hundreds of school staff march on Downing Street to save nursery schools - National Education Union NEU comment on attendance data - 19 October - National Education Union Why higher education should take the ‘signalling critique’ seriously – and what that might look like - HEPI Being a subversive teacher educator - BERA Rona Tutt's SEND summary – October 2021 - NAHT NASUWT welcomes decision to continue Covid-19 safety measures in Scottish schools - NASUWT How to prepare a 5-minute lesson plan - The Educator Five formative assessment strategies to motivate students - Teacher Toolkit ESRC announces finalists for prestigious Celebrating Impact Prize - UKRI Podcaster Mr MoneyJar becomes a National Numeracy Ambassador - National Numeracy Number Confidence Week programme announced - National Numeracy Inspiring teachers to learn together: why our partnership with schools enriches deep learning for early career teachers - IOE London Blog Student Success: retention - Advance HE New £2.8 million research programme to improve lives of children and families - London School of Economics | LSE MP calls for "buffer zones" around schools after anti-vaccine groups targeted parents and children - PoliticsHome Headteacher: I start cleaning classrooms at 7am, cover for teachers who are off, kids are missing out and now I've got Covid - Wales Online Call for ‘buffer zones’ outside schools amid anti-vaccine protests at gates - Independent Edge response to National Baccalaureate Trust 'Towards A National Baccalaureate for England' consultation - Edge Foundation Review of occupational traineeship pilots - Learning & Work Institute What does your school do to support the menopause? This, health and safety measures and parents’ evenings - Teacher Tapp City College Plymouth welcomed as SET Corporate Partner - Education & Training Foundation Schools warned over facial recognition systems - BBC Bedfordshire drivers face fines for idling engines at schools - BBC Students will be able to get Covid jabs outside school - Times Educational Supplement | TES I thought my university course would open doors for me, but all it gave me was mountains of debt - Telegraph Parents protest teaching of LGBTQ+ relationships and 'sexual body parts' in primary school - Express School assemblies cancelled across England as Covid cases rise and vaccines for 12 to 15-year-olds stall - i News The huge wave of Covid ripping through children and teenagers in Wales - Wales Online Record 111,000 school children had Covid last week - Evening Standard Children will be able to book their Covid vaccines online from half-term next week - Mail How are pupils being kept Covid-safe? - BBC Walk-in centres will open for under 16s to boost slow jabs roll-out - Schools Week Conspiracy theorists falsely tell children vaccines will ‘paralyse them’ - Metro Covid cases among school pupils hit record high as number of student coronavirus absences rises again - i News The key changes to independent school inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid vaccine centres will be opened up to teenagers at half term, NHS announces - Mirror Online Covid vaccine booking for children aged 12 to 15 from next week - HuffPost Rise in Covid absence slows, but record numbers still off - Schools Week Early years attendance improves - but numbers still lower than pre-Covid - Nursery World Ofsted schools framework ‘not fit’ for children in care - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Prospects launches UK’s first tech careers fair - Jisc Nursery groups grow their business - Nursery World UK school moves classes online again and brings back masks as Covid cases spike - Mirror Covid in Scotland: Face mask rules to remain in Scottish schools - BBC Scotland: Masks to remain in secondary classes for ‘time being’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could rising wages in the wider economy hit schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid Scotland: High school pupils to continue wearing masks in class - Herald Scotland University strikes: Students’ anger at planned lecturers’ walkout after ‘months of disruption’ from Covid - i News Children fuel English Covid case rise after slow vaccine start - Mail Interview: Joe Hallgarten, Chief Executive, Centre for Education and Youth - Schools Week Interview: Tina Stowell, Baroness Stowell of Beeston - FE Week Performance Tracker 2021: Assessing how public services in England have coped with the Coronavirus crisis - Institute for Government 'Unnecessary chaos!' Doctor demands end to mass Covid testing at schools - Express School cuts use of bell in bid to create calmer environment - Herald Scotland Martin Lewis: Student loan changes could prompt fertility crisis - Financial Times How will new laws on essay mills work? - Wonkhe How Netflix and Skill can transform higher education - Wonkhe Nursery staff to march on Downing Street over funding for schools - Independent DfE Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (October 2021) - UCET 10:00 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into improving life chances of children in care - Accountability Hearings After the David Amess killing, education can play a vital role in instilling moral values in society - The Times Covid in Scotland: Foreign students stay away as housing crisis hits home - The Times Brexit prompts ‘dramatic’ rise in EU demand for Irish teachers of English - The Times