News archive for 20th October 2021

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Call to let retired doctors jab schoolchildren as vaccinations falter - Telegraph Why would I bother writing reports when no one reads them, says new social mobility tsar - Telegraph Schools should stay open as greatest risk of Covid transmission is in households, research finds - Guardian Universities ‘working with bars and police’ on student safety amid fears over spiking with injections - Independent Social mobility tsar wants campaign against toddlers having mobile phones - Guardian Parent-shaming new tsar flunks on our children's education - Mirror Covid-19 costs put pressure on school budgets - BBC Universities increasing security at venues and working with police amid ‘spiking by injection’ fears - i News 'No evidence' of post-Covid primary headteacher exodus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Birbalsingh says better behaviour key to solving Covid learning loss - Schools Week FE staff offered scholarships to explore gaps in sector’s research - FE Week Tackling behaviour would speed up catch up, MPs told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government to oversee Birmingham's SEND services - BBC MPs to debate petitions relating to university tuition fees - UK Parliament The Prevent Duty and ICT policies in higher education (HE) - DfE The Prevent Duty in higher education (HE): training and guidance for practitioners - DfE Nine Armed Forces settings rated good or outstanding under Ofsted new inspection regime - Ofsted ESFA Update: 20 October 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 allocation data: 2021 to 2022 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Industry placements: capacity and delivery fund (CDF) for providers delivering in the 2022 to 2023 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency School staff instructor funding grant: conditions of grant - Education & Skills Funding Agency Funding allocations to training providers: 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency OfS sets out funding proposals for world-leading specialist providers - Office for Students Sturgeon slammed for delaying 'getting normality back' in schools with face mask order - Express New social mobility tsar calls for campaign urging busy parents not to keep toddlers amused with mobile phones - Mail Teachers left looking over their shoulder by Ofsted’s ‘reign of terror’, claims education chief - Independent Use of facial recognition in schools: what we know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Give us dates, say leaders as £22 billion pledge hangs in balance - Times Higher Education | THE Parental involvement: Does it contribute positively? - UKEdChat The impact of moving employability training online: A review of EY Foundation programme delivery during lockdown - Learning & Work Institute Early education and childcare is a dysfunctional system in need of a radical re-think - Nuffield Foundation First ever apprentice solicitor in central government - IfATE Government urged to restore school Covid safety measures - NASUWT How AoC and NCFE are tackling the lack of data and evidence in FE - AoC | Association of Colleges The rebalancing-act of public research and development - HEPI Treasury responds to consultation on public service pensions cost control mechanism - NAHT Russell Group response to ministerial letter on medical and dental places for 2022 - Russell Group Government funding for future farm tech to meet net zero goals - UKRI Early Years Blog Fest 2021 - EYE | Early Years Educator NEU comment on Government Covid strategy - National Education Union The huge numbers of pupils missing school in Wales for Covid and unauthorised absence - Wales Online COP26: Glasgow schools closed to avoid 'long journeys' for pupils - Herald Scotland Bristol schoolgirl's award for tackling racism and sexism - BBC ‘Complex and confusing’ early years system is failing families, researchers warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Hundreds of schools scrap assemblies and bring back masks as Covid tears through secondary pupils - Mail Kathleen Stock and Sussex University: the war over academic freedom - New Statesman Busy Bees Training launches Level 5 Early Years apprenticeship - Nursery World 'Dysfunctional' childcare system in urgent need of reform - report - Nursery World 2 DfE commissioner to take over 'failing' SEND services - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two years and still waiting: SEND Review anger - SecEd Ofsted labelled a 'reign of terror' and 'toxic brand' - SecEd Wreaking havoc: Staff Covid-related absence hitting teaching and learning - SecEd School anti-vax protestors urged to 'see sense and stop this nonsense' - SecEd Anti-vaxxers in Nuremberg trial threat to school staff - Evening Standard Universal Credit training flexibility extended by six months - FE Week Teachers' leader slams Ofsted for 'reign of terror' - Times Educational Supplement | TES EYFS Profile: Why the impact of Covid can't be ignored - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Supply teacher shortage could force schools to close - BBC Why we must ‘future proof’ young peoples jobs and skills to re-start generational progress - IPPR How are universities addressing the climate and ecological emergency? - Universities UK Universities commit to action on climate - Universities UK Six things we need to solve the climate crisis - Universities UK Selfish university lecturers are putting their own needs first with their threat to strike - Telegraph Covid in Scotland: Campaigners blast pupil mask rules - Herald Scotland Muslim students call for interest-free alternative to student loans - Financial Times Three things the government’s sustainability strategy for education must do - Wonkhe Universities set to push towards net zero target - Wonkhe Supporting the Covid cohort with transition to higher education - Wonkhe New teachers more likely to get temporary job than permanent one as MSP Willie Rennie warns of 'plummeting' figures - Scotsman DfE must 'urgently' publish SEND review, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: New teachers' chances of permanent job 'plummeting' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Give every prisoner in-cell access to the internet, charity tells chancellor - FE Week School steps in to give classes to Afghan children living in hotel (video) - BBC Will England go it alone and reverse university expansion? - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities sign up to climate commitments ahead of COP26 - Times Higher Education | THE To address climate change, universities need sustainable funding - Times Higher Education | THE NHS ‘in need of 5,000 more medical students’ - The Times University of Sunderland’s IT system still disabled a week after cyberattack - The Times Teachers condemn Ofsted ‘reign of terror’ - The Times Covid in Scotland: Get inoculated and keep masks on in class, pupils told - The Times Scotland: Quiet revolution as school phases out bell for lessons - The Times