News archive for 21st October 2021

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Schools must not teach children that white privilege is a fact, Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi warns - Mail Hanging by a thread: How the system is failing SEND children - Schools Week Bootcamps evaluation rings spending review alarm bells - FE Week Colonel hits out at ‘howling mob’ of student protesters who disrupted university talk - Telegraph Seven-pupil Welsh school gets hope it may yet survive - BBC English schools must not teach ‘white privilege’ as fact, government warns - Guardian ‘White privilege’ should not be taught in schools as fact, says Nadhim Zahawi - Telegraph More than 80,000 half-term meals for Birmingham children - BBC Schools told not to teach 'white privilege' as fact - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools in UK’s worst Covid hotspots in South West urged to restore masks and cancel assemblies - i News Student Success: progression - Advance HE Non verbal signals in the classroom - Teacher Toolkit Opinion: The new Level 5 early years lead practitioner apprenticeship - EYE | Early Years Educator Secondary school performance tables in England: 2020 to 2021 - DfE Skills Bootcamps wave 1: process evaluation - DfE Young people’s experiences of careers information, advice and guidance - DfE Left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds: response to the select committee report - DfE Developing the regulatory toolkit - Office for Students Destinations of key stage 4 and 5 students: 2020 - DfE Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn 2020 and spring 2021 - DfE Higher-level learners in England: 2018 to 2019 - DfE School and college performance tables in England: 2020 to 2021 - DfE St Andrews University brings in safety measures over drink-spiking concerns - Guardian More schools reintroduce face masks as string of councils adopt Covid-fighting measures amid spike in cases - Mail Schools told not to teach contested views on white privilege as fact - Mail Pupils likely to lose £16,000 in future earnings due to pandemic, report warns - Independent Provision recognised as higher education for funding purposes - Education & Skills Funding Agency Improving Board diversity and inclusion - Advance HE IOE Director on valuing a greater diversity of modern foreign language options - IOE London Blog Schools face sending whole classes home after spike in Covid cases - PoliticsHome Jisc backs sector efforts to tackle climate change - Jisc EPI calls for 'significant, additional funding' for education recovery - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Why higher education should take the ‘signalling critique’ seriously – and what that might look like - Social Market Foundation | SMF Joining the Green College Commitment - Education & Training Foundation Digest 156: Learning (more) about neurodiversity - Learning Scientists Apprenticeships and traineeships are crucial to helping young people to succeed - Learning & Work Institute Black history is British history - Teach First UK skills shortage update: The latest data on the current state of play - Learning & Work Institute NAHT marches to Downing Street to hand over petition in support of maintained nursery schools - NAHT Response to HEPI report on regional research and levelling up - Russell Group OfS issues new guidance on reportable events - Wonkhe UKRI research features in Design Museum exhibition tackling waste - UKRI Corporate Engagement Award: National Numeracy proud to have been included on the shortlist - National Numeracy Pupils face income loss of £46,000 due to Covid disruption - Nursery World Teachers demand update on £400 for assessment work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don’t teach ‘contested views’ on white privilege as fact, DfE tells schools - Schools Week All secondary school pupils and staff in entire county told to wear masks again - Mirror Councils order masks in schools to stem Covid absence - Times Educational Supplement | TES Birmingham City Council issued with direction notice over SEND failures - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Spending review: Experts call for £13.5bn for education recovery - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Suffolk nursery wins award for SEND provision - Nursery World Nursery schools petition Chancellor ahead of spending review - Nursery World Spending Review Autumn 2021: Chancellor urged to invest in babies and children - Nursery World Why girls' exclusion rates are rising and how to fix it - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let’s have a collective post-18 system for HE and FE - FE Week Covid: Children missed 219 million days in school during spring term - Schools Week Erdington's school walk safety pilot 'a positive step' - BBC Teacher recruitment and career intentions during the Covid-19 pandemic - Teacher Tapp Education recovery and resilience in England: Phase two report (October 2021) - EPI ASCL comment on EPI report into lost learning during pandemic and call for significant funding at Spending Review - ASCL Catching the wave: harnessing regional research and development to level up - HEPI Bulletin 9: Skills shortages in the UK economy - Edge Foundation Covid disruption could cost pupils in England up to £46,000, finds report - Guardian NEU comment on EPI report on education recovery funding - National Education Union New report says R&D spending should focus on the regions as part of ‘levelling up’ - HEPI Why it’s time to retire Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion - Wonkhe What is a “world class specialist” provider? - Wonkhe £78bn wage hit from pandemic lost learning - study - BBC Make climate education compulsory and give us £1.5bn to build sustainable campuses, colleges tell government - FE Week Fall in teachers quitting for 2nd year due to pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for parents to help choose Covid catch-up tutors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disadvantaged schools reap benefits of Covid teacher market - Schools Week Report warns pupils could lose £16,000 in future earnings due to missed lessons - Mail Can researchers navigate the ethical minefield of protest trials? - Times Higher Education | THE Redraw research success measures to back levelling-up, says v-c - Times Higher Education | THE Gender gap in article submissions rose early in pandemic – study - Times Higher Education | THE Students tell of ‘spiking by syringe’ on the dancefloor - The Times