News archive for 22nd October 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 22 October 2021 - Education Eye More than a million schoolchildren face increased Covid restrictions - Telegraph Covid infections at record high among schoolchildren - Express Emergency teaching cover appeal by NI special schools - BBC How to enhance PGR research culture - Advance HE How to survive, and thrive, through an Ofsted deep dive into computing - Computing at School UK and US college leaders debate post-Covid-19 ‘next normal’ - Jisc AoC responds to Sutton Trust research, Going further: Extending the pupil premium to post-16 settings - AoC | Association of Colleges What does secondary school absence look like this year? - FFT Education Datalab Did the first wave of the pandemic increase the socio-economic achievement gap? - FFT Education Datalab Babington welcomed as SET Corporate Partner - Education & Training Foundation The perils of sharing good practice - UKEdChat School spending per pupil highest in Scotland, lowest in Northern Ireland - Nuffield Foundation What does teaching and learning look like in England this year? - Universities UK End point assessment organisations given more time to apply for Ofqual recognition - IfATE ASCL comment on IFS report showing school spending per pupil in Northern Ireland is lowest in the UK - ASCL ASCL Cymru survey shows Covid is continuing to cause havoc in Welsh schools - ASCL Urgent investment needed in teachers' pay - NASUWT Don't make £141bn student debt nightmare worse, university staff warn government ahead of spending review - UCU NEU comment on report by Education Select Committee: White working-class pupils - National Education Union Universities in an era of neo-nationalism - HEPI Against empiricism - BERA Early education and childcare system needs ‘radical re-think’ a new report finds - EYE | Early Years Educator Years to get children back on track after Covid - BBC Changes in the USS pension scheme explained - Russell Group Policy paper: Student finance eligibility - DfE Case study: How Rochdale Council became a Top 100 Apprenticeship employer through their work in schools - Education & Skills Funding Agency Case study: How a multi academy trust supports their workforce development using the apprenticeship levy - Education & Skills Funding Agency National Apprenticeship Awards 2021 regional winners announced - Education & Skills Funding Agency Education Committee to question Higher and Further Education Minister Michelle Donelan MP and university leaders - UK Parliament English schools struggle to cope as Covid wreaks havoc - Guardian New alliance to stop schools being swept under MAT - Schools Week University of Dundee staff set to strike from Monday in protest to pension scheme closure - Herald Scotland Teach British children about country’s slave trade history, public say - Independent Clark to PM: don’t fiddle the figures on science spending pledge - Times Higher Education | THE Nine in 10 university students have had Covid jab, survey finds - Mail Scottish children are being used as guinea pigs for a surveillance state - Herald Scotland Nine in 10 university students have received at least one Covid jab - Independent Education policy beyond the school gates - FED | Foundation for Education Development Diversity – the problem or the solution? - FED | Foundation for Education Development Education staff now ‘more likely’ than other workers to have Covid - Schools Week Podcast: Reaching net zero, careers guidance and research in FE - FE Week Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh rebuild chosen as preferred option, but work may take six years to start - Scotsman GCSEs 2022 'worry' as Year 11s worst hit by Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers’ response to poor white pupils inquiry is a waste of paper - Schools Week Vulnerable children face growing risk of child criminal exploitation, Barnardo’s warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Health and wellbeing study urges ministers to invest more in the early years workforce - Nursery World Train carriage to become primary school library - BBC DfE pledges extra 500k laptops for poorest pupils facing Covid disruption - Schools Week Glasgow art school's Mackintosh building to be faithfully reinstated after devastating fire - Herald Scotland Wales teachers: Extra cash offered to attract BAME staff - BBC Scotland: Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh rebuild ‘complete within ten years’ - The Times Uni student rages at BBC Question Time panel over online learning - Express Skills Bill: More government defeats as Lords debate careers, universal credit and apprenticeships - FE Week Four winners share the love our colleges prize - FE Week Deprived schools in England ‘getting less money after funding overhaul’ - Guardian UK’s first black female headteacher’s incredible legacy after horrific racist threats - Express Comparisons of school spending per pupil across the UK - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Poor pupils 'hit hardest' by funding changes as MPs warn of schools 'perfect storm' - Mirror Devolved subcontracting in the dark - FE Week Former minister Gibb reveals plan for a model history curriculum - Schools Week ASCL comment on Public Accounts Committee report into school funding - ASCL School spending per pupil highest in Scotland, lowest in Northern Ireland - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Disadvantaged students in FE colleges are more likely to progress to university than their disadvantaged peers in similar sixth forms - Sutton Trust Going further: Extending the pupil premium to post-16 settings - Sutton Trust Scotland spends more on schools than other UK nations - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four in 10 pupils are leaving school in England without vital skills - i News Wales to offer cash bonuses to recruit more Black, Asian and minority ethnic teachers - i News Scottish schools spending 'is highest per pupil in UK' - BBC The system should recognise successful college drop-outs - FE Week NEU comment on Public Accounts Committee report into school funding - National Education Union Care leavers and disadvantaged pupils to benefit from £126 million investment in new laptops and tablets - DfE Deprived local areas and schools ‘hit hardest’ by DfE’s school funding changes - UK Parliament Facial recognition systems off the menu as schools reverse plans - Schools Week Our recruitment woes can only be solved with ethical leadership - Schools Week Why so secret?: Skills and Productivity Board faces challenge on its silences - FE Week Schools told to report on catch-up tutoring efforts - Times Educational Supplement | TES How Wales aims to recruit more teachers from minority ethnic backgrounds - Wales Online Students are surviving not thriving through financial hardship - Wonkhe Protecting, reclaiming or renaming engineering? - Wonkhe Podcast: Spiking, R&D, COP26, specialist providers - Wonkhe High spending on Scottish schools 'does not translate' into good educational performance, says report - Scotsman 'Remarkable' 10-year school funding 'squeeze' revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social background and college type can affect earnings and progression - FE Week Deliver on new teacher £30K pay promise, MPs tell DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Publish funding allocations to academies, MPs tell DfE - Schools Week Tory reforms redistributed schools cash from poor to rich areas, MPs find - Independent Sex and relationship lessons ‘help pupils feel safe’ - BBC Nearly 500k new laptops for poor pupils amid Covid rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU: Zahawi must be ‘voice for students’ against loan costs hike - Times Higher Education | THE Teenagers can be booked in for half-term Covid jabs from today - The Sun Pupils in deprived areas hit hardest by school funding changes, MPs warn - Mail Parents can book jabs online for children aged 12 to 15 from Friday - Mail E-assessment in technical education: Time to get serious? - FE News Scotland schools: Scotland spends most money per pupil in UK - Herald Scotland OfSTED: Teacher Development Update (October 2021) - UCET Home-schooling: 60% rise kids being taught at home over the last two years (video) - BBC How low-code is closing the UK's skills gap - FE News Bag searches at university nightspots to catch spikers - The Times Scotland spends more per pupil than rest of UK - The Times