News archive for 25th October 2021

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Budget 2021: Rishi Sunak ‘kills off’ longer school days, sparking fears that inequality will worsen - i News Rising number of anti-vaxxers ‘willing to take direct action against schools’ - Guardian Anti-vaccine protests: School leaders welcome ‘any action’ to protect students from Covid demonstrators - i News Scotland: Glasgow University accused of undermining academic freedom by apologising for ‘antisemitic’ paper - The Times Spending review: Minimum wage for apprentices to rise to £4.81 an hour - FE Week International Internet Day (29th October) - Computing at School Education Development Trust begins major new programme in Zimbabwe - Education Development Trust | EDT Six new Essential Digital Skills Champions appointed - Education & Training Foundation Mentoring – a way to build relationships - UKEdChat Star of Amazon Prime Video’s hit show Clarkson’s Farm visits Banbury and Bicester College - Activate Learning Consultation on risk protection arrangement and motor vehicle cover - NAHT Rishi Sunak agrees to end public sector pay freeze after approving 6.6% minimum wage rise - PoliticsHome ‘National living wage’ rise from April will lead to 'fear and worry' for nurseries - Nursery World Where are the missing workers? Why the Chancellor needs to act - Learning & Work Institute Fixing the education ship now, means fewer life rafts later - NFER Further education and apprenticeships and the EU - DfE Recruit further education (FE) teachers from overseas - DfE The UK’s responsibility to Afghan alumni - HEPI NFER's 5 key priorities for the Spending Review - NFER Is it still worth calculating Progress 8? - BERA We need a system which rewards our students for what they can do, not which rations success and ensures failure - New Era Assessment Covid: Protect schools from anti-vax protests - Starmer - BBC Muslim students call on government for interest-free alternatives to student loans - Independent Russell Group urges government to build "bulletproof" UK skills pipeline - Russell Group NEU comment on public sector pay - National Education Union Government to pledge '30,000 new special school places' - Times Educational Supplement | TES HE heads caution against sector focus on short-term gains - Times Higher Education | THE Universities ‘too indulgent’ towards online behaviour, says Habib - Times Higher Education | THE Raging parents blast ‘ridiculous’ plan for 5pm school end saying it’ll mess up dinner & is ‘recipe for burnout’ - The Sun Call to halt Ofsted inspections for heads' wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Darker’ events in Scottish history ignored by schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES What price experience? A flawed approach to teacher pay - SecEd Why our memory-based exams system is redundant in 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities short of cash to train new doctors as Government funding fails to cover bills - i News Spending Review 2021: £500m earmarked for children and families - Nursery World Funding for children's speech and language has been sorely lacking - Nursery World Schools pause facial recognition lunch plans - BBC Sajid Javid slams 'idiot' anti-vax campaigners for 'spreading vicious lies' outside of schools - Mail Research: Why academics must work with schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES School gate ban for 'idiot' anti-vaxxers 'an option' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why arts subjects were hit so hard in the pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Movers and Shakers: Edition 367 - FE Week 'Harmful content' Cambridge University to put 'trigger warnings' on children's books - Express Keir Starmer calls for schools to be protected from anti-vaccine protests - Guardian Ulster University: Supply chain issues delay opening of Belfast campus - BBC Spending review: Government urged to 'go further' to support vulnerable children and families - CYPN | Children & Young People Now FE’s educational ethos is being overshadowed by market logic - FE Week BTECs: MPs to probe effect of defunding level 3 courses on learners - FE Week Schools are relying on parent fundraising to plug budget holes – and Covid costs are making things worse - i News Priti Patel: Harassment by anti-vaxxers outside schools is totally unacceptable - Mail History matters - Policy Exchange Expect the unexpected? Six things to look out for in the Spending Review - HEPI Voice control to teacher Tom... - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Innovating by example - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA ‘I didn’t read any Black authors at school’: The mission to get books by Black writers into UK classrooms - i News How can we secure the spirit of Covid collaboration for the future? - Schools Week A digital strategy is necessary and achievable for every school - Schools Week Government vetoes more academy deals with linked firms - Schools Week EU Horizon approval delays hurting British research and business - UK Parliament Parents' evenings: Anger over two-year waits - Herald Scotland Glasgow University accused of undermining academic freedom in 'antisemitic' ruling - Scotsman Is a bleak winter ahead for the creative industries? - Wonkhe Racism still pervades the academic sciences - Wonkhe Defunding foundation years would be a major mistake - Wonkhe This spending review is the government’s chance to make good on its R&D promises - Wonkhe The policy questions in higher education that the spending review should solve - Wonkhe Specialist universities can help to transform forgotten coastal, rural and inner city places - Wonkhe Cambridge University archive slaps 'trigger warnings' on classic children's books because of potentially 'harmful content' - Mail Schools should stay open until 5pm to help kids catch up, says education czar - The Sun Government not sufficiently tackling skills gap needed for net zero, MPs say - Mail Starmer demands fast-track exclusion orders to protect schools from anti-vaxxers - Mail Government not sufficiently grappling skills gap needed for net zero - FE News Schools, colleges and universities are essentially now front line mental health services - FE News EU and UK ‘breaking promise’ on post-Brexit research ties - Times Higher Education | THE Rishi Sunak rules out longer school days to boost Covid catch-up - The Times School offers laughing lessons to help girls relax after pandemic - The Times