News archive for 28th October 2021

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Heads budget warning over soaring winter energy bills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools face up to £80m hike in energy costs, Labour warns - Schools Week Four activity centres in England suspended over ‘serious’ safeguarding concerns - Guardian School cash injection risks being ‘eaten up’ by teachers’ salaries - Telegraph Trans-row professor quits university over ‘toxic’ environment - Telegraph Figures show referrals to social services from schools fell 31% during pandemic - Mail Sussex professor resigns after transgender rights row - Guardian Budget fails to deliver ‘skills revolution’, say education leaders - Financial Times Heads sound 'alarm bell' over new teacher pay funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gender identity row professor quits University of Sussex after horrible time - Mail Behaviour tsar hits out at bid to ban isolation rooms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Huge drop in school at-risk referrals during Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES How many children were off school for Covid-related reasons in Wales in the last week of term - Wales Online Almost half of 12-15-year-olds haven't been offered a Covid vaccine, internal government polling shows - PoliticsHome Train to teach in England: non-UK applicants - DfE Skills and Post-16 Education Bill: impact assessment and JCHR memorandum - DfE How early years multiple providers work - Ofsted Advance HE welcomes ‘Climate Action for University Chairs’ - Advance HE Unleash student activism to turbocharge climate efforts, say v-cs - Times Higher Education | THE PE and sport premium: conditions of grant 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teachers’ pay grant: allocations for 2021 to 2022 financial year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teachers’ pension grant: 2021 to 2022 allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Student Success: attainment - Advance HE Early childhood: the changing face of parent-practitioner relations during the pandemic - IOE London Blog Digital divide needs addressing, report urges - PIE News Glasgow exports contribute £631m to UK economy - PIE News Response to Elsevier ScienceDirect negotiations statement - Jisc A Fair Start? Levelling up should be child’s play - Sutton Trust ASCL responds to Labour figures on school energy costs - ASCL Reading students are given a masterclass in brickwork - Activate Learning Interleaving: A classroom experiment - Learning Scientists New polar ship makes London debut - UKRI Working with existing buildings is complex - FED | Foundation for Education Development EIS union warns 'calls for action' growing as it condemns teacher pay offer - Scotsman Reviewing the Spending Review - MillionPlus Ofsted calls for stronger oversight of early years multiple providers and social care groups - Ofsted Climate change, education, and art on the agenda for The Prince of Wales’ visit to the British Council’s new headquarters - British Council Kathleen Stock quits Sussex after transgender rights row - Times Higher Education | THE What's the impact of enrichment in colleges? - AoC | Association of Colleges Joint statement on negotiations with Elsevier - MillionPlus Teachers must be at the centre of new qualifications development - NASUWT Half of UK university staff showing signs of depression, report shows - UCU The race to net zero: Universities need to walk the walk on reducing emissions - HEPI Autumn Budget 2021: How extended apprenticeship incentives are supporting job creation for young adults - Cambridge Network Statement on negotiations between HE sector and Elsevier - Russell Group Autumn Spending Review 2021: £170m pledged for early years providers - EYE | Early Years Educator University of Brighton plans to close Eastbourne campus in 2025 - BBC Scotland: Teacher pay offer dismissed as 'wholly unacceptable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Sturgeon rejects facial recognition tech in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nobel winner's COP26 message for old schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rishi Sunak’s learning catch-up fund is ‘false economy’, says former schools tsar - Guardian Ofsted calls for stronger oversight of large providers - EYE | Early Years Educator The spending review only partly reverses historical cuts - FE Week Spending review: Ex-recovery tsar blasts ‘meagre’ £1.8m catch-up cash - Schools Week Schools offer pupils lessons on how to save the planet - Express Former schools catch-up tsar Kevan Collins says ‘incredibly disappointing’ Budget will widen pupil inequality - i News IFS: Health spending increased by 40% from 2010 to 2025 while education budgets will have gone up by less than 3% - Mail Spending review: FE & sixth form funding still ‘well below’ 2010 levels, IFS confirm - FE Week Children’s minister confirms £510m total increase for early years funding - Nursery World Ofsted calls for greater regulatory oversight of large children’s home and childcare providers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children’s minister confirms £340m funding boost for early years not announced in Spending Review - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Education and skills in the Budget and Spending Review - FE News Reforming adult learning is the pathway to unlocking the levelling up agenda - FE News New education director for Scotland's biggest council - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19 affecting 60% of pupils at some Suffolk schools - BBC ASCL responds to UCAS statistics on increase in disadvantaged students aiming high with university choices - ASCL Equality in higher education: statistical reports 2021 - Advance HE UCAS: EU falls further and non-EU “static” in October applications - PIE News Schools get extra £1.8 billion to catch up on learning lost to Covid - Telegraph This Budget will help every young person realise their potential - Telegraph Jump in teens from poor families applying for Oxbridge and medicine – but warning of ‘squeeze’ on uni places - i News The most disrupted and disadvantaged aiming high with university choices - UCAS BEIS in the Spending Review 2021 - GOV.UK Inside the ‘Oxbridge factory’ Singapore school that only costs £160 a month - Telegraph The latest UCAS data shows demand staying strong for medicine and Oxbridge - Wonkhe The scourge of spiking: The students fighting for a safe night out - Guardian Record number of disadvantaged students in UK apply for most selective courses - Mail From education to the cladding scandal and family finances - the winners (and losers) in Rishi Sunak's budget - Mail UK international applications stall as European collapse goes on - Times Higher Education | THE Hundreds of global universities ‘yet to set net zero target’ - Times Higher Education | THE Burned-out university staff fear repercussions if they seek help - Times Higher Education | THE University leaders more wedded to lectures than before Covid - Times Higher Education | THE Budget 2021: Rishi Sunak’s spending spree - The Times