News archive for 29th October 2021

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Education Secretary urges pupils to take Covid test after half-term (video) - Mail Deputy headteacher in court charged with 18 child sex abuse offences - Independent Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 29 October 2021 - Education Eye One in nine male university students admit to rape or sexual assault in first survey of its kind - Independent University of Glasgow to review sexual misconduct policies following complaints - Herald Scotland DfE claims it did review time in school, but won’t commit to publishing findings - Schools Week Covid survey: 4 in 10 schools ‘don’t expect’ to use National Tutoring Programme - Schools Week Disadvantaged pupils in England lag behind in Covid learning catch-up - Guardian Headteacher ‘faces calls for her job’ after sparking Original Sin debate on Twitter - Evening Standard Universities could be incentivised to run degree apprenticeships, minister suggests - FE Week Budget: What the £1.8bn boost means for catch-up plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: How the pandemic shook the schools system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer than 20% of 12-15 year olds in England have had their first Covid vaccine - Mail Pupils urged to take Covid tests to help save Christmas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Budget: The future financial challenges for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads condemn DfE plan to cut school improvement fund - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Pupils urged to test before returning to school - BBC Ofsted warns of 'serious safeguarding concerns' at four PGL children's activity centres - Mail The 2021 Autumn Budget and Spending Review: what does it mean for educational inequalities? - IOE London Blog Pupils urged to take Covid-19 test before returning to school after half-term - Mail Learning loss among poorer secondary school pupils grew last year - Mail Gareth Conyard joining TDT as Director of Education - Teacher Development Trust | TDT EPI research for the Department for Education on pupil learning loss - EPI Ofsted monitoring visit recognises significant progress made at Activate Learning Surrey colleges post-merger - Activate Learning Don’t underestimate the power of effective feedback for adults too! - UKEdChat What are UCAS tariff points? - Activate Learning ASCL comment on pandemic learning loss research - ASCL The great reset: Student financial wellbeing - HEPI Contemporary curriculum debates in early childhood education and care - BERA NEU comment on DfE report on pupil learning loss experienced as a result of the pandemic - National Education Union BERA announces new College of Reviewers - BERA Update on UKRI open access policy: October 2021 - UKRI Behaviour: Re-framing and managing conflict - EYE | Early Years Educator Learning loss study: ‘Notable’ catch-up at primary, but poorer pupils much further behind - Schools Week PGL employee ‘under the influence of Spice’ drug while looking after children at activity centre, Ofsted found - i News Zahawi urges older pupils to test before school return as Covid rates rise again - Schools Week How second Covid lockdown widened learning loss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secretary of State questioned in accountability hearing - UK Parliament Ex-prisoners tell MPs how education in prisons should be improved - UK Parliament School snapshot survey: COVID-19 - DfE Year 8 'bounce back' in writing despite high Covid rate - Times Educational Supplement | TES Model history curriculum will help schools teach about ‘migration and cultural change’ – Walker - Schools Week Ofsted suspends kids holiday centre activities over safeguarding issues - BBC Suspension of PGL settings on Ofsted childcare register - Ofsted Early education use and child outcomes up to age 7 - DfE Early education and development: alternative quality scales - DfE Early education and development: Coronavirus (COVID-19) study - DfE School snapshot panel: COVID-19 - DfE Digital Functional Skills qualifications - DfE Reforming how local authority school improvement functions are funded - DfE Mum claims school ‘neglected’ son, 7, who can ‘barely spell his name’ - Metro Councils set to raid school budgets as £50m improvement grant faces axe - Schools Week NCS sees funding reduction in spending review - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofsted suspends registration of four outdoor activity centres - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofsted calls for stronger oversight of large providers - Nursery World DfE to reform Level 3 early years qualifications - Nursery World Transphobia row university professor quits after 'absolutely horrible time' - Express No tokenistic diversity in new history curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Budget 2021: 'The government should have done better' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Year 8 writing recovery shows it may be time to talk about learning decay, not loss - Schools Week Former education tsar criticises Rishi Sunak's 'meagre' catch-up plans - Mail Martin Lewis warns kids are at risk of fraud and debt because of the curriculum - Mirror Research reveals rapes and assaults admitted to by male UK students - Guardian Young people want to see themselves in what they learn (video) - BBC Children ‘easy prey’ for paedophiles who lure them into creating indecent images - Telegraph Harassment complaints procedures have failed. Where do we go from here? - Wonkhe Young children need to learn about online perils as much as road safety - Mail Sussex university professor Kathleen Stock resigns after transgender rights row - Independent Deadline looms as UK universities reject Elsevier deal - Times Higher Education | THE E-Assessment in technical education: A call for ideas - FE News Adult learners are returning to classrooms – but further education will never be the same again - FE News Kathleen Stock resigns from University of Sussex after trans rights row - The Times Only 19% of young teenagers in England vaccinated - The Times Primary school ban on Squid Game costumes for Halloween - The Times Scotland: Facial recognition tech in schools is disproportionate, says Sturgeon - The Times Covid in Ireland: Children under 13 account for over 20% of cases in a week - The Times Science-friendly budget poses tough questions for UK research - Times Higher Education | THE