News archive for 1st September 2021

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Covid: Pupils return to Wales' schools amid concerns - BBC Teachers are no more likely than other working age adults to be hospitalised with Covid - Mail Britain’s schools shut for longer than any European country bar one during pandemic - The Sun Teachers 'at no greater risk of Covid hospitalisation' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers not at increased risk of severe Covid, study finds - Schools Week UK school closures were second longest in Europe over past 18 months - Telegraph Covid: Ministers accused of U-turn over ozone machines - BBC Ofqual seeks views on 2022 grading options - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual plans ‘glide path’ back to pre-Covid exam grading in England - Guardian ‘Low percentage’ of pupil contacts develop Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Prevent Duty in higher education (HE): training and guidance for practitioners - DfE ‘Operation Warm Welcome’ underway to support Afghan arrivals in the UK - DfE Student Loans Company urges students in Wales to prepare for payment - Student Loans Company Female unhappiness over research authorship decisions revealed - Times Higher Education | THE Six in 10 children aged over 10 want Covid vaccination - SecEd Back to school: Trepidation ahead of 'highly likely exponential increases' in Covid infections - SecEd Early years sector split over making Covid vaccine a condition of employment - Nursery World Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers surrenders Ofqual status - Ofqual ASN: how to help pupils feel included in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: Transitions, retention and progression - Advance HE EDI is the agenda - Advance HE Playing hokey-cokey with pupils’ lives now bigger risk than Covid - Evening Standard Academy Trust Handbook - Education & Skills Funding Agency Guide for newly opened academies, academy trusts and free schools - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 tuition fund: 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 1 September 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Covid in Scotland: One in 20 pupils tested positive - Herald Scotland How thousands of students are facing Brexit visa chaos amid new hurdles - Express It’s time we had a national education initiative for Black African and Caribbean students - PoliticsHome Russell Group response to USS JNC decision on 2020 valuation - Russell Group NEU comment on BMJ research into Covid risk for teachers - National Education Union Academic year 2021-22 is GO! How are you feeling about it? - Teacher Tapp Applications open for Governance Professionals’ development programmes - Education & Training Foundation ASCL comment on Labour’s ‘back to school report’ - ASCL Bringing about positive change through EDI - AoC | Association of Colleges Announcing our new Chief Executive - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth How will the classroom look under Covid this September – and how long will measures last? - Telegraph Greens' door-to-door Covid testing call for Kirkintilloch where half pupils of St Ninian's school are absent - Herald Scotland Scottish qualifications now have 'blueprint for reform' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What edu-research tells us about closing the Covid gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid in Scotland: One in 20 pupils developed virus after contact - BBC Wales is lagging behind the rest of the UK at providing free school meals - Wales Online Afghan refugees will be offered free English courses, Department for Education says - FE Week Experts warn further increases in Covid cases expected as schools re-open in Wales - Wales Online Computer science more popular than ever for students - what it is exactly - Mirror Back to school Covid rules explained - testing, masks and what happens if virus surges - Mirror Secondary school pupils in England should still wear face masks when they return to classrooms - Mail Qualifications were ‘fully aligned’ with CfE, says SQA - Times Educational Supplement | TES School pupils told to mask up on London Tube - Evening Standard Telegraph readers on Covid rules in schools: 'Children have sacrificed enough' - Telegraph Thousands of British students in limbo with post-Brexit visa chaos - Guardian How Scotland's career services of the future will work for all - Herald Scotland Back to school: How are pupils being kept Covid-safe this term? - BBC Ofsted orders action plan from council over SEND pupils’ ‘spiral of decline’ - Schools Week Children must wear face masks in schools to stop Covid surge, union boss says - Mirror Open classroom windows to cut spread of Covid in schools, government adviser says - Independent Open windows between classes to 'flush' out Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Strong’ evidence for funding longer school day - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reviewing the evidence on extending school time: the good, the bad and the pretty strong - EPI Why do teachers need school librarians? - UKEdChat Neuromyths in schools - BERA Why the Government should never bail out a university - HEPI Cambridge University Stem support for Covid-hit students - BBC Belgium's Princess Elisabeth set to begin studies at Oxford this October - Express When are the school holidays in 2021 and 2022? - Metro This is why parents find their kid’s first day of school so hard - HuffPost Education experts say Curriculum for Excellence must be ‘radically simplified’ - Scotsman Winners and losers in the game of journal rankings - Wonkhe Cambridge tutors to help disadvantaged A-level students - Times Educational Supplement | TES As unions warn schools may bring back Covid bubbles and masks, experts say it would be a disaster - Mail Cambridge academics to offer extra tuition to state school pupils amid pandemic - Mail Pupils return amid relaxation of Covid measures and fears of rising infections - Mail Updated techniques and approaches to college oversight support and intervention - FE News University of West London promises fully in-person teaching - Times Higher Education | THE UK university population becoming ‘more British’ post-Brexit - Times Higher Education | THE Childcare costs: London parents call for review (video) - BBC Falling Covid cases ease fears of new wave as schools return - The Times UWC Atlantic: Princesses flock to Hogwarts for hippies - The Times Head of Trinity Hall resigns over handling of Cambridge harassment case - The Times More Oxford students apply for exam concessions - The Times The future of FE - FE News