News archive for 3rd September 2021

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Oxford University English students allowed to take open book exams due to 'lack of practice' - Telegraph Sajid Javid orders medical experts to examine 'broader' case for giving vaccines to children - Mail Scotland: School strikes 'one step closer' after pay offer rejected - Herald Scotland Ministers ask UK’s top health officials to assess Covid jabs for teenagers - Financial Times Experts say it's 'unethical' to vaccinate children to protect adults from Covid but others warn of school closures - Mail Covid-19: NI schools to get £5.5m for tracing pressures - BBC Haberdashers' Aske schools drop slave trade investor's name - BBC Covid vaccines not recommended for 12-15 year olds in major JCVI update - Express The Conservatives’ dangerous lack of Covid measures is setting schools up for failure - Metro Anger at college bid to ditch statues of Nelson and Drake - Express Heads 'disappointed' at no vaccine for 12 to 15s - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sturgeon: Explore education impact of vaccine decision - Times Educational Supplement | TES The new EYFS framework: What are the changes – and choices? - ASCL ASCL responds to JCVI decision on Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds - ASCL Scottish Government needs to act to tackle soaring Covid cases in schools - NASUWT Welsh Government must not be complacent as Covid case numbers rise - NASUWT Podcast: An equality, diversity and inclusion special - NAHT 'Hands off' online lecture recordings, union tells universities and colleges - UCU NEU comment on JCVI decision not to approve Covid-19 vaccines for all 12-15 year olds - National Education Union How many of the Chinese Communist Party elite were educated at a UK university? - HEPI How can books hit the sweet spot between the reader and the story character? - BERA Irish Leaving Certificate grades up 2.4% on 2020 - BBC Targeted support for vulnerable young people in serious violence hotspots - DfE Remote education webinars - DfE Review your remote education provision - DfE University of Birmingham’s long-awaited Dubai campus set to launch - PIE News JCVI says Covid-19 vaccines for 12-15 year olds not recommended, but Sajid Javid disagrees - PoliticsHome National Tutoring Programme Tuition Partners (year 1): Reflections on scaling interventions to create system change - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF EEF comments on delivering Year 1 of the National Tutoring Programme Tuition Partners (2020-21) - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF The true cost of lost learning - FE News Edge response to the National Skills Fund consultation - Edge Foundation The effect of stereotype threat on cognition - Learning Scientists Student charter flight from China sells out in 30 minutes - PIE News Covid jabs not recommended for all 12- to 15-year-olds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government under pressure as watchdog refuses to recommend jab for children aged 12 to 15 - HuffPost A generation of young people is at risk from the UK’s latest Covid experiment - Financial Times Rotherham school has its own stricter standard of Covid measures - Guardian The 21 areas set for £15m AP taskforces to prevent crime revealed - Schools Week Low uptake of school Covid tests revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Government ‘allowing mass infection of children’, scientists warn - Schools Week Children's transition into Reception impacted by Covid - Nursery World Covid: Scientists warn of 'mass infection' of pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES OECD review: Is Scotland ‘wedded to exams’? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Upcoming school holidays: When are the next UK breaks? - Mirror Two royals set to begin studies at Welsh school dubbed ‘Hippie Hogwarts’ - Express Peterborough students: 'The vaccine is important to protect our families' - BBC New A** grade could be introduced for top A-level students - Metro University academics threaten to strike over misuse of online lectures - Telegraph ‘Hands off’ online lecture recordings, union tells universities and colleges - FE News Is the concept of exit velocity for final-year students fact or fiction? - Wonkhe Early Learning and Childcare sector calls on Scottish Government for clear guidance amid closures and struggles for key workers - Scotsman What I learned on your summer holidays - Wonkhe Exams regulator eyes plan for extra category to pinpoint exceptional pupils in bid to tackle A-level grade inflation - Mail Limit replays of recorded lectures to a year, says union - Times Higher Education | THE Get at-risk research collaborators out of Afghanistan, UK told - Times Higher Education | THE Ministers are 'frustrated' at experts' delay in approving child vaccine doses amid pandemic fight - Mail University staff could strike if recorded lectures are misused, union warns - Mail Parents’ consent will be needed before pupils can have vaccine - The Times