News archive for 8th September 2021

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Girls’ school uniforms more expensive than boys’ outfits due to ‘pink tax’ - Telegraph OECD experts pile pressure on Education Secretary over standardised tests - Herald Scotland Empty shops to become classrooms as schools breathe life into struggling high streets - Mirror Will my Oxbridge education mean I always feel like a failure? - Telegraph Spending review: FE budget fears as departments asked to find ‘at least’ 5% savings - FE Week Public Health Agency to take over contact tracing in schools - BBC Spending review: School budget fears as departments asked to find ‘at least’ 5% savings - Schools Week ESFA opens up claims against AEB clawback - FE Week The importance of having the right teaching: How Efua became an economics student - National Numeracy ESFA extends School Resource Management Adviser programme - Education & Skills Funding Agency Extension to early years training programme announced by DfE - EYE | Early Years Educator New reception pupils are the ‘least school-ready’ for generations - Nesta UCU comment on Scottish Government Programme for Government - UCU A failure to invest – the state of school funding 2021 - NAHT Government urged to support universities to drive recovery of communities and the economy - Universities UK How colleges can use data to thrive, not just survive - Collab Group Leeds Beckett reports finds “community champions” could help with wider impacts of Covid - Leeds Beckett University Pimlico Academy head who was forced out in race row revolt is still at academy chain and oversees Ofsted inspections - Mail Scottish school closes due to Covid outbreak and staff shortages - Independent Principal who heralded end of ‘vanity courses’ apologises - Times Higher Education | THE Improving social mobility – why you can’t be what you can’t see - Education and Employers Pandemic and online pressures drive decline in girls' happiness - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Tuition partners - DfE ESFA grant funded adult education budget reconciliation business case process - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 8 September 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academic mentors - DfE Extremism: 'Open and frank' discussions key to preventing radicalisation - SecEd Covid: Classrooms should still be used, DfE says, even if CO2 readings pass 1500ppm - SecEd Children's rights: Schools urged not to punish protesting students - SecEd Upskilling post-Covid: Creating pathways to employment - Training Journal Reception pupils ‘least school ready for generations’ due to pandemic, warns charity - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Nearly all schools facing SEND funding blackhole, survey finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Stop being ‘fixated’ with Oxbridge, Dame Mary Beard says - Independent Ofsted must hold MAT chiefs to account, say MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson interview: ‘I’ve got the hide of a rhino - you need to in this job’ - Evening Standard Wales is still considering giving younger teens a Covid jab - Wales Online Education is too 'political' in Scotland, OECD report author warns - Scotsman All secondary school students expected to learn about blood and organ donation on curriculum - Independent What did the OECD say about Scottish education today? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Johnson defends ‘heroic’ Williamson as reshuffle rumours swirl - FE Week When is the October 2021 half term? - Metro A-Level and GCSE exams could be cancelled again next year if winter Covid wave sparks new lockdown - The Sun School kids are being penalised for parents or siblings isolating with Covid - HuffPost Johnson defends ‘heroic’ Williamson as reshuffle rumours swirl - Schools Week DfE raids own coffers for a tenth of £3.1bn catch-up cash - Schools Week Future FE pedagogies – food for thought - Education & Training Foundation Exam grades confusion to go on for another month - Evening Standard Teachers in Wales get 1.75% pay rise backdated to September 1 - Wales Online Councillors urge schools to fly the Union Jack, display the Queen's portrait and teach the national anthem - Express Covid cases in kids 30 times higher than this time last year amid fears of another lockdown - The Sun Why we now offer lessons in eight languages - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson said to be at risk if reshuffle goes ahead - Times Educational Supplement | TES How the tax system squeezes graduates - New Statesman Coronavirus: Schools overwhelmed by 'tsunami' of Covid absences - BBC ‘The trauma stays with me’: ex-pupils of London school tell of ‘toxic and abusive’ environment - Guardian We’ll pop any Covid bubbles that schools impose unnecessarily, vows minister - Telegraph School exams could be axed again next year if Covid surges again - Metro 'We don't want to cancel exams' Minister lays out contingency plan (video) - Mail Government urged to support universities to drive recovery of communities and the economy - Universities UK Nadhim Zahawi says booster jabs could help avoid autumn restrictions - Express Different worlds: Ten contrasts between primary and secondary teaching - UKEdChat EEF publishes evaluation of arts based education programmes - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Planning to address scientific misconceptions - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF First Athena SWAN Ireland Silver award - Advance HE DWP unable to explain “shocking inequality” as unemployment among young black people surges to 41.6% in pandemic - UK Parliament Children starting Reception face 'the most challenging school start for generations' - Nursery World Biology teacher of the year: Let's look at expanding science - Herald Scotland Where is the debate about the future of the National Student Survey? - Wonkhe School funding: One in five schools forced to make 'significant cuts' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Special-needs support beyond crisis, heads say - BBC Two-thirds of heads warn schools face cuts despite “record” funding - Schools Week Schools in England forced to cut support for special needs pupils - Guardian Tory cuts 'forcing teachers to axe school trips and one-on-one attention for kids' - Mirror Research collaboration ‘key for female career progression’ - Times Higher Education | THE 31% of school leaders made cuts to balance budgets in last academic year - poll - Mail Universities step up support for students to fill Covid learning gaps - Mail Next summer's round of tests could be axed if Covid surges again, schools minister warns - Mail Scotland: Children wait for mental health care - The Times Covid in Ireland: ‘Recall Dail to help schools cope with outbreaks’ - The Times