News archive for 9th September 2021

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How new schooling model is aiming to close gap between poor and privileged kids - The Sun Clueless Government don't know how many life-saving defibrillators are in schools - Mirror Teacher unfairly dismissed after pupil lied about being locked in a cupboard - Telegraph NTP row: Randstad can ‘confiscate a tuition business at will’ - Schools Week ‘Indefensible’: No national insurance help for colleges despite support for schools - FE Week Bring back masks for secondary schools to prevent Covid disruption, says Labour - Mirror Covid in Wales: How has the first week back to school gone? - BBC Fresh doubts over school catch-up plans as Covid recovery tsar won't be replaced - Mirror Get back to face-to-face teaching, Gavin Williamson tells universities ... by video link - Telegraph Ofsted tells inspectors to explicitly state when off-rolling is found to quash school denials - Schools Week Ofsted: Councils won’t get heads-up on ‘inadequate’ judgements - Schools Week Scotland: Wellbeing data 'needed to shift focus away from exams' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools and early education update: academic year 2021 to 2022 - Ofsted Two teachers in England on $1m global prize shortlist - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted admits it failed to clearly flag off-rolling - Times Educational Supplement | TES Citizen’s Curriculum highlighted in Ireland’s 10 year Adult Literacy for Life Strategy - Learning & Work Institute Retrieval practice and processing load - Learning Scientists British Council report highlights urgent need to include young people in climate change policy - British Council The DfE's new reading framework - Early Education Twenty feet from stardom - Advance HE What does it mean to teach a subject? Not what the ITT Market Review suggests - IOE London Blog Ministers ‘moving forward’ with English university entry bar - Times Higher Education | THE Newcastle sorry for censuring medical student over ‘short dress’ - Times Higher Education | THE Pedagogy of experience in teacher education - Teacher Toolkit CfEY work experience 2021! - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Vice chancellors get a lecture on Zoom from Gavin Williamson - Wonkhe IOE academics compile rapid evidence reviews for UK Government - IOE London Blog Anne Longfield launches commission to protect children from gangs - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Times Higher Education Awards 2021: shortlist announced - Times Higher Education | THE Employer engagement: Preparing young people for the future - BERA Climate Learning Month teaching materials launched - National Education Union NTP undermining supply teachers' role in education recovery - NASUWT ASCL Northern Ireland comment on Covid contact tracing - ASCL Early years foundation stage profile handbook - DfE Teaching school hubs - DfE Change to maximum Plan 2 and the Postgraduate student loan interest rates - Student Loans Company Fraud Facts for Freshers - Student Loans Company Climate Learning Month teaching materials launched in run up to COP 26 - UCU Isle of Man schools to monitor air quality data for pupils - BBC Scouts rolls out Squirrels programme for pre-school children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sharp rise in number of nurseries making a loss - survey - Nursery World Scouts launch new early years programme - Nursery World Find expert guidance on the revised EYFS - Nursery World Gavin Williamson says universities should end cancel culture and stop teaching students via Zoom - Mail Rates relief extended for providers in Wales until 2025 - EYE | Early Years Educator Universities pursuing ‘divisive agenda’ by ‘cancelling national heroes’, Gavin Williamson says - Independent Pandemic took significant toll on FE students, review reveals - FE Week Universities in England favour cancel culture over quality, says Williamson - Guardian School dinners hit by supply chain crisis with some canteens staying shut - Wales Online ‘I felt like my heart had been ripped out’: What parents don’t tell you about the first day of school - Telegraph Covid-19: PHA to take over contact tracing in schools from Friday - BBC Coronavirus: Stormont discusses Covid school absences at recall - BBC Universities told to give students face-to-face teaching - BBC Academic claims he was not contacted for major education review - Scotsman Covid: Schools' legal position on non-attendance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Supply teachers lose out from catch-up ‘on the cheap’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES The rapper giving away school uniforms to kids on free school meals (video) - BBC UK warned not to take appeal for international students ‘for granted’ amid drop in EU student numbers - Independent “A mindset for our future”: Speech by Professor Steve West CBE, President of Universities UK - Universities UK Regulatory notice 1: Access and participation plan guidance - Office for Students Education Secretary speech at Universities UK Annual Conference - DfE More than 2,300 school staff in Wales have not had a Covid jab - Wales Online Nine in 10 parents couldn't get their child into the most popular school - Mirror Scotland: Union threatens industrial action over teacher pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Orkney teacher is first winner of equality award - Times Educational Supplement | TES Global Teacher Prize: Two teachers in England up for $1m award - BBC Gang violence ‘is top concern for third of London parents’ - Evening Standard Kidderminster fire: 16 schools shut as huge blaze rages and smoke billows for miles - Mirror Global Teacher Prize 2021: Two Brits make shortlist for $1 million award - Evening Standard International students are worth £28.8 billion to the UK - HEPI Vast majority of nurseries say they are underfunded by government, poll finds - Independent Queen's offers students £1,500 not to take up university accommodation - BBC Two UK teachers shortlisted for million dollar global teacher prize - Mail International students contribute £28.8bn to UK economy yearly - PIE News Liverpool teens to get support to access top careers in finance and engineering - Sutton Trust Expanding our Pathways with the University of Liverpool - Sutton Trust International students in UK generate huge economic gains - Guardian Head teachers are furious that parents with Covid are sending their children to school - Wales Online No plans to replace catch-up tsar, says DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head’s programme to diversify school leadership wins prestigious innovation award - Schools Week Impactful teaching and learning in the slow lane - Wonkhe Council firmly rejects motion making schools fly Union Jack and ‘reassert pride’ in UK - Express Two thirds of young people fear their generation will be permanently disadvantaged by the pandemic - Mail UK cannot take attractiveness as international student destination for granted - Mail Overseas students’ economic impact up by a fifth pre-pandemic - Times Higher Education | THE Fear over ‘lack of strategic focus’ in Treasury’s growing HE role - Times Higher Education | THE Taking back control of further education and its future pedagogies - FE News Those holding apprenticeship qualifications outperform the wider labour market - FE News International students bring £29bn boost to UK - The Times Scottish education ‘too political’ and exams need reform, report finds - The Times Scotland: Chancellor Todd Walker in ‘vanity courses’ row - The Times Covid in Ireland: More staff promised as schools struggle to deal with outbreaks - The Times Covid in Ireland: Students need vaccine for freshers’ events but not lectures, Trinity says - The Times