News archive for 14th September 2021

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Experts warn of confusion over Covid jabs for children that risks causing 'uncertainty' among parents - Mail Covid Wales: Go-ahead for boosters and jabs for 12-15 year olds - BBC Cummings urges curbs on students’ dark web prescription drugs - The Times Headteacher 'breaking down barriers' with amazing uniform policy at school - Mirror LSE academics elected as British Academy Fellows - London School of Economics | LSE Schools are struggling because so many staff are off for Covid-related reasons, warn headteachers - Wales Online Need to know: What Covid winter plan means for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools ‘prioritised’ food parcels over remote learning, and 4 other things we learned from Ofsted - Schools Week Ofsted launches updated guidance for summary evaluations of multi-academy trusts - Ofsted NDNA survey finds 95 per cent of nurseries say they are underfunded - EYE | Early Years Educator New Stephen Hawking fellows announced - UKRI Graphic organisers of working memory - Teacher Toolkit Pinewood Studios helps to transform careers education for tens of thousands of students - Careers & Enterprise Company Excessive use of electronic devices harms children’s school performance - Best Evidence in Brief Black students need dedicated education programme, Gavin Williamson told - Independent Vaccination of 12- to 15-year-olds to start on Monday - Times Educational Supplement | TES The effects of co-teaching for students with disabilities - Best Evidence in Brief ‘Proportionate’ free speech bill would be ‘welcome’, says UUK - Times Higher Education | THE Back to school: How are pupils being kept Covid-safe? - BBC Long Covid should be recognised as a disability - NASUWT ASCL Cymru comment on decision to offer Covid vaccinations to 12 to 15-year-olds in Wales - ASCL Education unions respond jointly to STRB, criticising pay freeze imposed by Government - ASCL TUC backs UCU's call for three-day weekend - UCU Medical and dental students survey 2021 - Office for Students Joint advice on school teachers’ pay in England 2021-22 - Voice Education unions respond jointly to STRB, criticising pay freeze imposed by Government - Voice Comment on the proposed vaccination of 12-16 year olds - Voice Black Lives Matter: Where do we go from here? - SecEd Could an admissions overhaul really close the attainment gap? - FFT Education Datalab Covid: Behaviour management approaches that are here to stay - SecEd If you like yellow marker pens, are you even a teacher? (This and many other findings…) - Teacher Tapp Westminster event showcases NDA group apprentices - GOV.UK UK seeks to pull sector together to face “enormous opportunity” - PIE News Erasmus+ EXPECT Project shares climate action best practice - AoC | Association of Colleges Student Success - measuring and measures of employability - Advance HE Heads threatened with legal action over Covid jabs - BBC Ofsted boss blasts state schools that put food parcels ahead of learning during lockdown - Telegraph How private sector collaboration with schools can help bridge digital skills gap - Herald Scotland Face masks to remain in schools until at least October holidays, Sturgeon says - Herald Scotland Education unions respond jointly to STRB - National Education Union Covid-19: More than 10% of pupils not in school last week - BBC Covid vaccine would give children normality, says headmaster - BBC Covid Scotland: School pupils to wear face coverings until October holidays - Scotsman Russell Viner: As a paediatrician, I believe it’s right to vaccinate young people aged 12 to 15 - Guardian Ofsted head: schools’ focus on food parcels may have hit learning - Guardian Covid vaccine will be given to 12 to 15-year-olds in schools in Wales - Wales Online Ofsted told to write to MPs over off-rolling omission - Times Educational Supplement | TES Asymptomatic testing of FE students to continue for the rest of term - FE Week Government to scrap power to force school closures - Schools Week Children aged 12 to 15 to be offered Pfizer jab in Wales - Mail Many schools prioritised food parcels for poor over education for all - Ofsted - Mail Families with young children facing steep rise in poverty - Mail School dishes out free school uniforms to pupils saving parents hundreds of pounds - The Sun SLC makes first Maintenance Loan payment to students - Student Loans Company National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2022 to 2023 - DfE Opportunity areas insight guides - DfE Legal action threat over sending clinically vulnerable children back to school - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government dismisses calls for independent review of childcare funding - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Families with young children face huge rise in poverty, research warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Families with children under five face ‘steep rises’ in poverty, warns research - Nursery World Minister dismisses parent campaign petition calling for childcare funding review - Nursery World Schools moved to high Covid alert levels in two areas of Wales as restrictions re-introduced - Wales Online Ofsted to visit more MATs from next term - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Invisible' Ofsted blamed for 'patchy' remote learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Exceedingly narrow’: A-level subject choices reducing students’ career opportunities, report warns - Independent Schools put food parcels before education says Spielman - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning over 'exodus' of school leaders over pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union: vaccinating pupils will make secondaries safer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: Creating a truly rounded educational offering - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to visit more MATs when evaluations restart - Schools Week Protecting the young from Covid-19: Children aged 12 to 15 will now be offered jabs - Express Families with babies and children under five face steep rises in poverty - Nuffield Foundation A narrowing path to success? 16-19 curriculum breadth and employment outcomes - EPI Covid vaccine for children: Everything you need to know about jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds - Mirror Trends in early childhood poverty in the UK - Nuffield Foundation ASCL responds to EPI warning of declining diversity in A level choices - ASCL Tories warn jabs for all over 12s will pit parents against parents, and parents against teachers - Mail ASCL proposes overhaul of school admissions to prioritise disadvantaged pupils - ASCL NEU comment on EPI report on narrowing diversity in A levels - National Education Union Chris Skidmore: Now is the time to recast universities’ relationships with their local areas - HEPI New skills bursary to help more young people leaving the care system into good jobs and careers - Cambridge Network Why teacher pay should not be frozen - The Educator How can we close the learning gap? - Training Journal Parents will be told to vaccinate their children against Covid – but is it right? - Telegraph Prioritise poor children instead of catchment areas, top state schools told - Telegraph The '3Es' – Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, Employability - Advance HE 10:00 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence in its accountability hearings - Accountability Hearings Looking for local graduates - Wonkhe Almost half of public against letting ‘no-platformed’ extremists sue universities - Independent Covid: Which countries are vaccinating children and why? - BBC Drop in A-levels diversity, and 4 more EPI findings - Schools Week ASCL’s blueprint to tackle education’s ‘entrenched injustice’ - Schools Week Drop in A-levels diversity, and 4 more EPI findings - FE Week Headteachers condemn 'disastrous' AS level downgrade - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads' plan to replace Sats and curb academy freedoms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Graduate salary metrics ‘help push leavers towards London’ - Times Higher Education | THE Experts urge caution on positive UK study visa data - Times Higher Education | THE Headteachers call for reform of school admissions to redress attainment gap - Guardian Government reforms and funding cuts led to narrower subject choices at A-level - Mail School admissions overhaul urged to help poor pupils - Mail Crunching the Covid crisis: ‘everybody was in the same boat’ - Times Higher Education | THE China ‘spying on lectures run by British universities’ - The Times Ireland: Schools must get ventilation right before winter, says expert - The Times