News archive for 17th September 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 17 September 2021 - Education Eye Education Committee examines the state of teaching in England’s prisons - UK Parliament Covid: Rates 'soaring' where schools returned earlier - Times Educational Supplement | TES School inspections to resume in Scotland - Herald Scotland Teachers' union hits out at resumption of school inspections during disruption in Scotland - Scotsman Will Quince appointed minister for children and families - EYE | Early Years Educator Global coronavirus research and innovation network launched - UKRI Support positive climate action by taking part in Cup26 - Premier League Primary Stars Chancellor Rishi Sunak supports new National Numeracy Leadership Council - National Numeracy Content and language integrated learning and extensive processing instruction: A useful partnership for language teaching? - BERA How should course representatives be recognised for their work? - HEPI St Andrews topples Oxbridge for the first time in Good University Guide rankings - Telegraph Reshuffle: Who are the new team at the top of the DfE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES A reshuffled cabinet, the same diversity problem - Sutton Trust Alex Burghart appointed new Apprenticeships and Skills Minister - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges The crucial role of training in recruiting more people with disabilities - Training Journal George Freeman replaces Amanda Solloway as UK science minister - Times Higher Education | THE Online classes 'would not justify high university fees' - BBC New cyber security self-assessment tool pilot - NAHT Commission appoints three new commissioners - Fulbright Commission Free time matters too: Giving them independence - UKEdChat Which A-Level subjects have the best (and worst) gender balance? - FFT Education Datalab New early years minister announced in PM's reshuffle - Nursery World Will Quince replaces Vicky Ford as children and families minister - CYPN | Children & Young People Now NCS and onside lead events to tackle youth violence - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Covid Scotland: Teachers' union hits out at resumption of school inspections during disruption - Scotsman Scottish education: SNP's Programme for Government was distinctly lacking in necessary vision - Scotsman Reshuffle: Baroness Berridge gone as academies minister - Schools Week The Times University guide: Top 10 best and worst in the country with surprise new No 1 - Metro PeoplePlus boss quits weeks after the firm failed to win any AEB funding - FE Week Why Covid changes to teaching may be here to stay - The Times Covid cases rise in children after return of schools - The Times University rankings UK 2022: The best universities in Scotland - according to the latest UK rankings - Scotsman University of St Andrews knocks Oxbridge off league table top spot for the first time - Mail Tuition fees in England 'highest in the world': Students see no value in online learning - Express Top universities fall short on admitting disadvantaged students - The Times How universities got to ‘crisis point’ with sexual assault - The Times Is standing up all day bad for teachers' health? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How Universities failed students in the age of Covid - The Times Leaving teenagers to decide whether to have the vaccine is madness - Financial Times Tuition fees in England 'highest in the world': Students see no value in online learning - Express When it comes to incompetence, sometimes a reshuffle isn’t enough - Financial Times Covid in Scotland: School inspections to resume - Herald Scotland Which university is best in the UK? 2021 list released - Wales Online Scotland: Number of pupils off school because of Covid falls - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2022: Non-white authors on exam syllabus doubled - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sustainability must start with universities if the fashion industry is to change - The Conversation St Andrews beats Oxford and Cambridge universities to top spot - BBC Bernardine Evaristo welcomes exam board’s diversity move - The Times NFT 2021: Bluebells and branches – rewilding city-wide work - Advance HE University of St Andrews principal ‘thrilled’ as it is named top in UK - Scotsman Why now is the time for the DfE to prove its worth - Times Educational Supplement | TES Human excrement, syringes and rat-ridden waste allowed to pile up around school for a year - Mirror Another RSC job up for grabs as Sue Baldwin stands down - Schools Week Another RSC job up for grabs as Sue Baldwin stands down - Schools Week Tutoring in limbo as Randstad contract stand-off drags on - Schools Week New secretary of state, new choices - FE Week Reshuffle: Alex Burghart appointed apprenticeships and skills minister - FE Week Scotland: Return of school inspections a 'retrograde step' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Alex Burghart appointed apprenticeships and skills minister - FE Week Any focus on learning outcomes needs a long-term learning strategy - FE Week The key issues Nadhim Zahawi must focus on - and fast - Times Educational Supplement | TES St Andrews ousts Oxford and Cambridge in Times university rankings - Herald Scotland Ofsted raps business school over management apprenticeships - FE Week EEF launches updated Teaching and Learning Toolkit - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Higher education enables graduates to move to places with better career prospects - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS University education contributes to regional inequality, according to IFS - City AM Government needs to go further in plans to tackle skills crisis, report warns - AoC | Association of Colleges Belfast: Queen's students scrambling to find accommodation - BBC 'No time to waste' on catch up funds, heads tell Zahawi - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK university rankings revealed: The Times league table - The Times How universities failed students in the age of Covid - The Times Fast growing apprenticeship firm goes bust after ESFA stops payments - FE Week Higher education, geographical mobility and early-career earnings - DfE The impact of living costs on the returns to higher education - DfE ‘I simply can’t go on. I’m exhausted’: The heads planning early exit - Schools Week Schools mustn’t follow the DfE in abandoning vulnerable families - Schools Week Ofsted expansion hangs in spending review balance - Schools Week Covid Scotland: More than half of schools had coronavirus case in first two weeks of term - Scotsman Podcast: Reshuffle, groupings, graduates - Wonkhe Should graduates move to get better jobs? - Wonkhe How to design our way to a better future - Wonkhe Measure college success by social outcomes as well as students’ jobs, report says - FE Week Scotland: Nearly a third of schools had Covid case after 2 weeks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Letter to Nadhim Zahawi, Secretary of State for Education, MP - UCET SKE course package announcement for 2022 - UCET North of England suffering brain drain as graduates flock to cities - Mail England pays highest tuition fees in the world as cost of university courses has tripled over the last decade - Mail Zahawi arrives with entry bar and loan changes on agenda - Times Higher Education | THE English coastal towns ‘lose one in three graduates’ to cities - Times Higher Education | THE Education in prison: 'If I can do it, anyone can’ (video) - BBC No accent on Scots here, say schools - The Times