News archive for 22nd September 2021

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Future will be all about tech sector but UK woefully under preparing its children - Mirror Schools to start teaching kids about Marcus Rashford for his amazing charity work and fight against racism - The Sun Data reveals 'notable' drop in amount of material covered in remote-learning by children at schools in deprived areas - Mail Chris Whitty warns MPs it is ‘inevitable’ unvaccinated children will catch Covid - Guardian Covid cases among England’s schoolchildren hit record peak - Financial Times Unvaccinated children will catch Covid, says Chris Whitty - The Times Whitty makes case for teen vaccine amid ‘substantial transmission’ fears - Schools Week ‘It’s scary’: record Covid absences cause concern in England’s schools - Guardian James Marriott: Students are facing segregation by wealth - The Times Lecturers’ fight to save gold-plated pensions is futile - The Times From ‘world’s finest’ to ‘inadequate’: Teacher trainers fail new Ofsted test - Schools Week 'Medical, not political': Whitty's case for 12-15 jabs - Times Educational Supplement | TES How much Pupil Premium funding have schools missed out on? An update - FFT Education Datalab Children in most deprived areas suffered greatest loss of learning during lockdowns – ONS - Guardian Professor Chris Whitty warns almost all unvaccinated youngsters will get infected with Covid - Mail Britain's Covid cases rise by 13% in a week as delayed back-to-school wave kicks in - Mail The pupil premium and the importance of using evidence - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Ireland: students struggle to find housing - PIE News Genuine school reform for all schools - Teacher Toolkit Remote learning ‘partial substitute’ for classroom, with disadvantaged pupils hit hardest, analysis finds - Independent UKRI welcomes government’s national AI strategy - UKRI Northern Ireland: Grammar schools set to run single transfer test from November 2023 - BBC Universities: learning outside the lecture hall - IOE London Blog New sustainable development goals handbook for early years - EYE | Early Years Educator Sustainability for everyone: Perspectives from higher education leaders - Advance HE Transitions, retention and progression - fourth podcast - Advance HE Ofsted's independent review of teachers' professional development: terms of reference - Ofsted Delivering payments and supporting students to stay safe online - Student Loans Company Ofsted to review two education catch-up reforms - Ofsted Quarantine confusion as UK approves Covishield vaccine - PIE News Letter to accounting officers in college corporations: September 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery premium funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 22 September 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted’s independent review of tutoring: terms of reference - Ofsted Millions of parents of under-fives could be missing out on ‘lifeline’ early years support - EYE | Early Years Educator Delivering skills and training for the green revolution - UKRI NAHT condemns pay cut for school leaders and teachers - NAHT Asbestos - NAHT submits its response to the DWP's call for evidence - NAHT Every unvaccinated child will get Covid, Chris Whitty warns - The Sun Peter Roberts bursary winners announced - Collab Group Once upon a time: Fairy tale reforms - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Schoolchildren hold mock trial of Tory MP over his ancestors’ links to slavery - Telegraph BPS launches Time to Play campaign as survey reveals high level of parents’ fears about effect of pandemic on primary school playtime - BPS | British Psychological Society Quality and value of micro-credentials in higher education: Preparing for the future - OECD Micro-credential innovations in higher education: Who, what and why? - OECD Lost school days could hit 12m without jab, says Whitty - Times Educational Supplement | TES Northern Ireland: South West College opens £30m campus in County Fermanagh - BBC 'Cancel culture' as Oxford's Worcester College apologises to students for 'distress' caused by hosting Christian conference - Mail School is accused of brainwashing students as young as 12 in mock trial of Tory MP over his ancestors' links to slavery - Mail Scotland: Pupils have ‘huge’ knowledge gap after Covid, hear MSPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Somerset school closed by flooding to reopen by end of month - BBC Digital counselling to CAMHS – children's commissioner focused on mental health - SecEd Early years attendance levels continue to be lower than pre-Covid - Nursery World Government launches new mental health training for schools - Nursery World School mental health leads programme launches - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Marcus Rashford to be studied by GCSE media studies students - Independent Scotland exams: EIS says it would have been ‘big political decision’ to scrap S4 assessments during Covid pandemic - Scotsman Five findings on remote teaching in Covid lockdowns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Quarter of a million pupils to join BBC's Share Your Story - BBC ESFA fires warning shot to colleges over related party transactions - FE Week Inside the St Andrews success story: how Prince William’s university became the best in the land - Telegraph School vaccine rollout: How to prepare for protests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to review tutoring reforms - FE Week Ofsted to judge whether DfE's Covid catch-up plans work - Times Educational Supplement | TES The cold, hard logic for increasing teacher pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher survey on remote learning: 5 things we learned - Schools Week Ofsted to review tutoring and teachers’ professional development reforms - Schools Week Headteachers warn of Covid ‘high alert’ for schools as 122,000 pupils miss class - Metro Marcus Rashford to be included in GCSE media studies course - Guardian The school run: Campaigners call for road closures - SecEd Our children need to be educated... not indoctrinated - Express Choices: Putting it together… together - UKEdChat UK university staff to ballot in October over pay and pensions - UCU NEU comment on children in poverty report - National Education Union The Staffroom: I have sometimes felt I am just a money generator for college - FE Week When 2 become 1: Why putting HE and FE together in Whitehall almost certainly would not make sense - HEPI Strike ballots loom at universities in major national dispute - Herald Scotland Students are taking Covid-19 vaccination seriously - Wonkhe Masking the problem – are all students part of the conversation? - Wonkhe Marcus Rashford to star in GCSE media studies course - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anti-vaxxers target children in bid to put them off getting jab - Mail GCSE media studies to cover Rashford's food campaign - BBC UCU plans ballots for pre-Christmas strikes over pay and pensions - Times Higher Education | THE Why is investment in higher education not paying off for women? - Times Higher Education | THE University staff to be balloted for strike action over pensions and pay - Mail 2:00 p.m. - Education Committee to hear evidence on Covid-19 and the vaccination of children - Accountability Hearings Five asks of the new Secretary of State Nadhim Zahawi and Minister of Apprenticeships and Skills Alex Burghart - FE News Let’s not go back to ‘normal’, let’s connect – the future of FE pedagogy is blended! - FE News Marcus Rashford’s food campaign to be studied at GCSE - The Times Universities facing strike over pensions - The Times Our pupils need to learn creative skills, not just facts - The Times Scotland: Pupils graded for happiness to end focus on academic success - The Times Scotland: Pupils taught in Covid lockdown will be ‘golden generation’ - The Times Ireland: UCD seeks company to deliver sexual misconduct awareness training - The Times Ireland: CO2 monitors in all schools by next month, Norma Foley says - The Times