News archive for 23rd September 2021

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Covid: Students urged to get vaccine in freshers' week - BBC ‘Abhorrent’: The schools caught up in the anti-vax crossfire - Schools Week 23 private schools set to leave Teacher Pension Scheme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spending review: AoC calls for largest ever FE cash boost - FE Week Going below the surface: Depth structure and transfer in critical thinking - Learning Scientists A celebration of T Levels: one year on - Education & Training Foundation Music and storytelling activities to boost children's communication skills - Nursery World Supporting the development of anti-racist recruitment policies in colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges Adult education position paper - Collab Group Falmouth University UCU members threaten industrial action in support of newly employed staff - UCU The School Quality Index: An answer to the accountability question? - FFT Education Datalab College leaders warn Rishi Sunak not to turn the clock back on public spending - AoC | Association of Colleges Childhood bereavement: A call for national policy that considers young people’s views - BERA Is ‘face to face’ losing out to ‘blended’ tuition in HE? - Montrose42 Major rebuilds begin at schools across England - DfE Free glasses to tackle poor eyesight and boost literacy - DfE Northern Ireland: Transfer test plan criticised by Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown - BBC Students to get jab away from schools as row escalates - Times Educational Supplement | TES No relationships and sex education training in four out of five schools, minister admits - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UCL named Number 1 for Education in The Guardian University Guide 2022 - IOE London Blog A wide social gap in political engagement emerges during adolescence - IOE London Blog Student Success: inequalities and differential opportunities - Advance HE New UK/US college leaders’ report finds common ground for ‘the next normal’ - Jisc Four-year-olds deliver petition against tests in Reception to Number 10 - Nursery World Edinburgh University lecturer falsely called a racist and 'rape apologist' returns to campus - Scotsman Children's mental health: Zahawi outlines investment (video) - Mail School cancels post-vaccine remote learning day - Schools Week DfE to research schools’ ‘construction and layout’ in carbon-cutting drive - Schools Week More Freshers' Week carnage across Britain as raucous students start as they mean to go on - Mail When are the school October holidays in Scotland? - Herald Scotland Meat-free Monday for Anglesey's primary schools sparks row - BBC Ofsted 'integrity' under fire over ITT reports - Times Educational Supplement | TES The ‘new normal’ at England’s universities doesn’t have to be so bad - Guardian Majority of young people will get Covid, predicts Chris Whitty - Express Scotland: Over 200 school inspections planned this academic year - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘I have no time for snobbery in education’ – Keir Starmer - FE Week Covid weekly positive cases fall 22% to lowest since June despite schools going back - Mirror Mental health pandemic: Covid is taking terrible toll on our children's wellbeing - Express Gillick competence: What schools need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Milestone for campaigners as world's first LGBT-inclusive education resource launches in Scotland - Herald Scotland Soft skills and seaside trips: Starmer’s vision for schools - Schools Week Northern Ireland's school meals service hit by shortages - BBC School run like 'military camp' with detentions for forgetting rulers - Express Young people across England invited to take part in major new study - Sutton Trust Black girls in England ‘twice as likely to be excluded from schools as white girls’ - Guardian Improving the fortunes of the humanities means thinking about post-16 qualifications - HEPI If pandemics are predictable, could they be preventable? - Wonkhe Personal tutor sessions can be a place to overcome undergraduate myths - Wonkhe A-level pupils should be required to study humanities subject, maths and foreign language, report suggests - Independent Second wave of providers and colleges chosen for WorldSkills UK’s Centre of Excellence - FE Week Teachers worry about pupils' screen time and ability to interact after lockdown, survey reveals - Mail Glasses in Classes scheme rolled out to boost literacy - Times Educational Supplement | TES A levels: 'Make humanities and languages compulsory' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Allow pupils to join climate protest, says commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin - UCET Pandemic's harrowing toll on kids' mental health laid bare as record 200,000 ask for help - Mirror Pupils in six areas of England to get free glasses under new government scheme - Mirror Record number of children seek mental health support - Mail Thousands more pupils to be given free glasses in a bid to boost literacy - Mail Maths, humanities and foreign languages should be compulsory for A-level pupils, report claims - Mail Add ‘professionally valuable’ skills to humanities degrees – Hepi - Times Higher Education | THE Universities ‘overfunded’ relative to other education sectors - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland: Teachers told ‘pet’ and ‘buddy’ stereotype genders - The Times Scotland: Senior lecturer falsely called a racist returns to Edinburgh university - The Times Scotland: Former minister Tim Ewing wants safeguards to stop teachers ‘marking their own jotters’ - The Times