News archive for 27th September 2021

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Five a day gives schoolchildren better mental health, research suggests - The Times Graduates' fury at plan to make them pay back loans earlier - Mail Wearing second hand clothes ‘an example of white privilege’, students told - Telegraph Schools warn about hoax anti-vaccine letters - BBC Hate crimes: Call for zero-tolerance in schools in Wales - BBC What schools can expect from Ofsted this term - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Everyone worse off’ under Labour private schools plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE wants HGV bootcamps up and running in a month - FE Week Staff to strike at 10 colleges - UCU Five days of strikes at University of Liverpool - UCU Towards a more equitable and empowering mathematics curriculum: What if we made progressive pedagogies more visible? - BERA Speculative research ideas sought through New Horizons opportunity - UKRI Plan for crumbling schools to be rebuilt under flats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Introducing verbal feedback methods - Teacher Toolkit BERA funds over £40,000 of research on race and ethnicity - BERA What is a 'good' university – and who needs to know? - Advance HE New beginnings at City College Norwich (CCN) - Education & Training Foundation Fresh starts: the phenomenon of education, teaching and learning - Education & Training Foundation Education recovery: Time for the DfE and the Treasury to step-up - SecEd New beginnings: together we are better! - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Fuel crisis could force schools to return to remote learning - Independent Ofsted to carry out survey of effectiveness of Skills Bootcamps - Ofsted 'Plan for Jobs' skills and employment programmes: information for employers - Education & Skills Funding Agency School 'hypocrisy': Sir Keir wants to make what he benefited from inaccessible - Express Students oppose plan to reduce English loan repayment threshold - Times Higher Education | THE 'Triple whammy' of extra hurdles stacked against children’s maths learning - Mirror The pandemic is threatening children's maths progress - Express Student Committee’s response to the findings from the BPS Covid-19 impact survey - BPS | British Psychological Society Ofsted to review skills bootcamps ahead of possible full inspections - FE Week University of Liverpool staff begin 10-day strike - BBC Receive a levy transfer from another business to fund an apprenticeship - Education & Skills Funding Agency Taxing private schools: the truth behind the bluster - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gibb adviser promoted in DfE shake-up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Uclan's £60m Preston student centre and square opened - BBC Online lessons 'could return' if teachers can’t get to school over petrol crisis - Mirror Rishi Sunak 'to lower salary level' at which Britons start repaying student loans - Express Zahawi vows to ‘tackle harassment head on’ following anti-vax protests - Schools Week How extracurricular activities can help pupils grow - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why doubling PPA could help tackle the attainment gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free glasses to boost literacy skills among poor pupils - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Unions: Lowering threshold for students to pay back loans would be regressive - Mail Taliban threatening Chevening scholars’ families, says MP - Guardian Hertfordshire's first net-zero carbon school approved - BBC Students in England irate over reports of early loans repayment - Guardian Why the UK childcare system is at breaking point - The Conversation Here are the UK's biggest pandemic heroes, according to kids - HuffPost Zahawi: 'We won't let school attendance fall' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Artists and musicians offered work in island schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top architect bids to become chairman of 'lost respect' Glasgow art school - Herald Scotland Student loans repayment threshold could be slashed forcing Brits to pay hundreds per year - Mirror Identifying ​‘best bets’ from educational research - Research Schools Network Let's be curious - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Engagement is not a dirty word - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Should some subject areas be compulsory for A-Level students? The debate rages on - HEPI Government to cut threshold for graduate repayment of student loans, report says - Independent Don’t always assume inappropriate behaviour is sexually aggressive - FE Week Vaccination letters sent for 12 to 15-year-olds in Scotland - BBC Wales: Children face safeguarding risk from registration loophole, report says - BBC Time for DfE leadership on diversifying the curriculum - Schools Week Research: How can we improve our relationships with students? - Schools Week Government won't stand back and let school attendance fall, Nadhim Zahawi says - Mail Artists and musicians hit by Covid to be offered work tutoring primary pupils - Scotsman Moving the graduate story beyond employment - Wonkhe Using REF results responsibly - Wonkhe Keir Starmer and his team punishing the public schools they attended! - Mail More than 600,000 designs submitted by schoolchildren for Royal Mail stamps recognising pandemic heroes - Wales Online Graduates could be made to repay student loans when they start earning £23,000 - The Sun Students face settling loans early as Rishi Sunak eyes plan to slash repayment salary threshold - Mail Becoming, being and believing in great human beings - what role does FE have? - FE News Jordan Peterson: Academic in Islamophobia row returns to Cambridge - The Times Stranded teachers may return to online classroom - The Times New graduates and class of 2020 fight over the same jobs - The Times Top Tories want UK universities to register China connections - The Times Dyson: students should be doers, not virtue signallers - The Times Overhaul would force students to pay back their loans earlier - The Times British universities are too reliant on Chinese money - The Times Covid in Scotland: Children aged 12-15 to be invited for one Pfizer dose - The Times UK universities growing keen on block teaching - Times Higher Education | THE