News archive for 28th September 2021

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Tony Blair's son Euan could now be worth £320 million after huge investment in successful apprenticeships tech firm - Mail Sexual harassment in school: Children pressured for nudes - BBC How a British academic's 'support group for the unwoke' is helping people fight back against social justice ideology - Mail Keir Starmer to vow thousands of new teachers under Labour in make-or-break speech - Mirror Anger on campuses as freshers given wristbands to signify Covid vaccination - Telegraph Abersoch school will close despite impact on Welsh language - BBC Meet the woman calling the 2022 exams shots - Times Educational Supplement | TES Interview: Anne Longfield, former children's commissioner - Schools Week Schools in England unwittingly distribute Covid vaccination hoax message - Guardian A flawed plan to raise student loan repayments - Financial Times Poll shows four in five students had received at least one Covid-19 jab by August - Mail Queen’s jubilee book for schools to cost £12m - Schools Week Schools were sent fake NHS Covid vaccine letters to put students off jabs - Telegraph Students at University of Kent must take ‘white privilege’ course - The Times Private education would become 'redundant' under Labour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Long Covid symptoms to watch for as one in 10 infected secondary school pupils suffer - Mirror Reducing the racial suspension gap - Best Evidence in Brief Long-term effects of early childhood educational interventions - Best Evidence in Brief The effects of a school-based vision program on academic achievement - Best Evidence in Brief Durham University student ‘urinated on’ in rugby initiation - The Times Fuel crisis leads to cancelled school buses and calls for teachers to be priority group - Independent Why Keir Starmer is wrong about stripping private schools of their charitable status - Scotsman Coronavirus (COVID-19) National Testing Programme: conditions of grant from August 2021 - DfE ETF seeks new trustees to join its Board - Education & Training Foundation UK: British Council events target Europeans - PIE News Salford teachers take strike action - NASUWT Working with schemas and why it matters to teachers - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF 12% of English pupils report continuing Covid symptoms weeks after infection - Guardian What might a minimum entry threshold for higher education look like? - FFT Education Datalab How do you rate yourself as a teacher? And other findings this week... - Teacher Tapp NASUWT comments on shortages on fuel station forecourts - NASUWT Apprenticeships making creative industries more accessible - IfATE National reference test 2022 – information for secondary schools - NAHT NAHT comments on shadow education secretary’s party conference speech - NAHT Statement on vaccination of children - Voice Teachers getting the best out of their students: From primary to upper secondary education - OECD Covid: 75% teachers oppose sibling attendance rule - Times Educational Supplement | TES Euan Blair’s Multiverse apprenticeships start-up nears unicorn status on $130m US investor-led raise - Evening Standard Schools sent hoax NHS vaccine ‘consent checklist’ containing false claims about risk of Covid jabs - Independent Inspiring a love of numbers is the formula for net zero success - Herald Scotland Kate Green on education recovery - National Education Union Headteachers describe chaos in schools as Covid rates rise - Wales Online Head says ‘best’ schools raised bar for online learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools tricked into sending antivaxer Covid ‘consent form’ to parents - The Times Third of school staff with Covid had ongoing symptoms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of school masks guidance this term ‘inexplicable’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteacher calls for a rethink on excluding children from schools - Express School apologises after accidentally sending out anti-vax letter to parents - Mirror NHS boss issues warning to parents over hoax Covid vaccine consent form circulating in schools - Mail Teachers should be prioritised for fuel to avoid disruption to schooling - Mail Fake Covid jab consent form could ‘cost lives’, government warns - Schools Week Labour blasts Tories’ ‘smokescreen’ cut to English student intake - Times Higher Education | THE CYP Now Awards 2021: Shortlist unveiled - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Schools question need for the new Reception Baseline - Nursery World Interview: Annamarie Hassall, incoming chief executive of nasen - Nursery World New faces: Who's who at the DfE - Nursery World Malala Yousafzai wants to hear inspiring stories from deaf pupils - SecEd Martin Lewis warns student loan costs may rise by £400 with lowest earners worse off - Mirror Cambridgeshire children to receive book on domestic violence - BBC Government urged to prioritise teachers amid fuel crisis - Schools Week Call to prioritise teachers for petrol - Times Educational Supplement | TES What would you change about Scottish education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education 'faces being hardest hit' in Rishi Sunak's spending review - Mail Kate Green: Full text of Labour Conference 2021 speech - Schools Week Three more college strikes abandoned as 10 other walkouts get underway - FE Week Warning to schools over fake Covid jab consent form - Times Educational Supplement | TES Durham University students claim culture of apathy over bullying - BBC Advance HE publishes literature review on employability - Advance HE Active engagement and questioning: Challenge and engagement - UKEdChat (Yet another) crisis of the humanities - HEPI Developing education research capacity: What can government do? - BERA Poverty is not inevitable: What can your school do about it? - SecEd Students and staff at Durham University complain of ‘apathy’ over bullying - Guardian Hoax warning as 'NHS Covid letters' sent to schools to spread anti-vax misinformation - Mirror Climate change: Scottish pupils join global campaign to demand subject is mandatory in schools - Scotsman Universities should oppose, not just refine, the Free Speech Bill - Wonkhe How to support academic parents to succeed - Wonkhe Children who eat a nutritious breakfast and more fruit and vegetables have better mental health - Mail Just half of children in England want a Covid vaccine and youngest and poorest are least likely to accept one - Mail Five ways colleges can optimise their IT infrastructures post-pandemic​ - FE News British academics quitting UK over Brexit - Times Higher Education | THE Half of young people willing to get Covid jab - study - BBC Sir Tony Robinson fears history education is disappearing fast - Express School funding under threat as chancellor Rishi Sunak reins in spending - The Times Ireland: Students arrive to vaccine clinics on campuses - The Times