News archive for 29th September 2021

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Universities should teach, not lecture on ‘white privilege’ - The Times Fuel crisis is leaving schools unable to transport and teach pupils, warn unions - Telegraph Hundreds of students told to leave university accommodation during pandemic, figures show - Independent Statue of Wales' first black headteacher unveiled - Mail Sale of Cambridgeshire college could mean £6.6m loss - BBC Head at school facing ‘toxic culture’ investigation to retire - Schools Week Advance HE launches new collaborative project – Assessment and feedback in business - Advance HE Shortlist announced for AoC Student of the Year Awards 2021-22 - AoC | Association of Colleges Remote student engagement – Lessons from lockdown - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Flows of pupils into and out of state schools before and during the pandemic - FFT Education Datalab South and City College Birmingham becomes SET Corporate Partner - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Giving young people the opportunities they need to succeed - Training Journal Leadership considerations: Who am I, and what is my leadership role? - UKEdChat NAHT comments on Keir Starmer’s party conference speech - NAHT ASCL comment on Labour leader’s speech - ASCL NEU comment on Keir Starmer speech - National Education Union Schools in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan moved to high Covid alert level - Wales Online Considering teacher wellbeing and commitment to teaching in the event of a ‘firebreak’ lockdown this autumn - BERA Russell Group universities boosting the economy in every region of the UK - Russell Group Promoting social inclusion through micro-credentials - OECD Students forced to stay home after suspected False Black Widow outbreak - Independent Taking naps boost memory! - Teacher Toolkit ESFA Update: 29 September 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Labour conference: Starmer promises to launch a 'National Excellence Programme' for education - Nursery World Afghan Chevening scholars fear for families - PIE News Student loan repayment: Sunak told dropping threshold to £19,000 will 'save £4 billion!' - Express Getting the most out of teacher feedback – How to ensure pupils ReAct - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Education minister sends letter reassuring headteachers over Covid cases - Wales Online False widow spiders close Northampton's Duston School - BBC Covid: Union calls for extra precautions at Leicestershire schools - BBC Covid: Students in areas hit hard will still sit exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales honours Betty Campbell, country’s first black headteacher - Guardian Need to know: 6 ways Labour would reform education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils forced to stay home as school closed due to spiders - Mail Betty Campbell: Statue honours Wales' first black head teacher - BBC Isle of Man primary bomb hoax: Boy 'assisting' police over call to school - BBC Education minister says parents should send children to school if another family member has Covid - Wales Online Leadership teams 'should reflect pupil diversity' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anti-vax protests: Warning over fake NHS consent form - SecEd Fire and rehire: Teachers call for an end to 'morally indefensible' practice - SecEd School closed due to spiders as 1,500 students sent home over infestation - Mirror Covid: Derbyshire school outbreak sees 18 teachers absent - BBC ESFA opens bids for new 16 to 18 traineeships contracts - FE Week DfE confirms remits for FE’s two new ministers - FE Week Children from all over UK have their say on climate change in online Children's Parliament - Express Reception baseline assessments off to a rocky start - Times Educational Supplement | TES Starmer pledges to hire thousands of extra teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Starmer to pledge Ofsted ‘reform’ and thousands more teachers - Schools Week Huge economic contribution of universities must not be forgotten - Universities UK Surfacing the employability value of the Humanities - HEPI New guidance on disabled graduate employment from the Disabled Students’ Commission - Advance HE UUK calls on gov to help achieve “global ambitions” - PIE News CEO diversity: A verdict of ‘could do better’ - Schools Week University administrators have worked tirelessly to promote diversity in higher education - Wonkhe The debate over no detriment hasn’t gone away – it just got started - Wonkhe GCSE and A-level results will be marked leniently next year – and pupils will be tipped off about exam topics - The Sun Turn ‘restructuring regime’ into ‘transformation’ fund, v-cs urge - Times Higher Education | THE StuDocu: academics angry as lecture notes shared without consent - Times Higher Education | THE Nottingham rebuked for ‘misleading’ students over China campus - Times Higher Education | THE Cancel culture: ‘fish out of water’ academics feel it most - Times Higher Education | THE The outstanding alternative: Lessons from delivering outstanding apprenticeships remotely - FE News Ethnicity pay reporting in the further education sector: A burden or a boon? - FE News Tony Blair’s son Euan ‘makes £160m’ by ignoring his father’s education policy - The Times Scotland: School duped into sending ‘dangerous’ antivax email - The Times