News archive for 3rd February 2022

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‘Investment area’ schools have £19m of repairs cash cut - Schools Week Top Tory mayor to bid for unprecedented skills powers - FE Week Report condemns racism in UK’s ‘racially segregated’ student housing - Guardian Covid in Scotland: School closure powers to be extended - Herald Scotland Damning report reveals details of bullying at helm of Imperial College - Guardian Apprenticeship achievement rates removed due to ‘error’ - FE Week Scotland: Cutting up school doors for ventilation is a fire risk, Sturgeon told - The Times Holyrood sketch: Classroom ventilation is not an open and shut case - The Times After two years of Covid, tell us what's really changed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents in England who fail to register home schooling could face sanctions - Guardian Covid impact on education 'a national disaster' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Levelling up education and skills: a recipe for success? - IOE London Blog Westminster has ‘no remit’ for UK-wide online academy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Expanding retrieval practice for preschoolers - Learning Scientists Why to become a Computer Science teacher? - Computing at School Professional Standards Framework Review 2022 - Advance HE Nicola Sturgeon defends proposal to chop bottom off school doors for ventilation - Scotsman Scottish schools partner with tech firms to boost computer science skills - Public Technology Advance HE comments on 'Living Black at University' commissioned by Unite Students - Advance HE LGBT+ History Month 2022 - Advance HE UCU condemns 'endemic culture of bullying' at Imperial - UCU School leaders on the Isle of Man vote to reject latest pay offer - NAHT Recruitment opens for new EEF trials and scale-up projects - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Professor Sir Tim Besley to advise UK Government on levelling up - London School of Economics | LSE Pearson and Parallel Histories to partner to encourage more schools to teach Middle East history - Pearson The role of the SENDCO in developing teaching practice - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Ask your MP to give every child a fair start - Sutton Trust Jisc joins international consortium on digital content sharing - Jisc National Numeracy reacts to the Levelling Up White Paper - National Numeracy Nimal Hemelge and Muchemi Wambugu appointed to trustee board - Education Development Trust | EDT Government’s Levelling Up White Paper ‘fails to mention new investment into early education and care’ - EYE | Early Years Educator Developing pupil resilience with music lessons - Teacher Toolkit GDST strike details - National Education Union Wales: Strike action at Howells School over pensions - National Education Union Talking racism and mental health in schools: podcasts from the Anna Freud Centre - NAHT Gast oversaw ‘favouritism’ and ‘exclusion’ at Imperial – report - Times Higher Education | THE School Rebuilding Programme: equalities impact assessment - DfE Consultation outcome: Children not in school - DfE Engagement with free courses for jobs - DfE Covid-19 12 to 15 vaccination programme funding for schools: conditions of funding - DfE Academies general annual grant allocation guides: 2022 to 2023 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Trying out Teaching: examining a new approach to tackling the teacher shortage in England - UCET Everything you need to know about TA apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools can be ‘nominated’ for rebuilding programme - Schools Week Elite sixth forms: is there room for optimism? - FE Week University racism: Black students report racial profiling, N-word slurs and white students touching their hair - i News Two schools shut for face-to-face teaching and send all pupils home - Wales Online Covid: Nicola Sturgeon under pressure over '£300k plan to chop up class doors' - Herald Scotland Education Committee to examine children’s mental health and wellbeing - UK Parliament Help young people and in turn, they will help you - Careers & Enterprise Company Major academy chain probes staff payments - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sturgeon's SNP in 'crackpot' scheme - £300k to saw bottoms off school doors to stop Covid - Express Scotland: 'Common sense' to cut classroom doors to curb Covid - BBC Behaviour and exclusions consultation: What schools need to know - Schools Week Nicola Sturgeon pushes for 'grown-up' discussion on classroom ventilation - Mail Paint Pots nursery group sold to social enterprise - Nursery World Majority of public fails to appreciate academics’ pandemic impact - Times Higher Education | THE Government accused of 'missing an opportunity' with its levelling up plan - Nursery World Plans for register of home educated children hang on extra funding - Schools Week DfE confirms plans for elective home education register - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Social Mobility Commission response to the Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper - Social Mobility Commission Government drops plans to make schools mobile-free zones and says headteachers are best placed to make the decision - Mail Teachers at 23 private schools to strike next week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers should ‘seriously consider’ revoking Randstad’s NTP contract, says Halfon - Schools Week Further plans to level up opportunities for every child - DfE 19+ funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency How many schools might be affected by new proposals to move underperforming schools into strong MATs? - FFT Education Datalab Lessons from the first year of T Levels - Education & Training Foundation ASCL comment on government’s proposals for levelling up opportunities for children - ASCL Living Black at University: A call to action - HEPI Realising the civic university - HEPI Nicola Sturgeon's SNP will spend £300,000 sawing off the bottom of school doors trying to stop the spread of Covid - Mail College gears up for National Apprenticeship Week - Cambridge Network Government U-turns on plan to ban mobile phones from schools in England - i News Register of homeschooled children in England to be created amid concerns about rise in pupils not in school - i News DfE-funded maths centre 'unfairly promotes' CBeebies show - Times Educational Supplement | TES Councils to record which children are being home schooled - Telegraph Why every school needs to worry about long Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES How an edtech audit transformed our provision - Schools Week SQA exams: Parents demand 'humane and responsive' system - Herald Scotland Investing in children of the north will pay dividends - Wonkhe What’s in the levelling up white paper for universities? - Wonkhe Behaviour: DfE rows back on mobile phone crackdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Visa money-lending scams ‘commonplace’, warns ex-minister - Times Higher Education | THE Most black students ‘a victim of racism’ in UK accommodation - Times Higher Education | THE Edexcel to replace GCSE textbook on Israel-Palestine conflict with ‘digital resources’ after bias claims - i News Blanket ban on mobile phones in English schools ditched in Government U-turn - Mirror New register for children not in school to be launched - Mail Tobias Rustat: Cambridge university slave trade objectors ‘were fed lies’ - The Times Home schooling register to track each child’s education - The Times Levelling up white paper: Ban on phones in schools dropped - The Times Covid in Scotland: Virus mildness in children puts school masks ruling to test - The Times