News archive for 10th February 2022

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Eight become nine as DfE shakes up RSC regions - Schools Week ESFA to be stripped of policy role - FE Week Durham University’s largest donor pulls funding over Covid restrictions - Guardian More students from ethnic minority backgrounds studying for degrees - Mail Durham University told its Covid policies are a ‘disgrace’ as donor suspends support - Telegraph Zahawi 'ready to ask for more' catch-up cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister asked to probe PM criticism in Nottingham school lesson - BBC Coroner criticises health trust over UEA student death - BBC New $250K global school prize aims to increase ‘kindness’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extra £20 million to offset UK overseas research cuts - Times Higher Education | THE The spider web and box set curriculum - Teacher Toolkit For us at Withington, it’s about taking a holistic approach to wellbeing - Independent Schools Council | ISC CST report on antisemitism - National Education Union Historic first strike day at Girls’ Day School Trust’s independent schools - National Education Union 2022 Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers ranking open for entries - Education & Skills Funding Agency Register of Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agencies - Education & Skills Funding Agency Letter to heads about the release of Advance Information - Ofqual National leaders of education: a guide for potential applicants - DfE Higher education student data UK: 2020 to 2021 - DfE University strikes: Unis threaten to pull 100% of pay from staff engaging in action short of a strike - i News Cost of living: Students 'robbed of university experience' - BBC Labour plan to end private schools’ charitable status ‘would flood state sector with pupils’ - Telegraph My teacher showed me my future was still full of opportunity - Teach First Some children in Wales have never returned to school since classrooms shut in the first lockdown - Wales Online Disadvantage gap widens for college and sixth form students - Nuffield Foundation Working across the sector to improve education - Edge Foundation The financial skills of disadvantaged children are ‘years behind’ their more advantaged peers - IOE London Blog GCSE Plan B tests are up to heads, says Ofqual - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK university dispute escalates over plan to dock staff pay - Guardian Millionaire benefactor who donated £7m to Durham University cuts ties over Covid rules - Mail SQA: SNP Education Secretary under fire over exam fairness - Herald Scotland Face masks will not return to schools as they harm learning too much, vows Nadhim Zahawi - The Sun Universities defend moral position over 100% pay cuts for non-striking staff - Mail Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi says masks in the classroom 'inhibit learning' - Mail Recommendations to improve auto-captions in teaching and learning from the DSC - Advance HE Financial literacy part 1: How unequal are children’s skills? - IOE London Blog Financial literacy part 2: What can rich kids do that poor kids can’t? - IOE London Blog Face masks in high schools: Nicola Sturgeon warned by EIS - Herald Scotland Universities to run major research examining impact of digitised services on ethnic minorities - Public Technology Delivering the skills required to make net zero happen - PoliticsHome How apprenticeships can help accelerate the levelling up agenda - Sutton Trust Improving the delivery of GCSE Maths resit programmes - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Wales: Sexual harassment in primary schools probe needed - BBC Covid in Scotland: Classroom masks rule scrapped from end of this month - The Times ASCL comment on reserve examination series and other examination mitigations - ASCL John Blake: No trade-off between access and quality on my watch - Office for Students New nationwide survey of apprentices by apprentices - IfATE Higher Education Student Data 2020/21 - HESA Teachers walk out over pensions in 'historic' strike - Times Educational Supplement | TES USS trustee confirms UCU proposals can be implemented - UCU UCU & NUS condemn education secretary's Palestine comments - UCU Funding boost and expertise to level up places around the UK - UKRI UKRI publishes guidance and resources for new open access policy - UKRI National Apprenticeship Week 2022: How can we build on the success of the apprenticeship programme? - AELP Rethinking pupil premium: a costed proposal for levelling up - Teach First A new opportunity for UK-Switzerland research partnerships - UKRI Teach First’s tips for effective use of the pupil premium - Teach First Nicola Sturgeon announces face masks to be ditched in Scotland’s schools - Evening Standard Scotland: Probe into assault and racism claims at Crieff High School - BBC Militant lecturers don’t care how strikes hurt students, says university chief - The Times Energy bills force schools into staff cuts 'gamble' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The new behaviour guidance: what you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Date set for removal of masks in Scottish classrooms - Times Educational Supplement | TES World-class skills will level up local communities - FE Week Government launches new flexible apprenticeships - Nursery World £23 million to boost skills and diversity in AI jobs - GOV.UK Classroom 'door chopping': 'No mention' in Covid guidance - Herald Scotland 'Decade of failure’ to narrow disadvantage gap in schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Universities body tells Scottish institutions they should dock staff pay over work-to-rule - Scotsman The good, the bad and the unknown: the potential of a National Academy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers strike outside top school for girls in Wales amid alleged ‘fire and rehire’ threat - Wales Online What's next for information about apprenticeships? - Careers & Enterprise Company Teach First report on pupil premium - National Education Union One school putting apprenticeships at the heart of their careers programme - Careers & Enterprise Company EPI on the disadvantage gap - National Education Union Universities, research, development and innovation and the levelling up white paper - HEPI ASCL comment on EPI report highlighting the need to improve outcomes for GCSE, college and sixth form students in poverty - ASCL Infographic 2: Disadvantage gaps report – detailed findings - EPI Covid-19 and disadvantage gaps in England 2020 - EPI Infographic 1: Disadvantage gaps report – headline findings - EPI The financial skills of children. What can rich kids do that poor kids can’t? - FFT Education Datalab How unequal are children’s financial literacy skills? - FFT Education Datalab Modelling independence: The ​‘Seven-step model’ planning tool - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Government uses high inflation as cover for hitting students, graduates and universities - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS EEF responds to EPI report on the disadvantage gap in education - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Organisations named the first flexi-job apprenticeship agencies revealed - FE Week Northern Ireland: MLAs call for action on number of pupil absences - BBC Parents can’t afford to take children to school and pupils are embarrassed to say they’re hungry, head warns - i News ‘Decade of failure’ as poor pupils still lag behind better-off peers in GCSEs - Metro ‘Disadvantage gap’ entrenched as deprived teenagers fall three grades behind richer students - Telegraph Girls’ Day School Trust hit with first teacher strike over pensions - Telegraph Students hit by 'stealth loan cuts' of up to £60 a month - Telegraph Education in Scotland: Tutoring for pupils 'non-existent' - Herald Scotland Flexible apprenticeships to boost jobs in key sectors - DfE Universities need to start to focusing on intrapreneurship - Wonkhe Happy 100th birthday to the National Union of Students - Wonkhe How can degree apprenticeships level-up? - Wonkhe GCSEs: ‘Decade of failure’ on closing attainment gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding boost 'needed for persistently disadvantaged' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disadvantaged students ‘effectively penalised’ for not studying A-levels, research finds - FE Week EPI blasts government’s ‘decade of failure’ on disadvantage gap - Schools Week Welsh Government is offering free Welsh lessons to all 16-25 year olds, teachers, headteachers and teaching assistants - Wales Online Private girls' school teachers will launch their first ever strike over pensions row - Mail Labour councillors support school at centre of row over children's letters criticising Boris Johnson - Mail How will Government emphasis on fairness extend to students taking technical qualifications in 2022? - FE News Ministers ‘tightening financial screws’ on English sector - Times Higher Education | THE A decade of tinkering with education has failed to improve GCSE marks of working-class kids, says shock study - The Sun Poor pupils trail richer peers at GCSE after 'dismal' efforts to close grade gap - Mirror Union clashes with managers over pay deductions ahead of strike - Times Higher Education | THE Which countries have the most unequal access to higher education? - Times Higher Education | THE Study finds poorer children 'years behind' peers when it comes to managing money - Mail Government accused of 'tightening the screws' on students and universities - Mail Teachers call for funding weighted towards pupils in poorer areas - Mail Raquel Rosario-Sánchez: Bristol University staff accused of trying to trick trans row student - The Times ‘Decade of failure’ hurts poorest pupils - The Times Scotland: Teachers feel ‘dictated to’ by Holyrood and council politicians with no links to schools - The Times Scotland: Council set to quiz pupils on ‘bullying ignored by Crieff High School’ - The Times Ireland: Report calls for empathy training to curb bullying among teachers - The Times