News archive for 11th February 2022

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Student Union demands inclusion in £150 council tax rebate - Herald Scotland Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 11 February 2022 - Education Eye Top-grade school gets ‘inadequate’ after 15 years without inspection - Schools Week Collapsing mental health support pits parents against schools - Schools Week Podcast: Energy price crisis, dyslexia and PE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted gives schools breathing space on curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES The rising costs for schools of educational psychologists revealed - Schools Week The new Covid rules for schools in Wales as masks to continue - Wales Online Durham University's biggest donor pulls support over Covid rules - BBC New National Leaders to help struggling schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands on waiting lists as trusts struggle to foot mental health bill - Schools Week Promoting inclusion: exploring intersections of minority-racialised identity and neurodiversity - Advance HE How did the attainment gap change during the pandemic? - FFT Education Datalab Activate Learning celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022 - Activate Learning Looking to the future: The value of apprenticeships - Training Journal We must celebrate the apprentices who are helping build our future - PoliticsHome Joint winners of BERA’s Public Engagement and Impact Award - BERA Prevention and early intervention is key as the number of under-19s seeking help mental health support increases - BPS | British Psychological Society Re-assessing assessment: Bringing about systemic change requires strong words and strong action - Rethinking Assessment Why it’s politic to teach our young people politics - ASCL Getting to grips with the TEF: what does it mean for me? - Office for Students Apprenticeships for prisoners to cut crime - DfE Treasury Minister sees how Midlands skills hub is building the future with apprenticeships - GOV.UK Chancellor champions power of apprenticeships during visit to Microsoft HQ - GOV.UK What next for children’s reading? - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth MiChild to invest £1m to improve nurseries and staff training - Nursery World Purple plaques honour women innovators - UKRI The 3 top challenges to unlocking prison apprenticeships - FE Week AoC: Relax financial intervention rules to protect college reputations - FE Week ‘Left to rot’: The families on the edge of the mental health crisis - Schools Week Post-qualification admissions plan ‘abandoned’ in England - Times Higher Education | THE Harris looks set to take over troubled East London Science School - Schools Week Plans for overhaul of university admissions so students apply after they get A-levels are ‘dead in the water’ - i News Scottish LibDem leader says SNP's classroom 'door cutting' plan is 'staggering incompetence' - Herald Scotland Prisoners will study for apprenticeships for first time - Mail Hancock: 'Striking' lack of neurodiversity training in ITT - Times Educational Supplement | TES Financial literacy part 3: Are there socio-economic differences in how parents interact with their children about money? - IOE London Blog Matt Hancock calls for dyslexia screening in secure schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scotland: ‘Unclear’ how Covid recovery millions have been spent - Times Educational Supplement | TES Does marking really boost student motivation? - Times Educational Supplement | TES New GIDEON-Jisc partnership: offering UK academics access to leading infectious diseases database - Jisc Financial literacy part 4: Do disadvantaged children receive enough financial education in school? - IOE London Blog What do disadvantage gaps in England tell us about levelling up? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10 questions with... Billy Burke - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prisoners to finally be offered apprenticeships - FE Week What are the Covid rules in schools and will they stay open this term? - BBC The OfS is – mostly – correct to say colleges should work closely with schools - FE Week Awarding bodies’ report reveals rocketing cost of regulatory burden - FE Week College alarm as study shows ‘elite’ sixth forms recruit from far and wide - FE Week UK regulator makes inquiries into IT systems contracts after school backlash - Financial Times What’s the point of more elite sixth forms? - FFT Education Datalab Are there socio-economic differences in how parents interact with their children about money? - FFT Education Datalab New research on the impact of Covid-19 on the disadvantage gap in primary schools - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Do disadvantaged children receive enough financial education in school? - FFT Education Datalab You want impact? Verbal feedback is the answer - UKEdChat The importance of a differentiated sector - HEPI Why rocketing energy bills are a burning issue - Times Educational Supplement | TES The problems with the push to make PE a core subject - Times Educational Supplement | TES Northern Ireland school builds delayed due to rising cost of materials - BBC Apprenticeship funding band pilot finally gets underway - FE Week Councils cut primary school places as baby boom flattens - Schools Week Why I started the country's first school esports centre - Times Educational Supplement | TES Special Education Needs: Hundreds sign open letter condemning failures - BBC ‘Elite’ sixth forms have fewer poor students, study finds - Schools Week Schools pick up the pieces as suicidal kids turned away from CAMHS - Schools Week Special schools ‘bursting at seams’ – but DfE doesn’t collect the data - Schools Week Special investigation: How collapsing mental health services are failing children - Schools Week What a surprise: teachers are in the firing line again - Schools Week Students face debt and uncertainty despite graduate jobs surge - Financial Times Raab and Zahawi propose apprenticeships for prisoners - Mail Minister refuses to offer transparency on apprenticeship levy spending - FE Week How to teach and support students through times of stress or disadvantage - Wonkhe To address gaps in outcomes we need to interrogate the data - Wonkhe Podcast: Access and participation, blended, careers, student finance - Wonkhe HESA Spring: where students come from and what they study? - Wonkhe Buckingham yet to file accounts for last two years - Times Higher Education | THE How is the UK skills gap hurting entrepreneurship? - FE News Durham university donor halts funds over Covid restrictions - The Times Nearly third of students take business or medicine degrees - The Times Scotland: Investigator of ‘school abuse’ was its deputy head - The Times