News archive for 18th February 2022

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School fined £30,000 for taking kids on mountain hike despite ice weather warnings - Mirror Covid: 100,000 'ghost children' will make those who wanted more lockdowns hang their privileged heads in shame - Mail Archbishop of Canterbury ‘risks mistrial’ of Cambridge college donor memorial case - Telegraph Tell new students how much teaching is done online, universities warned - Telegraph Plans to extend school days to help kids catch up after Covid are ditched by Education Secretary - The Sun What's wrong with it? Dawn Butler sparks fury after calls to scrap schools' Queen book - Express Podcast: Impartiality, living with Covid and TRA changes - Times Educational Supplement | TES What we lose if school trips fall victim to Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES A turning point or false dawn? Jeremy Miles maps out vision for new curriculum in Wales - Education matters Make colleges ‘jointly responsible’ for local skills improvement plans, principals tell Zahawi - FE Week Why teachers need more autonomy - and how to give it to them - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four ways volunteering can facilitate learning - Training Journal Skills Advisory Panels - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19): school and college performance measures - DfE Why calling teachers ‘sir’ and ‘miss’ is old school - Metro Parents fury as primary school bans pupils using the terms ‘Mum’ and ‘Dad’ - Express If the government wants open debate in universities, why stifle it in schools? - Guardian Campaigners slam 'disturbing' rules banning teachers from 'left-wing brainwashing' of pupils - Mail Flexible learning: new podcast series - Advance HE I can drive a car, don’t expect me to be able to fly a plane! Computer anxiety among students - Advance HE ‘Raising the status’ with new ETF courses to support T Levels educators - Education & Training Foundation Exclusions: This is really sad; sad on a series of levels - UKEdChat As an IB school, we want to understand better how to help students develop meaningfully as happy and healthy people - Independent Schools Council | ISC The importance of the employee ‘deal’ - HEPI How two schools are putting digital systems at the heart of their careers programme - Careers & Enterprise Company Arts disciplines are under threat - FED | Foundation for Education Development Why women should pay half for university (and economists should pay double) - New Statesman Scotland: Can these plans to reduce headteacher numbers be justified? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Political neutrality guidance: How teachers have reacted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Impartiality guidance: What do schools need to know? - Times Educational Supplement | TES First-ever physical activity guidelines published for disabled children - Nursery World Storm Eunice causes nurseries to close their doors - Nursery World A chilling effect: Unease at political impartiality advice for schools - SecEd Guernsey secondary education changes delayed to 2025 - BBC Storm Eunice: Are schools shut in your area as hundreds forced to close due to ‘worst storm in 30 years’ - Independent How to tackle the decline in children's play skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Storm Eunice: Colleges close across south England - FE Week Why the SEND review must address medical provision in special schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Storm Eunice: when and where will the UK be worst hit as schools across the country are closed - The Times Full list of school closures in Scotland as Storm Eunice hits - Herald Scotland Storm Eunice: Millions across UK told to stay home as severe winds hit and hundreds of schools close - BBC Schools need stability - so why is the government intent on change? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Watchdog assessing SIMS contract change - Times Educational Supplement | TES Curbing political topics in English schools will harm minority students, say critics - Guardian Minister blocks release of catch-up figures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid rules: Scottish universities want ministers to back off - Herald Scotland Access denied: the super-slow broadband crisis in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: The secret life of students 2022 - Wonkhe Teaching in higher education should be professionalised - Wonkhe If punishing student drug users is the answer, what is the question? - Wonkhe Stay at home! Schools closed as storm Eunice will be the worst to hit UK in 30 years - Mail Red weather warning: Full list of school closures across UK amid Storm Eunice - Express ‘Great resignation’ turn to short courses boosts FutureLearn outlook - Times Higher Education | THE Give children the Covid-19 vaccine, says Scottish medical chief Jason Leitch - The Times Schools close as Storm Eunice blows into Ireland - The Times