News archive for 23rd February 2022

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Bristol University students ‘distressed’ after being shown recorded lectures by dead academic - Telegraph Educating our children is key in the fight against racist attitudes - Mirror Two-thirds of Scottish pupils have been sexually harassed at school, new study shows - Scotsman Two-thirds of pupils at Scottish schools have been sexually harassed - study - Mail Scotland: Two-thirds of students sexually harassed, study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex harassment: Scottish schools risk becoming 'rape culture' breeding grounds - Herald Scotland University graduates 'will have to start repaying student loans once their salary hits £25,000' - Mail Clampdown on ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees in major funding overhaul - Evening Standard ‘Ladder-up not levelling-up’: DfE urged to rethink student loan grade threshold plan - FE Week ‘Ladder-up not levelling-up’: DfE urged to rethink student loan grade threshold plan - Schools Week Academic governance and degree apprenticeships in England – getting it right - Advance HE In the balance: the artful mix that goes into becoming a Modern Foreign Language teacher - IOE London Blog Civil servants encouraged to inspire the next generation - Education and Employers New episode of ​Evidence into Action: Teaching reading - developing fluency - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Higher education reforms - college sector response - AoC | Association of Colleges Jisc and OCLC agreement to provide libraries with improved access to cataloguing services and records - Jisc Setting your stall: The personal touch to classroom management - UKEdChat Oldham College learner wins Higher Education Student of the Year - Education & Training Foundation Teach First’s LGBTQ+ inclusion journey - Teach First Troy Deeney welcomes Education Secretary's response to teach more diverse topics - Mail Young people get their say to work towards a better future in Scotland - Herald Scotland Free cyber skills training for thousands of secondary school pupils - GOV.UK Principles underpinning a group of vocational and technical qualifications - Ofqual ESFA Update: 23 February 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency End of an era, as Martin Dunford OBE steps down as Chair of AELP’s board - AELP One in 25 people have Covid as cases fall but infections highest in primary school kids - Mirror Schools explain why they 'banned' teachers from saying mum and dad in class - Express New recipe, same ingredients? For levelling up, proof will be in the pudding - HEPI How to improve international employability - Wonkhe Thoughts on the inspection of early reading - BERA Primary schools needed for free parental engagement programme - National Numeracy Give your views on the future of postgraduate research training - UKRI Launch of working group to help shape the future of UK airspace - UKRI LGBT+ History Month 2022 - reflecting on the changing attitudes towards people who identify as LGBT+ - Advance HE Scrapping Covid virus curbs may hit nurseries because toddlers ‘do not socially distance’ - Evening Standard UK universities hit by 40% fall in EU students since Brexit - Independent Pupils who fail GCSE English and maths ‘may be blocked’ from student loans - Independent No more snow days: Remote lessons keep kids learning during storms - Schools Week Augar loan threshold lacks imagination says Cambridge academic - Mail Wales: Parents complain they're forced to home school over compulsory sex education - Express Minimum GCSE threshold for student loans will hit poorest hardest, say experts - Guardian How are Covid rules changing across UK schools? - BBC No English and maths GCSE, no university student loan, plans say - BBC Guide to trans children’s rights at school - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Disadvantaged hit hardest as youth happiness at all time low - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Free book gifting scheme for disadvantaged pupils launches - Nursery World UK scholars ‘more likely to self-censor’ when teaching Chinese students - Times Higher Education | THE Minister: minimum entry rules ‘not definite direction of travel’ - Times Higher Education | THE Augar response set to restrict English student numbers - Times Higher Education | THE UK university union threatens marking boycott as employers pass pension cuts - Financial Times Pupils who fail maths and English GCSEs ‘will be banned from taking out student loans’ - The Sun Pupils who fail maths and English GCSEs will be banned from taking out student loans - Express Student loans: Graduates will pay more with repayments set to start at £25k threshold and last extra 10 years - i News AELP chair stands down after 18 years - FE Week Augar loan plan may halt prospect of university for poorer pupils - Mail SQA reform: SNP ministers in education 'secrecy' row - Herald Scotland Schools are failing Black students, says footballer amid calls for diverse curriculum - Independent Longer-term destination measures could provide key insights into young people's future careers - NFER Report: Investigating the potential use of long-term school and college destination measures - NFER The case for giving greater priority to destination measures in the education system - NFER ASCL comment on Sutton Trust research showing socio-economic barriers remain in engineering - ASCL Engineering more socio-economically diverse than most other sectors, but barriers remain - Sutton Trust Imperial College London finance chief steps down after bullying claims - Guardian Universities see 50% rise in US students post-Brexit - BBC No student loan for pupils who fail GCSE maths or English - Telegraph Number of children off school due to Covid drops to lowest level this year - Evening Standard HESA data spring 2022: widening participation performance indicators - Wonkhe Pupils who fail Maths and English GCSEs 'won't get student loans' under new plans - Mirror Pupils who fail GCSE maths and English could be banned from getting student loans under new proposals - Mail D&T decline 'stops poorer children being engineers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Decline in design and technology could narrow social mobility in engineering - Mail Oxford and Cambridge overtake rivals on state school intake - Times Higher Education | THE Lecturers admit self-censoring classes with Chinese students - The Times Oxford and Cambridge pull ahead in state-school entries as other Russell Group universities slow down - The Times Pupils who fail English and maths ‘will be barred from student loans’ - The Times