News archive for 28th February 2022

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All kids should have homework even aged four – it needs to be hard, that’s how they learn - The Sun Melanie Phillips: Girls find the modern world a miserable place - The Times Winter baby boom of 2011 means toughest-ever competition for school places on ‘National Offer Day’ - Telegraph Teacher suspended for showing class picture of Osama bin Laden as the Prophet Mohammed - Telegraph Heads 'least likely' to know about trans students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Northern Ireland: School starting age bill passed by MLAs - BBC University academics told not to start relationships with students as part of crackdown on sexual misconduct - i News St Petersburg’s fate as host of EuroSkills 2023 set for crunch talks - FE Week NI integrated education: Brandon Lewis suggests 'nudging and cajoling' needed - BBC Survey reveals huge variation in school meal uptake - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary pupils with long Covid more likely to have poor mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Northampton High School: More strike action over pensions - BBC Mental health problems more common in young children with long Covid - The Times UK universities ‘too slow’ to address staff-student sexual relationships - Guardian Linking skills and employability provision - survey deadline extended! - ERSA Why should difference be celebrated? - Advance HE Episode two of podcast on flexible learning - Advance HE Staff-to-student sexual misconduct to be tackled by new university guidance - Universities UK Five reasons why PE is so important within primary schools - UKEdChat Funding for next generation of space science missions - UKRI Parents want more flexibility in early years care, new study finds - EYE | Early Years Educator Apply for a role in the early years COVID-19 recovery experts and mentors programme - DfE Local authorities: pre-16 schools funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apply now for student finance as the application service launches for 22/23 academic year - Student Loans Company Senior mental health lead training - DfE Coronavirus information (updated) - Voice One per cent of primary school children affected by long Covid - Telegraph School blasted for showing pupils photo of Osama Bin Laden as Prophet Muhammad - Mirror All children deserve free milk in school – why aren’t they getting it? - Metro Exam anxiety: Prior performance and transition to secondary school - Teacher Toolkit Coaching in pairs and triads: Time-efficient, collaborative, rigorous, motivating - Teacherhead Ipswich teachers strike to protect pensions - NASUWT An end and a beginning: the European Agenda for Adult Learning and international cooperation - Learning & Work Institute Limited access to budget leaves teachers 'paying to get books to pupils' - Express Please sir, can we have some more funded NQTs? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge lecturers accuse university of ‘explosive workloads’ - Guardian Majority of poorer pupils could be barred from university under loan rules - New Statesman Dunstable school suspends teacher over Bin Laden image - BBC After 16 months, masks are (sort of) coming off in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES College facing insolvency demands quicker merger solution - FE Week AET school hit by strike action rated ‘inadequate’ - Schools Week Why teacher training needs to embrace the complexities of SEND - Times Educational Supplement | TES What the early years system in Scotland needs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can we rely on Scotland's attainment data? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Four in 10' primary teachers buy books for their class - Times Educational Supplement | TES Increasing numbers of girls with mental illness risk being missed by schools, experts warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Nurseries donate essential items to families in Ukraine - Nursery World Scotland and Wales inch closer to Covid freedom: School pupils can ditch masks in class - Mail British teacher's mission to save wife and baby son stuck in Ukraine - Mail Childcare booking platform designed to boost nurseries' occupancy rates to expand - Nursery World 64,000 children a year missing out on early help services, suggests new research - Nursery World 2 When do we find out secondary school places? Date of offer day 2022 and how to appeal admissions - i News New £38m school only open since January tells all children to work from home after broken pipe causes flooding - Wales Online Girls' mental health at a precipice report shows - Mail How to create a robust DEI policy - and why it matters more than ever - Times Educational Supplement | TES Movers and Shakers: Edition 380 - FE Week Why self-compassion counts - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Understanding the relationship between implementation and professional development - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF How the pandemic will shape university leaders and their institutions - HEPI Educating, entertaining, and informing: Leggott's journalism internship - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA What’s not to dislike about minimum eligibility requirements, and the rest of the Government’s Augar response package? - HEPI Covid Scotland: Compulsory use of face masks in secondary school classes ends - Herald Scotland Natasha Abrahart suicide: Parents launch case against university - BBC External staff groups helped me change my classroom - FE Week How can schools narrow the disadvantage gap? - Schools Week Litter picking shoes design could win school children a place on innovation programme - Herald Scotland Dismissal of research leaves us stuck in the reading wars - Schools Week Government ‘gaming the figures’ on £24m breakfast club scheme - Schools Week Catholic turnaround trust eyes coasting or cash-strapped schools - Schools Week Girls 'hiding their mental health issues' from teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid in Scotland: Vaccine passports and classroom masks rules end - BBC It's a joke! Uni strikes disrupt students' learning yet again - Express Ring-fence time for policy engagement, urge young scientists - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Treasury win’ kicks funding worries down post-election road - Times Higher Education | THE Outrage as school uses picture of Osama Bin Laden to depict Prophet Muhammed - Express Teenage girls hide distress and ‘unhealthy perfectionism’ from family and teachers - The Times Paul Johnson: Changes to university fees are set to penalise lower-earning graduates - The Times Scotland: Strict uniform policies ‘breach rights of pupils’ - The Times ‘Brighter future’ with end of Covid-19 facemasks in Scottish classrooms - The Times Report shows teachers are resorting to buying books for their classrooms - Mail