News archive for 4th January 2022

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Schools face staff crisis and test chaos as delays for Covid screening hit the start of term - Mail Covid in Wales: School staff absences expected to cause 'significant disruption' - BBC Schools told to order tests by 5pm to avoid two-week wait - Mail Don't assume your children are taught well at school, warns Britain’s strictest headteacher - Telegraph Downing Street dunces are failing our kids with chaotic response to Covid - Mirror Effectiveness of a PD program in a repeated randomized study. What caused the different impact? - Best Evidence in Brief Parent engagement in science education: the more the merrier? - Best Evidence in Brief School improvement meta-analysis - Best Evidence in Brief Human vs. non-human reading partners - Best Evidence in Brief England’s schools braced for more Covid disruption as term begins - Financial Times School staff shortages could worsen in new term and cause learning disruption - Mail Pupils ‘vilified’ if they don’t take Covid tests or wear masks in class - Telegraph Retired teachers will be called up to help keep schools open amid Covid staffing crisis - The Sun Schools brace for Covid surge as unions warn of looming staffing shortages - Mirror Online GCSE tests piloted by major exam board - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why schools are at the forefront of the Covid crisis right now - HuffPost It's not sexist that Eton and Harrow only admit boys - Telegraph The Guardian view on Covid and schools: crossed fingers aren’t enough - Guardian Mums face court as they refuse to send kids to school amid surging Covid rates - Metro Unions to challenge heads who follow DfE ‘combine classes’ advice - Schools Week Kids told to wear coats and scarves to stop them shivering in class as windows flung open to limit Covid spread - The Sun Coaching teachers to create meaningful assessments - TeachBoost Empowering young people to tackle climate change - FED | Foundation for Education Development Social mobility tsar Katharine Birbalsingh tells parents: Don't trust teachers to educate your child - Mail Covid in Scotland: 'Congestion' warning over testing system as schools reopen - BBC What Plan B Covid restrictions mean for schools - Telegraph School forced to send entire year home because too many staff have Covid - Mirror Let’s think about our carrots - UKEdChat How can we improve children’s problem solving in maths? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF UUKi director Vivienne Stern receives MBE - PIE News New Year Honours for LSE in 2022 - London School of Economics | LSE Associate Fellowship: applying and reflecting during challenging times - Advance HE Back to school: Headteachers report staff absence levels of 10% as schools reopen - i News Covid chaos in schools on first day back as Head warns staff 'off sick' may force classes to combine - Mail Covid-19: Keeping Northern Ireland schools open is priority - McIlveen - BBC Covid in Wales: School staff absences expected to cause 'significant disruption' - BBC Pupils return to Covid testing and masks in class - BBC Alliance CEO Neil Leitch awarded OBE for services to education in New Year honours - EYE | Early Years Educator Schools in England may suspend certain subjects to cope with Covid - Guardian New Covid face mask rules from today explained as guidance in schools change - Mirror Parents told to collect children within an hour of dropping them off at school - Express Schoolkids could be sent home within weeks due to pingdemic – as Boris faces pressure to slash isolation to 5 days - The Sun Schools may need to suspend specialist subjects to cope with staff sickness, Ofqual warns - The Times Schoolchildren at up to 100 schools will take A-Level and GCSEs papers online this year in 'radical' digital exams trial - Mail Shadow Education Secretary: Government need to do more to tackle Covid in schools - Mail Children face return to online lessons in Scotland as Omicron increases teacher absences - The Times Covid in Guernsey: High number of teachers 'expected to be off school' - BBC Listen to the teachers – we have a plan to keep classrooms open and pupils safe - Guardian Covid: Back to school for new kind of test in class - Evening Standard Teaching assistant sacked for giving boys girls names and calling pupils stupid and pathetic - Metro School closes entire year group with just one day’s notice as parents forced to teach children at home - The Sun An eight per cent pay rise? Latest STRB remit is ‘open but unclear’ - SecEd Scottish teacher survey: workload higher during Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Concerns over Scottish teacher absence rates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early Years Alliance Neil Leitch awarded OBE in New Year Honours - Nursery World Omicron: Updated Covid-19 guidance for children’s social care, education, early years and youth work providers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now There may be trouble ahead... Challenges for schools in 2022 - SecEd Covid in schools: 'Inevitable' Omicron cases will rise - Herald Scotland Order new Covid tests by 5pm or face two-week wait, DfE tells schools - Schools Week Covid guidance for schools: The rules and advice in place around the UK to prevent Omicron closures - i News Covid Scotland: Teacher survey sparks fears over strain on schools - Herald Scotland Headteachers warn Omicron threatens disruption as schools reopen after Christmas - Independent Omicron: Will schools stay open this term? - BBC Masks rule in schools won't last 'a day longer than we need it', says Zahawi - Express School closures: Is there a full list of schools closed in January 2022? - Express Children to be turned away from school and commuters face back-to-work nightmare - Metro Are schools closing again? How likely UK schools are to close in January 2022 if Covid cases keep rising - i News One million Brits in Covid self-isolation as back to school and work chaos awaits - Mirror Boris Johnson vows kids won’t wear face masks ‘a day more than is necessary’ amid chaotic school return - The Sun The significance of ‘place’ and local partnerships - HEPI Cambridge's finest recognised in 2022 New Year's Honours - Cambridge Network Statement on education Covid measures in Northern Ireland - Voice Covid Scotland: Union claims teachers are facing a 'rising tide of workload' throughout the pandemic - Scotsman More Covid absences expected as UK schools go back - BBC Cycle of disruption: Government urged to cut isolation for pupils to five days - Express Tackle precarity or lose ‘sense of community’, says v-c - Times Higher Education | THE After 30 years of STEM, it is time to move on - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland: Ex-teachers can help keep schools open during winter crisis - The Times Facemasks are a price worth paying to keep kids where they belong, in the classroom - The Times Omicron variant: Schools in danger of closing within weeks for lack of teachers - The Times