News archive for 11th January 2022

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Number of kids off school due to Covid soars to highest since September - The Sun Nottingham all-girls school will not admit transgender pupils - Labour MP blasts move - Express Exams in Scotland: SQA poised to boost pupil support - Herald Scotland Second lockdown set pupils back just when they were starting to catch up - Telegraph National tutoring programme has failed pupils and taxpayers, says Labour - Guardian School refuses to tell GCSE pupils their mock exam grades - Wales Online What teachers need to know about today's SQA letter - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid pandemic 'clearly' not over, DfE admits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid in Scotland: Exams 'should go ahead as planned', says SQA - BBC Keeping children safe in education: proposed revisions 2022 - DfE Reforming how local authority school improvement functions are funded - DfE Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: 23 March 2020 to 6 January 2022 - DfE Hundreds of thousands of pupils benefit from tutoring - DfE Three plead guilty to running illegal school - Ofsted Boost your skills and get on the path to a better job in 2022 with the National Careers Service - Education & Skills Funding Agency Laptops, tablets and connectivity data as of 11 January 2022 - DfE Ways into science – making the most of worked examples - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF To develop excellent secondary maths teachers we need space in the curriculum for critical reflection - IOE London Blog Commissioner calls for real-time attendance data - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers accused of hiding "woeful" lack of ex-teachers returning to classrooms to fill Covid gaps - PoliticsHome What young people want to help them recover from school closures - The Conversation EPI responds to new DfE figures on pupil and teacher absences - EPI Banbury and Bicester College opens a new bicycle maintenance training facility - Activate Learning How school absence varies from day to day - FFT Education Datalab Revision spiralling out of control? - UKEdChat Schools cut music and PE, and 7 other findings from DfE recovery research - Schools Week Stimulating Physics Network (Phase 4 and 5) evaluation report - FFT Education Datalab Breakfast clubs: Schools report impact on behaviour, concentration and social skills - SecEd What are teachers’ must-have items at the start of term? (This, and other findings…) - Teacher Tapp School recovery strategies: year 1 findings - DfE National tutoring programme: courses started - DfE ASCL comment on school attendance figures - ASCL The implications for teachers’ pay of new NFER research findings - NFER What teachers do next after leaving and the implications for pay-setting - NFER Government report into impact of Covid on school recovery - National Education Union Latest attendance figures for education settings - National Education Union Universities can’t afford to make the same admissions mistakes with T Levels as they have with the BTEC - HEPI NERC publishes best practice principles in doctoral recruitment - UKRI Professor Sharon Peacock awarded the MRC Millennium Medal 2021 - Cambridge Network Response on continuation of blended learning - Russell Group School absences data: Staggering 1 in 12 teachers off due to Covid in first week - Express Extra £5m for ventilation in Scottish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Around 44,000 teachers were off when schools returned last week with one in 20 due to Covid - Mail Omicron: 1 in 25 college teachers and leaders off with Covid as absence rate doubles - FE Week Number of pupils and staff absent from England's schools rises after Christmas - Mail Schools struggle amid Covid as one in 12 teachers off - BBC Raid on school budgets next year as £41m council grants axed - Schools Week Almost 15,000 more schoolchildren off sick due to Covid than before Christmas - Evening Standard Only a quarter of catch-up tutoring sessions accessed through Randstad - Mail Supporting young people’s post-secondary transitions in London - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Open classroom windows between lessons so kids don’t get too cold, says DfE - Schools Week Omicron: 1 in 25 staff off with Covid as absence rate doubles - Schools Week Cambridge ends Learning Together after London Bridge attack - Times Higher Education | THE Early years settings told they can relax ratios as Covid deemed an 'exceptional circumstance' - Nursery World Schools: 315,000 pupils miss class in first week of term because of Covid, with 1 in 12 teachers off - i News Schools forced to keep classroom windows open when it is snowing outside because of lack of air purifiers - i News Covid: 315,000 pupils off in the first week of term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Flagship tutor scheme ‘scandalously’ short of targets – with just 8% of mentoring provided - Schools Week Covid catch-up mentor scheme 92% off target, DfE admits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Introducing: Marion Plant, Chief Executive, North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College - FE Week Headteachers round up ‘army’ of volunteers to help keep schools open - Evening Standard Profile: Stephen Morgan, Shadow schools minister - Schools Week Covid in Scotland: At least 58,000 pupil absences last week - Herald Scotland The OfS Data Futures consultation: right answer, wrong question - Wonkhe What now for ARIA? - Wonkhe 10:00 a.m. - Education Committee to hear evidence in its inquiry into the educational and longer-term outcomes of children in residential care - Accountability Hearings Former ‘superhead’ cleared by inquiry over child protection and is free to return to the classroom - Scotsman Use of online lessons has risen 'threefold' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Online Oak academy lessons soar as Omicron hits returning schools - Schools Week Deficit-hit Goldsmiths ‘at sharp end of financialisation of HE’ - Times Higher Education | THE Rise in pupils and teachers using online lessons through virtual school - Mail Scotland: Sex case head Derek Curran is cleared to teach again - The Times Poor attendance due to Covid will not stop exams in Scotland, says education secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville - The Times Ireland: Teachers back proper exams despite calls for ‘compassionate’ hybrid system - The Times