News archive for 12th January 2022

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Professor’s views on racist language are bewildering - The Times Row breaks out over school trust's trans policy - BBC Schools minister backs reducing isolation to five days if the science supports it - Evening Standard Ministers spent less than £4k promoting ex-teacher drive to tackle Covid staff shortages - Mirror Schools minister: 44,000 teachers off in first week of term is better than what Government expected - i News Top performing primary school which extended its day to help pupils catch up after Covid now bans pudding from lunchtime - Mail Universities: SNP Ministers warned over 'lack of investment' - Herald Scotland DfE has no Covid threshold for moving schools online - Times Educational Supplement | TES New school safeguarding rules: what you need to know - Schools Week ‘Guided’ play can support key aspects of children’s learning and development, new research shows - EYE | Early Years Educator School recovery strategies - Teacher Toolkit Research bureaucracy – can you have one without the other? - Wonkhe Growing diverse and inclusive university marketing teams - HEPI Relative age and the early years foundation stage profile - BERA Upgrade face masks, guarantee sick pay & protect vulnerable staff on university & college campuses in Omicron fight - UCU NAHT launches new school business leaders report - NAHT Clarification from the Department for Education on the use of face coverings in examinations and assessments, including mock exams - NAHT 2022: Data Futures to 'Data Now' - HESA How the EEF will commission research in 2022 and beyond - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Universities urged to raise their game by allowing staff to teach remotely - Mail AoC hosts global Erasmus+ EXPECT project delegates in Brighton - AoC | Association of Colleges How does A-Level subject choice vary around the country? - FFT Education Datalab Staff absence: Schools screaming for more financial support as Covid infections soar - SecEd Schools continue to shun National Tutoring Programme - SecEd EEF publishes new evaluation report of the ICCAMS programme - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF DfE: Relax uniform rules and open windows briefly - Times Educational Supplement | TES Retired teachers return in ‘exceptionally low’ numbers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students with BTECs are successful across a range of university outcomes - Nuffield Foundation Activate Learning is offering new T Level qualifications from September 2022 - Activate Learning Learning through ‘guided’ play can be as effective as adult-led instruction up to at least age eight - UKEdChat Green skills for the future - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Is it possible to measure collaboration? - Advance HE ESFA Update: 12 January 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency National school breakfast club programme - DfE Top nine areas with the highest number of children off school due to Covid are all in London - Evening Standard Schools minister supports cutting isolation period if science shows it is safe - Mail Randstad says schools lack 'bandwidth' to sign-up to NTP - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are the Covid rules in schools and will they stay open this term? - BBC Why it's time to ditch attempts to tackle exam inflation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents call for GCSE and A-level exams to be cancelled again in Wales - Wales Online Minister rejects return of key stage 3 SATs, but mulls ‘internal’ tests to boost literacy - Schools Week Sector cautiously welcomes relaxation of early years staffing ratios due to Covid-19 - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Guided play as effective as adult-led instruction for children's learning and development - Nursery World Tutoring scheme failing to reach most targeted pupils, figures reveals - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Royal Holloway and St George’s call off revived merger talks - Times Higher Education | THE UCU calls for vulnerable to work remotely as Omicron surges - Times Higher Education | THE Primary school bans pudding as it ‘makes pupils tired in the afternoon’ - The Sun No way, I’ve already done it! - UKEdChat DfE ‘encouraging’ schools to use tutors and mentors to cover staff shortages - Schools Week Lloyd Webber calls for more music tuition funding in schools - Guardian Covid-related school absences reach record high - Express DfE to pay 100% of breakfast clubs costs until August in partial U-turn - Schools Week Number of ex-teachers joining the school workforce: 2021 to 2022 - DfE Government supporting schools and colleges to provide face-to-face learning for millions of children and young people - DfE School starting age: 'Nine in 10' support NI change - BBC Schools face further Covid disruption - are tests being affected? - Express Student wellbeing is about academic experience – especially during Covid - Wonkhe The government has picked over £1,000 from the pockets of lower income students’ families - Wonkhe DfE's 485 ex-teacher recruits 'unlikely to stop school closures' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE says over 550 ex-teachers answer Covid call to arms - FE Week DfE says over 550 ex-teachers answered Covid call to arms - Schools Week Guided play ‘sometimes better’ than direct instruction - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in 12 teachers in England off work amid Omicron disruption - Financial Times 9:30 a.m. - Education Committee to hear evidence in its inquiry into Government’s catch-up programme and accountability hearings - Accountability Hearings Minimum entry grades ‘would increase degree access inequality’ - Times Higher Education | THE Number of teachers signing up to cover Covid staff shortages ‘drop in the ocean’, warns union - Independent 1 in 4 PhDs in survey ‘report feelings of suicide or self-harm’ - Times Higher Education | THE Around 500 former teachers sign up to tackle staff shortages in schools - Mail Divert NHS cash to schools to improve the nation's health after the pandemic, says new study - Mail Quarter of parents bend rules to win their child a school place - The Times Cambridge professors in row over use of ‘eloquent’ as racist term - The Times Teacher absence at new high despite Christmas ‘firebreak’ - The Times Ofsted chief calls for home-schooling register - The Times Covid in Scotland: Pupils may get heads-up on exam topics as many stay home - The Times Changing exams will futureproof pupils and society - The Times Scotland: Universities withdraw from Stonewall workplace league - The Times A quarter of parents admit flouting the rules to get children into a good school - Mail