News archive for 14th January 2022

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 14 January 2022 - Education Eye Face masks in schools could be ditched within weeks as Covid cases have peaked - The Sun GCSE languages overhauled to drill common words – but heads say it could make subjects narrow and ‘grinding’ - i News Ofsted: 'Outstanding' primaries 'more likely' to be downgraded - Times Educational Supplement | TES Silver linings: Big academy trusts see reserves boosted by Covid windfalls - Schools Week Podcast: Staffing and SEND 'magnet schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: Ulster University students return to campus - BBC Boys put off ‘female’ jobs because of stereotypes but girls more open to ‘male’ roles, studies find - i News ‘It’s been awful’: teachers at English secondary schools on the first week back - Guardian Students in England will learn up to 1,700 frequently used words in French, German and Spanish GCSEs under new reforms - Mail GCSE French, German and Spanish subject content - DfE Coronavirus: More than 20 per cent of early years staff off work last week - Nursery World 5-day Covid isolation 'doesn’t solve' school staff issues - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reforms to encourage more students to take up language GCSEs - DfE New assessments for GCSE French, German and Spanish - Ofqual ‘Dumbing down’ row as GCSE language students to learn fewer words than five-year-olds - Telegraph Plan for pupils to learn 1,700 words for language GCSEs gets go-ahead - Guardian The five components of an effective lesson plan - Edmodo New year, new challenges for the FE and awarding sector - FE News Schools minister defends asking secondary school pupils to wear masks - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Why won’t they engage in extra-curricular opportunities? - Advance HE Comprehensive insurance policy was crucial in supporting college’s cyber attack recovery - Jisc A new year brings yet more disruption to schools - Sutton Trust Avoiding teacher burnout - UKEdChat Government needs to wake up to the reality in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sutton Trust on Covid-related staff absences - National Education Union ASCL comment on Ofqual decision on reform of Modern Foreign Languages GCSEs - ASCL Early-career researchers win major European grants - Cambridge Network What's next for careers in the curriculum? The Edge Foundation's perspective - Careers & Enterprise Company 21 things we learned from December’s OfS Board Papers - Wonkhe New MFL GCSEs to avoid 'posh' and 'unfair' references - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid tutoring: Why hasn't the magic happened? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools fear closures amid Covid testing kit delays - Schools Week Guernsey to relax Covid measures in schools - BBC Schools in England say government not providing enough air purifiers - Guardian Why the call for former teachers and NTP has fallen flat - Times Educational Supplement | TES Over 5,000 Scottish school staff absent due to Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don’t drop creative subjects amid shortages, schools told - Evening Standard MPs back law to guarantee careers advice to pupils from age of 11 - Mail Deprived state schools most impacted by Covid staff absences - Nursery World Childminders ineligible for £500 payment when forced to close due to household Covid cases - Nursery World Edenred out as DfE sets up school meal voucher plan B - Schools Week ‘Risky’ MFL GCSE reforms get go ahead – but delayed for a year - Schools Week Omicron: January exams start smoothly despite staff shortages - FE Week State schools twice as likely as private schools to report high staff absences due to Covid - Sutton Trust Schools minister pledges ‘sustainable strategy’ for long-term remote learning - Public Technology ASCL comment on Sutton Trust report on the impact of school staff absence - ASCL Is the ‘distributed university’ the future of higher education? - HEPI Remove the universal credit rules blocking people from education - FE Week Confused and frustrated: Most universities reject first cohort of T Level students - FE Week Universities shun T-levels as UCAS deadline approaches - Schools Week State schools have more teachers off with Covid than private schools, poll suggests - i News Parents in England feel ‘disempowered’ by school choice, study finds - Guardian Covid in Scotland: Teacher absences at record high - Herald Scotland Owner of defunct provider involved in £20m subcontracting scandal declares bankruptcy - FE Week Podcast: Omicron, access, harassment, NSS - Wonkhe Having rights and career ambitions doesn’t make you a bad student - Wonkhe What does the higher technical “kitemark” really mean? - Wonkhe Covid in nurseries: Staff shortages 'mentally exhausting' - BBC Teachers 'unable to work' due to lack of Covid tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES State schools in deprived areas hit hardest by staff absence - Schools Week Deprived state schools in England hit hardest by Covid staff absences, survey finds - Guardian State school teachers report higher staff absences than private school peers - Mail ‘Major outbreaks’ of Omicron likely on UK campuses, warn experts - Times Higher Education | THE Student ‘faked poverty’ to win place at Oxford University - The Times Choice of schools does not make parents happier - The Times Sixth-form colleges in London set Oxbridge-style entry test - The Times James Treadwell: Professor fears for his job after tweets on gender - The Times Covid in Scotland: SNP accused of exam ‘confusion’ - The Times Ireland: Explaining death to pupils needs tact and care, say experts - The Times