News archive for 18th January 2022

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Thousands of children have fallen off the radar during lockdown, warns Dame Rachel De Souza - Telegraph Winchester College’s ‘cult-like’ Christian society allowed barrister to abuse boys - Telegraph Scotland: Increased standardised testing spend 'incomprehensible' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academic who claimed she was sacked for ‘being loud’ awarded £100,000 by tribunal - Independent Apprenticeships in prisons still being considered, and 4 other takeaways from today’s prison education hearing - FE Week Professor wins case against students who said she treated them like slaves - The Times Universities pledge to stop silencing sex-assault victims - BBC Covid: Southampton university students raise concerns over exam self-isolation - BBC Making abstract ideas concrete - Teacher Toolkit UK’s largest health research programme prevents and treats disease - UKRI Edge response to the Education Select Committee Inquiry on ‘The Future of post 16 qualifications’ - Edge Foundation Children's word of the year unveiled - SecEd 'Pure fantasy': GCSE language reforms under fire - SecEd Cross-border legislation ‘will future-proof European universities’ - Times Higher Education | THE Scheme extended to cover costs of extra invigilators for this term’s vocational exams - FE Week Get help to explore different careers and understand what employers in your area are looking for - Education & Skills Funding Agency Universities pledge to end use of non-disclosure agreements - DfE Early years level 3 SENCO - DfE It felt like the first official step towards my academic teaching career - Advance HE Winchester college society was cult-like, finds report into child abuse - Guardian Prisoners could take apprenticeships while behind bars to train for jobs on release - i News NEU comment on NFER report on disadvantaged pupils - National Education Union How can we ensure that disadvantaged young people are supported if we can’t monitor their outcomes? - NFER More universities could face strike action following UCU reballot results - UCU Russell Group response to DfE non-disclosure agreement pledge launch - Russell Group Three resources from Premier League Primary Stars to encourage discussions on wellbeing in the classroom or at home - Premier League Primary Stars Independent process review of UKRI’s response to Covid-19 - UKRI Don’t look up; look forward: How are global trends shaping education? - OECD Scotland: MSPs to probe impact of pandemic on attainment - Times Educational Supplement | TES I’ve spent two years in online lectures – being hearing-impaired makes it all a lot harder - Metro No change on mask rules in Scottish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES More universities could face strike disruption this term after reballots - Mail School starting age: what is happening in Northern Ireland? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities told to stop using NDAs to 'silence' victims of sexual harassment - Mail Universities told to stop using NDAs to ‘silence’ victims of sexual harassment - Evening Standard Lecturer wins £100,000 in damages after she was fired for being 'too loud' - Mirror Ten more universities face strikes after UCU reballots - Times Higher Education | THE Non-disclosure agreements a no-no in harassment cases – minister - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland: Police probe seven claims of spiking at St Andrews University student events in just one month - Mail Deaf students ‘falling behind’ due to face masks - Times Educational Supplement | TES We must not lose heart in the power of tutoring - Times Educational Supplement | TES 400 sexual misconduct claims at Scottish universities - BBC Sacked 'loud' Exeter University lecturer awarded £100k - BBC Free school meal eligibility changes ‘could skew attainment gap data’, researchers warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scottish Government launches new fund to help nurseries be more diverse - Nursery World Children in poverty will bear the brunt of rising energy bills - Nursery World Where now for political literacy? - SecEd Energy price rises could worsen child poverty, charity warns - BBC Deaf pupils are 'falling behind' due to face masks in classrooms - Mail 'Fewer than 20% of schoolkids' given free computer despite SNP pledge - Herald Scotland ASCL comment on NFER report warning of consequences of changes to free school meal eligibility - ASCL FSM eligibility changes will make tracking progress of disadvantage pupils ‘almost impossible' - NFER Report: Investigating the changing landscape of pupil disadvantage - NFER Five common predictions about Covid and education that now appear to be wrong - HEPI Joseph Rowntree Foundation on energy bills and poverty - National Education Union Can we get generalist teachers to teach music? Yes we can! - BERA Bridging literacy transition with fluency - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Measures of persistent absence for the Covid age - FFT Education Datalab Mock feedback: A vital and highly rewarding process - UKEdChat Innovate UK’s £5m competition funds climate change financial risk - Cambridge Network ‘Loud’ academic awarded more than £100,000 for unfair dismissal - Guardian Introducing... Anne-Marie Canning, Chief Executive, The Brilliant Club - Schools Week Northern Ireland has 'too many small and unsustainable' schools - BBC Northern Ireland: Queen's University to resume face-to-face teaching - BBC ‘Sport is special – it’s in your face’: New College Pontefract - FE Week We can’t support disadvantaged pupils if we can’t monitor their outcomes - Schools Week NLG reforms have left chairs of governors unsupported - Schools Week How universities identify “low quality” courses - Wonkhe What good looks like in embedding mental health support across HE - Wonkhe Hundreds of sexual misconduct claims filed at Scotland's universities since 2016 - Scotsman Self-harm guidance to include advice for schools and prisons - BBC Combatting the STEM skills shortage in 2022 - FE News Recruiting and retaining great talent within the FE and apprenticeship market - FE News Rise in FSM pupils 'will distort attainment data' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poorer pupil progress ‘increasingly difficult’ to measure - Schools Week Teachers concerned by increase in poverty which has made 300,000 more pupils eligible for free school meals - i News Thousands of student gambling addicts ‘spending £30 a week on habit’ - Guardian Harder to track poorer pupils' progress after Universal Credit changes - Mail 10:00 a.m. - Education Committee to hear evidence in its inquiry into prison education - Accountability Hearings UK sector leaders expect ‘striking’ pivot to science research - Times Higher Education | THE Students bet on credit and blow their loans in gambling epidemic - The Times You can’t teach children about Holocaust on TikTok, says Auschwitz and Belsen survivor - The Times Scotland: Academics back Sir Geoff Palmer in row over slave links - The Times Scotland: 400 sexual assault claims at universities in past five years - The Times