News archive for 19th January 2022

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University regulator cracks down on ‘poor quality’ courses in England - Financial Times School removes toilet doors despite it leaving pupils 'feeling uncomfortable' - Express Record number of teens opting to become nurses after being inspired by pandemic - The Sun Jobs at risk as schools left to pick up tab for teacher pay award - Wales Online Covid Scotland: Thousands of pupils ‘missing from school’ - Herald Scotland Scottish Government launches app to find free period products - Public Technology Government’s approach to teaching reading is uninformed and failing children - IOE London Blog International Pathways Students: professional networking for career readiness - Advance HE IOE at 120 – an expansive vision for teaching and learning - IOE London Blog Phonics teaching in England needs to change – our new research points to a better approach - The Conversation Girls’ Education Challenge visit from UK’s Minister for Africa, Vicky Ford MP - Education Development Trust | EDT Merrist Wood College welcomes volunteer gardeners to join community wellbeing scheme - Activate Learning Should PE be as important as English and Maths? And what is the cost of living for teachers? (This, and more…) - Teacher Tapp Blended learning at Russell Group universities - Russell Group ASCL comment on government announcement on easing of Covid restrictions in schools - ASCL Union demands regulator step in and review e-book industry - UCU Early years charity opens its chef academy programme externally to help tackle childhood obesity - EYE | Early Years Educator School Covid absences: Inquiry launched to investigate 10,000 pupils missing classes during pandemic - i News Ofsted to ask heads to resume inspection work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Face mask use drops to under 10% in Manx high schools - BBC Ofsted back to business as usual from end of January - Schools Week Catch-up tutors run lessons for ‘ghost pupils’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four key challenges Scottish schools are facing this term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Care leavers feel they left care too early, Ofsted finds - Ofsted Government urged to 'reform the use of phonics' as it is 'failing children' - Nursery World ESFA Update: 19 January 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Now is the time to build an effective upskilling culture in individuals - FE News Easing of Covid restrictions in England - National Education Union UCL research into the teaching of reading - National Education Union No more face masks in classrooms and other school rule changes after Plan B restrictions lifted - Telegraph The rise of corporate research funding - Training Journal Bright Horizons fined £800,000 over toddler death - Nursery World Universities ordered to stop using non-disclosure agreements for sexual harassment cases - Express Lifting of mask restrictions branded premature by teachers' leaders - Mail The socialisation crisis facing schools - Herald Scotland Covid in schools: Inquiry launched to find 100,000 pupils absent in England - BBC Does school choice increase parents' satisfaction? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Twelfth UTC closure confirmed - FE Week Twelfth UTC closure confirmed - Schools Week Why are ministers obsessed with teaching children to read using phonics? - Guardian Inquiry launched to track down up to 100,000 pupils who have not returned to the classroom since the pandemic began - Mail Covid Scotland: Use of face masks in secondary schools should be regularly reviewed, say parent representatives - Scotsman Covid in Scotland: Expert predicts end of face coverings in schools - BBC Urgent warning to students across England as cases of deadly meningitis rise - The Sun Teachers warn it will take 18 months for pupils to catch up after falling behind on studies during the Covid pandemic - Mail What are the Covid rules in schools and will they stay open this term? - BBC PM: No masks in classrooms from tomorrow - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of children in extreme poverty rises to 550,000 - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Flaws in the system: Influx of new FSM pupils causes attainment gap headache - SecEd Northumbria University: Professor accused of slavery wins wrongful dismissal case - BBC Wellbeing around the world: Removing heads of subjects - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Phenomenal buyer demand’ in 2021 drives up nursery market values - Nursery World Face masks in classrooms ditched from tomorrow - FE Week Face masks in classrooms ditched from tomorrow - Schools Week Childcare costs put mothers in a bind, but free daycare may not be the best way out of it - New Statesman EPI seeks schools’ views in new Decisions in Education in England Panel (DEEP) Survey - EPI ASCL response to UCL's paper on teaching of reading - ASCL A spiral of disciplined inquiry - UKEdChat What is the purpose of school and who should control it? - BERA Foundation years: a student’s perspective - HEPI Covid in Wales: 'It's as cold in the school as it is outside' - BBC Pupil absence rate in NI schools lowest since mid-November - BBC Teaching reading with phonics is not evidence-based and needs reform, academics claim - i News How to take part in a DEEP dive into school groups - Schools Week Four-day week: Teachers overwhelmingly back change - Herald Scotland Why are we still talking about raising aspiration? - Wonkhe What does “natural justice” mean at university disciplinary hearings? - Wonkhe Tories urge Nicola Sturgeon to commit to exams in Scotland definitely going ahead - Scotsman Why early reading lessons need to go beyond phonics - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE phonics teaching approach 'doesn't work', Zahawi told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academics want reform of ‘narrow’ phonics focus - Schools Week Boys left feeling 'uncomfortable' after school removes toilet doors - Mirror 'Anxiety' is voted children's word of the year... after months of stress over school closures during Covid lockdown - Mail UK universities near Elsevier deal after publisher drops price - Times Higher Education | THE Schools in England must reform how children are taught to read - Mail Flights for one ERC funding round equivalent to 12 moon trips - Times Higher Education | THE Drop personal statements on university applications, social mobility expert says - The Times Military veterans will blitz schools and prisons - The Times Winchester College abuser had unfettered access to boys, investigation finds - The Times Scotland: MP backs sex census for schools despite data fears - The Times Scotland: Edinburgh nursery fined £800,000 after baby boy chokes to death on mango - The Times