News archive for 20th January 2022

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Education Secretary to vet local plans to bring back masks in schools - Mail Nursery accidentally sends parents secret letter of string of worrying mistakes - Mirror Plan to stop kids being forced to wear face masks in schools again is drawn up by Nadhim Zahawi - The Sun ‘I’m trying to protect young people’: Heads ignore PM call to drop face masks from classroom - Schools Week Masks to stay in many secondary schools despite England rule change - Guardian Scotland resisting pressure to remove masks in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mixed messages from PM on mask-wearing not helpful, say headteachers - Mail Scotland: Watchdog hits out at handling of workplace skills - BBC FE funding: initial teacher education (ITE) bursaries 2022 to 2023 - DfE T Level resources for universities (promotional material) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Construction company Willmott Dixon offers T Level teachers a virtual placement - Education & Training Foundation | ETF OfS propose to set minimum thresholds for student progression and outcomes - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Experts round-up ideas for using technology to overcome challenge of rising Covid-19 absences - Jisc 10 tips for setting up a game development club (part 1) - Computing at School 10 tips for setting up a game development club (part 2) - Computing at School Proposals to reform higher education will help protect students - Centre for Policy Studies Podcast 127: Helping young people to love reading - Teacher Toolkit What's a degree worth? - Universities UK DVQs (Da Vinci Qualifications) – a new model for the future of assessment - Rethinking Assessment All schools and trusts offered improvement help to tackle Covid woes - Schools Week All UK universities will soon carry a standards rating, too many have ripped off students - i News School masks: Heads opt to keep face coverings in class ‘for time being’ after lack of notice from Government - i News Councils in Scotland boycott controversial survey which asks schoolchildren 'intrusive' questions about underage sex - Mail Third of teachers warn of 18-month learning gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES IB to repeat dual assessment approach - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are the Covid rules in schools and will they stay open this term? - BBC Cross-campus teaching coordination, new campus education experience development and hybrid teaching - Advance HE UCU response to Office for Students proposals on 'poor quality courses' - UCU Activate Learning excited to offer new T Level qualifications from September 2022 - Activate Learning Response to new OfS consultations on student outcomes and teaching excellence - Russell Group Ex-Tory MP claims government threatened free school project - Schools Week Parents fight back after schools vowed to defy end of Plan B and continue to force pupils to wear masks in class - Mail Lifting of class mask rule ‘balanced and proportionate' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers cancel campus mask advice as Plan B rolled back - Times Higher Education | THE Do you have to wear a face mask in school now? New Covid rules explained and when all mask restrictions end - i News Pupils in London schools where vaccination rates are low urged to keep masks - Evening Standard Phonics: In defence of the systematic approach - Times Educational Supplement | TES KCSIE 2022: The key proposed changes - Times Educational Supplement | TES NI teachers' pay rise and tackling underachievement at risk - BBC Flexible school starting age a step closer in Northern Ireland - BBC Pandemic inspires ‘future nurses’ with a welcome increase in school and college leavers looking to enter the profession - UCAS OfS sets out plans to crack down on poor quality courses - Office for Students ASCL reveals postcode lottery on local authority support for 2021/22 Welsh school pay award - ASCL Fighting for your place: creating a just and net-zero society with universities at their heart - HEPI £63K a month bills: soaring energy prices hit schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Do university applications favour middle-class kids? Yes – because their parents write them - Guardian UK pupils taught about alcohol with ‘misleading’ industry-funded resources - Guardian OfS publishes plans to punish English universities for poor value for money - Guardian Covid pandemic inspires record number of young people to study nursing - Telegraph Relations among phonological processing skills and mathematics - Best Evidence in Brief For whom does the Good Behavior Game work? - Best Evidence in Brief Understanding the dynamics of dosage response: A nonlinear meta-analysis of recent reading interventions - Best Evidence in Brief Effectiveness of volunteer tutoring - Best Evidence in Brief The Office for Students has designed a new TEF - Wonkhe The B3 bear returns to hunt down Mickey Mouse (courses) - Wonkhe How OfS will construct indicators for regulation - Wonkhe Unions fury after masks are scrapped in classrooms as they accuse PM of flouting his 'duty of care' to teachers - Mail DfE campaign calls on skilled workers to teach part-time in FE - FE Week Crack down on ‘poor quality’ courses announced by Office for Students - FE Week Fines to crack down on 'Mickey Mouse' university degrees with penalties of up to £500,000 for courses failing to deliver jobs - Mail Nursing student numbers boosted by pandemic - Mail How training providers can improve achievement rates - FE News Covid driving record numbers in England to become nurses - Guardian Universities spend £600 million on severance pay in four years - Times Higher Education | THE Six in 10 graduates must get professional jobs, universities told - Times Higher Education | THE TEF gets ‘requires improvement’ badge for ‘absence of excellence’ - Times Higher Education | THE Schools to defy Boris Johnson and keep masks despite change in rules - The Times Covid pandemic inspires new generation of trainee nurses - The Times Universities face ranking system if they fail to satisfy students - The Times Follow Johnson and end Covid masks in Scottish schools, parents tell Sturgeon - The Times Scotland: Edinburgh University boss urged to defend academics in race review row - The Times