News archive for 21st January 2022

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Scotland: Stop dragging your heels on axing face masks in schools, SNP told - Telegraph Students should apply for refunds on their fees – at the end of the day, they’re consumers - Telegraph If you make pupils wear masks, we’ll get the lawyers involved, parents warn headteachers - Telegraph Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 21 January 2022 - Education Eye Tes essentials: Zahawi, face masks and phonics - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted shuns own style guide to label pupils ‘lower ability’ - Schools Week RSC advisory board election results delayed - Schools Week Boris Johnson tells schools in England to end mask-wearing policy - Guardian Wales: Face mask advice in schools is unlikely to change before March - BBC Scotland: University of Edinburgh chief rebukes Sir Geoff Palmer over ‘racism’ slurs - The Times Marking boycott looms as UCU promises more strikes next month - Times Higher Education | THE BTEC funding to be debated in parliament after petition hits 100k signatures - FE Week Opportunity for NI Schools to become a Digital Schoolhouse - Computing at School Universities will see strike action next month unless employers meet pension and pay demands, union warns - UCU Do pupils need to wear face masks in school? - Express How one academy trust rolled out virtual work experience for over 2,000 students - Careers & Enterprise Company The university courses in the Government’s sights for not meeting new ‘quality standards’ - i News School leaders will give evidence to Education Committee on Government’s education catch-up programme - UK Parliament Next steps in project to develop a Global Leadership Survey and Framework - Advance HE Minister urges schools to drop mask wearing after headteachers defy rule changes - PoliticsHome Prisoners should be offered apprenticeships while incarcerated to help them gain skills for jobs upon release - PoliticsHome How much in-person teaching have Year 11 missed? - FFT Education Datalab OpenAthens wins another award for libraries support - Jisc Adapting formative assessment to support second-language learners - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Government campaign launches to increase teacher numbers - Education & Training Foundation Victory for staff as deal reached at West London College over pay & workloads - UCU Formative assessment should not be graded - UKEdChat Is a blend of virtual and face to face employer engagement is a trend set to continue? - Careers & Enterprise Company Wine tasters, super crunchers and King Canute – what do they tell us about the new regulatory burdens from the OfS? - HEPI Sector update: An unsustainable sector? - EYE | Early Years Educator Ministers slammed over classroom ventilation scheme as children sit with windows open throughout winter - Mail Academy avoids rebrokering threat until third ‘inadequate’ rating - Schools Week Poorer GCSE students have missed 8 weeks of school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scale of Covid pupil absences in Scotland revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid restrictions on schools in Wales expected to be eased - Wales Online Boy 'refused school lunch as his account was £4 in debt' - Express Unions accuse Whitehall of 'micro-management' as Nadhim Zahawi says he will vet plans to wear masks in classrooms - Mail Covid cases are already rising again among primary-aged children, official data shows - Mail Ofsted finds degree courses rebadged as apprenticeships at university - FE Week PM tells schools to follow rules to ditch masks in class - Times Educational Supplement | TES No face masks – but we still face huge challenges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Masks in classrooms must be scrapped, Boris Johnson tells overcautious teachers defying his advice - The Sun Fact check: Can ministers stop schools keeping masks in place? - Schools Week Councils help Children’s Commissioner identify children missing education - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Why 30 hours' free childcare should apply to all - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland’s first black professor accuses academics of racism in slavery row - Guardian Covid in Scotland: 'Day is coming' for end of face masks in schools - BBC Falcon academy trust set to spread its wings - Schools Week Get the Jump: 'Skills for Life' campaign toolkit - Education & Skills Funding Agency Unlock your potential - 'Skills for Life' campaign toolkit - Education & Skills Funding Agency Join the Skills Revolution campaign toolkit - Education & Skills Funding Agency Share Your Skills: Teach in Further Education stakeholder toolkit and resources - Education & Skills Funding Agency Appeals fail for two found guilty of running illegal school - Ofsted Some colleges to keep masks in class despite PM ending Plan B regulations - FE Week DfE and Randstad must show how they will improve access to NTP - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid rules: Schools should not defy orders to drop face masks for children in classrooms, says Nadhim Zahawi - i News Universities told to limit unexplained degree inflation - Mail DfE keeps T Level placement capacity proof a secret to protect policy ‘safe space’ - FE Week Schools in open revolt over masks but government can't do anything to stop them - Mail ‘Demoralising’: Top primaries lose their status under ‘harsher’ Ofsted inspections - Schools Week The skills white paper: too much rhetoric, too little action - FE Week The white paper was promising – but why are ITPs still fighting for recognition? - FE Week Jersey primary school lunch pilot to continue - BBC Further education: 'Generous' exam grades part of NI numbers fall - BBC The FE white paper has galvanised support for the sector - FE Week Nadhim Zahawi on what he's going to do next - Times Educational Supplement | TES The skills bill is the blueprint for transforming the country - FE Week Supreme Court ends Durand Academy land dispute - Schools Week Owner of defunct awarding body demands Ofqual repays £115,000 fine - FE Week Covid: Pupil sickness absences are reason to go slowly on masks - Herald Scotland Scottish school sex survey has prompted immaturity from adults - Herald Scotland The Wonkhe Show: Outcomes, TEF, NDAs - Wonkhe Some students need the tentpoles of the timetable to thrive - Wonkhe Universities are not “civic washing” – but we do need to keep up the momentum - Wonkhe Zahawi to vet masks in classroom after schools ignore end of rules - Independent More than 100 headteachers insist kids must continue wearing masks – despite PM saying they are no longer needed - The Sun London violence: Children as young as 10 fear being stabbed - BBC Finalists announced for the 2022 AAC Apprenticeship Awards - FE Week Schools defy Boris Johnson as they insist face masks must stay in class - Telegraph DfE: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (January 2022) - UCET Pay rises stall for v-cs as rank-and-file staff face freeze - Times Higher Education | THE Covid recovery projects held up for months by red tape - Times Higher Education | THE Pinstriped, panama-hat wearing ‘English’ academic was FBI fugitive - The Times Martyn Percy battle is disastrous, warns former Oxford college head - The Times