News archive for 26th January 2022

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Headteacher accused of calling student ‘Mr Autistic’ during telling-off - Metro Rod Liddle: Pay attention! We need a complete re-education for schools and universities - The Sun Two thirds of teachers think climate change education 'not meaningful' - Mail Girls’ private schools could strike for the first time over pensions - Evening Standard Anger over referral of vulnerable boy, 11, to counter-radicalisation scheme - Guardian Girls' private schools could strike for the first time over pensions - Mail Anger as schools continue Covid curbs, with libraries closed and hot lunches banned - Telegraph Schools risk teaching about 'world that won't exist' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers at 23 private schools vote to strike over pensions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Scrap masks to bring joy back to schools, says Glasgow headteacher - The Times Jamie Oliver to meet education secretary over school food plans - Guardian School should scrap hair rules and let kids embrace their heritage - Mirror What is Curriculum for Wales? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Graduating with another hole in your pocket - BERA UCU submits new pension proposals to avert UK wide strike action - UCU NAHT takes the school leadership crisis to parliament - NAHT FAB leadership meets with the Secretary of State for Education - FAB | Federation of Awarding Bodies GDST vote yes for strike action - National Education Union ESFA Update: 26 January 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency More than one in ten early years staff absent from work due to Coronavirus - EYE | Early Years Educator UKRI to fund further Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellows - UKRI Are T-levels struggling? - Montrose42 Education Select Committee post-16 qualifications inquiry - NFER Wales: Mitigations in schools - National Education Union The importance of tackling unconscious bias in schools cannot be underestimated - Independent Schools Council | ISC Making the most of career support opportunities and making yourself employable - Sutton Trust How can universities respond to the data skills gap? - Advance HE The benefits of silence and whispering in lessons - UKEdChat Helping young people explore international careers with virtual internships - Edge Foundation Technical teaching: Building a community of practice - Education & Training Foundation Perfectionism can harm even the most talented student – but schools can make a difference - The Conversation Give half of young people apprenticeships to level up the country, says MP - Mail New resources to help you feel good about maths - National Numeracy Scotland: Pupils left shocked after boy dies on the grounds of an Edinburgh school for children with autism - Mail Union offers to swap time-limited cost hike for new USS valuation - Times Higher Education | THE Teaching union joins forces with charity in call for school counselling boost - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Disadvantaged pupils less likely to earn living wage, study warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Will exams be fair? Soaring Covid absence raises fears over GCSEs and A levels - SecEd School attendance: National thresholds for fixed penalty notices - SecEd DfE reveals plans for crackdown on ‘avoidable absences’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Early years staff 'need to be treated like educators' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is this the best way to teach Stem? - Times Educational Supplement | TES City of Glasgow College's upskilling courses click with Scotland’s workforce - Herald Scotland High-achievers work towards national recognition at the Scottish Apprenticeship Awards 2022 - Herald Scotland What are the Covid rules in schools and will they stay open this term? - BBC Most English teachers want a more diverse syllabus, research finds - Guardian NI Minister Michelle McIlveen defends schools over sex education policy - BBC Head teacher tells MPs that Covid continues to disrupt learning - BBC Resist the 'progressive' attack on phonics - Telegraph Glasgow School of Art fire: Lone figure on CCTV may never be traced - Herald Scotland ​‘Five-a-day’ to improve SEND outcomes - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Minimum thresholds – are we really protecting students? - HEPI Education Secretary leads call to tackle antisemitic abuse on campuses - DfE Communities of practice are where researcher development happens - Wonkhe Ministers ‘interested’ in Buckingham risk-sharing finance plan - Times Higher Education | THE Covid cases no longer falling in England as one in 13 kids aged 5-11 tests positive - Mirror Education is the 'vaccine' against 'lingering plague' of antisemitism - Zahawi - Mail Clampdown on late and absent pupils - The Times Record school infections mean national Covid cases no longer falling - The Times Demand for a UK university education cools in China - The Times Reinventing schools would boost Britain by £125bn a year, Times Education Commission finds - The Times Scotland: Academics should not be bullied in rows about slavery, says Professor Ewen Cameron - The Times