News archive for 27th January 2022

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All the big questions about the road ahead for schools answered by Education Minister Jeremy Miles - Wales Online DfE considers council-run MATs to achieve academy ambition - Schools Week Education Committee launches new inquiry on careers education in schools - UK Parliament ‘Free courses for jobs’ initiative fails to boost enrolments - FE Week UK universities face 10 days of walkouts over pay and pensions - Financial Times UK university staff plan 10 more days of strikes in pay and pensions rows - Guardian The whole point of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ is that it’s difficult - Telegraph Durham University hushes up report in Rod Liddle row - The Times Strikes lasting up to ten days set to hit universities - Herald Scotland DfE to be quizzed over 'piecemeal' careers education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is Scotland complacent over Teacher Induction Scheme? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10 research-informed study skills - Teacher Toolkit Four questions to guide edtech - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Over a million students at 68 universities to be impacted by up to 10 days of campus walkouts starting in February - UCU As schools struggle with rising Covid levels, families like mine fear more exam chaos - Telegraph School bully who terrorised his classmates on Snapchat is hauled to court and handed eight month referral order - Mail Covid Scotland: Sickness absence among pupils at record high - Herald Scotland 94% of secondary schools provide free period products to students - DfE Further education and skills: January 2022 - DfE Apprenticeships and traineeships: January 2022 - DfE School funding statistics: 2021 to 2022 financial year - DfE Civic University Network: Grant awarded under Charities Act 2006 - DfE The reading framework: teaching the foundations of literacy - DfE Apprenticeships in England rebound to pre-pandemic levels - Financial Times Digest #159: The digital divide - Learning Scientists T Level investment won’t solve the UK’s glaring digital skills gap ​ - FE News Nursery sector risks being damaged by large corporate takeovers - IOE London Blog Marking Holocaust Memorial Day - IOE London Blog Holocaust Memorial Day: what should we think about when teaching difficult histories? - IOE London Blog Edinburgh rolls out iPads to all secondary pupils - Public Technology Connect Benefit Series for 2021-22: Inclusive institutions - enabling culture change - Advance HE Ten-day strike at UK universities next month on pay and pensions - Times Higher Education | THE National Apprenticeships Week (NAW) 2022 - ERSA Further education sector set for refreshed teacher apprenticeship - Education & Training Foundation | ETF IFS awarded New ESRC Local Acceleration Fund award to support social science advice for local policy - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Activate Cycle Academy to open a new north-east Cytech training facility - Activate Learning Guildford College Student wins National Photography Competition - Activate Learning Nursery sector risks being damaged by large corporate takeovers - Nuffield Foundation ASCL comment on GCSE, AS and A-level exam appeals statistics - ASCL Further education sector set for refreshed teacher apprenticeship - IfATE ASCL Cymru comment on school attendance figures - ASCL ASCL comment on inquiry into careers education - ASCL New ESRC awards to support social science advice for local policy - UKRI School self-evaluation for school improvement: Principles of effective practice - BERA Millions of British parents dread moment their child brings home Maths homework - Mirror Latest Covid-19 guidance for children’s social care, education, early years and youth work providers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Disabled students and staff face discrimination at leading university, as documents reveal bullying is ‘rife’ - Independent Nursery had cot next to live sockets, Ofsted finds - BBC GCSEs 2021: Huge rise in appeals over teacher grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE and A-level grade appeals increased almost five-fold in 2021 - Mail Early years funding significantly less than expected, sector fears - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sector accuses Government of misleading it over early years funding - Nursery World University of Chester puts trigger warning on Harry Potter, Hunger Games and Northern Lights - The Times Millions of British parents dread the moment their child brings home Maths homework - Express Covid: SNP ministers 'don't know if schools are ventilated' - Herald Scotland Wales: Barricade set up to stop school run parking 'mayhem' - BBC Apprenticeship starts recovering to pre-pandemic levels, DfE data shows - FE Week The 'scandal' of the NTP procurement deal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third of Northern Ireland students got top degree grade in 2021 - BBC UCAS End of Cycle 2021: strong demand for UK HE amidst a global pandemic - UCAS ASCL comment on UCAS 2021 end-of-cycle report - ASCL EU decline drives drop in applicants accepting places via UCAS in UK - PIE News New geography teachers lack fieldwork 'confidence' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why does the education system so often ignore the importance of supply chains, logistics and warehousing? - HEPI Why behavioural science is set to transform teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy finances: Surpluses aren’t all they appear to be - Schools Week How the government can put R&D tax relief to work - Wonkhe UCAS End of Cycle 2021: Provider data - Wonkhe The same students at the same providers? - Wonkhe Pay for CEOs of largest MATs rises £10k on average - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nurseries at risk of collapse due to 'large corporate takeovers' - Nursery World MATs gain schools and record cash boost amid Covid - Schools Week Professor who took on woke students over campus speech 'is still in his post' as probe into incident ends - Mail Death of academic journal greatly exaggerated, says ERC president - Times Higher Education | THE European recruitment down 90 per cent at some UK universities - Times Higher Education | THE Record number of Black and Asian students accepted at top UK universities - Guardian Poorer students hit university high - The Times Stop holding us back, say mayors in demand for more education powers - The Times From old school to no rules: How teachers create the classrooms of the future - The Times Scottish Primary School League Table: Pandemic continues to hit standards - The Times Covid hurts maths and literacy skills for Scottish P1 pupils - The Times Scottish Primary School League Table: How attainment data helps parents and teachers focus on children’s improvement - The Times One in five poorer students accepted on to higher education courses in 2021 - Mail