News archive for 28th January 2022

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Graduates face £113 increase in student loan repayments from April in new ‘stealth tax rise’ - The Sun Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 28 January 2022 - Education Eye Dr Jo Saxton at Sixth Form Colleges Association conference - Ofqual Major student loans announcement will force millions to pay £113 more from April - Mirror Graduates hit by ‘stealth tax rise’ as student loan repayment level frozen - Telegraph Graduates in England face ‘tax rise by stealth’ on student loans - Guardian Government accused of ‘stealth tax’ with freeze to student loan repayments which will cost some graduates £113 - i News Student loan repayment freeze is a 'tax rise by stealth' for middle earners - Mail Who are the children who have “fallen off the radar”? - FFT Education Datalab Independent school teachers back pension strike action - BBC Education experts and unions call for school inclusion review - CYPN | Children & Young People Now A brief history of the Professional Standards Framework - Advance HE Influencing external barriers as a leader - Advance HE IFS response to the freeze of student loan repayment threshold - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Levelling up: The employment and skills measures we need to build prosperity - Learning & Work Institute ETF shortlisted for World Skills EDI award - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Scale of Omicron teacher absence in UK is worse than previous Covid waves - NFER How BAE Systems moved online to inspire students about the world of work - Careers & Enterprise Company What are the benefits of employer engagement for schools and colleges? - Careers & Enterprise Company ECF: teething problems or is change inevitable? - Times Educational Supplement | TES BBSRC backs frontier research with £17m investment in team science - UKRI Ofqual to research impact of advance information to inform ‘future years’ - Schools Week Insulate Britain founder recruits student ‘revolutionaries’ to save planet - The Times School bans Year 11 pupils from loo breaks during lessons in 'zero-tolerance' approach - Mirror Academies: Tories hope to complete Michael Gove’s schools revolution by letting councils set up academy trusts - i News Podcast: Wellbeing, IB exams and air filters - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to tackle violence in primary schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2022: No exams plan B 'switch off', says Ofqual chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government exams chief: 2022 test changes will not advantage more able pupils - Mail Physics teacher shortage needs 'urgent' action, DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Cases rise in primary and secondary pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why cutting study options is a big risk to social mobility - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE restructure delays advisory board election results - Schools Week School bans kids from going to the toilet during lessons due to students breaking Covid rules - The Sun Stoke-on-Trent College announces former skills civil servant as new principal - FE Week Council tells heads to ‘self-manage’ Covid outbreaks - Schools Week We need to let teachers peer into the evidence unknown - Times Educational Supplement | TES A hidden life - UKEdChat With an ethos of 'learning by doing', UTCs bridge the gap between education and work - PoliticsHome Will the Office for Students’ proposals bake in disadvantage? - HEPI UK pupils failed by schools’ teaching of climate crisis, experts say - Guardian DfE switches to individualised learner record for skills bootcamps amid dodgy data concerns - FE Week NI university strikes: Queen's and Ulster University face further action - BBC 10 questions with... Jenny Watson, primary headteacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES Centre for Holocaust Education: How do you teach students that genocide is a societal thing? - Schools Week The real revolution in the white paper was taking teaching seriously - FE Week Schools told to keep masks as Covid cases surge - Times Educational Supplement | TES What a waste: sector exasperated as £65m for traineeships is handed back to Treasury - FE Week Warm welcome: The schools offering ‘sanctuary’ to Afghan refugees - Schools Week Reading wars: Reconciliation will require more truth - Schools Week SNP warned school tests 'leave pupils confused and anxious' - Herald Scotland Podcast: Student numbers, assessment, third years, blended learning - Wonkhe OfS outcomes proposals could improve links between WP and employability - Wonkhe Why we must protect student choice and retain BTEC qualification - Wonkhe Fresh setback for students as 50,000 university lecturers plan strike over pay and conditions - Mail Learning to learn well: Continuous learning is a skill that needs to be nourished and encouraged by employers - FE News Is sustainability the new functional skills? - FE News Eastwood: ‘lack of generosity in the sector doesn’t speak well’ - Times Higher Education | THE Ten days of strikes by university staff to hit 1 million students - The Times Scotland: Boarding school head regrets failings over abuse - The Times Covid in Scotland: U-turn over mask-wearing - The Times Scottish Primary School League Table: Pandemic pulls third of P4 to P7 pupils below academic standard - The Times