News archive for 31st January 2022

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Schools taking part in trialling longer days confirmed by Welsh Government - Wales Online Longer school day trialled in Wales - Mail Remains of Oxford University's 'lost college' are discovered nearly 500 years after they were abandoned - Mail Former primary school teacher denies punching and kicking horse in viral clip - Mirror Martin Lewis warns students will pay £110 a year more from April in loan costs - Mirror Students struggle with the return of real life - The Times Universities 'should take note' of Sussex free speech row investigation - Mail The problem with marking and how to solve it - The Learning Spy Progress 8 isn’t working! - Teacher Toolkit Secretary of State reappoints Institute board members for three more years - IfATE Coronavirus: Early years staff absences fall while cases in children grow - Nursery World Scottish nursery milk scheme ruled to be 'unlawful' - Nursery World Do not deny pupils the chance to learn over masks issue, says minister - Mail Green neighbourhoods and their children: does it make a difference? - IOE London Blog Focus on work ambitions of international students, UK universities told - PIE News More than words: Please act now on teacher wellbeing - SecEd Three new Technical Teaching Fellowships awarded - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Primary school teacher who 'kicked and slapped horse' denies animal cruelty charges - Mail Employability, enterprise, and entrepreneurship: Solving wicked problems  - Advance HE Can guided play enhance younger children’s learning? - Early Education UK universities should develop employment support for international students - UPP Foundation Education among ‘most-targeted’ breach sectors - PIE News Learning and Work Institute announces new appointment to senior team - Learning & Work Institute How can empathy help teachers support students? - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA LGBT+ History Month 2022: Politics in art – ‘the arc is long’ - NAHT Police won’t investigate DfE Christmas party, but Sue Gray findings withheld - FE Week Switching off Treasury cash for apprenticeships is a big mistake - FE Week Police won’t investigate DfE Christmas party, but Sue Gray findings withheld - Schools Week Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi tests positive for Covid - BBC UCAS welcomes the UPP Foundation’s report on international students - UCAS Scottish teacher pay offer overwhelmingly rejected - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pay offer for Scotland's teachers overwhelmingly rejected by union members - Scotsman How China has put the squeeze on international schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most schools and colleges offer free period products to students - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Portland Nurseries rewards employees with free childcare - Nursery World What research tells us about fixing attendance - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can schools support families of SEND pupils? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Streets around schools close to traffic in a bid to improve safety and air quality - BBC Storms Malik and Corrie disrupt schools and rail services across UK - Guardian First 11 FE research scholars named - FE Week Manchester's special educational needs services praised by watchdog - BBC The features of effective school groups: Measuring pupil inclusion at school-group level - EPI Movers and Shakers: Edition 377 - FE Week Storm Corrie: Full list of school closures across Scotland - Scotsman ASCL comment on EPI proposal for schools to be assessed on pupil inclusion as well as attainment - ASCL The difference a year makes - HEPI ERSA responds to government's new initiative 'Way to Work' - ERSA Plotting the learning journey - UKEdChat Colleges should consider a forest school on campus - FE Week Judge schools on exclusion rates not just on pupils’ progress in exams, experts urge - Telegraph ‘A vortex of thinking’ – inside the LSE’s brawny, brainy new building - Guardian How can schools begin to face up to systemic racism? - Schools Week Why we scrapped PE for a healthier curriculum - Schools Week What has the pandemic really done for UK postgraduate enrolments? - Wonkhe Finance is forcing universities to do the right thing - Wonkhe The competing demands of Scotland’s student accommodation inquiry - Wonkhe International students put employability at top of the wish list - Wonkhe Judge school groups on inclusion, says EPI - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should be judged on pupil inclusion – not just exams, think tank says - Schools Week UK warned of ‘exodus’ of research talent as ERC clock ticks - Times Higher Education | THE Schools should be ranked on exclusion rates as well as GCSE scores, say experts - Mail Suicide girl’s parents take school to High Court over years of bullying - The Times Please sir, I want even less: university adds warning to Oliver Twist - The Times Time to get tough on universities still teaching remotely - The Times Rachel Sylvester: Forget mayors, let’s level up our educational divide - The Times Scotland: Even schools at top of the class have room to improve - The Times