News archive for 1st March 2022

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Student, 18, dies after slipping and plunging from third floor staircase at university - Mirror University of Bristol failed to make allowances for student with severe anxiety, court told - Guardian National offer day: Fall in applications to secondary schools in London as Covid drives families out of capital - i News Signs that more families get top choice of secondary school - Mail Natasha Abrahart suicide: Mother trusted university over mental health - BBC UK's best and worst schools ranked as pupils face 'highest ever competition' for spots - Express Special educational needs families are falling through the cracks - BBC Supply teacher 'put pupils and staff at risk' by attending school while awaiting result of Covid test - Wales Online No year 7 surge as school first choices rise in parts of England - Guardian T Level resources for universities - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academy trust financial management good practice guides - Education & Skills Funding Agency When do we find out about primary school places in 2022? - The Sun Case study: Two Hackney schools set to save £1.5 million over 3 years - Education & Skills Funding Agency The impact of school resource management advisers (SRMAs) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apply now for finance as the application service launches for 2022 to 2023 - Student Loans Company National Offer Day 2022: More pupils getting first choice secondary school - Telegraph Schools expected to move to lowest level of Covid restrictions where possible, says Education Minister - Wales Online Start your lesson: Three engaging strategies - Edmodo Cambridge Centre announcement - Villiers Park Educational Trust The case for giving greater priority to destination measures in the education system - Edge Foundation Personal lives, teacher couples, impartiality and who has the best subject departments? - Teacher Tapp Cheri Ashby appointed Deputy Chief Executive at Activate Learning - Activate Learning ETF Technical Teaching Fellow puts learners in the fast lane - Education & Training Foundation ‘Bridging the gap’ – what can we learn about social mobility from engineering? - Sutton Trust Check cyber defenses in view of increased threat from Russia - Jisc Celebrating the power of community in education and research - Jisc Turing Scheme registration opens under Capita - PIE News Family maths activity for pancake day - National Numeracy Schooling, innovation and community - BERA ISC response to the publication of IICSA investigation report - Independent Schools Council | ISC Wales : Strike days at Howell's School - National Education Union Why FE should lead on higher technical qualifications - Collab Group International report highlights impact of casualisation on academic freedom - UCU DfE cancels 19 academy orders after legal challenge - Schools Week Parents of tragic student who committed suicide accuse Bristol University of having a 'direct role in her death' - Mail Scottish college lecturers vote overwhelmingly for strikes - Herald Scotland Energy networks to help accelerate the transition to net zero - UKRI Webb Fellowship awarded for the study of giant planets - UKRI Teacher suspended for showing picture of Osama bin Laden as Prophet Muhammad in RE class - Evening Standard Parents ‘concerned’ about 18-year-old trans woman in boarding house with teenage girls - Evening Standard Manchester University staff sign letter in support of Whitworth gallery director - Guardian Governors ‘lack urgency’ on financial issues at struggling land-based college, says FE Commissioner - FE Week Child sexual abuse: Call to force residential schools to report allegations - BBC Children as young as four could be given anti-racism lessons in Brighton and Hove schools - Mail Children's Minister says trans pupils in single-sex spaces is a minefield - Mail Stop affairs between staff and students, universities told - Express When do we find out primary school places? Date of offer day 2022 and how to appeal admissions - i News Statement on the invasion of Ukraine - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Girls' school music teacher sacked after 33 years for ‘inappropriate emails’ to students - Telegraph Schools too often reluctant to report child sexual abuse, inquiry finds - Guardian Boost in number of pupils getting first choice school on National Offer Day - Mail Minister says he wouldn’t be ‘happy’ if his daughters put in school boarding house with trans woman pupil - i News ‘I last went to school in December’: a headteacher’s battle with long Covid - Guardian What it feels like to take off our masks after 16 months - Times Educational Supplement | TES Furious Muslim community hits out at 'Islamophobic school' after an image of Osama Bin Laden used - Mail Abuse inquiry demands tougher school safeguarding rules - Schools Week University of Warwick reviews links with Russian institutions - BBC Coronavirus (COVID-19) no recourse to public funds: free school meals - Education & Skills Funding Agency Headteachers 'care more about protecting school’s reputation' than child sex abuse victims - Telegraph MPs vote against plans for council-run secure schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Nottingham Girls' High: Further strike at private girls' school - BBC Interview: Peter Matejic, at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Nursery World Coronavirus forced childcare providers to take dire action, study shows - Nursery World When will primary school places be announced? - Metro Putney High music teacher sacked after sending ‘overly affectionate’ emails to pupils - The Times GCSEs and A-levels: What you need to know about how exams are changing in 2022 - Telegraph NEU withdraws ‘terrible’ Ukraine statement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher strike continues after pension deal rejected - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities told to ‘strongly discourage’ relationships between staff and students - Evening Standard EuroSkills 2023 moved from St Petersburg as WorldSkills suspends Russia and Belarus amid invasion of Ukraine - FE Week When do we find out secondary school places? Date of offer day 2022 and how to appeal the admissions process - i News How can the government’s target of 90% of pupils achieving the expected standards at Key Stage 2 be achieved? - FFT Education Datalab Using the debrief to support structured reflection on mathematical problem-solving - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Norfolk reverses huge cuts to boy’s speech therapy after legal challenge - Guardian UK’s biggest private pension fund to sell all Russia-linked assets - Guardian Higher education has not been the great leveller Blair envisaged - HEPI Flexible learning: a literature review 2016-2021 - Advance HE Letting families in England choose schools hasn’t made things better – just more stressful - Guardian Interview: Martin Dunford, Chair and co-founder, Association of Employment and Learning Providers - FE Week Interview: Matt Jenkins, British sign language teacher, The Deaf Academy - Schools Week Welsh Government announces 16 point action plan to improve the lives of children in Wales - Wales Online Free school breakfast scheme plea as 13% in one secondary go without - Herald Scotland Diversifying literature? Talk to your librarian - Schools Week 10:00 a.m. - Education Committee to hear evidence on educational outcomes of children in care homes - Accountability Hearings Staff-student relationships should be banned, not managed - Wonkhe Do global rankings tell us anything meaningful about higher education? - Wonkhe Private schools are put on alert over fees and advised not to take money from Russian banks or parents - Mail Staff-student sexual misconduct guidance ‘a missed opportunity’ - Times Higher Education | THE ‘We know what the problems are’: UK PhD consultation ‘vague’ - Times Higher Education | THE