News archive for 17th March 2022

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Fears over Covid testing cut-off as pupil absences start to rise - Schools Week DfE’s ‘bizarre’ BAME apprenticeships strategy - FE Week Dad wins 10-year battle to install defibrillator in all schools after son's death - Mirror Covid: Schools send year groups home as cases spike - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of students drop out of university as pandemic takes its toll - Guardian UK university drop-out rates at lowest on record but many students aren’t graduating, according to new figures - i News Scotland: Covid-related school staff absence hits record high - Times Educational Supplement | TES How should schools respond to the ‘Child Q’ review? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Child Q: Nationwide protests planned after police strip search Black schoolgirl - Independent You have ‘not yet’ adopted a diagnostic focus - Teacher Toolkit How to lead successful catch-up interventions with GCSE students - The Educator Teachers’ pension scheme: proposed changes to scheme regulations (Consultation outcome) - DfE Delivery of air cleaning units until 11 March 2022 - DfE Higher education performance indicators UK: non-continuation 2020 to 2021 - DfE Professor Susan O’Neill appointed Head of Learning and Leadership - IOE London Blog EPI comments on the launch of the latest TALIS report - EPI Pedagogy vs. Andragogy: What's the difference? - Learning Scientists Aria’s first chief executive resigns before starting job - Times Higher Education | THE Cambridge simply wouldn’t be on my radar without Villiers Park - Villiers Park Educational Trust Voices from the classroom: Thinking aloud to support pupils’ mathematical problem-solving - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF CPD: Building a culture of collaboration that sticks - Teacher Development Trust | TDT UK extends financial safety net for research - PIE News DfE: Some school rules 'discriminate against black pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School transition: Simplifying the process - ASCL UK performance indicators: Non-continuation 2020/21 - HESA Great expectations: helping universities shape and improve the student journey and experiences - HEPI It’s critical our young people experience exams pressure - Independent Schools Council | ISC NAHT launches its five priority campaigns for 2022 - NAHT Russell Group response to new UKRI strategy - Russell Group Office for Students to launch review of blended learning - Russell Group A lesson on pupil agency: teaching in alternative provision - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth How Careers Hub Luton cut NEET rates using personal guidance interviews - Careers & Enterprise Company UKRI strategy will keep UK at forefront of research and innovation - UKRI A fairer start: why a more equal future begins with the first years of life - Nesta New poll shows working parents spend ‘huge proportion’ of pay on childcare - EYE | Early Years Educator Teachers reach deal to end pension strike at the private Howell's School in Cardiff - Wales Online New national leaders announced but diversity concerns remain - FE Week Degree course dropout rates fall to lowest on record - Mail Ampleforth College: Ofsted 'inadequate' rating over secret party - BBC Sex, booze and drugs uncovered at private school after DfE lifts intervention - Schools Week UK student dropout rates hit record low in pandemic - Times Higher Education | THE University of Strathclyde launches 'first-of-its kind' degree amid energy crisis and net zero push - Scotsman Disadvantaged parents spending a third of income of childcare - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Parents spending a ‘huge chunk’ of their pay on childcare - survey - Nursery World Inclusive Britain: How plan to tackle racial disparity will impact education, social care and youth justice - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Childminders secure victory over Covid rules preventing them from operating - Nursery World Manx Chamber of Commerce calls for action on childcare shortage - BBC Government Sewell report response: 9 actions for schools - Schools Week Report: Defining quality - HEPI New report unpacks the meaning of quality in a complex and rapidly changing higher education sector - HEPI Basic maths skills oil the wheels of financial literacy - Financial Times OfS to launch review of blended learning - Office for Students A five-year strategy for UK research - Wonkhe Our bill will help break down the barriers between sectors, institutions, and students - Wonkhe OfS tries another blend - Wonkhe How sustainable are the finances of English universities? - Wonkhe DfE: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (March 22) - UCET Support with ITT delivery 2021 to 2022 - UCET English regulator launches review of blended learning standards - Times Higher Education | THE Time to end ex-polytechnics’ second-class status, says Ken Clarke - Times Higher Education | THE Tony Sewell is the latest good man betrayed by dons who worship at the shrine of wokery - Mail Levelling up and education: Lots of stuff but little substance - FE News Preschool kids' parents are spending a third of all their wages on childcare - Mirror Childcare costs placing huge pressure on family budgets - TUC - Mail Scotland: Children were ‘restrained like George Floyd’ at residential school - The Times Scotland: St Andrews full of anti-Scottish bigots, claims former MSP - The Times Scotland: Beware Putin sympathisers, universities told - The Times Universities' online teaching and blended learning to be reviewed - Mail