News archive for 21st March 2022

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Withdrawal of degree offer to race tsar Tony Sewell should be rescinded, Tory MPs say - Mail Ofsted 'doesn't care about learning', says Hattie - Times Educational Supplement | TES Northern Ireland: Unite union 'refused to exempt special schools from strike' - BBC GCSEs: Heads' 'urgent' questions on exams as Covid rises - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools and councils across Northern Ireland affected by strike action - Mail Staff absences due to Covid could spark return of remote learning, council warns - Scotsman NI Education: £800m boost for 28 new school buildings - BBC Low apprenticeship achievement rates will not impact Ofsted grades, chief inspector promises - FE Week Higher education short courses - Education & Skills Funding Agency Update on pre-2012 income contingent (ICR) student loans interest rate - Student Loans Company Routine testing of Scottish staff and pupils ends 18 April - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford's Worcester College cancelled Christian youth camp after students complained they were 'distressed' - Mail Supporting our pupils with the ongoing conflict - Teacher Toolkit The importance of CS extra-curricular activities at post 16 - Computing at School English UK renews urge for Covid grants - PIE News A proactive approach to neurodiversity in higher education - Advance HE Ireland: Student accommodation to be opened for Ukrainian refugees - Mail The Brilliant Club: Delivering beyond-the-curriculum learning initiatives in schools - Edge Foundation A college's journey: Improving support for young adult carers - Learning & Work Institute Young people’s vision for education – in discussion with Stephen Morgan MP - Edge Foundation Activate Learning opens new Applied Science Centre at Reading College - Activate Learning Bad boys and cooperative learning: Using tribal instincts to secure outcomes - UKEdChat Podcast: Is disability the hidden diversity issue? - FE Week Third wave of UK wide university strikes begins today with five day walkout - UCU Strike dates announced at Sheffield International College - UCU Pocklington teachers strike to protect pensions - NASUWT Structured support for independent learning - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Shining a light on taught postgraduate student outcomes - HEPI Third Isle of Man school sends pupils home amid staff absences - BBC Staff at Scottish universities begin five-day strike over pay - BBC DfE ‘will not be satisfied’ with upcoming apprenticeship achievement rates, top civil servant warns - FE Week Seven policies from Pearson to make exams fit for the future - Schools Week How do we know interventions are worthwhile? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils at London’s ‘socialist Eton’ join protest against being taken over by an academy chain - Evening Standard ‘We need you’: Highlights from the skills minister’s opening speech at AAC 2022 - FE Week Deputy Hackney Mayor on Child Q: “We need action to ensure this never happens again” - Independent Amanda Spielman at the Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2022 - Ofsted Child Q: Calls for more youth workers in schools after girl strip-searched by police - CYPN | Children & Young People Now A 12% pay increase from September - SecEd Striking staff tired but determined in third wave of walkouts - Times Higher Education | THE Why schools should share job interview questions with applicants - Times Educational Supplement | TES This government’s latest education innovation? Shutting poorer students out of university - Guardian Headteacher defends plan for free ‘Etons of the north’ sixth forms - Guardian Single-school head becomes second boss to break £300k salary barrier - Schools Week Movers and Shakers: Edition 383 - FE Week Strike ballots open at six colleges in the North West over low pay - UCU Join the dots on post-16 education to help the UK ‘level-up’ says Pearson - Pearson Universities must reject fossil fuel cash for climate research, say academics - Guardian School bus disruption due in Northern Ireland as Unite strike begins - BBC Covid-19: Masks no longer required in NI post-primary schools - BBC Political education should be embedded in the FE curriculum - FE Week Apprenticeships should be a core part of the levelling-up agenda - FE Week GCSEs 2022: Scrap mandatory maths and English resits and offer job-focused courses instead, exam board says - i News We can and must do better to scale up innovations - Schools Week Education in Scotland: Teachers 'covering up' violent behaviour - Herald Scotland Student complaints as we emerge from the pandemic - Wonkhe What next for the post-16 reforms in Wales? - Wonkhe NDAs prevent learning in more ways than one - Wonkhe Roll out a title fight for City of Research - Wonkhe Scottish university staff stage five-day strike in pay and pensions dispute - Scotsman Strike called over university’s ‘two-tier workforce’ plan - Times Higher Education | THE Kemi Badenoch: Pupils ‘should learn benefits of Empire’ - The Times Scotland: University union calls new strikes - The Times