Wednesday
Schools seek security advice over vaccine protests
Headteachers are being advised to get in touch with pupil vaccine team at ‘first opportunity’ to establish ‘what security planning they have in place’
The assessment bias trap: what the TAGs taught us
What are the most common types of teacher bias? And how can we avoid it impacting judgements in assessments?
Tuesday
Need to know: What Covid winter plan means for schools
Ministers plan to relinquish powers to order closures while retaining the right to force schools to stay open
Vaccination of 12- to 15-year-olds to start on Monday
The first minister has also announced that face coverings will continue to be worn in schools until at least the October holidays
Union: vaccinating pupils will make secondaries safer
Scotland’s largest teaching union and children’s commissioner have both welcomed new advice to offer vaccine to 12- to 15-year-olds
Heads’ plan to replace Sats and curb academy freedoms
School leaders’ union sets out vision for overhauling assessment, inspections and admissions
Monday
Schools hit with legal threats over on-site Covid jabs
Heads urge campaigners to stop pressurising schools not to get involved in Covid vaccinations for pupils
Covid vaccine approved for 12- to 15-year-olds
School leaders say government guidance needed so they are not left ‘facing questions to which they simply do not have the answers’
Friday
Law to make academies give careers advice backed by MPs
Conservative MP brings bill to ensure that careers advice is offered to all students throughout secondary school
Sturgeon swimming in ebb and flow of vaccination advice
Scotland’s first minister is at the mercy of scientists’ advice about whether 12- to 15-year-olds should get the Covid vaccine, writes Emma Seith
Thursday
Supply teachers lose out from catch-up ‘on the cheap’
Government’s flagship tutoring scheme risks ‘further entrenching downward pressure on rates of pay’, NASUWT warns
Exclusive: No plan to replace catch-up tsar, admits DfE
Heads and teachers fear the decision shows that education catch-up is in danger of being ‘relegated’ by the government
