News archive for 7th August 2020

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 07 August 2020 - Education Eye Get help with technology during coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Response to TES story about centre assessment grades - Ofqual Relief scheme for providers of apprenticeship training to public sector employers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Elementary Education Act 1870: a quick guide - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes podcast: GCSE teacher-assessed grades 'ignored' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools need remote teaching plans by end of September - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour to table motion of no confidence in Swinney - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tracing not ready for schools to open, warns Burnham - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Guardian view on poetry in schools: don't let it go - Guardian SNP crisis: No confidence motion filed against Sturgeon's deputy after exam results chaos - Express Upskilling the economy: Learning, not hiring, could reduce the skills gap - Training Journal Swinney faces no confidence motion from Labour and Tories despite evidence being based on 'meaningless date' - Scotsman Kindling curiosity: Are the curious minds of children becoming lazier about the world around them? - UKEdChat Key workers face social and emotional struggles during COVID-19 crisis - Nuffield Foundation Digest #146: The psychology of “zoom fatigue” - Learning Scientists Sharing solutions to common challenges across Europe - Learning & Work Institute Universities UK launches campaign to boost confidence among university students - Universities UK Labour demands SNP education secretary quits after poorer pupils have exam grades lowered - HuffPost In the news 7 August 2020 - UCU Disadvantaged pupils set to lose out through ‘levelling up’ - EYE | Early Years Educator Chinese students consider UK study over US - PIE News Podcast: Clearing and admissions special - Wonkhe Providers invited to take part in research gauging impact of the pandemic - EYE | Early Years Educator Don’t relax school standards in the autumn, leading headteacher warns - Evening Standard Tes FE Podcast: FE's Covid response with Robert Halfon - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA results: Nicola Sturgeon opens door to exams reform - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poor mental health in lockdown most common among young women - IOE London Blog Nearly 40% of A-level result predictions to be downgraded in England - Guardian How are exam grades being decided in England this year? - Guardian The SQA results debacle reveals deeper weaknesses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams 2020: GCSE timetables and key dates - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level and GCSE results 2020: how will grades be calculated without exams? - Telegraph Sturgeon humiliated: Hundreds of students gather in protest chanting 'no classist SQA' - Express When are GCSE results 2020 being released and how will the grades work? - The Sun 'John Swinney should resign', says letter from deprived Edinburgh school's parents forum - Scotsman Exams 2020: A-level timetables and key dates - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level results day 2020: all dates and information - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results day 2020: All you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA results: Protests against 'completely unfair' marks - Times Educational Supplement | TES What a 150-year-old education act teaches Covid Britain - Times Educational Supplement | TES How young Londoners really feel about plans to scrap their free travel - HuffPost Heads call for exam appeal fees to be waived as schools brace for deluge of challenges - Schools Week Meet Kirstie Donnelly: leading FE's digital revolution - Times Educational Supplement | TES The IB process makes me feel confident about A levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams 2020: Guide to appealing GCSE and A-level grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Let all school staff wear face masks', Williamson told - Times Educational Supplement | TES NDNA and EPI launch joint research project on early years workforce - Nursery World LEYF running free holiday clubs to support the capital's most vulnerable children - Nursery World An ode to the poems almost foregone - Financial Times A-level and GCSE grades for thousands of students in Wales have been lowered - Wales Online When is A-Level results day 2020 and how will grades be decided? - The Sun Teaching postgraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic - Advance HE A-level 2020: Autumn exam timetable - Times Educational Supplement | TES Furious Scottish students slam 'classist' exam board after a quarter of results were downgraded with poorest areas hardest hit - Mail London school 'must have back-up plan in case of second coronavirus lockdown' - Evening Standard GCSE 2020: Autumn exam timetable - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis: School funding allocations 2021-22 - EPI SQA results: Why the failure to report racial bias? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils offered hope in fight against exam downgrades - Scotsman EPI school funding analysis - National Education Union ASCL comment on EPI school funding analysis - ASCL Schools will be able to appeal exam results if lower than expected after outcry - Mirror Teacher grades ignored in most GCSE results - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level and GCSE results: 'Improved' schools can challenge grades - BBC A word from UCAS: Five things on the minds of universities as we approach Confirmation and Clearing 2020 - HEPI Nicola Sturgeon admits she would have joined Glasgow protests - Express Sharing and reusing data makes for excellent research - Wonkhe Students are hitting hard times – will they get the facts they need? - Wonkhe This so called culture war is a phoney one - Wonkhe School funding plan 'benefits wealthier pupils most' - BBC Boris Johnson has to win monumental showdown with the unions – schools must reopen fully - The Sun Typing aloud: be suspicious of silent classrooms - BERA Richer pupils get bigger boost from PM's 'levelling up' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most teachers fear reopening schools is unsafe – survey - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Universities 'face collapse in student numbers' - BBC Research student allocation must be fair and transparent - Times Higher Education | THE Nervousness over A-level results after Scottish Highers row - Times Higher Education | THE Four things we learned from the EPI’s analysis of 2021-22 school funding allocations - Schools Week Exam U-turn: Schools in England will be given new powers to appeal GCSE and A-level grades - Mail 'Levelling up' school funding policy favours wealthy pupils – study - Guardian Tories hand schools with richer pupils more 'levelling up' cash - HuffPost Ofqual allows thousands more appeals against A-level grades - Times Disadvantaged pupils to lose out under PM’s ‘levelling up’ crusade - Times Selection in state schools needn’t be divisive | Iain Martin - Times