News archive for 11th August 2020

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Mock A-level and GCSE grades to equal official results - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE sets out plans to allow disappointed exam students to use ‘valid mock grades’ - Schools Week GCSE and A-level students can use mock results to apply for university and jobs - Metro GCSE and A-level students can use mock grades for university and job applications - Mirror Starmer: Government risks ‘robbing a generation of their future’ - Schools Week Could England and Wales follow Scotland's exam grades U-turn? - Guardian Exam system 'injustice' must be tackled, says Labour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Almost 76,000 Scottish pupils get exam results upgraded after U-turn - PoliticsHome A-level students in England can use mock exam grades, government to announce - HuffPost Unhappy exam students can use mock exam results – reports - Schools Week Ministers bid to quell revolt over England A-levels by allowing mock exam results - Guardian Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says students can opt for marks they got in their mock exams - Mail A-Level and GCSE pupils to be able to use mock results or resit exams in autumn, government to announce - Independent Scottish government performs U-turn on school results - Financial Times There has never been a more humiliating Holyrood u-turn. Swinney should go now. - Telegraph Keep moderation for grades, headteachers and teachers in England say ahead of A-level and GCSE results day - Independent Will Scotland’s exams U-turn force Boris Johnson’s government to follow? - New Statesman Universities told to hold places open for students appealing against A-level results - Telegraph 'Over the moon': relief for Scotland students after exam U-turn - Guardian Fiasco as Scottish government U-turn hands pupils the exam grades they were predicted by teachers - Mail ‘Huge’ changes to International Baccalaureate exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES For this year’s school leavers, a return to “normal” means dashed hopes and a loss of control - New Statesman Students want exam results upgraded across UK - BBC The Guardian view on A-level algorithms: failing the test of fairness | Editorial - Guardian UK urged to scrap moderated A-level grades after Scottish U-turn - HuffPost PHE denies it has evidence that older pupils pose Covid infection risk - Guardian England 'will not follow' Scotland's exam grades U-turn - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA results U-turn: College places to be made available - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly half of IGCSE and IA-level grades changed - Times Educational Supplement | TES When schools reopen, their duties will be far more costly than classroom catch-ups - New Statesman SNP told university places must go to most 'disadvantaged students' after exams farce - Express 'It's not enough Nicola!' SNP savaged over 'long list of education failures' after U-turn - Express SQA results: 'Swinney's announcement is momentous' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: It's time we examined our motives on assessments - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE looking at ways to track pupil progress post-Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish school pupils have results upgraded - BBC Students brace for A-level results chaos on Thursday as expert fears 'repeat of Scotland' - Mirror SNP humiliated: Swinney makes embarrassing exam results u-turn as he scrambles to save job - Express All 125,000 Scottish Higher grades which were marked down are overturned and replaced with teachers’ marks - The Sun Call for rest of UK to follow Scotland and scrap moderated grades - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland exam results: UK now has two different entry systems for UK universities - National Education Union Westminster must follow Scottish lead on downgraded exam results, says UCU - UCU Student Loans Interest Rates and Repayment Threshold Announcement - Student Loans Company Exam results fiasco in Scotland won't happen here, Welsh Government minister insists - Wales Online Scots grade U-turn places ‘huge pressure’ on Williamson - Times Educational Supplement | TES It's exam-only assessment that has led us to this mess - Times Educational Supplement | TES Predicted grades – what do we know, and why does it matter? - IOE London Blog Coronavirus: Scottish teachers and children can wear masks but ministers in England warn they hamper learning in the classroom - Mail Transport to school and other places of education: autumn term 2020 - DfE Swinney to reverse 124,000 qualification downgrades following exams results day outrage - Telegraph The suggestion pupils have lessons one-week-on, one-week-off is madness. Schools are not oil rigs - Telegraph Scottish government overturns exam results for 124,000 students in major fiasco - Mirror Over 120,000 Scottish exam grades to be reinstated after row - Guardian Influence of China on UK Higher Education Institutions - Montrose42 Making a mockery of results day - Wonkhe Coronavirus: extra £10 million for local transport including extra money for school and college transport - National Education Union Scottish government U-turns over students' grades after outcry - HuffPost UK nationals in the EEA and Switzerland: access to apprenticeships - DfE Education Sector Advisory Group minutes - DfE UK nationals in the EEA and Switzerland: access to higher education and 19+ further education - DfE Early years attendance drops, latest official figures show - Nursery World 30-hour offer reopens in Wales this month - Nursery World Scotland withdraws all downgraded exam grades - Schools Week Sturgeon apologises after outcry over exam results downgraded by ‘deprivation algorithm’ - Public Technology Schools urged to make contingency plans for local lockdowns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Nurseries run free holiday clubs for disadvantaged families - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Number 10 ‘orders rapid review’ of evidence on coronavirus school transmissions in bid to reassure parents ahead of September return - PoliticsHome British Council: £1m campaign in 16 key markets - PIE News Free travel for under 18s to be removed after half term - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Safeguard Erasmus for UK students - PIE News UCU poll shows over 80% of school, college and university leaders want to reform the university admissions system - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Scotland U-turns and gives all exam pupils the grades their teacher recommended - Wales Online Masks, promotions and the creeping takeover of technology - Teacher Tapp Is it an algorithm? - UKEdChat Students to review unsolved missing person cases - Leeds Beckett University Scotland: mixed feelings about school return following coronavirus closures - Guardian Poll shows school, college and university leaders want to reform university admissions - UCU Leeway for universities on appealed grades - Russell Group SQA results: All downgraded results to be withdrawn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual dodges poorer pupils grades question - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney: Education secretary's exams results statement in full - Scotsman Over 100,000 Scottish exam grades to be reinstated after row - Guardian Scotland: Pupils will now receive original predicted grades after 100,000 results scrapped - Independent John Swinney still faces calls to resign despite withdrawing downgraded exam grades - Scotsman Justine Greening hits out at ministers over A-level awards process - Guardian 'Don't jump the gun': how to make the right choice on clearing day - Guardian Grammar school Belfast Royal Academy ‘to ban pupils not wearing face masks from classroom' - Evening Standard Dr Sarah Jarvis issues troubling warning over teens not wearing face masks to school - Mirror Schools must be ‘super vigilant’ for Covid-19 symptoms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kids in Scotland can wear face masks at school if they want to - The Sun Children wearing masks in classroom could harm their education, minister says - The Sun Kids back to school in Scotland today as Boris piles pressure on unions to get lessons back in England - The Sun Fury as union chiefs insist 'science is still not clear enough' on the safety of children returning to school - Mail Coronavirus: Pupils in Scotland begin returning to school - BBC Coronavirus: Don’t ‘read too much’ into ‘work in progress’ data on transmission in schools, says minister - Schools Week Hold places for appealing A-level students, minister tells universities - Schools Week Predicting A-level grades accurately ‘near-impossible task’ - IOE London Blog Centres for Excellence in Maths programme funding conditions - Education & Skills Funding Agency A-level students ‘could face same results fiasco as in Scotland’ - Evening Standard New initiative will support universities as they continue to transform learning and teaching - Jisc Health minister: Covid study cited by Gavin Williamson is 'work in progress' - Guardian Pupils, parents and teachers excited at idea of getting back to school, says head - Evening Standard England's exam results fiasco has exposed its flawed education system | Melissa Benn - Guardian We must create a global mental health curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Run for cover – the results-day storm is coming - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers have ‘deep concerns’ over safety as schools start reopening in Scotland - Metro Scottish schools reopen but many teachers 'unprepared' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adjusting CAGs: no politics, no disgrace, no injustice. It’s just technical - Headguruteacher Should Ofsted visit schools in England when they reopen? - Guardian Academic freedom is precious – so why have UK universities sold out to China? | Peter Wilby - Guardian Homeschooling my child taught me what i already knew. We need change - HuffPost Lecturer called student's henna 'weird brown stuff' and 'unprofessional', London uni hears - HuffPost 'Over expansion' of universities leaves students with 'heavy debts for little economic benefit', think tank warns - Telegraph Scottish school reopenings: I'd be lying if I said I felt entirely safe in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Theorising practices of learning space design - BERA Why the answer to many questions this week will be 97% - HEPI Improving articulation between Scottish colleges and universities - Wonkhe We need a fairer system for admitting students to university - Wonkhe What if the problem is A levels and Highers, not 2020? - Wonkhe Government urges universities to hold places - DfE Secondary school pupils are just as likely to transmit coronavirus as adults - Mail Pupils return to classrooms for first time since lockdown began - Mail Education Secretary to address exam results controversy - Mail Universities told to keep places open for A-level appeals - BBC A levels: Universities urged to wait for appeal results - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level grade predictions 'a near-impossible task' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kids must go back to school… we’ve proved its safe despite unions’ 200 demands - The Sun University chiefs are told to keep places open until pupils can complete appeals against their A-level exam grades - Mail Universities urged to be ‘flexible’ with A-Level students who flunk grades due to Covid - The Sun University admissions need overhaul to avoid inaccurate predicted grades - Mail 'This is very unfair': anxious wait for A-level results in England - Guardian Successful A-level appeals ‘will not count towards numbers cap’ - Times Higher Education | THE Asian students ‘more aggrieved’ by A-level cancellation - Times Higher Education | THE UK academics call for university closures to reverse massification - Times Higher Education | THE Ottoline Leyser: ‘I’m not going to pussyfoot about’ - Times Higher Education | THE Universities told to hold open places for students while they appeal A-level results - Telegraph What A-level students considering deferring to take a gap year should do - Mirror UK universities urged to be ‘flexible’ on admissions amid A-level concerns - Financial Times Older pupils spread virus like adults - Times Pupils kept apart by one-way corridors and staggered starts - Times Wait for A-level appeals, universities told - Times 150,000 free computers will help vulnerable children work at home - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: No pupil will suffer for our mistakes, Sturgeon promises - Times The Times view on the Highers fiasco: Bottom of Class - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Return to school depends on teenagers being honest about contact - Times Scotland: PE teacher jailed second time for groping students - Times Pressure grows on ministers over England A-level results 'mess' - Guardian