News archive for 14th August 2020

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Government will pay exam appeal fees, says Williamson - Schools Week A-levels: Worcester College, Oxford, 'will honour offers' despite results - BBC Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 14 August 2020 - Education Eye Ofsted director seconded to help government plan for reopening of schools - Schools Week Ofsted director seconded to government Covid response team - FE Week Tory MPs urge government to 'look again' at A-levels algorithm that downgraded poorest students - HuffPost Worcester College in Oxford accepts all UK students with offers regardless of A Level results - Evening Standard A levels: Manchester mayor considers legal challenge - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE admits disadvantaged A-level students lost out - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level results legal challenge set to launch - Times Educational Supplement | TES Independent Sage: 5 steps to maintain reopened schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pressure over A-level grades mounts as Education Secretary faces calls to resign - Mail Students demonstrate outside Downing Street after A-level results downgraded - Mail Government incompetence should not penalise the young - FE Week Debt and fraud data sharing business case: ESFA/HMRC pilot - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academy trusts receiving ESFA financial support in 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency GCSEs: 2 million results set to be downgraded, researchers warn - Guardian Furious A-level students march on Downing Street to fight exam results 'injustice' - Mirror Student loan interest rate in England and Wales to rise in September - Guardian Coronavirus: £5 million to tackle digital poverty - Times Educational Supplement | TES Equality watchdog intervenes over A-level results - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-levels: Worcester College 'will honour offers' despite results - BBC Office for Students loses court case over refusing provider admission to higher education register - FE Week Do the maths: why England's A-level grading system is unfair - Guardian Exam board gave entire classes of law students each other's grades - HuffPost The A-level debacle shows why coursework and AS-levels should never have been scrapped - New Statesman Coronavirus: Government cannot ‘open everything’ if schools are to return safely, Independent Sage warns - Independent Spread of coronavirus in schools is ‘low’, health bosses say - The Sun Boris Johnson faces calls to mark kids’ A-level grades up but exam boards say teachers gave ‘implausibly high’ grades - The Sun CfEY’s A-levels exams seminar explores how this years A-levels have affected teachers and students - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Righting the wrongs of the A-level grading fiasco – why Wales must respond to pupil injustice - Education matters Call for permanent extension of free school meals for disadvantaged migrant children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK: Non-EU students up 2%, EU numbers drop - PIE News An extraordinary journey: FOSIL - UKEdChat Colleges call for a GCSE retake ‘single lock’ to support some of the most disadvantaged students in the country - AoC | Association of Colleges Using evidence based strategies to improve the distance learning experience - Learning Scientists Why politicians’ mistake was seeking a perfect solution - NAHT Appeals are key to ensuring no student is disadvantaged by statistical moderation - NAHT The Office for Students loses in court – with major implications for the sector - Wonkhe In the news 14 August 2020 - UCU A-level results day: What next? - Sutton Trust Students march on Whitehall demanding Gavin Williamson be sacked over A-level fiasco - HuffPost Podcast: A Level and GCSE results furore latest round-up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual missed A-level private school bonus - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA launches two consultations on 2021 exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student protesters march on Whitehall chanting 'sack Gavin Williamson' over A-level chaos - Mail Experts warn of school reopening 'super-spreader' risk - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers march to Downing Street in A level protest - Times Educational Supplement | TES Halfon: Prove system is fair before GCSE results day - Times Educational Supplement | TES New rules on multiple placements and digital skills for traineeships published by ESFA - FE Week Students who appeal A Level grades may have Oxford places deferred to 2021 - Evening Standard Welcome to Gavin Williamson's disasterclass – where incompetence is core curriculum | Marina Hyde - Guardian A-level appeals: Heads fear pupils will miss university start dates - Schools Week Is this the last August results day you'll ever see? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The A-level results injustice shows why algorithms are never neutral - New Statesman Online and off the booze: 2020's new-model freshers' week - Guardian Education Secretary Gavin Williamson facing calls to quit over 'shambolic' handling of A-level results - PoliticsHome Oxford University warns students who successfully appeal downgraded A-level they still won't be eligible for a place this academic year - Mail Ofqual brands teacher-assessed grades as 'implausible' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities say A-level mock appeal pupils must defer - Times Educational Supplement | TES What if teacher grades are more accurate than exams? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call to give GCSE resit students their teacher grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish Government backtracks on exam grading - Public Technology A-level results chaos will have lasting impact on class of 2021 - Financial Times Heads ‘desperately worried’ ahead of GCSE results day - Times Educational Supplement | TES How will school transitions go in the year of Covid-19? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How many students cried themselves to sleep last night? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to help primary children reintegrate after lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level results: Students protest outside Downing Street amid growing pressure for Gavin Williamson to resign - Independent Gavin Williamson under pressure to resign over A-level results 'fiasco' - Guardian Legal action threat over A-level results fiasco - Schools Week HE register: Bloomsbury Institute wins appeal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Legal action threat over A-level results fiasco - FE Week Unis and employers asked to 'show empathy' over grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grades have never been a fair summary of achievement - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-levels: Labour call for government U-turn over 'exams fiasco' - BBC A majority of UK voters think that teachers alone should set this year’s exam results - New Statesman Keir Starmer demands Scottish-style U-turn on A-levels ‘fiasco’ after results downgraded - PoliticsHome Scottish school delays reopening after second teacher tests positive for Covid-19 - Scotsman 'Punishment by statistics': the father who foresaw A-level algorithm flaws - Guardian A level results: Oxbridge applicants face multiple challenges - Schools Week GCSE and A level 2020: Guide to subject access requests - Times Educational Supplement | TES If Gavin Williamson's handling of A-levels were assessed by an examiner, he would get three Fs for 'fail' - Mail Teachers submitted 'implausibly high' predicted grades for A-level pupils, regulator claims - Mail Exams 2020: Guide to appealing GCSE and A-level grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam regulator Ofqual blames teachers for A-level results day chaos - HuffPost Teachers accused of submitting 'implausibly high' predicted grades - Metro Time for government to get tough on lack of awareness about apprenticeships among young people - AELP Ofqual forced into downgrades by implausible teacher predictions - Mail What does Pearson’s second Global Learner Survey tell us? - HEPI Can I see clearing now the rain has gone - Wonkhe Labour calls for U-turn on A-level grading - Financial Times Record numbers expected to appeal A-level results in scramble for university spots - The Sun When schools reopen in September, what will the Covid-19 guidelines be? - Telegraph Govan teenager gains Cambridge place after Glasgow Caledonian University scheme - Herald Scotland Despair and delight of UK's Covid exam generation - Mail Give free school meals to low-income migrant pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Migrant children face hunger over free school meal restrictions - Guardian A-level appeals confusion leaves campuses uncertain over intake - Times Higher Education | THE Call to extend free school meals to pupils from low-income migrant families - Mail Free school meals 'should be extended' for pupils from low-income migrant families - BBC Tory MPs revolt over ‘shambolic’ A levels - Times Poorer teenagers win a record number of places at university - Times A-levels: Big picture masks individual injustices | Nicola Woolcock - Times A-level results: Gove’s reforms fail to prevent rise in top grades - Times A-level results: Our pupils have no appetite for autumn resits, say heads - Times Universities offer freebies, discounts and family deals - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Three new cases confirmed from high school outbreak - Times A-level results: Grades rise in Northern Ireland - Times DfE: SKE alllocations for AY2020/21 - UCET