News archive for 21st August 2020

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Why rebranding higher education as “job training” is an offence to humanism - New Statesman Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 21 August 2020 - Education Eye Nicola Jennings: grading Gavin Williamson – cartoon - Guardian Government facing exams challenge over schools ‘advised’ to deflate grades - Schools Week BTec students may wait more than a week for delayed results - Guardian The Guardian view on play streets: where asphalt meets grassroots | Editorial - Guardian Back Ofqual or I quit, chair of regulator told Gavin Williamson - Guardian BTEC results: Final grades to be issued by 28 August - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scientists advise universities to plump for online tutorials - Times GCSE results 2020: glut of top grades is a headache for sixth forms - Times Pearson confirm final deadline for revised BTEC grades - FE Week There’s enough to criticise without adding to our uncertainty - Schools Week Schools that followed advice to deflate grades must now be given appeal route - Schools Week First come, first served for selective sixth form applicants as grade hike causes record places demand - Schools Week East London school where terror plotter Umar Haque showed ISIS video to pupils given official warning by Charity Commission - Evening Standard Pearson confirm final deadline for revised BTEC grades - FE Week Meet the man bringing education and employers together - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'There is still a lot of mess to clean up': Student protesters say government must do more to solve grades chaos - Independent The absolute mess universities in Wales now find themselves in - Wales Online In the news 21 August 2020 - UCU Planning for the future after getting exam results - Villiers Park Educational Trust The government responds to the consultation on the financial transparency of LA maintained schools and academy trusts - NAHT The importance of work experience for people of all abilities - Training Journal FE podcast: The exams fiasco, with UCU's Jo Grady - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Exams fiasco 'will be nothing compared to brewing scandal' of education inequality, expert warns - Independent Top civil servant drafted in to DfE to take charge of exams fiasco - Schools Week NEU petition calling for action on fixing exams system reaches 25,000 signatures in its first 24 hours - National Education Union Ofqual's A-level algorithm: why did it fail to make the grade? - Guardian Students deserve a fresh look at SQA grades process - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE appoints new senior official to manage exams crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students deserve fresh look at SQA grades process - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our 8 core messages for the Kickstart Scheme - ERSA Class engagement, tantrums, and play - UKEdChat Summer GCSE, AS and A level results 2020: information for students - DfE 2020 GCSE results: summary of the subject-level data - NAHT 2020 A level results: summary of the subject-level data - NAHT Employer survey provides snapshot of COVID-19 impact on apprenticeships - IfATE Universities get some Indie SAGE advice on reopening campuses in September - Wonkhe Give priority to poorer students if courses are full, minister tells unis - The Sun I know the real reason Gavin Williamson won't quit – and it’s chilling | Zoe Williams - Guardian What are the implications of 2020 grade inflation? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nick Gibb: I won't step down over results fiasco - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus UK: Union faction may boycott schools reopening - Mail Teachers’ CPD needs are massive: it needs more time and more flexibility - Headguruteacher Make Covid-19 tests compulsory for students, say scientists - Guardian 'We were already full': universities face nightmare of exams chaos and Covid-19 - Guardian Exams chaos: Never again, say parents, pupils, teachers - BBC Behind the scenes of GCSE results day in a pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why 'experts' will be the fall guys for exams fiasco - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two thirds of parents intend to send children back to school next month - Mail Temporary schools to be built to meet surge in demand for A-level places - Telegraph Should children be heading back to school? - Mirror Algorithm and blues: Gavin Williamson's week of A-level chaos - Guardian Schools will be last thing closed in event of lockdown in Wales - Wales Online Reopening schools: How to look after pupil wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES From 1 to 8 – the exams algorithm’s ‘bizarre’ grade hikes - Schools Week Teachers call for GCSE probe to ensure fair 2021 grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES The GCSE is dead. Long live teacher assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keegan: Colleges should 'deploy flexibility' on places - Times Educational Supplement | TES School reopening in Scotland: five lessons for the rest of the UK - Guardian Coronavirus: Out of school clubs ‘on brink of collapse’ - Nursery World Poorer pupils to be prioritised for university places - Times Educational Supplement | TES Alliance files FOI request amid concerns over childcare funding inconsistencies - Nursery World Will parents be fined if children can't go to school due to 14-day quarantine? - Express 'We're picking up the pieces': a university vice-chancellor's diary of A-level chaos - Guardian New project pushes for reform of exams in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid rules leaving poor children 'very little to eat' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'All universities must commit to net-zero by 2030': tackling the campus climate crisis - Guardian IB students across the world hurt by UK A-level mess - Times Educational Supplement | TES 15,000 students rejected by universities due to low A-level grades can reapply today - Mail Universities asked to prioritise disadvantaged students following U-turn on A Level grades - Evening Standard Coronavirus: What next for apprenticeships? - Times Educational Supplement | TES A level results: Government asks universities to prioritise disadvantaged students - Independent Now we must pick up the pieces of our broken system - FE Week Teachers must now pick up the pieces of our broken system - Schools Week Majority of young people believe the UK education system favours the rich - Mirror Working-class students resitting their A-level exams externally feel abandoned in the grades crisis - Metro Student artists exhibit their final shows online – in pictures - Guardian The student loan interest rate is rising – what does it mean for you? - Guardian Don’t rely on algorithms to make life-changing decisions - Financial Times How to save Britain’s universities: A new type of free university - HEPI A month to go, and still lots of questions to answer - Wonkhe Are there silver linings from the examnishambles? - Wonkhe Creative arts degrees are great for your career - Wonkhe Headmasters could appeal GCSE results for being too generous - Mail Government tells universities to 'prioritise disadvantaged pupils' amid A-level grade chaos - Mail Experts slam ‘barmy’ GCSE marks inflation as a quarter of pupils get top marks - The Sun Stigma of leaving creative industries is harming careers of arts graduates - Times Higher Education | THE A levels: are students really ‘trading up’ to selective universities? - Times Higher Education | THE Results delay means BTec students are missing out on apprenticeships and uni - HuffPost Middle-class children may be forced to take gap year - Times Taylor Swift funds A-level student to tune of £23,000 - Times Exam results: Delays to Btec results threaten degree hopes - Times We need more funds, say sixth-form heads - Times Official increases pressure on Gavin Williamson for independent inquiry - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Wearing masks at schools could soon become compulsory - Times Edinburgh school sends pupils someone else’s exam results - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: four universities will charge foreign students to self-isolate - Times