News archive for 27th August 2020

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Williamson ‘should go’ says Institute for Government think tank - Schools Week Minister hints at potential further delay to vocational results - FE Week Shamed Ofqual boss Sally Collier quits with £1 million pension despite disastrous time in the job - The Sun Minister hints at potential further delay to vocational results - Schools Week The 100,000 challenge - IPPR Youth unemployment could reach over 100,000 in Scotland this year - IPPR Making the vulnerable visible: Narrowing the attainment gap after Covid-19 - IPPR Music college accused of failing to properly investigate sexual assault claims - Guardian To solve the exam mess, we need to go Bacc to the future - Schools Week Support rises for reopening schools, say pollsters - BBC These U-turns show Johnson is not informed by science but scared witless by it | Simon Jenkins - Guardian Self-cleaning robots to make schools Covid-19 safe amid fears humans can't tackle bacteria - Telegraph Supply teachers may pose superspreader risk, union warns - Telegraph Schools are set to reopen but how safe are they from Covid-19? - New Statesman ‘I’m considering resigning’: Teachers voice anxiety over return to school and social distancing in classroom - Independent NASUWT responds to masks confirmation for Welsh secondary pupils - NASUWT Apprenticeships and traineeships: August 2020 - DfE ASCL statement on this year's exam grading process - ASCL Tackling harassment, hate and sexual misconduct on campus - Office for Students This is not a one-year blip: If we have to have a national assessment system, it shouldn’t be this one - BERA Face masks to be compulsory in Scottish schools from end of August - Scotsman Johnson blames ‘mutant algorithm’ for exams debacle - Public Technology Children raise concerns about impact of school return on mental health - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Testing of under-17s in Scotland increases eightfold - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adult education: Staff are ready to do what it takes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Face coverings: Welsh colleges announce common approach - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships starts: will they ever bounce back? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: Only half of hardship requests successful - Times Educational Supplement | TES Missing generation’s skill gap must be addressed for sustained economic growth - IOE London Blog Pearson launches free digital learning resources to help students transition into Higher Education - Pearson Pupils in England and Wales head back to school: how teachers feel about the return - The Conversation How safe is it for teachers to go back to school? - Express Welsh Government minister explains decision on face masks in schools - Wales Online On masks in schools – like everything else in this pandemic – Johnson is winging it | Trish Greenhalgh - Guardian Closing children's centres is the very opposite of 'levelling up' | Polly Toynbee - Guardian 'Catch-up' language programme announced for Reception classes - Nursery World Lockdown left poorer children behind. Now they face weekend classes to catch up - HuffPost Attainment gaps begin to widen and 6 other key findings from the EPI annual report - Schools Week ESFA extends deadline for academy accounts amid Covid ‘challenges’ - Schools Week What's the back-up plan if 2021 SQA exams are scrapped? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Period poverty: Schools 'not aware' they can order free tampons - BBC Pirls global rankings are on, despite Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers and heads agree: we cannot wait to see our pupils again - Evening Standard Overcoming the new challenges facing EAL learners and their teachers - Schools Week 'Scapegoating': DfE official's sacking condemned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: All initial teacher training 'good' or better - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers like me aren’t lazy or cowardly. Covid 19 is a deadly disease and we are right to be scared - Telegraph Hancock: Keep supply teachers 'distanced from pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ex-civil service chief blasts Boris Johnson over decision to axe mandarin - Mail One third of world's children unable to access remote learning when schools closed during lockdown, Unicef finds - Independent Boris Johnson accused of 'devolving responsibility' to headteachers in face mask U-turn - Express Boris Johnson stands firm on ‘sensible’ face masks decision in schools despite fury - Express The government called the exam algorithm 'robust'. How robust was that claim? - Guardian HEPI Soft-Power Ranking 2020 - HEPI HEPI’s Annual Soft-Power Ranking, 2020: The UK slips further behind the US - HEPI To address the UKs’ language skill deficit, we really need to be a part of Erasmus - Wonkhe Five ex-education chiefs put party politics aside and issue call to get kids back to school next week - The Sun What happens if a student tests positive for Covid-19? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Opening UK PhD funding to international students ‘a big shift’ - Times Higher Education | THE Boris Johnson pins the blame on ‘mutant’ exam algorithm - Times Coronavirus: Class of 2020 feels weighed down by fears for the future - Times No 10 forces out top schools mandarin Jonathan Slater after exams fiasco - Times Coronavirus: Pupils will need extra help to catch up, warn teachers - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: NHS clarifies pupils can go to school with a runny nose - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Leaving Cert exams back by mid-November - Times