News archive for 1st December 2020

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Eton teacher sacked in lecture row says his campaign to be re-instated is a fight for free speech - Mail Eton College faces donor backlash over free speech row - Telegraph Pupils who had education hammered by coronavirus to receive more generous grades next year - The Sun GCSEs and A levels 2021: 9 options to counter Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted Annual Report 2019/20 - Ofsted Ofsted Annual Report 2019/20: education, children’s services and skills - Ofsted Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March to 26 November 2020 - DfE Ofsted warns of risk to children ‘out of sight’ during pandemic - Ofsted How employers are benefitting from T Level industry placements - Education & Skills Funding Agency Amanda Spielman launches Ofsted's Annual Report 2019/20 - Ofsted ‘Build the Future’ announced as theme for National Apprenticeship Week 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency How employers are benefitting from traineeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency Westminster Hall to hold a general debate on the future of nurseries and early years settings - UK Parliament 'Trendy Hendy' under fire for taking Eton in 'aggressively woke' direction - Telegraph How colleges can win power and influence people - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: A vaccine won’t be a panacea - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lockdown Covid rise in children linked to open schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Christmas: How will university students get home in time? - BBC Climate change activists are 'commandeering' school curriculum, Ofsted chief warns - Telegraph Ofsted chief resists calls to make England school curriculum more diverse - Guardian Schools told they will be ‘on call’ until Christmas eve for track and trace - Schools Week Blended learning to return if Scottish school holidays are extended - Scotsman Councils tackle young children's development gaps - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Pandemic a ‘pressure cooker’ for issues facing vulnerable children, Ofsted chief warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Maths anxiety: how can we overcome the ‘can’t do’ attitude? - IOE London Blog Location location location: how the ‘wrong’ one can put schools in a difficult spot and the right kind of inspection could help pull them out - IOE London Blog How can we end child poverty in the UK? - London School of Economics | LSE Jobs, green recovery and levelling up: FE is the answer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sector builds cyber security resilience but there’s no room for complacency - Jisc Building a better future - Jisc Schools pioneer new ways of enhancing student learning whilst cutting back on endless marking - Pearson Ofsted inspections to assess remote learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Institute for Effective Education to close after struggle to secure funding - Schools Week Pay freezes, promotion and do you have your Christmas tree up yet? - Teacher Tapp Building back better: The curriculum and assessment - SecEd University of Glasgow to offset non-EU student travel - PIE News ASCL comment on Week 48 school attendance statistics - ASCL ASCL comment on Ofsted chief inspector’s annual report launch - ASCL Teaching anti-terrorism: how France and England use schools to counter radicalisation - The Conversation Ofsted annual report says education 'losses have been significant' during Covid - Mail Teachers risk delivering a 'quasi-religious morality tale' if they give lessons on climate change without a 'grounding in science' - Mail School holidays: Nicola Sturgeon accused of information 'vacuum' - Herald Scotland NEU comment on Imperial College REACT-1 coronavirus survey - National Education Union NEU comment on Ofsted Annual Report - National Education Union NEU comment on latest attendance figures - National Education Union Making waves: Building a better future for assessment – final report - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth University CIOs welcomed into the spotlight - Jisc Warning over 'quasi-religious' teaching on climate - Times Educational Supplement | TES No decision yet on whether to extend Christmas holidays - Times Educational Supplement | TES England’s school closures left vulnerable children without help, says watchdog - Financial Times Ofsted points to total school disruption in some areas - BBC Cardiff school closes after rise in coronavirus cases - Wales Online Teachers more valued after Covid-19, poll shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted 'not anticipating' graded inspections in January - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted chief: At-risk children have dropped below radar during Covid pandemic - Evening Standard Hidden horror of Britain’s ‘lost’ children vanishing from our schools then being groomed by drug gangs & sex beasts - The Sun Council says school kids should not give Christmas cards due to coronavirus risk - Mirror Long-term effects of a socio-emotional learning program - Best Evidence in Brief Covid-19: Fall in schools with self-isolating pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Open letter: 'Dear Mr Williamson, I have some concerns' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools marked down by Ofsted for narrow focus on 3Rs - Times UN highlights two-thirds of school-age children are without internet access - UKEdChat Covid: Pupil absence stabilises after recent fall, but disruption still ‘significant’ - Schools Week Vulnerable children to suffer 'lasting harm' from pandemic, warns schools' watchdog - Mirror What the latest IELS findings tell us about young children’s development - NFER School announces it's shutting for Christmas on December 10 - Wales Online The relationship of bilingualism and cognitive advantage - Best Evidence in Brief Open science comes to meta-analysis - Best Evidence in Brief Effects of an SEL and literacy development program - Best Evidence in Brief Teacher-child relationships as driven by Chinese preschoolers’ approaches to learning - Best Evidence in Brief Supporting model-based explanations in the elementary science classroom - Best Evidence in Brief How to encourage students to learn something new in summer holidays? - The Educator The ten most important classroom rules - The Educator How Ofsted will 'defer' visits for Covid-hit schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman ‘not expecting’ graded inspections from January - FE Week Ofsted annual report 2019-20: 8 things we learned - Schools Week The UK government must be honest with students – tests can miss coronavirus | Sian Taylor Phillips - Guardian Ofsted chief flags up concern about risks to vulnerable children in the pandemic - Nursery World Ofsted 'not expecting' graded inspections next month - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted annual report: What it says about colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Vulnerable suffered out of sight of teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Schools pushing exams that risk student 'harm' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils 'lost' to 'legacy of poor phonics teaching' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted’s 2019/20 annual report: Key findings for the FE and skills sector - FE Week Ofsted annual report highlights ‘inadequate’ apprenticeships as private provider grades fall for 4th year - FE Week Spielman ‘not expecting’ graded inspections from January - Schools Week Council bans schoolkids from swapping Christmas cards and gifts - Wales Online Mass coronavirus testing starts at Merthyr schools - Wales Online New report on the development of 5 year olds in England - NFER Covid: Three quarters of university students in England covered by asymptomatic testing scheme - Independent Dear Gavin Williamson, just admit it: schools spread Covid | Michael Rosen - Guardian Pandemic has left legacy of child abuse and neglect, Ofsted warns - Guardian Evaluation of the early years local government programme - DfE International early learning and child wellbeing - DfE London private school head boosts bursaries to admit pupils regardless of their wealth - Evening Standard Vulnerable children in lockdown 'national concern' - BBC Why we must address the graduate gender pay gap - HEPI Profile: Toby Perkins, Shadow minister for apprenticeships and lifelong learning - FE Week How to 'set teachers free' by changing assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eton provost will not rule on Master's dismissal after backing Head Master in free speech row - Telegraph Nature’s OA fee seems outrageously high – but many will pay it - Times Higher Education | THE Blended research methods ‘will become more prevalent’ post-Covid - Times Higher Education | THE Oxford vaccine success is ‘wider win for academic science’ - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus: Stagger university students’ return in new year to avoid spikes, Labour says - Independent 9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence about the effect of home environment on white working-class educational achievement - Accountability Hearings Welcome trumps welfare as agents put primacy on open doors - Times Higher Education | THE Warwick University student raped on campus condemns ‘toxic culture’ - Times Children should learn through play up to age of seven - Times