News archive for 2nd December 2020

back to standard EdNews format

Amazon launches free online maths and coding resources to help secondary-school children who have fallen behind - Mail Covid: Some students not back until February next term - BBC Ministers told to ‘come clean’ on regional Covid data - Schools Week When it comes to politics, teenagers can teach the experts a thing or two | Adrian Chiles - Guardian Why Scotland needs to engage more with WorldSkills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam body upholds 55 appeals on discrimination grounds - Times Educational Supplement | TES North West hit three times harder by Covid absences - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCL leads £2m international policy initiative to reduce social impacts of COVID-19 - IOE London Blog All students offered testing on return to university - DfE England to stagger students’ post-Christmas return over five weeks - Times Higher Education | THE Students may not be allowed to return to university for five weeks after Christmas to prevent spreading coronavirus - PoliticsHome The Education Select Committee chair says a teaching union's campaign to lock down schools could lead to "disaster" - PoliticsHome Bringing a bit of festive cheer to children: Festive Futures - Education and Employers Government U-turn on in-person teaching at universities is a "step forward", says UCU - UCU Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted OfS will tackle pockets of low quality higher education provision - Office for Students ESFA Update: 2 December 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Free school meals scheme prompted thousands of helpline calls in first weeks, investigation finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now What next for graduate jobs? - Jisc How “cradle-to-career” schools provide all-round support and tackle inequality - The Conversation FSM voucher debacle: Scramble to fix system laid bare by NAO report - SecEd Teacher wellbeing: Covid threatens to leave legacy of anxiety, stress, depression and burn-out - SecEd Careers in Context 2020: a can-do guide for secondary school career leaders - NAHT Nuffield Foundation and NFER's survey: teacher supply and shortages - NAHT Looking back to learn lessons for the future - AELP Response to government announcement on students returning to university in the new year - Universities UK Reimagining the workplace: Good remote working - HEPI Russell Group response to guidance on students returning from January 2021 - Russell Group 7 learning walk observations - Teacher Toolkit Ofsted warning over 'out-of-sight' children as underfunded system strains to cope - SecEd ESRC-funded observatories will help tackle impacts of COVID-19 - UKRI Why gradeless Ofsted inspections strangle our future - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stop telling kids to bounce back – learning and wellbeing are more important than ticking boxes - Telegraph How is the stress of Covid-19 affecting school leaders? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Change GCSEs or cancel them, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers could be prioritised for second vaccine phase - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Are we ready for another grading crisis? - Times Educational Supplement | TES London headteachers warn they are being kept in the dark about measures to help pupils - Evening Standard Vaccine news aside, we still need urgent action on jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Profile: Jeffery Quaye, National director of education and standards, Aspirations Academies Trust - Schools Week Through the looking glass, St Andrews graduation: Reflections on student life - Scotsman Funding scheme boosts early speech and language intervention - Nursery World If Gavin Williamson were in Year 9... - Times Educational Supplement | TES Learning about Covid in lessons 'helps students process their upheaval' - Telegraph Eton pupil sent home after sending headmaster letter demanding he resigns - Mail 'The job market isn't totally on its knees': why there's hope for anxious graduates - Guardian Christmas school holidays ruling expected this week amid calls for clarity - Scotsman ASCL comment on NAO investigation into free school meals voucher scheme - ASCL The government should not impose a faulty definition of antisemitism on universities | David Feldman - Guardian Isolation booth to school exclusion: We need to find a better way - BERA Assisted places scheme helps few working class pupils – archive, 2 December 1985 - Guardian Angry parents plan legal action against Jordanhill School - Herald Scotland Admissions, Irish style - Wonkhe We need to get serious about Higher Technical Education for adults - Wonkhe Global Teacher Prize: Teachers 'fire the dreams that change our world' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE knew of Edenred ‘risks’ before FSM voucher 'chaos' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Firm given free school meals voucher contract despite ‘limited evidence’ of capability - Guardian ICT cuts ‘leave vaccine university vulnerable to cyberattacks’ - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Too many parents had to wait too long’: NAO probe exposes free meal voucher failures - Schools Week Key findings from the NAO’s free meals national voucher scheme investigation - Schools Week Eton pupil calls for head to quit over sacking of YouTube teacher - Times Scotland: Aberdeen University professor ignores pleas to return payoff - Times