News archive for 4th December 2020

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UK PhDs doing fieldwork ‘need blanket funding extensions’ - Times Higher Education | THE Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 4 December 2020 - Education Eye Gove adviser admits schools' policies were incoherent - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Cambridge professor fighting ‘academic McCarthyism’ - Times Covid advisory group signed gagging orders, DfE reveals - Schools Week Parents should risk fines & take kids out of school before Christmas holiday - The Sun Podcast: GCSEs 2021 problem solved by DfE? ‘Sadly not’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC announces Dr Shaid Mahmood as next chair - FE Week Parents furious as school makes pupils eat outside in the rain sat on wet ground due to Covid - The Sun Cambridge University accused of seeking a fight over free speech - Times Claiming exceptional costs associated with coronavirus (COVID-19) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Christmas school holiday dates in Scotland 2020 - Scotsman Dame Rachel de Souza: New Children’s Commissioner for England announced - Independent Top resources for every stage of childhood - The Educator Delivering face to face employment training in Covid times - ERSA Ofsted to carry out thematic survey on T levels - Ofsted Association of Colleges names new chair - Times Educational Supplement | TES Future of Scottish research funding post-Brexit to be considered by MPs - UK Parliament Heads told they will get a break over Christmas - Times Educational Supplement | TES The digital divide: Closing the achievement gap in the connected classroom - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth The evidence is in – it’s time to close the digital divide - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth UKRI response to open letter from University and College Union - UKRI Mandated ‘respect’ for others’ opinions hurts free speech - Financial Times Engaging students with the construction sector - Careers & Enterprise Company New Covid-19 research resources hub - BPS | British Psychological Society School holiday decision must not compromise safety - NASUWT Give schools extra powers over Covid-19 fears - NASUWT Awarding vocational and technical qualifications (VTQs): 2020/21 - NAHT Exams and assessments 2021: general qualifications updates - NAHT Macclesfield College threatened with unfair dismissal warnings as 8 staff are axed - UCU The essentials of numeracy in secondary schools - Edge Foundation Philosophy of vocational education debate: The role of trade unions and social partnership in education - Edge Foundation Our Future Derby: Ambitious project reports significant findings when children are exposed to career-related learning in primary schools - Education and Employers Diversity in the early years workforce: new data but more is needed - Early Education Libraries at the heart of digital strategy - Jisc Teacher's dismissal exposes fissures over Eton College modernisation - Guardian Senior staff ‘ignored our Covid fears’, say striking teachers - Schools Week Covid has shown us it's vital to push for exam reform - Times Educational Supplement | TES In the light of the Keira Bell case, schools need to look at their approach to transgender issues - Telegraph 'This term's been rough emotionally': the students heading home for Christmas - Guardian Heads in talks over break from track and trace at xmas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council with rising home education rapped for potential off-rolling - Schools Week Let's not pretend that KS2 Sats help with transition - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why mass Covid testing would make education fairer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour Government which set up Child Trust Funds never envisaged problems which see disabled children denied their money - Mail Warwick vice-chancellor failed to protect female students, say victims - Guardian Maths teacher wins international award and slice of $1m prize for his lockdown lessons - Express Why FE partnerships can't be restricted by locality - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students going home for Christmas tell of ‘piling into Covid carriages’ - Evening Standard Exams to go ahead next year with extra help for pupils on offer, Gavin Williamson promises - Express Government advised to scrap primary teaching postgrad - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools need power to turn away pupils over Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to report on T-level implementation in colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Little known skills-based work academy programme given major funding boost - FE Week New report highlights that some of the most deprived schools require additional support now, to meet the costs of Covid-19 - NFER Covid Scotland: Mass testing in schools ‘could help judge impact of coronavirus on attainment’ - Herald Scotland Our university was accused of a failure to let in white working class boys: The reality is more complex - PoliticsHome The digital divide is only one of the challenges facing edtech - Schools Week NFER on school funding and Covid-19 - National Education Union Great expectations dashed? Evidence, practice and implementation in education - BERA Coronavirus: University teaching to move online from 9 December - BBC Home sweet home – so long as someone else is there… - HEPI ‘Deeply concerning’: Minister’s ‘Skills Toolkit’ figures prove inaccurate, DfE admits - FE Week Now the government must show it can stick to its guns - Schools Week NASUWT: Pay heads for Xmas break track and trace - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government ‘misled’ school leaders over National Tutoring Programme cash - Schools Week Places and spaces must be accessible by January - Wonkhe Admissions should never be a conveyor belt - Wonkhe Podcast: Return to campus, graduate skills, pandemic student experience - Wonkhe Quarter of schools 'need emergency Covid cash' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eton is daft to sack a teacher for being a bit bonkers. Most of the best ones I knew always were - Mail Maths teacher from south-west London wins £33,000 global award - Mail Question over political control as Covid collaboration falls back - Times Higher Education | THE UK PhDs doing fieldwork ‘need blanket funding extensions’ - Times Higher Education | THE Deprived schools will struggle to meet Covid costs, finds NFER report - Schools Week Most deprived schools more likely to struggle to cover extra Covid-19 costs - Mail Unpaid student work placements should be laid off - Times Higher Education | THE Eton head defends decision to sack teacher in free speech row - Times Teacher training target met for first time in eight years - Times Easier exams ‘will make grade inflation worse’ - Times Teacher Jamie Frost, who created Dr Frost Maths, receives Covid Hero award for ingenious website - Times Girl, 14, takes on police over pupils’ right to free speech - Times Scotland: Swinney to make early decision on exams - Times The Times view on Scottish education policy: Poor performance - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Exhausted and unpaid student nurses ‘are being exploited’ - Times DfE: Initial teacher training: trainee number census 2020 to 2021 - UCET