News archive for 5th December 2020

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Wes Streeting: "We need to learn pandemic lessons to avoid failing pupils in 2021" - Mirror Eton's leaders on brink of 'farce', says former master - Telegraph When do schools break up for Christmas? UK holiday and term time dates - The Sun Heads 'devastated' by decision not to close early - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the Rt. Hon. Kate Green MP is wrong about the curriculum - JohnTomsett Funding gap of £643m puts special needs teaching at risk - Guardian Revealed: That ministerial Zoom meeting about funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers are scared to talk about terrorism, says counter-extremism tsar - Telegraph Parents should pull kids out of secondary schools before term ends, says expert - Mirror 'I only see someone if I do my laundry': - Guardian Gavin Williamson tinkers at the edges of GCSEs when they are fundamentally broken - Guardian This is why we should delay the white paper even longer - FE Week All signs point to even greater pressure on schools post-Covid - Schools Week DfE relaunch forces policy experts to reapply for posts - Schools Week