News archive for 9th December 2020

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Teachers blast ‘extra’ inset day before Christmas as 'token gesture' - Mirror SNP quango promoting 'dangerous propaganda' in schools with warped version of Scottish history - Telegraph More nursery pupils are wearing nappies, while children are arguing more since lockdown, heads say - Mail Higher exams axed: Union calls for prelims to be dropped - Herald Scotland Cambridge University rejects proposal it be 'respectful' of all views - Guardian More than half of students polled report mental health slump - Guardian Scottish Government defeated as MSPs repeat call for 2,000 more teachers - Herald Scotland ‘I was just so lonely’: students on mental health impact of Covid - Guardian John Swinney warned not to 'let history repeat itself' over 2021 exams cancellation - Scotsman Teachers slam pre-Christmas inset day as 'token' government gesture - Mail We won't get everything right with catch-up tutors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher with hammer who intended 'serious harm' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils 'have more fall-outs post-lockdown' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers' jobs 'risked by reckless lack of Covid funds' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish Government to relaunch childcare expansion rollout in August - Scotsman Whinging teachers blast ‘extra’ inset day before Christmas as ‘not a proper break’ - The Sun Many pupils' literacy and numeracy regressed in lockdown - Wales Online We're proud to be playing a part in the vaccine rollout - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK graduates ‘less likely to be happy’ than general population - Times Higher Education | THE They were promised blended. They’re not getting it - Wonkhe Calls for Scottish Highers exam cancellation evidence to be published - Scotsman DfE exam support service: claiming costs - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 9 December 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Joint working improving children’s access to mental health services - Ofsted Wrapping up: How to finish the year with a (learning) bang... - UKEdChat Call for more in-service days after exams cancelled - Times Educational Supplement | TES 11 benefits to enhance your remote teaching - Teacher Toolkit NEU Cymru comment on Estyn Annual Report - National Education Union Glenys Stacey's speech at Inside Government Apprenticeship Conference 2020 - Ofqual Working together to safeguard children - DfE Cambridge scholars force through free speech policy changes - Times Higher Education | THE Nesta names 14 organisations to benefit from Covid-19 recovery scheme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Free childcare qualifications offered by government as part of Covid-19 recovery - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children’s rights ‘worryingly low’ on political agenda, charities warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Universities urged to tackle isolation among care leavers at Christmas - CYPN | Children & Young People Now No algorithms for Scottish pupils’ grades in 2021 - Public Technology Third apprenticeship rate consultation as ESFA considers changes to eligible cost rules - FE Week Learning from 2020: Four Covid-safe innovations maths teachers have devised to put evidence-based strategies into effect - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Children do not see themselves represented in the books they read - SecEd Covid costs: Cuts to education provision 'inevitable' unless DfE acts - SecEd Measuring and mitigating child hunger in the UK - Social Market Foundation | SMF Boris Johnson told: 'Stand-up to social media' to protect our children - SecEd 16% of children missed meals due to hardship during pandemic - Social Market Foundation | SMF New Government teaching resources backed by Leeds Beckett University expertise - Leeds Beckett University Decisions on schools over Christmas must not compromise safety - NASUWT The DfE opens second claims window for exceptional covid costs incurred between March and July - NAHT The new Common Entrance exam is fiendishly designed to weed out over-tutored children - Telegraph Flagship early-years expansion likely by August - Times Educational Supplement | TES Comment on Right 2 Learn campaign launch - College of the Future Cambridge University votes to safeguard free speech - BBC GEM Report Fellowship 2021 – call for proposals - UKFIET | Education and Development Forum ‘Feeling heard’: partner agencies working together to make a difference for children with mental ill health - Ofsted All the Christmas school holiday dates in Scotland - Scotsman Kent grammar school will shut for two days after Christmas over fear Brexit will spark traffic chaos - Mail Significant increase in depression seen among young people - UKRI Leaked document reveals how the DfE chose level 3 ‘lifetime skills guarantee’ qualification list - FE Week Free childcare: Councils 'are threatening viability' of private nurseries - Herald Scotland Out-of-school sector threatened with collapse - Nursery World Teachers' scorn at idea of cancelling Dec 18 classes - Times Educational Supplement | TES School refused to let kids learn at home even though Covid could kill their mum - HuffPost Scotland: Exams decision may have come too late to save John Swinney's blushes - Scotsman Just call me St Nick for the gift of no free laptops - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can schools close early for Christmas due to coronavirus? - The Sun We donkeys are furious at being compared to the DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: What is the 'sawtooth effect'? - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Fears ‘dog tired teachers’ won’t mark exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Children's minister sets out £4.4m fund to support children impacted by pandemic - Nursery World Childcare Level 3 qualifications to be free from April - Nursery World Schools in England to close for Christmas a day early to give teachers a ‘proper break’ - Express How schools can ease teacher pressure in 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nick Gibb grilled by education committee over exams: 7 things we learned - Schools Week Why the barriers to home education are troubling - Times Educational Supplement | TES This extra INSET is just another late and empty gesture - Schools Week Qualifications in new funded offers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Adults to gain new skills on 400 free courses - DfE National Skills Fund - DfE New campaign calls for new statutory 'right to learn' throughout life - Unionlearn Schoolgirl, 12, 'banned from wearing coat' in freezing classroom with open windows - Mirror Ten years on: The politics behind the 2010 tuition fee reforms - HEPI A new partnership on workplace training is needed for good times and bad - Financial Times Agile critical-reflexive students? Start them early! - Wonkhe The OfS’ performance on place - Wonkhe Graduates are less happy than young people who did not go to university, study shows - Mail Pupils in England are performing significantly worse in sciences than they were five years ago - Mail Student mental health: 'I am living in a bubble of one' - BBC Campaign calls for adult learning entitlement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government announces 400 free courses for adults - Times Educational Supplement | TES Confirmed: Level 3 ‘lifetime skills guarantee’ qualification list excludes major economic sectors - FE Week Want essay feedback? Do it yourself, professor tells students - Times Higher Education | THE Sexual violence survivors need support, not even more trauma - Times Higher Education | THE Eton backed over sacking of Will Knowland - Times College dean Martyn Percy faces sex investigation despite police not pressing charges - Times Schools can close early to give staff a ‘proper break’ - Times English teenagers slide down the global rankings for science - Times Schools chief Rachel de Souza in line to be champion for children - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Student’s High Court challenge to minister’s Leaving Cert decision - Times