News archive for 10th December 2020

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Schools scramble to sort inset days after 11th-hour Christmas edict - Schools Week Schools in London to get mass testing amid fears teenagers are fuelling Covid outbreaks - Telegraph Education chiefs 'ignored warnings' about false 'grievance history' paper taught in Scottish schools - Telegraph Covid-19 tests for secondary school pupils in parts of London, Kent and Essex - BBC Matt Hancock announces mass Covid testing for secondary schools in worst-affected London boroughs - Mail Eton College closes after pupils and staff test positive for Covid - Metro Secondary schools and colleges in Wales to move to online learning - Metro Analysis: how secondary schools are driving infection rates - Telegraph Wales to shut all secondary schools and colleges as Covid cases rocket - Express Matt Hancock unveils new mass testing plan in schools as Covid cases rise across UK - Express Primary schools in multiple Welsh council areas to shut early - Wales Online Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2020 to August 2021 - Ofsted Keeping children safe in education: proposed revisions 2021 - DfE Behavioural insights and engagement with technical education - DfE Consultation seeks views about exam advance information - Ofqual Pre-appointment hearing with Government’s preferred candidate for Children’s Commissioner - UK Parliament 'Plan for Jobs' skills and employment programmes: information for employers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Heads ask why schools not moved online as Covid surges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: All secondary schools in Wales to close from Monday - Mail Pupils face mass testing as tier 3 Covid measures loom in London - Guardian Cambridge University urged to re-invite rightwing academic Jordan Peterson - Guardian Teachers balloted over Christmas school closures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary schools in Wales 'move online' over Covid - BBC Rapid Covid tests for London, Essex and Kent schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams 2021: iGCSE and IA-level changes revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES How we can make the most of apprenticeship levy funds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: Mass testing planned in London, Kent and Essex secondaries - Schools Week Welsh secondaries and colleges to shut on Monday to stem Covid spread - Guardian Being a graduate is not a guarantee of happiness - Telegraph Almost 60 per cent of university students say their mental health has worsened this term - Telegraph The best 3 sentences in education? - The Learning Spy Ministers must not ignore evidence of Covid spread - NASUWT ASCL Cymru comment on move to online learning in secondary schools in Wales - ASCL ASCL comment on testing of pupils in worst-hit Covid areas - ASCL Teachers and pupils join a virtual summit about 9/11 and countering extremism - IOE London Blog Secondary school kids will be tested for Covid-19 in seven worst hit London boroughs - PoliticsHome The long road to decolonisation still has miles to travel - Times Higher Education | THE NEU comment on testing in schools - National Education Union The Careers & Enterprise Company has recently launched their primary careers resource platform - NAHT Coronavirus: Glasgow schools face industrial action threat over remote learning - Herald Scotland Ofqual launches 10-day consultation on advance topics for 2021 exams - Schools Week Welsh secondaries going online-only as Covid rates rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES All secondary schools in Wales to shut next week and move online - Wales Online GCSEs 2021: New details on advance material for exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most primary teachers lack tech know-how, study warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Court of Appeal throws out Durand’s compensation claim for leisure centre land - Schools Week Digital Divide: Highlights from the latest session of the APPG on Social Mobility - Sutton Trust Ofqual launches 10-day consultation on advance topics for 2021 exams - FE Week Scotland to offer free childcare for children who defer school - Nursery World School laptop allocations restored to ‘original levels’ after DfE backtracks - Schools Week Why a learning entitlement could be a beacon of hope - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Close schools earlier or breach teachers’ rights - Times Educational Supplement | TES Praise for joint working to tackle children’s mental health crisis - CYPN | Children & Young People Now BAME families ‘subject to structural racism’ amid Covid-19 response - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ELT students look to stay in Ireland despite Covid-19 - PIE News Emerald Publishing partners with Jisc to combine access to Emerald’s research with a sustainable approach to green open access - Jisc Catch-up education for disadvantaged pupils must not be a one-off intervention - Nuffield Foundation Early language learning linked to school maths performance - Nuffield Foundation Graduates in early years settings have a positive association with children’s learning outcomes - Nuffield Foundation Memory strategies you can try today - Research Schools Network The role of the research lead - Research Schools Network Extending lockdown to Jersey schools must be urgently considered - NASUWT Position statement two: Training and upskilling - Collab Group Exploring early years degrees and graduate employment outcomes - BERA Call for contributions – States of emergency: Education in the time of Covid-19 - UKFIET | Education and Development Forum ‘Speak for change’ Oracy APPG inquiry interim findings - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Disadvantage in early secondary school - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Threat of industrial action over not closing schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES SNP accused of plot to 'rewrite history' as Scots taught 'dangerous propaganda' in schools - Express Coronavirus: University students' return risks new wave of infections - Herald Scotland Inner-city teacher beats Olympians as 'sailor of the decade' - BBC Ventilation in schools: what do teachers need to know? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of music pupils drops for third year in a row - Times Educational Supplement | TES Results of mass coronavirus testing in Merthyr schools released - Wales Online Headteachers hope for last minute U-turn to shut schools from Friday - Wales Online Better ventilation helps with Covid - but freezing children in the classroom is not cool - Telegraph GCSEs: Successful challenges to grades up by a fifth - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could cancelling exams permanently reshape assessment? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers angry they're on call for Covid contact tracing over Christmas - Wales Online Early years workforce qualifications and children’s outcomes - EPI A systematic review of early years degrees and employment pathways - EPI New report urges universities to have zero carbon emissions by 2035 and to rethink knowledge and teaching practices for the era of climate change - HEPI Beyond business as usual: Higher education in the era of climate change - HEPI MSPs push for more teachers for coronavirus response - Times Educational Supplement | TES Online college is leaving hundreds out of pocket and with no qualifications - Mail Covid has made heroes of many of our frontline workers… but not teachers - The Sun Our turbulent times demand engaged universities - Wonkhe Nicola Sturgeon-backed Scottish history document for schools is blasted as 'dangerous nonsense' - Mail Graduates 'make a long lasting difference to outcomes' - Nursery World Give postgraduate scholarships to those who need them most - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Forty English universities in cash trouble’ as pandemic bites - Times Higher Education | THE Will Covid-19 cure the two-body problem? - Times Higher Education | THE Going global needn’t mean racking up air miles, universities told - Times Higher Education | THE Victory for free speech as Cambridge plan defeated - Times GCHQ calls in academics to tackle cyberthreats - Times Ireland: Good students at top schools ‘fell foul’ of calculated Leaving Cert grades - Times