News archive for 11th December 2020

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Scotland: North Ayrshire school pupils will learn remotely till next year - Scotsman Wales: Teaching must reinvent itself in a day again - BBC Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 11 December 2020 - Education Eye DfE slammed for refusal to reveal school Covid closures - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE slammed for refusal to reveal school Covid closures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: GCSE 2021 plans for 'dog-tired' teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge University tells virtual interviewees to balance a phone on two tin cans in lieu of laptop - Telegraph Will schools close early for Christmas? - BBC Being a graduate is not a guarantee of happiness - Telegraph Mass testing for kids in schools: All the places in London, Essex and Kent where children can get tested - The Sun Covid: Secondary school pupils in London, Kent and Essex hotspots urged to get tested - BBC School forced into remote learning U-turn after ministers issue ‘minded to direct’ legal letter - Schools Week Teenagers ignore restrictions and drive up Covid-19 cases in London - Times Home learning frustrations drive parents to private schools - Times Abertay recreates Minecraft replica so campus can be explored online - Scotsman Abertay University recreated in Minecraft replica allowing potential applicants to explore campus online - Scotsman Tory MP demands union flag flown from schools & buildings to celebrate heritage & fight ‘politically correct brigade’ - The Sun Welcome to the Colleges of Sanctuary - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESMS sixth forms sent home for rest of term after four positive Covid-19 cases - Scotsman NEU comment on the latest ONS figures - National Education Union Generation Z and adult learners say they need a variety of learning options to succeed in an ever-changing jobs market - Pearson New chair to take the helm at Jisc in May 2021 - Jisc England: non-EU tuition revenue likely to fall 10% - PIE News Leading on minimising risk: Have you got the right approach? - ASCL Stockport reaches 8,000 citizens with digital skills drive - Public Technology UKRI ‘prepared’ for break in research ties with EU - Times Higher Education | THE Subject knowledge enhancement: an introduction - DfE Asbestos data collections - DfE AI company to sponsor four Oxford university scholarships - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New report on the value of volunteering in education - Education and Employers New ‘Voices from the classroom’ videos to bring evidence-informed practice to life - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Students want Labour to back their biggest rent strike in decades - PoliticsHome Government should roll out mass testing of pupils across country, union says - Mail Bring mass Covid testing to schools across England, teachers urge - Guardian International partnerships research global impact of COVID-19 - UKRI Students voice concerns over accuracy of rapid Covid tests in UK - Guardian Graffiti appears outside residence of Imperial College president after bullying claims - Guardian Secondary student Covid infection rates climb again - Times Educational Supplement | TES New polling shows Gen Z and adults want a choice of learning options - FE Week Mass testing in London, Essex and Kent schools: Everything you need to know - Schools Week Secondary school pupils and teachers in Covid hotspots in London, Essex and Kent will get 'hundreds of thousands' of extra swabs from today - Mail Absence fines drop by 90% despite fall in attendance - Schools Week Secondary staff are fearful of the workload ahead - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid hotspot teachers urged to get tested this weekend - Times Educational Supplement | TES School rapid Covid test areas in South East - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge University applicants should balance phone on cans for admissions interview - Times The ETF has released its 2019–2020 Public Benefit Report - Education & Training Foundation Respond to the S.E.N. Code of Practice Consultation 2020 - NAHT Kids aged 12 to 16 believed to be driving London's coronavirus spike - Mirror Ten children attacked on their way to school this morning with teenager arrested - Mirror Schools in England will remain open despite huge rise in Covid infections - Metro Colleges in hard-hit areas to benefit from mass testing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads: Why did North miss out on rapid Covid tests? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Few university students are testing positive for Covid - despite ‘bearing the brunt of blame and criticism’ - Scotsman University lecturer is stunned when hackers doodle genitals across her Shakespeare presentation - Mail Exam board invites university students to mark some GCSEs and A-levels - Guardian School communities… invincible, inspiring, irreplaceable - Teacherhead 'Closing schools is the wrong decision for Wales' - Children's Commissioner - Wales Online DfE reveals why college bailout deals are kept secret - FE Week Profile: John Cope – the man helping to transform Ucas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Behind the news: How a company illegally marketed a 14-day ‘apprenticeship’, and what happened next - FE Week 'A different twist': how school nativity plays have adapted to the Covid era - Guardian Covid 'has increased workload for 90% of teachers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Richer students will benefit more from changes to GCSE and A-level exams, London head claims - Evening Standard Scottish schools should not be kept 'open at all costs' says union - Scotsman Scottish universities under pressure to refund rents of students impacted by 'staggered return' to campus - Scotsman Eton College closes due to outbreak of coronavirus at the prestigious private school - Mail The British Academy and Nuffield Foundation announce funding for a research and policy collaboration on communities, cohesion and resilience - Nuffield Foundation It’s time to stop assuming students are spreading COVID - HEPI Invisible disabilities: Ableism in education - BERA Oak principal says he ‘didn’t expect’ its success as data suggests half of teachers use the platform - Schools Week £125m promised FE funding delayed - FE Week Ofsted turned away 28 times over Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher pension £7bn legal fund cut by 50% - Times Educational Supplement | TES No tablet? Use your phone and a couple of cans for interview, says Cambridge uni - Schools Week From amid teachers' anger and pupils' anxiety must come changes to Scotland's exam system - Herald Scotland Teachers: 'School coronavirus rules often broken and not enough to keep us safe' - Herald Scotland Coronavirus in schools: Parents warned over Christmas attendance - Herald Scotland Is simultaneous student physical and mental health possible during a pandemic? - Wonkhe Will next year be as bad financially as we thought? - Wonkhe Podcast: Transfers, ONS, climate change, Brexit - Wonkhe Inside knowledge – why SAGE needs to hear from the humanities - Wonkhe Financial sustainability of higher education providers in England: An update - Office for Students Secondary schools & colleges to shut in Wales from tomorrow to stop Covid spread & calls for London to follow suit - The Sun Teachers and pupils not kept safe enough, Sturgeon told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid testing of students finds few positive cases - BBC Teach First to send recruits into poor rural areas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid testing for all secondary school kids in worst-hit parts of London, Kent & Essex even if they don’t have symptoms - The Sun Students ‘not an ongoing source’ of Covid-19 cases - Times Higher Education | THE Top English campuses forecast £458 million fall in foreign fees - Times Higher Education | THE Former exams firm boss set to be new Ofqual chief - FE Week Former Cambridge Assessment chief set for interim Ofqual role - Schools Week Campaign launched to encourage learners to respond to DfE’s level 3 and below review - FE Week London secondaries swab pupils across worst-hit boroughs - Times Keep exposing young to ideas that provoke, Gavin Williamson tells universities - Times DfE: SKE funding packages for AY2020/21 - UCET