News archive for 14th December 2020

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Schools in Greenwich ordered to reopen as Gavin Williamson pens furious letter to council - Express Government launches legal action against Greenwich school closures - Guardian Covid-19: Greenwich Council ordered to keep schools open - BBC Gavin Williamson tells council to keep schools open or face legal action - HuffPost Greenwich schools face legal challenge from Gavin Williamson to keep schools open - Evening Standard Royal London Borough of Greenwich temporary continuity direction - DfE Review on barriers to online and on-screen assessment published - Ofqual There will be a reckoning for DfE's bully boy tactics - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government orders London schools to stay open and slaps rogue Labour council leaders with a legal notice forcing them to keep classes running - Mail Williamson orders Greenwich council to withdraw early closure request - Schools Week Government starts legal proceedings against council over school closures - Telegraph DfE orders council to back down and keep schools open - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sacked Eton teacher loses appeal despite uproar from pupils - Mail Eton’s dismissal of a Master was justified, appeal panel rules - Telegraph If there’s one thing Covid has revealed, it’s where our priorities lie - Telegraph ‘We’re not asking for a holiday’: parents and teachers on keeping schools open - Guardian DfE demand all FE providers publish their ‘remote education offer’ - FE Week The Guardian view on Covid-19 promises: season of ill will - Guardian England can draw strength from the Scottish experience - Times Educational Supplement | TES Close schools early, says third London council - Times Educational Supplement | TES High-profile FE figure sees companies go bust amid ESFA investigations - FE Week Government threatens rogue London councils with legal action forcing them to keep schools open for the rest of term - Mail Dissent in Tory ranks over demand for schools to stay open until end of term, as councils move teaching online - Independent Government ‘will consider’ using legal powers to keep Greenwich schools open - Schools Week Scotland's free childcare expansion delayed until August 2021 - Herald Scotland DfE's spin on private schools' A-levels gain revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Serial testing must not compromise adherence to safety mitigations - NASUWT Jersey Government's inaction risking health and safety of children and school staff - NASUWT NEU comment on call by Sadiq Khan to close schools this week and move to online learning - National Education Union Adult education funding: let's be cautiously optimistic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams can’t be moved online in the ‘immediate future’, concludes Ofqual study - Schools Week The English connection: Overcoming technical issues for 16–18 learners at Oaklands College - Education & Training Foundation DfE threatens councils with emergency legislation to keep schools open - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs point to lack of data as major barrier to closing government skills gaps - Public Technology Ofqual hunts digital and data chief - Public Technology Coalition seeks input from early years sector with launch of Birth to 5 Matters draft - Early Education Imperial College London’s Alice Gast ‘very sorry’ for bullying - Times Higher Education | THE Student submissions for the monitoring of 2019-20 access and participation plans - Office for Students The Scottish College of the Future report launch (video) - College of the Future Ofqual unable to see how grading hit schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES As a teacher in Greenwich, I want my school to remain open - Telegraph NEU Cymru welcomes ‘distance learning’ week in secondary schools and colleges - National Education Union Creative dance teaches all-round skills – it should be valued more in primary education - The Conversation Schools likely to go back to face-to-face teaching after Christmas - Wales Online Williamson told education committee to keep exam meeting details secret - Schools Week What do we know about the spread of Covid-19 among children in the UK? - Guardian Covid: Second London council tells schools to go online - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can we persuade students to wear their masks properly? - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs call on Government to consider closing schools early as Islington orders shutdown - Evening Standard No10 demands schools stay open until end of term despite coronavirus spike - Mirror Logistics fears as announcement on further mass-testing in schools ‘imminent’ - Schools Week Second London borough to shut schools tomorrow amid parents’ fury as Sadiq Khan calls for shutdown and Tier 3 looms - The Sun To parents, an open letter at the end of a hellish year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lawyers challenge International Baccalaureate results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Imperial College London leaders admit they bullied colleagues - Guardian Schools in Greenwich to close due to spike in coronavirus cases - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 46% of all schools in England have no BAME teachers - IOE London Blog Government wants to 'keep schools open' as London mayor calls to shut them - Telegraph Stop using schools as the battleground for wars on Covid ideology - Telegraph Report shines light on race inequality for BAME teachers - IOE London Blog Schools in Greenwich to close due to spike in coronavirus cases - CYPN | Children & Young People Now More than 170 PTE centres across the globe now deliver tests for UK Visas & Immigration - Pearson Reflection on the autumn term's CPD - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Improving maths in the early years & key stage 1 - Research Schools Network First ever Number Confidence Week helps people take control during Covid-19 - National Numeracy Keep up, not catch up - Research Schools Network Making use of maths manipulatives - Research Schools Network Are we entering a social eclipse? - UKEdChat Teachers shouldn’t have to choose between parenthood and their profession - they can do both - Teach First UK nursery market 'slower to recover' from pandemic than other EU countries - Nursery World Starmer urges leaders to try to keep schools open - Times Educational Supplement | TES End Covid chaos and threats to schools, DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL comment on controversy over the final week of the school term - ASCL Collab Group wins place on Civil Service Learning Framework - Collab Group Renew the post-16 education system to secure a more equal and green future for Scottish young people, adults and businesses - College of the Future New year, new norm, new thinking - VCs draw up their wishlist for 2021 - MediaFHE Reduction in self-isolation period for Covid-19 contacts: What it means for schools - Schools Week Covid-19: London mayor calls for schools to close early - BBC Schools defy council leader’s request to close - Schools Week Actions for FE colleges and providers during the coronavirus outbreak - DfE The Department for Education needs to look at why so many pupils with SEND leave the state-funded school system - FFT Education Datalab Covid: Schools and colleges to get tests from January - BBC Movers and Shakers: Edition 337 - FE Week Close schools tonight to stop Covid, says London mayor - Times Educational Supplement | TES London school closures: Khan demands all schools shut after Labour's Greenwich rebellion - Express ‘All schools should close from Monday’, Sadiq Khan says as tier three looms - Metro Making most of Higher Technical Education – reforming for the future - HEPI Second pilot phase of skills boot camps launched ahead of national rollout - FE Week School attendance: guidance for schools - DfE Actions for schools during the coronavirus outbreak - DfE Higher education providers: coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19): test kits for schools and FE providers - DfE Actions for early years and childcare providers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak - DfE 'Hellish': UK parents on school life in the shadow of Covid - Guardian ‘It’s been tumultuous’: Covid-19 stress takes toll on teachers in England - Guardian Is the traditional parents’ evening a thing of the past? - Schools Week Sats 2021: Campaigners step up fight to cancel tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Tis the season to read university financial results - Wonkhe 2021 will bring reshaping, not widespread provider collapse - Wonkhe Close all London schools today, says Sadiq Khan as Tier 3 looms this week - Mail Teaching unions push breaking schools up early for Christmas over fears of coronavirus - Mail Covid-19: London council tells schools to teach online - BBC Funding should be uncoupled from student numbers - Times Educational Supplement | TES All schools and colleges in Wales to be offered rapid coronavirus tests - Guardian Almost half of English schools have no BAME teachers, study finds - Guardian Serial coronavirus testing to be introduced in Welsh schools and colleges - Mail ‘Action needed’ to shore up university-business ties hit by Covid - Times Higher Education | THE Can Europe build its own Darpa? - Times Higher Education | THE Academics must not rage against ‘death by blank screen’ - Times Higher Education | THE UCL,IoE report: Making Progress: the employment and retention of BAME teachers in England - UCET Coronavirus: Call to wear masks on the street and send pupils home - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Charity says ten-year-olds suicidal after long lockdown - Times Ireland: Teachers given help to spot signs of domestic abuse - Times