News archive for 15th December 2020

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Row over school closures in London rumbles on amid threats of legal action - Mail London councils back down on closing schools early for Christmas - Metro Coronavirus: Redbridge Council suggests schools teach online - BBC Heads angry after two councils forced to back down over Covid school closures - Guardian Strikes loom closer in Glasgow, Fife & West Dunbartonshire as teachers back dispute over school safety - Herald Scotland Redbridge Council becomes latest local authority to offer support for schools moving to online learning - Evening Standard Mass testing to be rolled out at secondary schools in January - Telegraph Secondary schools and colleges to get rapid Covid-19 tests from January - Mail NEU comment on Greenwich Council - National Education Union NEU comment on mass testing for schools - National Education Union NEU comment on school attendance data - National Education Union Ofsted COVID-19 series - Ofsted Secondary school pupils and teachers in England to be given weekly Covid tests - Financial Times Department for Education gender pay gap 2020 - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19) workforce fund for schools - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19) workforce fund for colleges - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19) asymptomatic testing in schools and colleges - DfE Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March to 10 December 2020 - DfE Secondary schools and colleges to get weekly coronavirus testing - DfE School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) remit letter for 2021 - DfE New interim chair of Ofqual - Ofqual HMCI commentary: findings from visits in November - Ofsted COVID-19 isolation having detrimental impact on children’s education and welfare, particularly the most vulnerable - Ofsted Huge gaps in classroom time for pupils across England, figures show - Guardian National Education Union says headteachers have been "very badly treated" as they take on test and trace responsibilities - PoliticsHome New attendance figures paint a worrying picture of mass absences - FFT Education Datalab School attendance and lost schooling across England since full reopening - EPI Areas hardest hit by Covid school absences revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish FE lecturers vote for industrial action - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers in three areas back dispute over Covid safety - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pause teacher pay so private sector keeps up, says DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hunt underway for new IfATE chair after incumbent announces early departure - FE Week Greenwich council backs down on shutting schools in face of government legal action - Mail 7 staff roles, 2-hour training and DHSC sign-off on press: Schools given mass-testing instructions - Schools Week One in five students testing positive ‘has no Covid main symptoms’ - Times Higher Education | THE Imperial staff call for president’s resignation over bullying - Times Higher Education | THE Gavin Williamson wants to force schools to stay open, but we headteachers should decide | Jules White - Guardian Chaos for parents as London borough reopens schools 2 days before Xmas break after Government threatened legal action - The Sun A third of nurseries fear closure - Ofsted - Nursery World Nurseries conflicted over test and trace responsibilities over Christmas holidays - Nursery World EYFS: Draft of Birth to Five Matters out for consultation with early years practitioners - Nursery World DfE reports gender pay gap increase - Schools Week More heads face legal threat over closures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Legality of DfE 'keep schools open' demand questioned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Review finds exams cannot be moved online in the near future - Public Technology Greenwich revokes school closure plans after DfE legal threat - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Youth employment hits record low, ONS figures show - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Covid-19 restrictions could set back children’s development by six months, Ofsted warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Roll out of weekly testing for colleges: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Support January's vocational exams series: AoC responds to Labour's statement - AoC | Association of Colleges Education Foundation announce recipients of Post Covid-19 Revival Fund Grants - Edge Foundation Shockwaves into the future: emerging learning from our COVID-19 research - Nuffield Foundation Ofqual chair Roger Taylor to step down from role after difficult summer - Mail ASCL comment on rapid Covid testing in schools and colleges - ASCL ASCL comment on Greenwich announcement - ASCL Further details on examinations needed urgently, says NASUWT - NASUWT ASCL Northern Ireland responds to exams announcement - ASCL Union calls for Imperial College President to resign over bullying admission - UCU Testing plans not a panacea to tackling Covid in schools - NASUWT NEU comment on Ofsted report on the impact of Covid isolation - National Education Union New study shows passion for science among disadvantaged pupils - UKRI Statement on mass COVID testing in schools and colleges in England in 2021 - Voice Uni Connect consultation: routes to success - HEPI Covid: 'Hidden' data shows 'huge' school attendance gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call to close schools in January ahead of Covid tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Game changer' Covid tests for secondary schools in January - BBC Ofqual chair Roger Taylor to stand down - Schools Week Ofqual chair Roger Taylor to stand down - FE Week Lack of support for January exams 'unforgivable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual chair steps down after 'difficult summer' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Staff in secondary schools in England to get weekly coronavirus testing from January - Independent Attendance gap between local authority areas has widened, new data shows - Schools Week Eton teacher breaks silence to say college was 'backed into a corner' after upholding decision to sack him - Mail SNP criticised over 'embarrassing' failure to cut primary school class sizes - Herald Scotland Rapid Covid tests to be rolled out to all secondary schools ‘from January’ - Metro Greenwich to keep schools open after Gavin Williamson threatens legal action - HuffPost How many teachers decided to quit this term? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: School attendance plummeted after half-term in England - BBC Coronavirus: Greenwich Council backs down on school closures - BBC Children’s commissioner candidate grilled over exclusions at her academy trust - Schools Week Why the last week of school term is more important than you might think - Telegraph Government called on to ‘urgently’ set out January exam adaptations - FE Week Gavin Williamson forces Greenwich schools to reopen despite ‘exponential growth’ in Covid-19 cases - Scotsman Scottish teacher numbers hit highest level in over a decade - Scotsman Early language learning linked to academic ability in primary school - Nursery World Greenwich backs down over school closures after Government legal action threat - Evening Standard Covid: School attendance falls again after brief boost - Schools Week Schools to get testing boom from January as fifth of secondary pupils miss class - Mirror Are schools closing? Greenwich Council leader in u-turn over threat of legal action - Express England secondary school staff to be tested weekly for Covid from January - HuffPost Colleges to have weekly Covid testing from January - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Secondary teachers tested weekly from January - Times Educational Supplement | TES The EYFS reforms are not the change the phase needs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Next children’s tsar probed on her trust's off-rolling - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rapid Covid-19 tests to be rolled out in all colleges from January - FE Week Rapid Covid-19 tests to be rolled out in all secondary schools from January - Schools Week Youth unemployment committee recommended to the House - UK Parliament Teacher numbers: what new Scottish data tells us - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council backs down on closing schools after DfE order - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Pupils 'pay long-term price' if schools close - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted interim visits: 8 new findings you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greenwich schools to stay open in coronavirus U-turn after legal threat by the government - Mirror Greenwich backs down over school closures after legal threat leaves ‘no choice’ - Schools Week Covid safety measures ‘impossible in special education’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Very nearly the end of term... HOLD ON! - Teacher Tapp Extending free school meals has changed government policy on hunger and is a step towards ending child food poverty - PoliticsHome Christmas: Why our students are feeding the homeless - Times Educational Supplement | TES Current guidance is failing clinically vulnerable families - Schools Week Encouraging creative teaching & learning - UKEdChat This Christmas, please thank a headteacher for the miracles they have achieved | Laura McInerney - Guardian Law conversion course applications jump by nearly a quarter since pandemic - Guardian Voice Community welcomes gender stereotypes report - Voice ASCL comment on Ofsted autumn visits report - ASCL GCSEs: DfE grades fiasco secrecy 'simply unacceptable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: DfE delay a real challenge, reports Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES I run a nursery. I’ve seen how Covid is holding back our young children - HuffPost Exclusion and the strategic leadership role of special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs) in England - BERA ‘We will not be the same because of this’: How colleges coped with Covid - FE Week Snow days melt into the mists of time - Schools Week Higher education in 2020 and 2021 - HEPI Schools to get New Year Covid testing blitz to target teens with coronavirus in a bid to stop third wave - The Sun Universities can build the future of Wales - Wonkhe Transnational education and the global value of UK higher education - Wonkhe Five regulatory gifts under the tree from the Office for Students - Wonkhe ‘I just don’t want to take the risk’: Parents on why they are not sending children into school in run-up to Christmas - Independent London schools ordered to stay open by Government as rogue councils threatened with legal action - The Sun Dissent in Tory ranks over demand for schools to stay open as government threatens councils with legal action - Independent Ofsted: Bubbles leave teachers tired and lonely - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five ways Covid-19 has made teachers' jobs harder - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: 'Children put at risk by health inequalities' - BBC Gender stereotyping is harming young people's mental health, finds UK report - Guardian Pupils 6 months behind and teachers ‘physically fatigued’ – Ofsted’s final ‘visits’ analysis - Schools Week Covid-19 isolation 'detrimental for children' - Ofsted - BBC Remote learning is 'no substitute' for the classroom, Ofsted chief says - Telegraph Online harms law to let regulator block apps in UK - BBC Repeated school absences due to Covid-19 have chipped away at pupils' progress - Mail Harmful impact of stereotyping children revealed in report - Mail Next generation of children put at risk by worsening health inequalities - Mail 9:30 a.m. - Pre-appointment hearing with Government’s preferred candidate for Children’s Commissioner - Accountability Hearings Ofsted reveals key findings from final FE interim visits - FE Week Social media firms told to protect children or face huge fines - Times Don’t close your schools early, Gavin Williamson orders councils - Times Will Knowland: Eton governors back teacher’s sacking - Times Bolashak students in Britain told to defend Kazakhstan over virus fears - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Teachers know what’s best, says Sturgeon as schools stay open - Times