News archive for 16th December 2020

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Severe crackdowns on freedom of speech at a third of universities - Mail Islington council chief refuses to rule out future school closures - Telegraph BAE Systems to hire record 1,250 trainees next year in boost for the North - Mail 'Perfect storm' ahead for schools without further Covid safety action - NASUWT UCU response to UCAS report - UCU NASUWT condemns proposed attack on teachers' pay - NASUWT Reflecting on graduate outcomes survey response rates in unpredictable times - HESA ASCL Cymru comment on qualifications in Wales in 2021 - ASCL £50m commitment is welcome, but success depends on getting the details right, says Adam Clarke - Russell Group The UK’s first Professor of Social Mobility, Lee Elliot Major, considers the policy consequences of the new higher education admissions data - HEPI Update on exams in Wales - Voice Cumbrian schoolchildren given ex-nuclear power PCs - Public Technology Department for Education extends roll out of Nuffield Early Language Intervention - Nuffield Foundation Learning from 2020: 3 ways in which primary school teachers have used literacy to support learning this term - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Incentives needed for businesses to train their employees for post-COVID-19 world - London School of Economics | LSE Early years maths outdoors - Research Schools Network Lego in the classroom - UKEdChat 5 evidence-based resources we’ll be reaching for in 2021 - Research Schools Network Three education unions condemn Gavin Williamson for restricting the STRB - ASCL 91 percent of Edinburgh teachers back move to declare dispute with council - Scotsman Scottish teachers less likely to get severe Covid than rest of population, government research finds - Telegraph Making schools into 'field hospitals' may be 'too much' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE considering delay to start of next term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government accused of ‘unacceptable attack’ on teachers’ pay - Schools Week Apprenticeships: The challenges of assessment in 2020 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher pay constraints 'show breathtaking complacency' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education unions condemn STRB restriction - National Education Union Coronavirus: Edinburgh teachers vote to back dispute over school safety - Herald Scotland Holiday activities and food programme - DfE Higher education restructuring regime guidance for applicants - DfE Thousands of schools to benefit from covid early years support - DfE ESFA Update: 16 December 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Covid ‘nearly eliminated’ on UK campus after asymptomatic testing - Times Higher Education | THE Campaigners welcome online harms legislation to protect children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Disadvantaged children lost most days of learning due to Covid-19, new research shows - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs call for review into impact of Covid-19 on childcare workforce - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Reducing competitive sports 'helps prep school pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs discuss early years workforce challenges - Nursery World Keeping schools open is right, Sturgeon insists - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tell us how grade inflation can be ‘washed out’, MPs urge Williamson - Schools Week Wales details how GCSEs and A-levels will work in summer 2021 - Wales Online Eton's closure after Covid outbreak fuels backlash against government over state school threats - HuffPost Ministers have once again proven that FE is an afterthought for this government - FE Week Scottish universities facing 'existential threat' amid calls for more funding - Scotsman Ofsted boss: We must keep schools open - Evening Standard Council backs school closures despite DfE legal threats - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Call for 'route map out of grade inflation' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Regulators took over after apprenticeship assessment bodies refused to comply - FE Week Coronavirus: Teachers and pupils 'face freezing, unclean classrooms' as safety fears rise - Herald Scotland Why we should prepare for another exams U-turn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Need to know: The Covid workforce fund explained - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Areas with low prior grades lost most learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Access and continuation data by ethnicity, provider tariff group and subject group - Office for Students What’s the point of regulation? - Office for Students Uni Connect consultation - routes to success - Office for Students Covid workforce funds: What colleges need to know - FE Week Will parents be fined for pulling their children out of school early for Christmas break? - Express Black students at less selective universities more likely to drop out - Mail Gender stereotyping causes ‘lifelong harm’ - study - Nursery World DfE extends free sanitary products scheme for an extra year - FE Week DfE extends free sanitary products scheme for an extra year - Schools Week Covid workforce funds: Schools with ‘particularly high’ costs may have claims reviewed - Schools Week Scottish teachers say social distancing 'often impossible' in classrooms - Scotsman Scottish exam replacements must be 'urgently' set out, urges children's commissioner - Scotsman Thank you to everyone in FE for your extraordinary efforts - FE Week Call for more ASN resources as pupil numbers rise again - Times Educational Supplement | TES COVID-19 Tier 3: Children will pay heavy price if schools close early - Express The Sutton Trust responds to UCAS’ 2020 end of cycle data release - Sutton Trust UCAS analysis shows potential for step change in equality by 2030 - UCAS Record numbers of nursing students as pandemic inspires next generation - GOV.UK Re-MEM-ber, UCAS End of Cycle reporting isn’t just for Christmas… - HEPI The DfE risks a long dark legacy by threatening schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers report rise in non-Covid persistent absence - Schools Week Knowledge exchange and the arts - Wonkhe 2020 was a turbulent admissions cycle – with positive outcomes - Wonkhe The UCAS 2020 cycle – more normal than predicted - Wonkhe Rapid Covid-19 tests could soon be offered daily in schools in bid to keep classrooms open - Mail Bullying university chief says sorry but won't quit - Mail Youth unemployment: 4 ways to incentivise employers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why urgent support is needed to address UK skills deficit - FE Week Thousands of five-year-olds to get extra language help after Covid disruption - Mirror Top universities grew intake by 8 per cent after grading shift - Times Higher Education | THE Covid’s forced review of teaching practice has taught me a lesson - Times Higher Education | THE Number of students declaring mental health issues soars by 515 per cent - Telegraph School strategy was ‘survival of fittest’ - Times Pupils will be tested for coronavirus every day to keep schools open - Times Gavin Williamson is wrong about schools — again | Alice Thomson - Times