News archive for 17th December 2020

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Millions of children to get an extra week at home after Christmas holidays as schools roll out coronavirus testing - The Sun University 'safe spaces'? As I found, they're a danger to us all | Andrew Doyle - Mail Secondary schools to extend Christmas holidays by a week to enable rollout of mass testing - Telegraph CBBC doctors join NHS Test and Trace in fight against coronavirus - GOV.UK Survey of childcare and early years providers and coronavirus (COVID-19): wave 2 - DfE UK revenue from education related exports and transnational education activity 2018 - DfE Evaluation of the school improvement offer 2019 to 2020 - DfE Further education (FE) providers: return in January 2021 - DfE Schools and childcare settings: return in January 2021 - DfE Apprenticeships and traineeships: December 2020 - DfE School funding boost confirmed for every local authority in England - DfE Letter from Dame Glenys Stacey to AoC, Sixth Form Colleges Association, HOLEX, AELP, the Exams Office and ASCL - Ofqual Dame Rachel de Souza confirmed as new Children’s Commissioner - DfE Staggered rollout of coronavirus testing for secondary schools and colleges - DfE Students receive autumn exam AS and A level results - DfE Early years funding: 2021-2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Secondary schools to delay new term as experts puzzled over rising Covid rates - Financial Times Jacob Rees-Mogg under fire for dismissing Unicef's UK grants as stunt - Guardian Free school meals scheme in one of UK's poorest areas faces axe - Guardian Most secondary school pupils in England to stay at home until 11 January - Guardian Scotland's traditional exams should be abolished after pandemic, SNP advisers recommend - Telegraph Report – School accountability and fairness: Does ‘Progress 8’ encourage schools to work more equitably? - FFT Education Datalab Dame Rachel de Souza: New Children’s Commissioner for England announced - but some MPs ‘not wholly convinced’ by vision for role - Independent Coronavirus in Scotland: Third of pupils at Lasswade High miss school on Thursday - Scotsman Teachers have been on the frontline every day during Covid. So why scapegoat them? | Polly Toynbee - Guardian Nicola Sturgeon told high school exams 'out of date and in need of reform' - Herald Scotland DfE: We 'should have' tried for better Edenred deal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Child sexual abuse in schools often an open secret, says inquiry - Guardian Scottish secondary exams 'out of date' and should be phased out, says report - Scotsman Scotland to fast-track vaccine for teachers with serious health problems - Times Primaries 'ignored' in staggered January term starts - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Not good' - how DfE saw grade storm coming - Times Educational Supplement | TES NEU comment on the ONS School Infection Survey - National Education Union NEU comment on plans for schools in January - National Education Union Understanding online distance learning in the UK - HEPI NEU writes to Gavin Williamson about mass testing plan - National Education Union Voice Community comments on staggered secondary school and college return in January - Voice Scottish school holidays to stay same despite England likely delaying return to classrooms - Scotsman Thousands of secondary school pupils to return to class a week late as testing rolled out - Evening Standard ASCL comment on government plans for schools in January - ASCL John Thornhill elected Chair of Collab Group - Collab Group NASUWT calls for mass testing in Jersey schools - NASUWT Teacher workload must be addressed in Highers plans - NASUWT NASUWT comments on delay to full reopening of secondary schools in January - NASUWT UCU response to government announcement on January college return - UCU Flexibility on school return just one part of ensuring safety - NASUWT School returns staggered due to Covid: Term dates to change after Christmas - No 10 says - Express Coronavirus: the local picture - Learning & Work Institute An end of year round-up: how volunteers have been helping to inspire young people - Education and Employers Summer exam chaos saw 900% rise in the number of GCSE grades changed, new analysis shows - PoliticsHome Why students need to learn academic words - The Conversation January reopening and testing guidance: AoC response - AoC | Association of Colleges Protecting your college from ransomware incidents over the Christmas break - AoC | Association of Colleges DfE announces staggered returns for secondary schools after Christmas - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Rachel De Souza named as new children’s commissioner - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Child sexual abuse in schools ‘an open secret’, inquiry finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Research shows a link between the home environment and children’s development of self-regulation - IOE London Blog Army to help schools set up extra Covid testing sites - Times Educational Supplement | TES What does quality education research look like? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poorer teens at substantially greater risk of obesity - IOE London Blog Staggered return for England's secondary schools next term - BBC Appointment Children’s Commissioner for England report published - UK Parliament Number of grades in England changed after appeal rises by 800 per cent, data shows - Independent Children ‘washing their hands more than ever’ during Covid pandemic - The Sun Secondary schools to have 'staggered' return after Christmas, No.10 confirms - HuffPost Secondary schools to have staggered return in January - Independent Jacob Rees-Mogg said Unicef "should be ashamed of itself" for giving food to kids in the UK - PoliticsHome Teachers' Covid fears not forgotten, insists Sturgeon - Times Educational Supplement | TES Staggered January return: what does it mean for FE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs ‘not wholly convinced’ by new children’s tsar - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers will delay reopening of classrooms after Christmas with a 'staggered' return for pupils and online lessons - Mail Millions of secondary school pupils to go back to class a week late in January - Mirror Dame Rachel de Souza confirmed as children’s commissioner despite concerns over ‘knowledge and experience’ - Schools Week Erasmus+ aims for 10m more participants in 2021-27 - PIE News Nicola Sturgeon says schools to remain open next week despite rising Covid cases - Scotsman 11th hour 'shambles' on next term ‘beggars belief’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Non-exam-year FE students to switch to online learning for first week back in January - FE Week More than half of schools in England had coronavirus cases in November - Mail School Covid outbreaks may be sparked by outside cases - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Gavin, are you all right? I'm a bit worried about you' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most secondary year groups to start next term online - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid testing in colleges: How will it work? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Free Speech University Rankings stage a dramatic Christmas comeback - Wonkhe England's secondary school pupils face staggered return after Christmas - Guardian Challenges of early years mathematics - Research Schools Network Why is so much time wasted on curriculum development? - Research Schools Network Non-exam-year secondary pupils to switch to online learning for first week back in January - Schools Week Christmas holidays ‘will be extended by a week’ for some secondary pupils - Metro Exam appeals soared in 2020 following process change - Schools Week School accountability and fairness: Does ‘Progress 8’ encourage schools to work more equitably? - FFT Education Datalab Fee information for new entrants in 2021-22 - Office for Students Ofqual: January exams to go ahead as planned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid 'is a chance to redesign Scottish education' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of clarity on term start is 'ludicrous', DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why college collaboration is key to Covid-19 recovery - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top results at A-level drop in Autumn resits compared to summer - Schools Week Schools do not appear to be increasing the spread of covid and should remain open, say health experts - Evening Standard College staff back industrial action over lecturer change - Herald Scotland Top results at A-level drop in Autumn resits compared to summer - FE Week The case for mass Covid screening in schools has not been made - Telegraph Wishing you a healthy, merry Christmas and better times ahead - FE Week GCSE grades 2020: Appeals triple after exams cancelled - Times Educational Supplement | TES Appeal for volunteers to help vulnerable children read in schools after 80% fall during pandemic - Evening Standard ‘No plans’ to lengthen Christmas holidays but talks going on about ‘how’ pupils will return - Schools Week More than 50 percent of schools infected with Covid-19 during second wave - Mirror London Mayor to increase AEB funding rates by 10% – but will the ESFA follow? - FE Week Finally…a new year resolution you can achieve! - National Numeracy Cambridge University with growing 'cancel culture' named one of the worst for free speech - Express Cambridge University Press and Jisc reach UK-wide flexible open access read and publish agreement - Jisc Scottish Higher and Advanced Higher exams cancellation supported by voters - Scotsman Universities across UK making strides in tackling grade inflation - Universities UK Has there really been a decline in happiness among young people in the UK? - BERA Rent reform would benefit students, universities and communities too - Wonkhe What’s next for universities tackling grade inflation? - Wonkhe It’s time to bake in a batch of grade inflation for generation Covid - Wonkhe What about the students who didn’t cheat after all? - Wonkhe What does the latest attendance data tell us about the scale of the Covid problem? - Schools Week Coronavirus: Unclean classrooms are a Covid risk, warn teachers - Herald Scotland Colleges and universities in call for extra millions to plug deficits - Herald Scotland Cambridge University plunges into 'red' category for free speech amid rise of 'cancel culture' - Telegraph Charity reveals record number of anti-Semitic incidents at universities - Mail UK v-cs report ‘significant progress’ on tackling grade inflation - Times Higher Education | THE People of the year: who mattered in higher education in 2020 - Times Higher Education | THE Scores of antisemitic incidents on UK campuses, says charity - Times Higher Education | THE Investment in digital transformation will reap a rich dividend - Times Higher Education | THE Jewish student says he was interrogated after complaining about Warwick lecturer - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Teachers are less at risk than other workers - Times Scotland: Teacher numbers can be feast or famine, says education secretary John Swinney - Times Ireland: We need an ‘all-island’ approach to education after Brexit, Sinn Féin says - Times Million+ placements toolkit guidance - UCET