News archive for 18th December 2020

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Bring back individual learning accounts, say influential MPs - FE Week ‘It felt awful to shatter their plans’: Schoolchildren and staff told to self-isolate over Christmas - Independent Asymptomatic testing in schools and colleges - DfE Guidance for schools: coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Responsibility for exams - DfE Inspectorates - urgent action needed at Rainsbrook - Ofsted Education Secretary selects preferred candidate for new Office for Students Chair - DfE Letter from Amanda Spielman to the Secretary of State for Justice about Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre - Ofsted Bullying scandal university blames ‘clerical error’ for changes to HR policy - Guardian Philip praises teachers for efforts during the year - Mail Data on COVID-19 visits: schools - Ofsted Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 18 December 2020 - Education Eye ‘A disaster in waiting’: Teachers desperately search for answers over school Covid testing in January amid fury over late notice - Independent Row as Boris Johnson ally lined up for top job at Office for Students - Guardian DfE staff offered £1k bonuses to work on school testing prep over Christmas - Schools Week Teaching union slams Government's 'undeliverable' plans for mass Covid-19 testing in schools from January - Mail Covid: unions say mass testing of England's pupils 'undeliverable' - Guardian 'Not sustainable': England's teachers on coping with Covid - Guardian Pupils missed up to 18 million days of school since November, analysis shows - Mirror Coronavirus and schools: LIVE 18/12 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid in Scotland: Pandemic keeps one in eight pupils out of school - Times - New New Horizons for research through adventurous projects - UKRI Metascience: the one idea that could revolutionise educational research? - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Why speaking matters - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Practitioners are urged to feed into the first draft of Birth to 5 Matters guidance - EYE | Early Years Educator The Doctor and the compound metric - Wonkhe Innovative research to tackle child sexual abuse - Cambridge Network Coronavirus information (updated) - Voice Did UK higher education institutions export more to China in 2019 than any other sector? - HEPI Mass Covid test plans for schools: what we know so far - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pathways and flexibility are key to supporting lifelong learning - Universities UK Education unions warn mass covid tests are undeliverable by the start of spring term - NASUWT Education unions warn mass Covid tests are undeliverable by start of spring term - ASCL Our response to the DfE's announcement on the ‘staggered return’ for secondary schools and colleges in January - NAHT Ensure the safe return to Scottish schools with a credible plan for mass testing - NASUWT The mystery of how (not) to do everything - UKEdChat From IQ tests and sperm banks to The Queen’s Gambit: a history of gifted children - The Conversation Chief Executive’s Letter: 10 ways the EEF supported teachers and disadvantaged pupils in 2020 - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF AoC warn that COVID testing demand is undeliverable by start of January - AoC | Association of Colleges Decision to revert to census-based funding in spring will impact on EY sector - Early Education Staggered return for England's secondary schools next term - BBC The free speech row at Cambridge will restrict, not expand, expression | Priyamvada Gopal and Gavan Titley - Guardian Season’s Greetings from Association of Colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges Growing inequality in job market risks widening disadvantage gap between children - London School of Economics | LSE Chair of exam regulator points to ‘very difficult summer’ in resignation - Public Technology Nurseries could face staffing shortages due to low attendance rates, research warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Urgent improvement notice issued over isolation of children at Rainsbrook STC - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Secondary schools to have staggered return in January - Independent Secondary schools to have staggered return in January - Independent Number of grades in England changed after appeal rises by 800 per cent, data shows - Independent Schoolkids to get daily Covid tests if classmates test positive - The Sun Podcast: Staggered starts and mass testing next term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers' Covid fears mount as schools remain open - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mass testing in schools: Everything you need to know - Schools Week Mass testing in schools on brink of collapse as unions back heads who refuse to take part - Telegraph Teachers will not have to test pupils for Covid-19 themselves, says schools minister Nick Gibb - Evening Standard Unions tell ministers mass testing plans are ‘inoperable’, and pledge to back schools who refuse - Schools Week Schools backed to refuse 'inoperable' mass testing plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unions tell ministers mass testing plans are ‘inoperable’, and pledge to back colleges who refuse - FE Week Guide to what's happening with schools in January - HuffPost Schools backed to refuse 'inoperable' mass testing plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unions warn schools must not be forced into 'inoperable' Covid testing plan - Mirror Coronavirus: We're in a ghost school with empty classrooms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why it's time for teachers to start saying 'no' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School mass testing plans 'undeliverable', warn heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why student mental health must be our priority in 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Joint union statement on lateral flow testing in schools and colleges - NAHT School head says teachers are 'literally broken' after being forced to work over the Christmas break - Mail Coronavirus: Warning nurseries could face shortage of qualified staff - Nursery World What did we learn from Nick Gibb about mass-testing in schools? - Schools Week Could schools close again if Covid-19 cases continue to rise? - Telegraph Curriculum is ‘stacked against the poorest in society’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers won't have to carry out mass tests, says Gibb - Times Educational Supplement | TES School improvements: 25 campus projects to benefit from £800m investment - Herald Scotland School staff 'broken' by England's late Covid test plan - BBC Keegan: '2021 will be an amazing year for colleges' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Volunteers to do schools coronavirus testing not teachers, says minister - Mirror Anger after head teachers told at last minute to delay reopening schools - Times Teachers will not be in charge of Covid testing in English schools, says minister - Guardian Podcast: Who are Tes Scotland's people of the year? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could universities close again? The new Covid-19 lockdown rules for students in England - Telegraph Schools find new ways to help their communities at a time of crisis - Schools Week When will schools go back after Christmas? - Express The pandemic is a chance to rethink education, not settle for online lectures | Nejat Anbarci and Angel Hernando-Veciana - Guardian International boarding school students face disruption around flights - PIE News Millions of school kids to get extra week at home after Christmas so rapid testing can start - Mirror The Covid-19 pandemic and the early years workforce: Staffing decisions in an uncertain environment - EPI The Glenys Stacey Q&A: ‘I think there’s a long backwash to this pandemic in education’ - Schools Week GCSEs: Warning 'fairer' exams will widen attainment gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why teachers have had the ‘hardest term ever' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How the DfE took teacher trolling to a whole new level - Times Educational Supplement | TES Glenys Stacey to chair Ofqual’s new ‘2021 committee’ to oversee next summer’s exams - Schools Week Coronavirus: Supply teachers ‘fear spreading Covid’ - Herald Scotland GCSEs: Warning 'fairer' exams will widen attainment gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: Brexit, OfS reset, UCAS figures, free speech - Wonkhe UKRI’s Healthy Ageing Challenge has a radical new way of getting funding to innovative researchers - Wonkhe Covid disrupts our academic identities, and that’s something we should embrace - Wonkhe Our days are numbered – how metrics are changing academic development - Wonkhe Ministers urged to ban tackling in schools rugby - Mail Covid-19 is threatening to unleash a pandemic of cheating - Times Higher Education | THE Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Unicef of ‘stunt’ for giving food parcels to London children - Times Sutton High School first to sign black hairstyles pledge - Times Scotland: Use tech to bring National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers out of the 19th century, say advisers - Times