News archive for 1st November 2020

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Modern universities need to return to polytechnic roots and ditch 'low quality degrees' - Telegraph Call for skills training boost to combat rising UK unemployment - Financial Times Schools could have to close this winter to get Covid second wave under control - The Sun Are we in danger of becoming The Stepford Teachers? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hundreds of pupils told to self isolate over half term - Wales Online Armed police 'called to uni campus' in chaotic scenes after 'serious incident' - Mirror Second Welsh school to stay shut due to coronavirus outbreak - Wales Online How do you get staff to engage with KCSiE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: keeping England's schools open 'will lead to another lockdown' - Guardian Lockdown: Government resists calls to shut schools in England - BBC 'King of the North' Andy Burnham calls for schools to close for some of November - Mirror UK coronavirus: Gove says lockdown could be extended; Starmer rejects union calls to close schools - as it happened - Guardian Why we need to embrace ignorance and learn to love uncertainty - The Learning Spy Unions blasted for demanding children be turfed out of schools yet again - Express David Attenborough films should be mandatory in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could universities close again? The new Covid-19 lockdown rules for students in England - Telegraph Keir Starmer says schools must remain open in second Covid lockdown – video - Guardian Lockdown delay means keeping schools open now 'harder' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Schools must stay open', teachers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour leader Keir Starmer defies teaching unions to insist school must stay open during Noember - Mail 'I want to go home' – trapped students say they were lured to university for their cash - HuffPost Could schools close again? The new Covid-19 lockdown rules for England - Telegraph More Child-Time Project launched to help free up time in primary schools - UKEdChat The earliest study on retrieval practice - Teacher Toolkit Planning for disrupted learning: Go long; provide the tools - Teacherhead