News archive for 3rd November 2020

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Educating Greater Manchester school headteacher Drew Povey quits after suspension - Mirror Educating Greater Manchester, review: an intriguing primer for a looming career crisis - Telegraph Leftie unions launch strike app to help teachers shut classrooms in lockdown - The Sun Cambridge students told they will not be able to graduate if they leave during lockdown - Telegraph Union calls for universities to move teaching online - Independent School shuts as 15 staff have coronavirus and two are in hospital - Wales Online Winners of the 2020 Festival of Learning awards announced - FE Week The Festival of Learning winners 2020 revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of London cleaners win 10-year outsourcing battle - Guardian Chief medical officer: Teaching isn’t ‘high risk’ profession - Schools Week Covid: Teacher suspended after working with positive test - BBC Headteachers cancel after-school sports clubs despite ministers saying they should go ahead - Telegraph School safety is the latest outsourcing scandal. I feel a creeping despair | George Monbiot - Guardian Covid-19: Schools face £42m donations 'black hole' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Whitty: Teaching is not a high-risk profession - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tutoring demand outstrips forecasts by 500% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted SLC urges customers to join Direct Debit scheme at the end of their student loan - Student Loans Company Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March to 29 October 2020 (early years data only) - DfE National recognition for UK Atomic Energy Authority’s apprenticeship scheme with two awards - GOV.UK Could Education Technology do better for our children? - PoliticsHome The Sutton Trust responds to new Office for Students analysis - Sutton Trust New dedicated interactive data dashboards launched for Welsh HE - Jisc TfL deal protects free travel for u18s - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Innovative T Level Professional Development platform launched - Education & Training Foundation Examinations: The DfE is increasingly out of touch - SecEd IFS 2020 annual education spending report - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges The role of colleges in supporting lifelong learning - Learning & Work Institute Students must not return home ahead of lockdown in bid to save lives - Mail Teens who participate in extracurriculars, get less screen time, have better mental health - UKEdChat Colleges and universities face significant education spending shortfalls due to COVID-19 challenges - Nuffield Foundation Knowledge organisers: How did we get here? - Research Schools Network Pride, masks & auto-pilot teaching! - Teacher Tapp Student, 20, is forced to crowdfund to pay annual £20,000 international student fees - Mail Upcoming changes to teachers' pension - ASCL NASUWT backs call for stronger workplace Covid safety enforcement - NASUWT Union calls on vice-chancellors to move learning online - UCU Premium visa services for UK-bound students - PIE News Response to OfS analysis showing more students from the most underrepresented communities at university - Russell Group Let’s put the student voice at the heart of our International Education Strategy - HEPI Universities told to agree teaching mix with local health teams - Times Higher Education | THE Universities see ‘vastly different’ prestige at home and abroad - Times Higher Education | THE Michelle Donelan trades tiers for fears - Wonkhe Russell Group statement ahead of new Covid-19 national restrictions - Russell Group Inspiring Festival of Learning award winners showcase the power of learning to transform lives - Learning & Work Institute Survey results: Responding to the new - Research Schools Network GCSEs 2021: Using mocks 'would compound disadvantage' - Times Educational Supplement | TES UKRI launches Digital Innovation and Engagement fund for museums - UKRI Teaching 'surge' justifies 'radical' bursary cuts - DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Partnership to foster Canada-UK research collaboration - UKRI R&D investments spearhead push to block cyber security attacks - UKRI Why we shouldn't try to simplify education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Using mock exams as ‘back-ups’ could ‘compound’ disadvantage - Schools Week Institute invites awarding organisations to bid for new T levels - IfATE Highbury College appoints permanent chair as merger option explored - FE Week Should parents have to wear masks on the school site? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students defy guidance and race home before lockdown in England - Guardian WorldSkills competitions in China and France postponed by a year - FE Week Covid-19: WorldSkills Shanghai postponed until 2022 - Times Educational Supplement | TES What does a second lockdown mean for pregnant teachers? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools closure row deepens as teaching union launches strike app to help shut classrooms during lockdown - Evening Standard Just 1% of schools get Covid safety inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES 5 challenges schools face when a student tests positive - Times Educational Supplement | TES Response to IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England - Russell Group Marcus Rashford free school meals campaign inspires Northampton youth academy player - BBC Pupil attendance in schools could drop amid second lockdown, heads' union warns - Mail Teaching unions ramp up strike threats over demands to shut schools - Mail Eight more T Level qualifications put out to tender - FE Week The exploitation of full-time teachers is rife in FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'need new masks and rota guidance now' - Times Educational Supplement | TES New app to help teachers 'escalate' Covid disputes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trust: Schools with the highest achievement levels also had the highest levels of trust within their communities - The Learning Spy National Education Union steps up school closure campaign with new ‘escalation’ app - HuffPost Trial to test secondary teachers weekly for Covid-19 - Times Educational Supplement | TES The government pretended UK universities were immune to the virus. The fallout is exhausting | Jonathan Wolff - Guardian Coronavirus: 'Colleges need 3 things from government' - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCAS appoints first independent Chair to Board of Trustees - UCAS ASCL comment on IFS further education funding report - ASCL Understanding adult education in community contexts: The case of the homelessness sector - BERA Everyone needs a home. So why do we deny them to estranged students? - Wonkhe Almost a quarter of supply teachers forced to skimp on food - Times Educational Supplement | TES Supply teachers' Covid crisis revealed in 10 grim stats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reducing burden means smarter data collection, not less - Wonkhe NEU: Secondary schools must have week-on, week-off after lockdown until UK has 'fit for purpose' Test and Trace system - Mail College funding increases set to be 'eroded' by Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities and colleges face Covid funding shortfalls - BBC The open-access monograph conundrum can be solved - Times Higher Education | THE 9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence on left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds - Accountability Hearings Fears growing number of 16-19s will stretch budgets this year - FE Week Universities face funding shortfall caused by Covid and pensions, says IFS - Guardian Heads and teachers clash over closure after 50-fold coronavirus rise - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Staff still feel unsafe, say teachers’ unions - Times Disadvantaged students fall behind on access to top universities - Times Higher Education | THE