News archive for 4th November 2020

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'I'll stay but I'm not happy about it': Students on facing lockdown at university - Independent Secondary school pupils and staff in England must wear masks under new rules - Mail Gavin Williamson: The difference between now and March is that we are continuing to keep our schools open - Telegraph Ofsted inspections from January a 'daft and dozy' plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will UK schools close in lockdown? - Express Educating Greater Manchester: Love for ‘legend’ ex-head - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cash rewards fail to convince employers to take on trainees - Financial Times 'Mass exodus' of students expected ahead of lockdown, despite ministers' pleas to remain at university - Telegraph Covid-19: All pupils and staff must wear masks in secondary school corridors - BBC Anger as English secondary schools given last-minute rules on face coverings - Guardian Why the rank order contingency plan is flawed - Schools Week Why the PM’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee won’t work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour: Scrapping Union Learning Fund is ‘vindictive’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: No plan to introduce rotas, says government - Times Educational Supplement | TES Informal childcare guidance unclear on size of childcare bubbles - Nursery World Education plans from September 2020 - Ofsted Changes to statutory induction during national roll-out - DfE Education and childcare settings: New National Restrictions from 5 November 2020 - DfE Early career framework reforms: overview - DfE ESFA Update: 4 November 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Fears of universities going bust ‘reignited if students leave’ - Times Higher Education | THE Blended learning here to stay, say UK sector leaders - Times Higher Education | THE Secondary pupils and teachers ordered to wear face masks in school corridors - Mirror Kids over 11 must wear face masks in school corridors during second lockdown - The Sun Coronavirus: DfE publishes guidance for education and childcare settings ahead of second lockdown - Nursery World 'Plan for Jobs' skills and employment programmes: information for employers - Education & Skills Funding Agency New guidance for schools, colleges and early years - DfE Higher education: reopening buildings and campuses - DfE Apprenticeship assessment flexibilities extended - FE Week New national restrictions for schools - National Education Union Anti-social learning – the costs of Covid restrictions on students - Wonkhe Blended learning: a long-term shift in pedagogy - HEPI National Stress Awareness Day: Reducing anxiety in the face of the new normal - Ambition Institute Government needs to issue more robust measures to protect teachers - NASUWT ASCL response on lockdown guidance to schools - ASCL UCU and NUS issue joint statement calling on universities  to move online where possible for new national lockdown - UCU Government cash boost to Leeds children’s interactive storytelling experience - Leeds Beckett University School sixth-forms hit by 23 per cent real-terms cut in per-student funding - SecEd Concern at prospect of National Tutoring Programme caps - SecEd Lockdown: Ofsted updates Covid inspection guidance - SecEd 'Ridiculous' delay to Covid guidance lets schools down - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third Covid wave 'could cancel GCSE and A-level exams' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Frustration' at missing school rotas in Covid guidance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Enabling staff to adopt new forms of professional practice - Jisc Forget on-campus vs online: the future is blended, say universities - Jisc Lockdown: How government wants FE to remain open - Times Educational Supplement | TES Blended is preferred learning & teaching model in UK, survey finds - PIE News Councils sought for early years partnership to help disadvantaged children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Widening participation in HE: why it’s important to focus on ‘first generation’ students - IOE London Blog Survey to look at impact of furlough on childcare providers - Nursery World All secondaries must make masks mandatory by Monday - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private school funds 'shot to pieces', mergers expected - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE publishes FE Covid guidance for November lockdown - FE Week Face coverings mandatory in communal areas of all secondary schools - Schools Week Mass exodus of students returning to families before lockdown expected - Mail Extremely vulnerable teachers told work from home - Times Educational Supplement | TES PM: Catch-up 1:1 tutoring must continue after Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES The answer to 2020’s major questions? Skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE signals intent for National Tutoring Programme to continue beyond this year - Schools Week Coronavirus lockdown: Let's face reality – schools will end up closing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson’s ‘delusion’ on DfE pupil help is ridiculed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson refuses to extend free schools meals over the Christmas break - Mirror Teachers feel safer when pupils wear face masks, says head of first London school to make face-coverings compulsory - Evening Standard Why we need to make the SQA listen to teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Ofqual want to make exams less 'daunting' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scots schools not 'untouchable', says Nicola Sturgeon - Scotsman Schools not ‘untouchable’ but goal is to keep them open - Times Educational Supplement | TES Forcing trainees on schools idea played down by DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities are set to host more seminars and lectures online and less face-to-face teaching even after the Covid pandemic - Mail Mass exodus of students is expected as lockdown starts - BBC Safety seating plan for N.Ireland school tests - BBC Campaign calls on schools to stop using supply agencies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid ‘could blow £12 billion hole in English student funding’ - Times Higher Education | THE Holograms and ‘labs in a box’ deployed to teach science online - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus: Schools given new rules on masks - Times Lessons for Liverpool in the mass testing of Cambridge students - Times Coronavirus: Universities told face-to-face teaching cuts stress on students - Times Scottish hate crime bill: Parents face prosecution if ‘insulting remarks’ are repeated in playground - Times Student lockdown: Should I stay or should I go? - BBC National roll-out of the Early Career Framework and changes to statutory induction arrangements - UCET