News archive for 5th November 2020

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A Levels and GCSEs ‘should be made easier next year because of Covid’ - The Sun Ofsted return may mean changes to school inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of Manchester students tear down fence put up around accommodation ‘with no prior warning’ - Independent Manchester students pull down lockdown fences around halls of residence - Guardian New lockdown: Manchester University students pull down campus fences - BBC Lockdown letdown: Union slams decision not to close colleges - FE Week Inspections without grades – Ofsted plots January comeback - Schools Week More than 2,000 coronavirus cases in Wales' schools - Wales Online Kate Green: Levy not delivering for young people - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE MFL spoken language assessment criteria and approach - Ofqual Letter from Glenys Stacey to Gavin Williamson, 5 November 2020 - Ofqual Nearly half of teachers in England worried about Covid safety - Guardian Financial future of SEND system is fragile, DfE admits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pulling together to maintain apprenticeship quality - FE Week National Numeracy CEO Sam Sims speaks at Learning and Work Institute panel - National Numeracy College resilience remains 'significant risk', says DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA exams delayed by two weeks in response to Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adult education: less focus on work-based skills needed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why digging a little deeper into educational research matters - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF DfE college guidance for England's national lockdown - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges No limit on size of informal 'childcare bubbles' amid second lockdown, DfE confirms - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sheffield City Council 'failed to educate a teenager with autism for years' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now University backs creation of pothole-busting robot - Public Technology National Tutoring Programme - Support for disadvantaged pupils - Research Schools Network Education Committee to hold accountability hearing with Ofsted - UK Parliament Apprenticeship flexibilities extended to support sector through second national lockdown - IfATE DfE: Teacher shortage remains 'high risk' to education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union calls on University of Nottingham to move all non-essential activity online as four week lockdown begins in England - UCU Covid ‘shines light on inappropriate' Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES The long-term impact of Covid-19 - HEPI Robust action needed to prevent Covid-19 spread in schools and colleges - NASUWT HE Provider Data: Finance – open data updated - HESA Technical breakthrough – the moral quandaries of the skills debate - Wonkhe Indie SAGE returns with a statement on the sector’s bleak midwinter - Wonkhe Teacher apologises after telling parents 'Bangladeshi community' weren't sticking to Covid-19 rules - Telegraph Primary head blames Bangladeshi families for Covid infections at her school - Mail Covid infection data for Welsh universities show case levels falling - Wales Online Only 1 in 3 teachers thinks Covid safety is adequate - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus staff and pupil absences: latest data - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual chief makes case for ‘more generous’ grades in 2021 and beyond - Schools Week Parents call for Taylor High School in Lanarkshire to shut as over 100 pupils and staff self-isolate - Herald Scotland GCSEs 2021: Covid means generous grading, says Ofqual - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: MFL 'one-off' speaking tests allowed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools in Gloucestershire warned of man with knife chasing pupils after ‘taking photos of them from white van’ - The Sun Williamson: Call to close schools ignores pupil impact - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Cardiff schools with new coronavirus cases this week - Wales Online I'm a teacher, and you're wrong to call us lazy - HuffPost GCSEs 2021: Teachers can use one-off tests for MFL speaking - Schools Week National lockdown rules: what schools need to know - Schools Week Some children should not attend school in lockdown - Express NEU to speak at Petitions Committee hearing on Black history and the curriculum - National Education Union Widened by the pandemic, how do we close the educational attainment gap for disadvantaged children? - PoliticsHome Don't delay: Invest in skills, innovation and infrastructure now to rebuild our economy - CBI Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty - BERA Coronavirus: Face masks become compulsory in secondary school corridors in England under lockdown rules - Independent Not everything is moving online - Wonkhe Universities should shake off our wariness about investment in digital - Wonkhe Imagining a more flexible post-pandemic university - Wonkhe Keeping schools open during coronavirus lockdown ‘is key for children at risk of anxiety’ - Evening Standard Gavin Williamson launches attack on teaching union as he says they are putting pupils' progress in jeopardy - Telegraph University ombudsman set to allow group complaints from students - Times Higher Education | THE Industry job cuts in pandemic ‘push postgraduates to academia’ - Times Higher Education | THE Giving universities lead on vocational HE ‘could pivot post-92s’ - Times Higher Education | THE Colleges and universities should collaborate not fight a ‘turf war’ - FE Week Council to pay teenage boy £20,000 for missed schooling - Mail Coronavirus in Scotland: keeping schools open ‘best for future health of pupils’ - Times