News archive for 6th November 2020

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 6 November 2020 - Education Eye Headteacher's message to parents scared to send children to school - Wales Online Cambridge college to remove memorial and any 'explicit celebration' of major benefactor due to slavery links - Telegraph School named after slaver Colston votes to lose link - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: Plan B for GCSEs and new school Covid guidance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers no more likely than other key workers to get Covid, says ONS - Guardian One in five schools shun May’s mental health scheme - Schools Week Manchester University: 'It doesn't feel like we're at uni' - BBC Large redundancies planned at college which took over Hadlow Group campuses - FE Week Infection rates in schools and colleges - National Education Union Bristol girls' school named in honour of slave trader Edward Colston rebrands itself Montpelier High School - Mail Meet Helena Good: Tes FE's teacher of the year - Times Educational Supplement | TES ONS data on covid infection in schools: what you need to know - Schools Week Early Career Framework: How can we make sure new teachers get the best possible support? - IOE London Blog Youth violence response based on race, class and gender stereotypes, young people say - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Some schools are facing shutting their doors because of staff shortages in the second lockdown - PoliticsHome Colleges grapple with exam costs as GCSE resit students excluded from government’s support - AoC | Association of Colleges Teaching through a global pandemic - Sutton Trust Offshore partnerships help drive international student enrolments in the UK - British Council Attention is the gateway to cognition - Research Schools Network Big Brother is not watching you! - UKEdChat SAGE says move teaching online. Again. - Wonkhe Ofsted: School leaders determined pupils won’t become 'the COVID generation' - Ofsted HMCI commentary: findings from visits in September - Ofsted National Apprenticeship Awards 2020 regional winners announced - Education & Skills Funding Agency Schools could be sending pupils home too readily amid pandemic - Ofsted chief - Mail Settling Durand dispute could hit ‘services for vulnerable children’ - Schools Week England campus lockdowns creating ‘perfect storm’ for stressed students - Guardian Anne Milton: 'Run skills competitions for over 25s' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why there is nothing 'remote' about online learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE ‘benchmark tests’ plan B for 2021 exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils in quarantine after outbreak at new Scots school Robert Burns Academy - Herald Scotland Face masks are a distraction from what really matters - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon announces funding to support students' mental health - Herald Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announces additional £1.3m for mental health funding for students across Scotland - Scotsman The show must go on: online resources to support delivery during lockdown 2.0 - FE Week Schools 'sending pupils home too readily', says Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rate of positive Covid tests among teachers revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four new EEF evaluation reports published - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Secretary of State for Education Gavin Williamson to address FE Summit - AoC | Association of Colleges SEND pupils told schools ‘can’t accommodate them’, claims Spielman - Schools Week Functional skills: clashes over apprenticeship decision - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Most out-of-school clubs can stay open in lockdown - Nursery World High school in Moray closed after Coronavirus outbreak - Scotsman NTP providers issued funding threat over speaking out amid conflict of interest and cap concerns - Schools Week Study staff, pastoral care, peer mentoring: spending the tuition fund - FE Week College running on emergency cash to sell campus - FE Week Free digital skills quals held up by Covid and Ofqual delays - FE Week 'Disheartened' BAME pupils are dropping out of GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits in maths and English up by over 50 per cent - Times Educational Supplement | TES Upskilling for the recovery - Learning & Work Institute GCSE and A-Level grade boundaries should be lowered next year to compensate for pandemic, Ofqual says - Mail The number of bids in ESFA’s traineeships tender revealed - FE Week How radical is the educational offer of the London Interdisciplinary School? - HEPI Teacher Covid safety grilling for government scientists - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE back-to-school help half a term late - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools wait for £50m in Covid costs - Schools Week College paid £3.5m dividend following Saudi venture exit - FE Week Schools must stay open and here’s how to achieve it - Schools Week University of Birmingham & KIP extend partnership - PIE News Do students understand their rights during the pandemic? - Wonkhe Podcast: Retention, lockdown two, skills and levelling up - Wonkhe The future of humanities research work and OA mongraphs - Wonkhe Anti-lockdown chaos as furious students pull down fence at 'final breaking point’ - Express Primary head apologises for blaming Bangladeshi parents for ‘spreading Covid by driving taxis and having home weddings’ - The Sun Manchester Uni students smash down new lockdown fences after halls were enclosed without warning ‘for security’ - The Sun Furious students tear down 'lockdown fences' and set off flares in protest - Mirror Alter A-levels and GCSEs to take into account lost learning, parents demand - Telegraph Sci-Hub ‘security risk’ claims irk open access advocates - Times Higher Education | THE One in six international students in UK start course overseas - Times Higher Education | THE Exam regulator calls for easier GCSEs and A-levels next year - Times Bullying rates in Ireland among the highest in Europe - Times