News archive for 7th November 2020

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Kids in post-Covid Britain to get new financial schooling thanks to Martin Lewis-backed charity - Mirror Liverpool's mass testing for Covid-19 to be extended to secondary school pupils - Mirror Sales of white poppies quadruple in schools amid calls for re-evaluation of Britain's past - Telegraph Yorkshire & The Humber TUC run just transition training - Unionlearn Jill Biden: From teacher to US first lady - BBC Usdaw Learning Curve develops English and maths skills - Unionlearn Donald uses Value My Skills to help older workers across Birmingham - Unionlearn To combat racial inequality, university classrooms must be more inclusive - Times Higher Education | THE University World News 07/11/2020 - University World News Does teacher training make you a bad teacher? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers disagree with union leadership over closing of schools, new poll reveals - Telegraph Thinking about thinking: blog round-up - Teacherhead Accountability - The Learning Spy Addressing the balance - UKEdChat I’m in no doubt about how to improve our skills education after visiting WorldSkills - FE Week Degrees of mobility: access, participation, and the ‘levelling up’ agenda - HEPI Levelling up skills after coronavirus: The role of trade unions and social partnership in workforce training - Learning & Work Institute What should you do if a student refuses to wear a mask? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rethink cut to Union Learning Fund and work with unions to level up skills after coronavirus - Learning & Work Institute Time to 'stop pretending' about problems in Scots schools - Scotsman Birmingham provider drops adult education budget high court fight - FE Week Private suppliers tout ‘rapid’ Covid tests to schools for £450 a box - Schools Week Concerns over Scots school social distancing as pupil absences due to Covid treble in 12 days - Herald Scotland Plan B ready if GCSEs are halted again next summer - Times Scotland becomes first part of UK to ban smacking - BBC Union Learning Fund: The government must U-turn - Times Educational Supplement | TES