News archive for 12th November 2020

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Students occupy University of Manchester building in protest over lockdown tuition fees - Mirror The great student evacuation: what it means for students, parents, and universities - Telegraph Pressure to close schools as teacher Covid cases rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES The winners of the BAME Apprenticeship Awards 2020 - FE Week Employability: Every student needs these 8 skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union calls on government to invest more in green skills - UCU UCU response to Hepi report on graduate gender pay gap - UCU UKRI must provide more support to PhD students hit hard by Covid, says UCU - UCU Dispatches from the classroom: Metacognition in English - Research Schools Network Different, but valuable - HEPI Westminster Roundup: The impact of Covid-19 on education - NFER The future of teaching, learning, assessment and qualifications in a post-covid-19 world - Independent Head Training providers must 'better embrace' online learning during lockdown - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children, young people and COVID-19… have we done enough? - Education matters MPs to debate petitions relating to university tuition fees - UK Parliament Early entry into GCSE exams in England - DfE Actions for FE colleges and providers during the coronavirus outbreak - DfE Anger as UKRI rules out blanket funding extension for PhDs - Times Higher Education | THE Traineeships: information for employers and education providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Providing apprenticeships during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted announces new early years inspection arrangements - Ofsted UK government launches taskforce to support drive for 2 million green jobs by 2030 - DfE Interactive GCSE and A level data visualisations updated - Ofqual Students on rent strike occupy University of Manchester building - Independent UK Youth announces £2m fund to support struggling youth work sector - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UCL researchers win ESRC Impact Award for their work on young people’s mental health - IOE London Blog Beacon Awards 2020/21 commended colleges announced - AoC | Association of Colleges SMF report calls for new package on adult skills - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges New Sutton Trust survey shows Covid-19 is continuing to have an impact on apprentices - Sutton Trust Covid unemployed need big new training package - Social Market Foundation | SMF Six in ten UK adults wish they’d kept up the foreign language they studied at school - British Council Livability Nash College welcomed as a Society for Education and Training Corporate Partner - Education & Training Foundation New progress for T Levels at Cheshire College - Education & Training Foundation | ETF (Adult) education, education, education - Social Market Foundation | SMF Using diagnostic assessments to dig deeper into children’s reading - Research Schools Network Pay driving out 'pissed off' older teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unemployment during the pandemic: reasons for optimism - Times Educational Supplement | TES Digest #149: Mind-wandering - Learning Scientists Learning loss: the National Tutoring Programme for England is a valuable step – but may not go far enough - The Conversation Practitioners want play and characteristics of effective learning in alternative EYFS guidance - Nursery World Taking exams away from GCSE students prepares them poorly for the future - Telegraph Ofsted: Early years inspections to move to 'six-year window' - Nursery World Most children get more early-years hours, despite Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Welsh unis say testing all students for Covid before Xmas impossible - Wales Online Maths school given go-ahead for post-16s in Yorkshire - Times Educational Supplement | TES Politicians, try spending a day in teachers' shoes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bonus for hiring apprentices fails to stem cull in UK training schemes - Financial Times Top Edinburgh theologian appointed to Cambridge's oldest professorship - Scotsman The 2010 student protests were vilified – but their warnings of austerity Britain were proved right | Dan Hancox - Guardian Schools' fury as Edenred FSM voucher firm wins gong - Times Educational Supplement | TES Careers education fundamental for Covid recovery - Careers & Enterprise Company DfE warning over early GCSE entries as research shows some pupils do worse - Schools Week Ofqual ‘chose to carry on’ despite concerns over exam results algorithm, says committee chair - Independent A precious chance to personalise education for a digital age - Financial Times Why oversubscribed sixth forms need capital funding now - Times Educational Supplement | TES 12 key messages from experts who explored SQA debacle - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Lower grades for more than 40,000 early entries - Times Educational Supplement | TES No reason for Scottish teachers to switch off Covid app, says Nicola Sturgeon - Scotsman Students told to 'evacuate' for Christmas don't know if they'll be back - HuffPost New report finds focus on graduate pay as an indicator of institutional quality is sexist in its implications and effects - HEPI Report: Mind the (Graduate Gender Pay) Gap - HEPI Increase of University staff paid more than £100k despite demanding £2bn coronavirus bailout - Telegraph Give children in custody broader help to tackle their needs - UK Parliament Group hits out at 'fat cat' Scots university salaries as appeals are made for Covid bailout - Herald Scotland Public engagement in a pandemic – lessons from Being Human - Wonkhe Universities may underestimate the impact of cyber attacks - Wonkhe Male students from elite universities get £4,000 more pay than females in their first jobs - Mail Coronavirus: Careers advice is crucial post-Covid, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government careers agency fails to persuade majority of schools to engage with FE and HE - FE Week Locked-down students had less time in class but felt more engaged - Times Higher Education | THE Government response to Augar still expected with spending review - Times Higher Education | THE Covid: Students warned to behave before Christmas break - Times Top universities have biggest gender pay gap among new graduates - Times Traffic bans outside schools rise fourfold - Times Cancelling exams in Wales disguises its real problems - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Students will be swabbed with tests rejected by NHS - Times Scotland: Future of Glasgow University Union up for debate - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Highers could be cancelled as late as February, says John Swinney - Times Hundreds of university staff that ‘locked up’ students during coronavirus crisis still bagging £100k pay-cheques - The Sun Elite universities urged to investigate graduate gender pay gap - Times Higher Education | THE