News archive for 13th November 2020

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Concerns raised over rising school coronavirus absences in Scotland - Scotsman Tes Schools Awards 2020 winners announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 13 November 2020 - Education Eye Calls for GCSE and A-level grades to be set regionally this summer because of differing Covid levels - Mail Ministers confirm plans for major shake-up of university admissions - Mail England’s university admissions could face rethink - Financial Times Podcast: How can exams be fair with Covid in schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Change GCSEs 2021, say students 'drowning in anxiety' - Times Educational Supplement | TES University offers could be based on real exam results after predicted grades fiasco - Independent Secondary school pupils now playing a 'significantly higher' role in infecting households, Sage says - Telegraph University system 'breeds low aspiration and unfairness' and needs radical reform, Gavin Williamson says - Telegraph Schools are to blame for more than a thousand outbreaks of coronavirus since they reopened in September - Mail Union warns over industrial action if teachers feel unsafe - Herald Scotland University staff urge probe into e-book pricing 'scandal' - BBC Ministers plan swift reform of universities’ admissions system - Times University access: government announces reform plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students: Places to be awarded using actual grades - BBC Technical woes hinder Oxbridge entry tests - Schools Week Fears of 'isolation fatigue' if students quarantine before and after Christmas - Guardian DfE to consult on post-qualification admissions as Williamson signals ‘radical change’ - Schools Week Careers Hubs connect young people in community with local opportunity and business - Careers & Enterprise Company Who owns admissions policy and where will it end up? The government just complicated the picture - Wonkhe Schools' 'potential role' in Covid second wave - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schoolchildren more likely to catch and spread virus than thought - Wales Online Fears over rise in Covid among pupils and teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Was Ofsted chief right on school Covid safety 'myths'? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Committee to hold roundtable on educational outcomes for white working-class pupils - UK Parliament Government plans for post-qualification university admissions - DfE Changes to external quality assurance for end-point assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Post-qualification university admissions - National Education Union Does class size matter? We’ll get a better answer if we rethink the debate - IOE London Blog LSE experts appointed to government skills and productivity board - London School of Economics | LSE Ofsted announces ‘six-year window’ for early years inspections - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The government should hang their heads in shame for their dereliction of duty to our nation’s children - PoliticsHome The Sutton Trust responds to government plans to review university admissions - Sutton Trust 100,000 college students still without suitable device for learning - AoC | Association of Colleges Learning ladders: The role of adult training in supporting progression from low pay - Learning & Work Institute 1,000 school coronavirus outbreaks - but experts don't know if they're fuelling second wave - Mirror ASCL responds to government university admissions review - ASCL ASCL responds to SAGE paper on schools - ASCL Plan to keep schools safe during pandemic - NASUWT UCU response to Westminster government university admissions system review - UCU UCU response to Universities UK admissions review - UCU Universities and pension bosses at loggerheads over USS future - Times Higher Education | THE Williamson confirms plan to consider post-qualification admissions - Times Higher Education | THE ONS data finds infection rates highest amongst secondary aged pupils - National Education Union Cutting back on retention measures now would be short-sighted - NFER Help us to get online courses to people who need them - Nesta Response to UUK Fair Admissions Review - Russell Group The London Interdisciplinary School seeks a rigorous and rich understanding of interdisciplinarity - HEPI FE podcast: Sixth-form college funding with James Kewin - Times Educational Supplement | TES Post-Covid curriculum - let's rip up the rule book - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education experts counter government attack on critical race theory - Guardian Holiday hunger providers demand ‘multi-year funding’ as DfE extends scheme - Schools Week Government to ‘examine possibility’ of collecting data on bubbles and ventilation - Schools Week Sage: More than 1,000 outbreaks in education settings - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do you measure student teacher relationships? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Child infection rate rise began when schools reopened, but direct link ‘unproven’, says SAGE - Schools Week Are we at the beginning – maybe – of the end of Covid? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools miss out as £2.2m cut from overhauled support scheme - Schools Week Home learning: Up to 100,000 students missing out because they don’t have suitable device - Independent We need all teachers to help stamp out racism - Times Educational Supplement | TES Timothy’s tweets raise questions over departmental impartiality - Schools Week ‘Significant strides’ made towards addressing safety concerns at Shrewsbury college, says FE Commissioner - FE Week Six members appointed to DfE’s skills and productivity board revealed - FE Week Former leader of bankrupt college returns to auditing firm - FE Week Digital poverty: Up to 100,000 learners without devices - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for A-level students to get HE offers post results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nature school for teachers where outdoor play is on the curriculum - Telegraph Pupils in hard-hit regions face exams ‘Covid penalty’ - Schools Week University students question if government mass-testing strategy for Christmas will work - HuffPost When can students travel home for Christmas? Government plans unveiled - Express No 10 has done a 'U-turn' on school meals: where does the term come from? - Guardian How can we make school a kinder place? - Teach First It’s not about ‘delay’, it’s about equality: The language of the summer-born admissions policy - BERA Universities UK publishes recommendations for reforms to make university admissions fairer and more transparent - Universities UK DfE to move army of cost-cutting advisers into FE - FE Week The Sutton Trust responds to new Universities UK review - Sutton Trust ASCL responds to UUK fair admissions review - ASCL Increasing in-work training and progression for frontline workers - Social Mobility Commission Learning ladders: adult training and progression out of low pay - Social Mobility Commission Rapid Covid tests a ‘game-changer’ for schools - Schools Week Mass Covid testing ‘a game changer’ for colleges - FE Week GCSE 2021 grading ‘needs to be regional’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus in England’s schools area by area - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in three schools hit by Covid this term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities UK sets out Third Way for the future of admissions - Wonkhe Podcast: Admissions reform, Demo 2010, Christmas - Wonkhe Weaning students off teaching is more important during a pandemic - Wonkhe University offers could be based on real exam results - BBC Schools must be rated on Covid catch-up, say lords - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils will get degree course offer after they receive their A-level results under new plan - Mail Just one in 10 vulnerable children attended school during lockdown - Mail Universities back post-qualification admissions but shoot down move to January start - Schools Week Academics back refusing funding over human rights concerns - Times Higher Education | THE V-cs back ‘post-qualification offers’ admissions system for UK - Times Higher Education | THE Reforming admissions offers opportunity to achieve parity between HE, FE and apprenticeships - FE Week Vice-chancellors back university offers going out after A-level results - Guardian Hostile states are growing threat to higher education - Times Universities support moves to offer places after results - Times Give Cambridge investor’s cash to descendants of slave trade - Times Scotland: University inquiry into sex abuse professor ‘won’t deter predators’ - Times Higher education admissions process set for radical shake-up - FE Week