News archive for 16th November 2020

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Scotland's largest teaching union issues strike warning and demands return to part-time schooling - Telegraph Early Career Researchers honoured in Elsevier awards ceremony - Fulbright Commission Banned: Metal-throwing teacher called students 'scum' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children’s mental health improved after return to school, Oxford University study finds - Telegraph Union says teachers in England being told to pause Covid app in school - Guardian Government set to create ‘college business centres’ - FE Week Covid: Heads face fivefold increase in teaching time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is the 'decade of neglect' finally over? - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE and A-Level Exams 2021: Three lessons the government needs to learn if it wants to avoid the failures of 2020 - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth English universities plan charter to tackle ‘low-quality’ courses - Times Higher Education | THE Nicola Sturgeon: Schools will stay open in Level 4 areas - Scotsman Learning in a Pandemic: Closing the digital skills gap during COVID-19 - Nesta Number of teens dieting rises by a third in 10 years, study suggests - Telegraph Over 770 academics condemn UKRI treatment of PhD students - UCU Sturgeon: No school closures for Level 4 councils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reviewing and proving the value of degrees - Wonkhe Let’s change the way we think about school improvement - NAHT Exams 2021: Why we need to quickly accept that not everyone will be happy next summer - ASCL Pandemic 'fuelling numbers of children out of school' - BBC Education and childcare settings: national restrictions from 5 November 2020 - DfE Providing school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak - DfE TALIS video study: teaching of mathematics in secondary schools - DfE Most parents 'happy with school during Covid pandemic' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heriot-Watt on the key role for universities in the Covid recovery - Scotsman Students could soon be applying for university post-A-levels - Telegraph Swinney avoids 'milk snatcher' moniker, but will Boris? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Charity announced as latest National Tutoring Programme provider - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK unites for Anti-Bullying Week - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Millions of children ‘missing out on full-time education’, LGA warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now One in five children in England and Wales experienced online bullying in 2019 - Guardian Learning about teaching: new findings from the Global Teacher InSights Policy Report - Education Development Trust | EDT New resources for tackling scientific misconceptions - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF IFS Fellows Arun Advani and Claire Crawford appointed to Department of Education's skills and productivity board - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS UK universities come together to drive down price of digital archival collections - Jisc Full sick pay is essential to Covid safety - SecEd Husband and wife principals launch Christmas campaign - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities determined to review and prove value of degrees - Universities UK Instructions to disable Test and Trace app risk lives - NASUWT Looking back on HEPI’s first 18 years - HEPI How can I prove the effect of Covid catch-up cash? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish teachers asked about Covid strike - BBC University students feel bullied, tricked and imprisoned. They're right to protest | Owen Jones - Guardian Students in areas hit the hardest by coronavirus may be given higher marks - Mail Telling teachers to disable Covid app ‘risking lives’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Black student held against wall by security guards at Manchester University halls of residence - Times Scots schools 'must stay open' in Level 4 lockdown - Scotsman New book explores the impact of class size on pupils and teachers - IOE London Blog Independent schools will still be holding exams in Wales - Wales Online No one has the answers – we're in a state of turmoil - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scots teachers' industrial action threat if their areas are shifted to tier four - Herald Scotland Covid-19 has changed the landscape of bullying - Times Educational Supplement | TES Movers and Shakers: Edition 333 - FE Week Who would benefit from reimbursing tuition fees? - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS GCSEs should be scrapped next year and replaced with school-based assessments because of Covid - Mail Half of schools in England drop nativity plays because of Covid - Guardian Seizing upon SEL with structured talk - Research Schools Network Talk matters - Research Schools Network Rethinking class size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning - BERA Reviewing Universities UK’s Fair Admissions Review - Wonkhe Research in Covid-19 – ideas for resilience and response - Wonkhe A US-style application system isn’t everything it seems - Wonkhe Universities can be at the centre of a connected knowledge economy - Wonkhe How government and universities can work together to avoid a retention crisis - Wonkhe Students want universities to embrace technology - Wonkhe Lifetime skills guarantee: Fresh setback to list of free level 3 quals - FE Week The government must consult on a very detailed plan for the national skills fund - FE Week Coronavirus in schools. How much more is out there? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents say pandemic has left children feeling 'dirty' and comparing school experience 'to prison' - Herald Scotland Northern schools rank higher in 'fairer' league tables - Times Educational Supplement | TES 1 in 3 children have been bullied during pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Manchester University student 'traumatised' by 'racial profiling' incident - BBC Schools that rise most in 'fairer' rankings revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: New call to scrap exams for teacher grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cut summer holidays by two weeks to give disadvantaged children time for extra tuition, ministers told - Telegraph Universities may ‘struggle’ to run mass Covid tests, v-cs warn - Times Higher Education | THE 6:00 p.m. - Westminster Hall debate on e-petitions relating to university tuition fees - Accountability Hearings Teaching leaders call for GCSEs to be axed next year - Times Ireland: Over half of pupils think coming out as LGBT would lead to bullying, Belong To survey finds - Times Scrap next year’s GCSEs and replace them with school based assessment, Girls' School Association chief says - Telegraph