News archive for 19th November 2020

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Glasgow Education Chief: Children’s sleepovers are ‘spreading Covid’ in schools - Scotsman Coronavirus Scotland: Mass testing of students in Scotland to begin on November 30 - Herald Scotland Nearly half of first-class degrees awarded by universities 'unexplained' - Telegraph ‘Honesty and action’ needed over Curriculum for Excellence, says Lord McConnell - Scotsman Number of university students getting first class degrees rises again as figure nearly doubles in last eight years - Mail Catch-up tutoring should happen in school by 'default' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Pretending it's all OK won't help anyone - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grade inflation remains an 'issue' in higher education - Times Educational Supplement | TES NTP reviews rule requiring pupils to receive online tutoring in school - Schools Week More than half of all schools in Wales have had coronavirus cases - Wales Online Quality checks in HE ‘being done on the cheap’, says thinktank - Times Higher Education | THE Grade inflation ‘brakes have been applied’ in England - Times Higher Education | THE Proportion of students getting first-class degrees rises by nearly 90% over eight years, OfS finds - Independent Education Committee  launches prison education inquiry - UK Parliament Statistics: destinations of key stage 4 and 16 to 18 (KS5) students - DfE Employer skills survey 2019: UK (excluding Scotland) findings - DfE Catch-up premium: coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Destinations: key stage 4 and 5 pupils: 2019 - DfE GCSEs 2021: Exam papers may be partly shown in advance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers demand weekly Covid rates dossier - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trusts quizzed over Covid cases in ‘urgent commission’ for education secretary - Schools Week NEET young people: 5 take-aways from today's data - Times Educational Supplement | TES Overseas students ‘would rather quarantine than defer’ - Times Higher Education | THE Proportion of students in England awarded first-class degrees soars - Guardian Toxic idea of male privilege is holding back the life chances of white working-class-boys - PoliticsHome Finalists announced for Jisc's award for effective use of digital technology in further education - Jisc Careers Hub making the difference in developing young people’s work readiness - Careers & Enterprise Company Package of support for students who have to defer their studies - DfE Education committee launches prison learning inquiry - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Homophobic and racist online bullying increasing, research warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Elusive quality: how should we evaluate higher education? - Social Market Foundation | SMF Developing a dynamic skills strategy - Training Journal Could PQA help Sutton Trust students? - Sutton Trust The year 2 phonics check – NAHT’s position and campaigning work - NAHT Retrieval mapping - Learning Scientists NAHT NI letter to governors (November 2020) - NAHT Turf wars, new providers and spending reviews – and how there are 118 fewer higher education providers in England than there were meant to be in 2020 - HEPI School exams don’t have to be fair – that’s official - HEPI STFC scoops major apprenticeship award - UKRI Russell Group analysis based on data from the OfS shows declining funding for undergraduate teaching - Russell Group The whole concept of inclusion is not fully embraced - Times Educational Supplement | TES College leaders and staff calls for mass Covid testing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are schools closing again in England? - Express University under pressure to change name to cut ties with anti-Semitic baron - Express Students going home for Xmas could see Covid cases surge, says study - Wales Online Rugby School raises £775,000 by auctioning rare first editions including a Shakespeare folio that sells for £48,000 - Mail First female CEO for Scottish teachers' regulatory body - Times Educational Supplement | TES St Andrews University to roll out mass covid testing for students before Christmas break - Scotsman Cut to anti-bullying funding in England for LGBTQ+ young people 'callous' - Guardian Oxford scientists say they will not rush to get Covid vaccine results by Christmas - Guardian Mary Bousted: The teaching profession feels abandoned - Times Educational Supplement | TES In schools, we see the extra harm Covid is doing to Britain's homeless children | Dani Worthington - Guardian Proportion of students awarded first-class degrees in England continues to rise - Mail Why not trust teachers and scrap next year's exams? - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs launch inquiry into prison education - FE Week Best tutoring practice for schools - Research Schools Network Revised KS1 literacy guidance: worth a look, even for experienced teachers - Research Schools Network Why grade inflation matters - Office for Students Analysis of degree classifications over time - changes in graduate attainment from 2010-11 to 2018-19 - Office for Students Why in-house CPD is making a comeback - for the better - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Nobody in their right mind' wants Ofsted in January - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrapping school anti-LGBT bullying cash 'callous' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour ‘got it wrong’ on scrapping Ofsted, says shadow schools minister - Schools Week If there's one good thing to emerge from lockdown, it's the virtual parents' evening - Telegraph Mass coronavirus testing in schools being considered in Wales - Wales Online ESFA reveals major cashflow problems at mega-college in Nottingham - FE Week Loneliness of students locked down in halls compounding mental health crisis, warns London GP - Evening Standard Tories defend £16bn military boost - weeks after failing to pay £20m for kids' food - Mirror As a teacher I need to be able to talk about racism without government meddling | Anonymous teacher - Guardian Mum scared to drop kids at school slams parents' 'free for all' scramble at gates - Mirror Jisc partners with Wiley to bring together a history of science archive - Jisc Do private schools make a difference to mental health? - BERA We need a collective insurance scheme to protect students - Wonkhe Raising the learning and teaching bar post-Covid - Wonkhe School LGBT bullying projects axed by government - BBC Sexual abuse at English and Welsh universities 'a public scandal' – study - Guardian UK master’s students’ satisfaction dipped after lockdown - Times Higher Education | THE GSM exit ‘shows need for insurance plan’ for stranded students - Times Higher Education | THE Firms shift towards wanting ‘work-ready’ graduates - Times Higher Education | THE Universities urged to better prepare students for jobs - Times Martyn Percy, dean of Oxford’s Christ Church college, steps aside after new complaint - Times Eton teacher Matthew Mowbray ‘groped boys in their rooms’ - Times