News archive for 20th November 2020

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Exams must take into account regional learning loss, ministers warned - Telegraph Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 20 November 2020 - Education Eye Trust closing schools week early to protect teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Elective education key issues examined by Education Committee - UK Parliament How employers are making the most of apprenticeship incentives - Education & Skills Funding Agency How employers are benefitting from the Kickstart Scheme - Education & Skills Funding Agency Laptops, tablets and 4G wireless routers provided during coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Teaching school hubs - DfE Skills Advisory Panels - DfE Examining the London advantage in attainment: evidence from LSYPE - DfE Trad v prog debate 'tired' and 'dogmatic', says Mat CEO - Times Educational Supplement | TES How I felt about Wilshaw's latest swipe at FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy trust’s 15 schools to close one week early for Xmas to ‘protect precious family time together’ - Schools Week Academy trust closes schools early for Christmas - BBC University of Bristol to take unpaid rent during strike out of students’ bursaries - Independent High levels of serious mental health difficulties among 17-year-olds - IOE London Blog Deliberative decision-making promotes positive psychological outcomes for autistic adolescents - IOE London Blog Action research: how can we turn around our students’ experiences in the classroom so they reflect the humanistic values we believe in? - IOE London Blog England leads way on access to selective universities, but lessons to learn from other countries - Sutton Trust Questions raised over data on teachers with Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Widening access across the world - Sutton Trust Podcast: GCSEs 2021 options and 'saving' Christmas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Close schools for 2 weeks to save Christmas, say 22K - Times Educational Supplement | TES Improving secondary literacy with explicit teaching - Research Schools Network Parental engagement: What have we done at Huntington School - Research Schools Network Big data and the age of the algorithm - UKEdChat Being the best at getting better - NAHT ASCL responds to reports of public sector pay freeze - ASCL Saving lives through the power of education - AoC | Association of Colleges Fury as government policy leads to staff sack threat at Covid hit Wiltshire College - UCU PQA: examining pre-existing systems and if they fit the UK context - HEPI Universities' response to Covid-19 – autumn update 2 - Russell Group AELP response to ‘The English College of the Future’ report - AELP Teachers accuse Scottish Government of showing a 'total lack of empathy' around Covid-19 fears - Scotsman Prestigious £12,000-a-term public school apologises over its handling of paedophile teachers - Mail NEU launches research on 'a sense of belonging' and its role in positive learning and behaviour - National Education Union NEU comment on a possible private sector pay cap - National Education Union Latest ONS school infection rate figures - National Education Union Covid-19 ‘having a devastating impact on children’s rights’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Why cutting term short isn't the way to save Christmas - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 30,000 pupils absent as a result of Covid-19 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who drank and exposed breasts at prom - Times Educational Supplement | TES Climate change: How to become a 'net-zero' college - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are skills shortages in the UK construction industry affecting construction costs? - Edge Foundation Hundreds of pupils in Cardiff told to self isolate this week - Wales Online DfE denies it withholds laptops on form-filling grounds - Schools Week Tories poised to break pledge to pay all teachers at least £30,000 a year - Mirror Birmingham becomes first university to lower 2021 entry requirements - Guardian Tiered Covid action an almighty headache for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU: ESFA loan conditions lead to unfair job losses - Times Educational Supplement | TES School year group told to stay at home after coronavirus case - Wales Online School pupils only age group with rising Covid rates - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10 Covid changes that could be here to stay - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Morally bankrupt and a betrayal’: Teachers and police groups react as Sunak expected to announce public sector pay freeze - Independent Parents worried about Covid forced to home-educate or face fines - Guardian Let’s not kill off the small specialist, local provider in the pursuit of the Amazon model - FE Week The truth is – college leaders can’t agree on what is best for their future - FE Week Why college networks might be a step in the right direction - FE Week This is a compelling vision that should be reflected in the forthcoming white paper - FE Week Union accused of breaking rules over ‘political’ election ad - Schools Week Schools advised to ‘reallocate’ 4G routers for children in greatest need - Schools Week Vodafone slammed for excluding college students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid hotspot school attendance down to 65% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Curriculum needs overhaul, says former first minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pay freeze would be 'final straw' for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adult education budget tender delayed again - FE Week Pay freeze would be ‘final straw’ for teachers and leaders, say unions - Schools Week This crackdown on Mickey Mouse courses at university is well timed - Telegraph Profile: Ruth Spellman – a champion of lifelong learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA to audit university apprenticeships, from April - FE Week Teacher absence spike forces ‘tipping point’ closures - Schools Week Is going to university actually worth it — and who should decide? - City AM Kate Green: Teachers 'need an end to joyless curriculum' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The sectors excluded from PM’s new ‘lifetime skills guarantee’ revealed - FE Week You can't close schools, health chiefs told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scots teachers' safety strike warning as Covid positive pupil numbers soar tenfold in just six weeks - Herald Scotland Grade inflation slows, but what is really going on? - Wonkhe How to make progress on anti-Black racism on campus - Wonkhe The market in academic ebooks needs to change - Wonkhe Podcast: Mickey mouse, international, student protection, Cummings going - Wonkhe EU students still want to come to the UK to study - Wonkhe A quarter of teenagers have self-harmed and one in 15 have attempted suicide - Mail Young people in UK staying in education rather than seeking work - Financial Times Facebook's Instagram 'failed self-harm responsibilities' - BBC Boris Johnson announces £4billion fund to train people for 250,000 eco-jobs - The Sun UK presses ahead with REF in March 2021 after review - Times Higher Education | THE Post-qualification admissions: why now and what next for UK? - Times Higher Education | THE Appoint pro vice-chancellors for staff well-being, sector told - Times Higher Education | THE De Montfort University in Leicester urged by students to change name over earl’s antisemitism - Times Birmingham University is first to cut entry grades - Times Scotland: Labour’s Lord McConnell slates school reforms made by SNP - Times University of the West of Scotland bills students £10 to graduate online - Times Jack McConnell: Radical education rethink needed to give children hope - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Schools will be too cold to open in winter, unions warn - Times