News archive for 23rd November 2020

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72% of staff against 'pointless' autumn phonics check - Times Educational Supplement | TES England schools won't be ordered to shut early for Christmas to protect elderly - Mirror Towards an anti-racist curriculum: Step 2. “Usualise diversity” - Headguruteacher Entire Powys high school to shut for two weeks due to coronavirus - Wales Online Schools forced to U-turn on ending term a week early to 'protect family time' over Christmas - Telegraph Academies 'have no freedoms' when it comes to Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Help 'dedicated and desperate' teachers, ministers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: No closing early for Xmas, No 10 tells schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: Masks compulsory in Welsh schools communal areas - BBC Covid-19 winter plan: What does it mean for schools? - Schools Week Teach First's community are invaluable - they helped launch my social enterprise - Teach First Russell Group response to Covid-19 vaccine breakthrough - Russell Group NEU Cymru welcomes face coverings ‘should’ be worn in school communal areas - National Education Union Coronavirus and exams: general qualifications updates - NAHT Academics questioned on Scottish university research - UK Parliament Research into the Sawtooth Effect published - Ofqual New global COVID-19 vaccine announced today - UKRI Don’t bank on promised UK research spending increases - Times Higher Education | THE Most returning students’ campuses to get pre-Christmas Covid tests - Times Higher Education | THE 1 in 10 teachers 'not very' confident with technology - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Why we're doing mass testing on campus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Council moving teaching online for sake of Xmas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two Covid tests for students in England before quick Christmas exit - BBC Your background doesn't matter. If you want to teach and make a difference, go for it - Telegraph Report highlights skills shortages in the rail industry - Unionlearn Home education rise leaving children’s services ‘stretched’, ADCS warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children in mental health hospitals at risk of serious rights violations, charity warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Practical strategies for embedding high-quality Social and Emotional Learning skills - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF More than three quarters of HE teaching staff want to use technology in their teaching - Jisc Minister backs college teacher skills to help pandemic-proof digital education - Jisc Derby College get into the festive spirit with their Twelve Stages of Inclusion - Education & Training Foundation Weston College explore the impact their SEND approaches have on learners’ progress - Education & Training Foundation Brexit: Act now to prevent skills gaps in the workforce - Training Journal Questioning questioning - UKEdChat Exploring our emotions through art - Research Schools Network Philosophy for children - Research Schools Network New research network to improve outcomes for children in Alternative Provision education - Leeds Beckett University Support public services and invest in infrastructure to build back better, says MillionPlus - MillionPlus Covid-19 workload and health and safety pressures risk damaging Welsh education - NASUWT Teachers say Scottish Government failing to fully support school safety - NASUWT Two thirds of Northern Ireland teachers have colleagues with Covid-19 symptoms - NASUWT Five questions currently on the minds of university recruitment teams - HEPI GEM Report Fellowship 2021 – call for proposals - UKFIET | Education and Development Forum Did students and universities squeeze through the pitfalls of the pandemic? - Wonkhe Universities must address the oversupply of courses - Wonkhe Nursery schools need long-term funding resolution to survive, MPs warn Treasury - Nursery World November update: School attendance rates across the UK since full reopening - EPI International students choices driven by availability of face-to-face teaching - PIE News Pearson launches first-of-its-kind Gender Equality Guidelines to tackle gender stereotyping in education - Pearson Parents’ outrage as school charges pupils £1 each for paper face masks - The Sun New national rules for masks in schools as Welsh Government strengthens guidance - Wales Online 'Clear support' for industrial action over Covid safety - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE remote learning advice 'unhelpful', say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: Why the training rules must change - Times Educational Supplement | TES Enrolment jumps in vocational courses as UK workers look to retrain - Financial Times Guidelines launched to flip gender stereotypes in school resources and exams - Mail What does 'Covid-safe' mean at different schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Global learning: is ‘Teaching at the Right Level’ a good buy? - IOE London Blog Covid: DfE claims MAT backing down on ending term early - Times Educational Supplement | TES Urgent warning over 'misleading' teacher Covid data - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10 reasons why teachers deserve a pay rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trust ordered to scrap extended Christmas holiday, or face ‘action’ from ministers - Schools Week Wales wide plan for remote learning is needed, say teachers - Wales Online The flaw at the heart of the National Tutoring Programme - Telegraph Comparable outcomes won’t help all pupils in 2021, admits Ofqual - Schools Week Why live virtual school tours are here to stay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers feel underappreciated like never before - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales: 'Super-spreader' parties force 13 schools to close after causing big coronavirus rise - Mirror You have the lives of school staff in your hands - Times Educational Supplement | TES 38% rise in elective home education, and ‘stretched’ councils can’t keep track - Schools Week Gavin Williamson: We owe everyone working in schools an enormous debt - Express Movers and Shakers: Edition 334 - FE Week Thousands call for schools to close two weeks early for Christmas to protect elderly - Mirror Neglect of white working class children in the UK is a national disgrace - Express 'You need someone on the inside': the state school students helping peers into Oxbridge - Guardian WorldSkills: UK beats China in first virtual pressure test - FE Week Ofqual must work closely with employers for its bigger role in apprenticeships - FE Week UKRI is the wrong target for anger at lack of funding support for PGRs - Wonkhe To improve quality assessment we should bring back subject review - Wonkhe Covid fears prompt 38% rise in parents home educating - BBC Research: How to boost higher technical qualifications - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK Arpa ‘would be laughing stock’ if led by Cummings - Times Higher Education | THE Majority of schools serving poorest pupils lack laptops for study at home - Mail Teachers warn of digital divide making it impossible to teach most deprived kids - Mirror 4 of 5 most deprived schools don’t have devices for home-learning - Schools Week Education of poorest pupils in England 'suffers most during Covid isolation' - Guardian School books turn over a new leaf and strip out stereotypes - Times Scotland: Dozens of St Andrews students complain of racism - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: ‘Children have been left growing up in a world full of fear’ - Times