News archive for 24th November 2020

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Chancellor to announce new funding for skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Freezing pay would be 'a slap in the face' for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid leaves school staff 'scared for their life' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Crumbs: Spending review extends apprenticeship employer incentives by just two months - FE Week Profile: Matt Rooney, Principal, St Giles School - Schools Week It’s simple – adult education needs more funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fears allayed over threat to teaching standards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid school closure row: DfE 'overstepping the mark' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Collapse’ in secondary school attendance warning - BBC New publication launches to address anti-Semitism in schools - IOE London Blog Majority of Year 2 teachers do not think they should be doing the Phonics Screening Check - IOE London Blog Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March to 19 November 2020 - DfE Pop quiz - What’s the best way to start a lesson? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Covid catch-up tutoring scheme 'needs to last 3 years' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 35 hours? The case for an annual CPD entitlement - SecEd Chancellor prioritises jobs ahead of Spending Review - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Young people reveal the struggles of lockdown - and how they coped - The Conversation Is applying international standards to special collections worth the effort? - Jisc Research shows 'a sense of belonging' is important for pupils’ learning and behaviour - IOE London Blog Things fall apart… (the latest isolation data, plus hobbies, interventions and the primary curriculum) - Teacher Tapp Mum tells how son, 4, is struggling to speak as lockdown hits parents of disabled children - Metro Gavin Williamson unlawfully removed child safeguards in pandemic, court rules - Guardian NCFE and Collab Group announce new strategic partnership - Collab Group ASCL comment on Week 47 school attendance statistics - ASCL UCU says time has come for significant pay rise in further education - UCU Educators warn of Covid safety issues and lack of technology in prisons - UCU Strengthening the foundations for high-quality tutoring - Nesta More Than a Score research on phonics - National Education Union Around one in 10 state school pupils out of school for Covid-related reasons, latest figures show - Independent DfE expects teacher recruitment boost to be ‘short-lived’, despite slashing bursaries - Schools Week UK school closure chaos: Huge U-turn over plans to shut early for Christmas break - Express 'We don’t need GCSEs anymore,’ says growing ‘consensus’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Highbury College agrees merger partner - FE Week The rites of Christmas passage like Santa's Grotto are closed - and there's more to be lost - Telegraph Covid disruption gets worse for secondary schools - BBC Nearly three-quarters of secondary schools have pupils at home self-isolating - Mail Covid school rotas banned, as DfE ends tiers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spending review: Why teachers need a pay rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Desperate schools ‘clinging on’ as Covid ‘runs riot’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES New report highlights the benefits of the Union Learning Fund - Unionlearn School attendance plunges due to Covid as a fifth of secondary pupils stuck at home - Mirror Interview: Andrea Leadsom MP and Jo Churchill about progress on the Early Years Healthy Development Review - Nursery World Autumn phonics check ‘pointless’ in pandemic, most teachers say - Nursery World Nurseries say interim Ofsted visits during Covid are unfair - Nursery World Coronavirus: nursery group criticises confusion over staff isolation rules - Nursery World How we ditched data to measure what really matters - Times Educational Supplement | TES 3 in 4 secondaries hit by Covid cases within school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities must improve awareness and understanding of racial harassment and white privilege, guidance says - Independent Covid: 1 in 10 pupils now absent as attendance drops again - Schools Week Scotland: Glasgow and Fife areas hardest hit by Covid-19 school absences - Scotsman Nearly three in five support staff have seen Covid-19 outbreaks in school - Mail Kickstart Scheme – new information and resources for union reps - Unionlearn GCSE exams in Wales due to take place in January are scrapped - Wales Online BTEC Awards 2021 - Celebrating 10 years of the BTEC awards! (pdf) - FE Week Covid data shows big changes in year-on-year attendance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head teacher criticises new national mask-wearing rule for schools - Wales Online Beware the ‘tidy mind’ when considering funding below level 3 - FE Week Overruled: DfE’s sweeping Coronavirus powers force trust into early Christmas holiday U-turn - Schools Week Universities told to teach white privilege and 'allyship' in anti-racist training - HuffPost Report: Work & skills for the long-term unemployed - Learning & Work Institute Invest £5 billion in urgent plan to tackle coronavirus employment crisis - Learning & Work Institute Top tips for primary art - UKEdChat Universities UK calls for urgent action on racial harassment in higher education - Universities UK Report highlights lack of improvement in pay and employment conditions of school science technicians - NFER Why the pandemic is likely to produce a shift in academics’ pension arrangements - HEPI Evaluation of an immersive virtual learning environment for operator training in mechanical and plant engineering using video analysis - BERA For the student communities, is it time for alumni to step up? - Wonkhe Tackling racial harassment in higher education - Wonkhe How to promote staff wellbeing - Independent Head Charles Darwin's notebooks reported stolen from Cambridge University - Guardian The children missing education because they're homeless during lockdown - Telegraph Special educational needs support 'offered after exclusion' - BBC 'I was 17 but they said I was 28': Home Office age rulings cost young refugees an education - Guardian University challenges: can I have a tuition fee refund? - Guardian Scottish primary school first to take part in new environmental education programme - Scotsman Are lifelong learner accounts back on the cards? - FE Week Tests reveal 'dramatic' GCSE learning loss - Times Educational Supplement | TES A more accurate way of measuring the effect of computer games (podcast) - Guardian Early years providers in England to operate across all tiers when lockdown ends - EYE | Early Years Educator Leading day care provider calls for clarity over Covid-19 isolation measures - EYE | Early Years Educator Spending Review: Adult education courses not viable - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government support 'should include workers on furlough' - Times Educational Supplement | TES University leaders should be given anti-racist training on 'white privilege', new guidance says - Telegraph Universities must hold lessons in ‘white privilege’ under new proposals - The Sun Care system failing thousands of young people - Children's Commissioner - Mail Universities should confront 'white privilege' to step up the fight against discrimination - Mail AoC calls for adult funding boost ahead of spending review - FE Week One in five homeworking university staff ‘struggles to do job’ - Times Higher Education | THE UK v-cs ‘should take lead on tackling racial harassment’ - Times Higher Education | THE HE expansion critic ‘leads Treasury probe’ into university costs - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities perpetuate institutional racism, report says - Guardian Institutional racism ‘rife at universities’ - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Strike threat looms as third of teachers worry about safety - Times Major UK textbook publisher Pearson vows to 'flip harmful gender stereotypes' in its products - Mail Covid-19 and the classroom: Working in education during the coronavirus pandemic - UCET 9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into home education - Accountability Hearings