News archive for 25th November 2020

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Pupils could get an asterisk on their exam certificate to denote learning loss - Telegraph Winners of the National Apprenticeship Awards 2020 announced - FE Week National Apprenticeship Awards 2020 national winners unveiled - Education & Skills Funding Agency Striking Manchester University students win 30% rent reduction but vow to push for more - Mirror School asymptomatic testing pilots planned for January - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges shouldn't just be in HE for the cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES Curriculum sequencing for primary and secondary - DfE Children’s Minister keynote address on assistive technology - DfE 'Plan for Jobs' skills and employment programmes: information for employers - Education & Skills Funding Agency How employers are benefitting from sector-based work academies - Education & Skills Funding Agency How employers are benefitting from the Kickstart Scheme - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 25 November 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency £30k starting salary pledge remains, and 5 other things we learned from the spending review - Schools Week New chief for independent schools watchdog after revamp - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should decide on rotas not Whitehall, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Marking is the key driver of work stress among teachers - IOE London Blog Spending Review: What has Rishi Sunak pledged for children and young people? - CYPN | Children & Young People Now IPPR North respond to Spending Review 2020 - IPPR ERSA CEO responds to the Comprehensive Spending Review - ERSA Chancellor confirms extra £44m for early years - Early Education Spending Review 2020 - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges If all learning was online, many learners would be seriously disadvantaged - Jisc The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama wins Jisc-supported Guardian University Award - Jisc No two journeys: Accents and dialects - Sutton Trust Initial reaction from IFS researchers on Spending Review 2020 and OBR forecasts - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Safeguarding alert for thousands of home-educated children - SecEd DfE refuses to budge on rotas as infection rates rise among pupils - SecEd Staff wellbeing: Marking and lesson-planning identified as toxic workload - SecEd Marking is the key driver of work stress among teachers - Nuffield Foundation Redefining differentiation & joining the learning dots - UKEdChat Drivers of early career success for UK undergraduates: An analysis of graduate destinations surveys - Edge Foundation Response to Spending Review on 25 November - Learning & Work Institute Spending review a missed opportunity, says UCU - UCU NASUWT comments on Spending Review - NASUWT ASCL comment on Chancellor’s spending review announcement - ASCL Collab Group on Chancellor's Spending Review Statement - Collab Group Russell Group response to Spending Review 2020 - Russell Group Pay freeze and lack of investment “overwhelming disappointment” - Voice How to foster independent study in Key Stage 3 - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF AELP responds to the Chancellor’s Spending Review announcements on skills - AELP SFCA responds to Spending Review 2020 - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA NEU comment on UCL research on teacher workload - National Education Union ‘Adjust your projects’: UKRI’s announcement is a red flag for research - HEPI To boost social mobility, we must first accept that it does not yet exist - MediaFHE 4 ways assessment data can support remote learning - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Department for Education forces academy chain to cancel plans to end term early - EYE | Early Years Educator Spending Review 2020: Pay freeze is a body blow to education workers - National Education Union UK boosts research budget but fails to confirm £22 billion target - Times Higher Education | THE January university start ‘off the table’ for UK admissions reform - Times Higher Education | THE Spending Review: Early years sector to receive a rise of £44m in 2021-22 - Nursery World 'Disappointing' lack of Covid catch-up funds next year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chancellor announces new funding for skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sector ‘disappointed’ over Spending Review’s failure to do more for disadvantaged children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Spending review: National Tutoring Programme wins funding for a second year - Schools Week Chancellor announces new funding for skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Over 95% of ethnic minorities have been affected by racism, shows study - Metro Shakespeare in schools is needed more than ever (Chaucer and Mallory, too) - Telegraph Apprentice minimum wage to rise again in April 2021 - FE Week Pay freeze a ‘body blow’ to ‘flat-out’ teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spending review: Sunak promises more employer support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Removing schools' freedoms? It's shocked me to the core - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spending review speed read: What is in it for FE and skills? - FE Week University of St Andrews: Rats help each other out just as humans do, research shows - Herald Scotland Spending review: Teacher pay rise 'paused' next year - Times Educational Supplement | TES No teacher pay rise in 2021 as Sunak ‘pauses’ salaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Teachers deserve a pay rise’ Unions hit out at Rishi Sunak's public sector pay freeze - Express Pay rises ‘paused’ for all but the lowest-paid school staff - Schools Week Spending review: £291m to ‘maintain’ FE base rate and £83m for growing number of 16-19s - FE Week Scotland: Students travelling home can take voluntary coronavirus tests from next Monday - Herald Scotland GCSEs 2021: Regional grading rejected by Ofqual adviser - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we've been offering virtual school accreditation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why school rotas could have been a total nightmare - Times Educational Supplement | TES Beyond COVID-19: The future of digital teaching and learning - Office for Students Value for money in the Office for Students: Annual report 2019-20 - Office for Students How neuroscience suggests that phonics works best - Times Educational Supplement | TES The plan for Further Education is due to be revealed: here's what it should say - Telegraph More than £73,000 stolen from Whitechapel school — but no one noticed until months later - Evening Standard Aston University named Guardian's university of the year - Guardian Spending Review: Sector bodies set out key asks - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How are teachers’ working hours linked to wellbeing? - FFT Education Datalab Covid: U-turn over Focus Trust's early Christmas school closures - BBC Ministers 'letting down whole generation' with failure to fund nurseries - HuffPost 'Over-testing' in case exams scrapped in N. Ireland - BBC Ofsted's favourite subjects for a deep dive - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Locked down and locked in’: the pandemic plight of UK university students - Financial Times Ministers should be bold about introducing a demand-led system in the Further Education white paper - AELP Student internships work, but they need to be paid - Wonkhe How many postgraduate research students are writing up? - Wonkhe Marking 'the last straw' for 60 hours-a-week teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spending review: Funding 'must follow the learner' - Times Educational Supplement | TES National curriculum in England ‘systematically omits' Black British history - Guardian Three universities unite for new bid to scale up Sheffield’s AMRC - Times Higher Education | THE Universal higher education is the key to combating misinformation - Times Higher Education | THE