News archive for 26th November 2020

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DfE won’t say if NTP second-year cash is new - Schools Week Eton College dismisses teacher amid free speech row prompted by lecture on masculinity - Telegraph Applying behavioural insights to increase female students’ uptake of STEM subjects at A level - DfE New special school for dyslexic pupils to open - BBC Pupil said to resemble '40-year-old man' has 'vanished' from school - Metro GCSEs: Thousands of private school grades may be inflated - Times Educational Supplement | TES North Sea wind farms: First apprentices 'break stereotypes' - BBC Rise in teachers working 50-hour weeks - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Hapless’: DfE’s school Covid guidance goes missing - Times Educational Supplement | TES How are unemployed people supposed to retrain when the Tories cut training? | Polly Toynbee - Guardian Schoolgirls can’t take days off for periods as 'inconvenience is part of being a woman’, says headteacher - Telegraph Covid: Northumbria University staff vote to strike over health fears - BBC Anger as £30k new teacher pay by 2022 pledge is dropped - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spending review: Now we need local flexibility - Times Educational Supplement | TES Seven things we learned from the ESFA’s latest apprenticeships data release - FE Week Prince George and Princess Charlotte's future secondary school gets green light - Mail Sixth form head angers schoolgirls by telling them periods are no reason to take time off - Mail NAHT ‘assessing legal status’ of phonics check to spare schools ‘unnecessary burden’ - Schools Week Dstl inspires students to solve space challenges - GOV.UK Further education and skills: November 2020 - DfE Talented leaders programme evaluation - DfE School and college staff wellbeing: report - DfE Exploring the relationship between teacher workload and target setting - DfE Key stage 4 performance 2020 - DfE A levels: Private schools open up gap despite U-turn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges predict £2m overspend on student support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education and training statistics for the UK: 2020 - DfE Participation measures in higher education: 2006 to 2019 - DfE Apprenticeship and traineeships: November 2020 - DfE I froze teachers' pay to save their jobs, says Sunak - Times Educational Supplement | TES A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2019 to 2020 (provisional) - DfE UK HE bureaucracy ‘a bit of a monster’, says REF creator - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Mismatch of expectations’ poisoning Covid campus relations, says v-c - Times Higher Education | THE Neil Ferguson: delay in lockdown UK’s ‘biggest’ pandemic mistake - Times Higher Education | THE Times Higher Education Awards 2020: winners announced - Times Higher Education | THE Summer 2020 outcomes did not systemically disadvantage students - Ofqual Private schools record biggest rise in top A-level grades in England - Guardian Supporting children with loneliness - Teacher Toolkit Research project to understand how teachers are overcoming challenges to improve girls’ education and gender equality - UKFIET | Education and Development Forum Independent Evaluation of Girls’ Education Challenge Phase II: Rapid Research and Learning Fund - UKFIET | Education and Development Forum Exploring flexible working practice in schools - DfE Guidance for full opening: special schools and other specialist settings - DfE Student of the Year Finalists 2020-21 announced - AoC | Association of Colleges How gardening at school can tackle child obesity - The Conversation SR2020 lacked a punch on skills provision and jobs creation - Social Market Foundation | SMF GCSE results 2020: How did disadvantaged pupils and lower-attaining ethnic groups do? - FFT Education Datalab Instructional coaching and early career teachers - Research Schools Network Edge response to Spending Review 2020 - Edge Foundation Internal scrutiny for academies: Update for 2020 - ASCL Staff vote to strike at Northumbria University - UCU Coronavirus: Call for examples of how children’s play has changed during the pandemic - Nursery World Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2020 - Ofsted Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2019 to August 2020 - Ofsted DfE would be ‘astonished’ if laptops issues were solved - Times Educational Supplement | TES More GCSE students record progress - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE white paper pushed back to 2021, ESFA director suggests - FE Week Exams 2020: ‘No evidence’ poorer pupils disadvantaged, concludes Ofqual - Schools Week Call to end monopolies on school uniform supply - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top official reveals ‘gut wrenching’ £6m spent on accountancy fees to dissolve college - FE Week Manchester University students win 30% rent cut after Covid protests - Guardian Covid costs school closure risk: DfE calls in Treasury - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents are being asked to send their children into a harmful environment - Telegraph Spending review: Treasury now says £30k starting salary pledge pushed back a year - Schools Week Letter to accountable officers: Monitoring of access and participation plans 2019-20 - Office for Students Update to associations between characteristics of students - Office for Students Differences in student outcomes - further characteristics - Office for Students The top 20 edtech startups ready to address the education sector’s biggest challenges - Jisc Vision launched for the future of employer-university collaboration - Jisc School uniform banks in Scotland report rising need for warm clothes - Guardian Banned: Maths teacher who covered up being sacked - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Extremely' vulnerable teachers can return to work - Times Educational Supplement | TES A pay freeze? We’re paying for government incompetence - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Gut-wrenching’ £6m spent on Hadlow administrators - Times Educational Supplement | TES NCS secures £100m in Spending Review - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 64 colleges running out of cash which is ‘more than we thought’ admits official - FE Week £14m scheme to send ‘best’ heads into toughest schools missed recruitment target by two thirds - Schools Week The pandemic of sexual abuse in universities: ‘They’re more concerned with protecting their reputations than female students’ - Telegraph Everyone in Welsh school to be tested for Covid for the first time - Wales Online Official figures reveal take up of adult education courses halved during lockdown - FE Week Funding: 64 colleges struggling with 'cash days left' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid cases in secondary pupils reach new daily high - Times Educational Supplement | TES Manchester rent strike: Students given refund after weeks of protests over coronavirus treatment - Independent Pupils to get extra £2.2billion to rebuild further education colleges - Express Private schools got biggest top A-levels boost after grade U-turn - Schools Week We're leading the world in tackling period poverty - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Half of students get ‘strong passes’ in three Rs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lives of the under-fives strikingly different from a generation ago - Nuffield Foundation Anger after school tells teen girls they can’t call in sick because of their periods and it’s ‘part of being a woman’ - The Sun The early years foundation stage (2021): Challenges and opportunities - BERA Browne, COVID and the Humanities. What next? - HEPI Mapping career causeways: Supporting workers at risk - Nesta Learning from the first wave of students’ Covid-19 complaints - Wonkhe Digital assessment: leave no one behind - Wonkhe There should be a fund to support technical teaching excellence - Wonkhe Think life is unfair? It’s likely you’re a university graduate - Mail Covid: Teacher stress levels ‘rocketing' finds research - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why now is the time for 'community-led' devolution - Times Educational Supplement | TES More teachers suffering insomnia in Covid pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES 9:15 a.m. - Public Accounts Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into managing colleges’ financial sustainability - Accountability Hearings Under-fives have 'strikingly different' lives to a generation ago - study - Nursery World Students may be compensated for lost teaching during UK lockdown - Guardian A fundamental change in England’s approach to skills devolution is needed - FE Week Students could win financial compensation for lost teaching time during lockdown - Mail Gaps in school readiness may increase as parents keep children out of nurseries - Mail Ombudsman shows caution on complaints over Covid online shift - Times Higher Education | THE ‘One in five’ female students in UK is victim of sexual assault - Times Higher Education | THE How should universities approach decolonisation? - Times Higher Education | THE Spending review 2020: the winners and losers? - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: ‘games of social isolation’ now part of toddlers’ play - Times Academics in plea for access to National Records of Scotland archive - Times DfE Home for Christmas guidance - UCET