News archive for 27th November 2020

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New funding to support schools and colleges during Covid pandemic - DfE Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 27 November 2020 - Education Eye Data on COVID-19 inspections: non-association independent schools - Ofsted Data on COVID-19 visits: further education and skills - Ofsted Education Committee to hold session on the effect of home environment on white working-class educational achievement - UK Parliament Data on COVID-19 visits: registered early years providers - Ofsted Contributing to a robust and fair system for 2021 examinations - Social Mobility Commission Coronavirus (COVID-19) contingency framework for education and childcare settings - DfE Face coverings in education - DfE Key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores - DfE Protective measures for holiday or after-school clubs and other out-of-school settings for children during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak - DfE Children's Minister speaks during Anti-Bullying Week - DfE Young Food Ambassadors meet with Children’s Minister - DfE Ampleforth College banned from taking new pupils by DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Deadline for exams-plan to be missed by DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES SNP considers last-minute extension to school Christmas holidays - Telegraph The FE winners honoured in the 2020 Pearson Teaching Awards revealed - FE Week The winners of the 2020 Pearson Teaching Awards revealed - Schools Week Coronavirus: 'Tell us how many teachers have died' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: GCSEs 2021 - when will teachers get certainty? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Opportunity areas get extra year, but cash cut by 25% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Letting teenagers lie in helps them do better at school, study finds - Telegraph Scottish exam cancellation decision expected 'before Christmas' from John Swinney - Scotsman Clinically vulnerable teachers and school staff should work from home - Mail Tutoring and storybooks could help children’s maths, evidence review finds - IOE London Blog DfE expands supplier base for laptops scheme - Public Technology Call for resits as over 1,000 hit by Oxbridge admissions exam glitches - Schools Week Star footballers urged to join forces with Marcus Rashford over child hunger - Times Ampleforth College ordered to stop admitting new pupils over safeguarding failures - Schools Week ‘Forget the rhetoric’:12 steps towards digital accessibility - Jisc UK commits funding to domestic Erasmus+ alternative - PIE News Asylum-seeking school pupil who claims to be 15 but is balding disappears after half-term - Mail GCSE English and maths entries November 2020 - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges EEF publishes Evidence Review on Mathematical Teaching in the Early Years and Key Stage 1 - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Fast festive role play - UKEdChat Asylum-seeker pupil who joined school as 15-year-old but ‘looks 40’ stays in class but ‘not taught with other students’ - The Sun ASCL comment on Covid funding for schools and colleges - ASCL ASCL responds to Independent SAGE call to make schools safe - ASCL ITT applications in England and Wales - NFER Spending Review analysis - Russell Group Evaluating the Enhancement Themes – they’re collegiate but are they effective? - Wonkhe Designing effective professional development - Ambition Institute New Turing AI fellows to deliver world-class AI research - UKRI Flexible learning can improve diversity and inclusion in higher education - Office for Students Mass coronavirus testing for schools in Merthyr on Monday - Wales Online Most parents want exams scrapped, survey finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE podcast: The future of training providers - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE and A-level exams should be cancelled next summer, experts say - Metro Scotland: No final decision on extending schools Christmas holiday - Scotsman Law firm ‘inundated’ with calls from students unhappy with tuition fees amid Covid disruption - Independent Schools facing staffing pressures due to Covid-19 can claim financial support - Mail New funding to support schools and colleges during Covid pandemic - DfE Covid workforce funding for worst-hit schools unveiled - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools need more to cover 'enormous costs', warn heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES How colleges can support economic recovery - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brexit: First-year EU students face hundreds of pounds in fees if they move to UK in 2021 - Independent EIS union backs plans to extend Christmas school holidays - Herald Scotland Ministers seize control in new Covid contingency plans - Schools Week The schools in Cardiff with coronavirus cases this week - Wales Online The new Covid contingency plans for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE offer further help to cash-strapped colleges this term - FE Week DfE contingency framework – what it says about FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Momentum builds behind plan to expand Christmas holiday - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tom Bewick: Politician turned awarding bodies champion - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mark Drakeford tells schools they must stay open until term ends - Wales Online DfE pledges staff absence funding to keep schools open, but only after reserves are raided - Schools Week GCSE and A-level exams should be replaced with teacher assessments, experts say - Mail Masks in classrooms urged by 'Independent Sage' group - Times Educational Supplement | TES Comment on Safe Schools, a new consultation guidance document from Independent SAGE - National Education Union NEU demand that clinically extremely vulnerable staff should work from home after lockdown - National Education Union ‘Disgraceful’: DfE axes funding for teacher diversity schemes - Schools Week Duchess of Cambridge reveals early years survey findings - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scottish school holidays extension considered but final decision to be made by ministers next week - Scotsman Coronavirus: Parents demand an early decision on Higher exams - Herald Scotland The school exams and phonics tests setting children up to fail - Telegraph ‘Delusional’ advice to learn new instrument attacked - Times Educational Supplement | TES Child care in Tier 2: Can grandparents babysit and will schools and nurseries stay open? - The Sun GCSE English and maths: Entries soar by 20 per cent - Times Educational Supplement | TES Overseas aid budget for education cut by a quarter this year, data shows - Guardian Covid Christmas: Leaked COSLA document reveals plans to extend school holidays - Herald Scotland Broken promises: DfE snubs exams transparency request - Schools Week Kate Middleton: Early years children need more support to prevent breakdowns in later life - Express ESFA director wants ‘more power’ as college ownership battle rages - FE Week Plans emerge for extension of school Christmas holidays - Times Educational Supplement | TES Functional skills ‘portfolio’ solution proposed to lift 30,000 apprentices out of limbo - FE Week Northern Ireland begins two-week 'circuit-breaker' lockdown today but schools stay open - Mail Scotland: Union ballots for industrial action over ‘cost-cutting’ loss of lecturer roles - Scotsman Reading during lockdown: Supporting vulnerable learners - BERA We need more than workshops to support the wellbeing of PhD researchers - HEPI Duchess of Cambridge highlights the importance of early childhood experiences - Telegraph First-year EU students face £800 Brexit bill if not in UK before 2021 - Guardian Why schools need to focus more on the under-fives - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kate Middleton will be shown in new light with speech on the “crucial early years” of childhood - Express The government’s Covid response has gone from shameful to shameless - Schools Week Exams 2021: What’s on the table as deadline looms - Schools Week Covid 'is a chance to end Ofsted fear' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for probe into lost Covid teacher data - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships register not reopening until April at the earliest - FE Week Christmas closure chaos as schools allowed to extend holidays - Schools Week Podcast: Spending review, racial harassment, digital, Covid complaints - Wonkhe We need to reinvent no detriment for January 2021 - Wonkhe Face value: why won’t students turn their cameras on? - Wonkhe E-scooters on campus – the Covid era transport solution? - Wonkhe Kate Middleton calls for greater action to protect children in their 'crucial early years' - Mail Scottish college sector heading for industrial action - Times Educational Supplement | TES Duchess of Cambridge to reveal findings of early years survey - Nursery World China study visas to UK more than halve amid pandemic - Times Higher Education | THE Cambridge academics oppose ‘freedom of speech’ rules - Times Higher Education | THE Kate warns of lockdown loneliness for parents - BBC Help parents of young children, pleads Duchess of Cambridge - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Student anger as UCD makes €11m extra from fees while lessons held online - Times