News archive for 28th November 2020

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We will NOT bow to the PC brigade! Gavin Williamson rejects calls for 'woke' school curriculum - Express GCSEs and A-levels to be marked more generously - Telegraph If even Eton falls to the woke, we might as well give up on education - Telegraph More than 1,600 pupils sent home after spate of cases in Cardiff schools - Wales Online Naming school science lab after Greta Thunberg 'not about activism', council insists - Telegraph SNP pledges free breakfast and lunch for primary pupils all year round - Guardian Eton students turn on headmaster over teacher's dismissal - Telegraph Christmas Covid testing for UK students a ‘recipe for chaos’, says union - Guardian University World News - 28/11/2020 - University World News Calls for unified approach to student testing after Christmas - Herald Scotland Scottish universities appeal for sustainable funding - Herald Scotland New pupils barred from top UK Catholic school after abuse scandal - Guardian Government testing plan for students is 'recipe for chaos', says UCU - UCU SNP's John Swinney announces free breakfast and lunch for all primary school pupils in Scotland - Herald Scotland Podcast 99: School improvement during a pandemic - Teacher Toolkit The art of modelling… it’s all in the handover - Teacherhead Why is UK higher education like WeWork? - Wonkhe SNP pledges free breakfast and lunch for primary pupils all year round - Mail We need an end to the toxic work-all-hours culture - Times Educational Supplement | TES Equality Minister slams 'woke' overhaul of 'racist' school curriculum - 'it's wrong' - Express University of Surrey to lower entry grades in recognition of Covid disruption - Guardian Covid: Calls for unified approach to student testing after Christmas - Herald Scotland Here are two top tips for MPs looking into prison education - FE Week Scottish universities appeal for sustainable funding - Herald Scotland Mr Williamson, why the silence on January exams? - Times Educational Supplement | TES PhD students say they are being exploited - Guardian Are these the top 10 teaching words of 2020? - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Bercow: I've changed my mind - grammar schools must go - Guardian Poor performing new provider hoping for apprenticeships lifeline - FE Week Financial literacy: economy class - Financial Times Ofsted inspector's dismissal highlights consultancy 'grey area' - Schools Week Covid: University of Surrey lowers entry grades to 'relieve anxiety' - BBC Glasgow Advanced Higher scheme sees national roll-out - Herald Scotland Why you have got to hand it to Glasgow University ... - Herald Scotland History GCSE 'is set for BLM revamp' - Mail Catholic boarding school at the centre of a child sex abuse scandal is banned from taking new pupils - Mail Free speech row erupts at Cambridge as academics revolt over new rule - Mail Social mobility champion Sir Peter Lampl hails Oxbridge effort - Times Scotland: Extend school holidays to help protect teachers - Times Scotland: Take up the guitar to reduce risk, singers told by SQA - Times