News archive for 29th November 2020

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Eton insists master's dismissal was 'not an issue of free speech' - Telegraph Pupils and teachers suffering stress over ministers' failure to plan for exams - Mirror Schools could close a week early for Christmas to limit coronavirus infections - Mirror Councils in talks to end school term early for Christmas - Wales Online At what age do you hit your peak as a teacher? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid and schools: 'Children know things aren't right' - BBC Students want the word 'black' banned from textbooks and lectures - Telegraph Classroom magic through poetry: Kate Clanchy profile - Times Educational Supplement | TES Know and understand your pupils and their influences - Research Schools Network Comment on Labour’s call for the government to set out a credible plan for exams - National Education Union Teach fewer things at greater depth - Teacher Toolkit Outcomes: Does class size matter? - Teacher Toolkit 800 Etonians in revolt after teacher is sacked for questioning radical feminist dogma on 'toxic masculinity' - Mail Scrapping my plans was the best thing I've ever done - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mass coronavirus testing to start in universities in Wales - Wales Online UK universities fine students £170,000 for Covid rule breaches - Guardian All the problems facing Wales' new Education Minister next year - Wales Online Bad excuses are one thing I never thought I would miss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Drug gangs prey on excluded truants, warns Ofsted chief - Guardian Students at London’s Royal Academy of Music ‘feared reporting sexual misconduct’ - Guardian Coronavirus: Teachers 'told to switch off tracing app' - Herald Scotland What colleges need to know about clinically extremely vulnerable staff - FE Week Covid Scotland: Device roll-out to digitally-excluded pupils branded 'shambles' by Labour - Herald Scotland GCSE and A-level pupils will be told what is on their exam papers in advance - Mail Struggling school pupils fell even further behind during lockdown, watchdog says - The Sun Vulnerable pupils ‘cut adrift’ in Covid lockdown, says watchdog - Times