News archive for 30th November 2020

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Stagger students' return to campuses in new year or risk Covid spikes - Mail Eton master who claims he was fired in defence of free speech wrongly stated that 40-60% of sex attack accusations are false - Mail The Eton paradox: how Britain’s most elite school went woke - Telegraph Eton is elitist - that’s the point. Don't turn it into a woke joke - Telegraph School closures double amid calls to 'save Christmas' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could schools close early for Christmas? The latest info across the four nations - Scotsman Ofsted comeback 'must be without judgement’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE grades 2020: What the data really tells us - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: Government pledges business support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning over 1 in 4 special school pupils 'sat at home' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The academic precariat deserves better - Financial Times Adult education budget: S31 grant determination letters 2020 to 2021 - DfE ‘Shock’ decision to sell college slammed by MP - FE Week New opportunities for national recognition of EdTech CPD - Education & Training Foundation Staying immersed: moving practical course content online - Jisc UK “standout performer” in international student recruitment race - PIE News As my influence has grown, the Teach First community has helped me at every stage - Teach First Top tips for trainee teachers - UKEdChat Call for autism and learning disability commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stagger student return to campus in January, says Labour Party - Times Higher Education | THE Duchess reveals 5 Big Insights into public attitudes to early childhood - EYE | Early Years Educator £350m Covid tutoring promise broken by DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: How might GCSE and A-levels work this summer? - BBC All the Christmas school holiday dates in Scotland - Scotsman Why new teachers need a good mentor more than ever - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vodafone extends free SIM card scheme to FE colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exclusion of early years settings from new Covid fund a 'slap in the face' - Nursery World DfE ‘denying Covid support to early years providers’, sector warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Prospect of Covid Christmas heightening anxiety for children, study finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Met Police partner with signposting app to help stop knife crime - CYPN | Children & Young People Now AI scientists receive £20m research funding - Public Technology EEF announces new addition to the Research Schools Network - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Children have been let down by a shameful lack of support from this government - PoliticsHome Staff backlash over Eton's aggressively woke cultural revolution as 1,000 pupils sign petition to reinstate sacked teacher - Mail Young people’s perspectives on COVID-19 recovery overshadowed by negative ‘victim or villain’ narratives - Nuffield Foundation Students will struggle to comply fully with self-isolation before Christmas - Mail Gateshead teachers take strike action - NASUWT Whole school approaches for EAL pupils - ASCL What is the right age to begin academic selection? 11? 14? 16? 18? Never? - HEPI Meeting the needs of students with mental health challenges in online learning environments - BERA From work-ready to world-ready – why breaking down knowledge silos is the next frontier in student development - Wonkhe Will schools close early for Christmas? - The Sun The further adventures of the UK’s worst higher education courses - Wonkhe Invest in community and early years services to help tackle poverty, urges new BPS report - BPS | British Psychological Society How schools can help to stop risky student behaviour - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE commissioner's annual report: what you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE Commissioner 2019/20 annual report: 6 things we learned - FE Week Are schools closing early for Christmas? - Express Reported coronavirus (COVID-19) cases by registered early years and childcare settings - Ofsted The Covid-19 supported study postcode lottery revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Turkey sandwiches and bingo: what Christmas on campus will look like for students who can't go home - Telegraph Covid: Vaccinate teachers before pupils, say scientists - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nominations are open for the 11th Annual BTEC Awards - FE Week Firefighters break down door after 80 people 'trapped' at student lockdown party - Mirror Scotland starts mass testing of students - BBC Schools could close up to one week early for Christmas holidays - Metro The creative art of moving practical courses online, from drama to dissection - Jisc Provost of Eton College says school prides itself on independent, critical thinking amid freedom of speech row - Mail 'I didn't feel I fitted in': why Gypsies, Roma and Travellers don't go to university - Guardian Covid: Single parents 'struggling' as children forced to self-isolate - BBC GCSEs and A levels 2021: 9 options to counter Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Movers and Shakers: Edition 335 - FE Week College adult education budget under delivery revealed - FE Week Ofsted’s Covid school visits may stay online - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fears Covid in schools will cancel teachers' Christmas - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Aggressively woke’ Eton faces huge staff backlash as free speech row loses control - Express Yes, but… no, but… Stop dithering – we need detail on the summer assessments - FE Week DfE to reboot ITT market review to slim down sector - Schools Week Coronavirus: Primary school Covid policies are 'concerning' and 'not evidence-based', warn researchers - Herald Scotland Primary schools should stop sending children home to self-isolate when they have signs of a cold - Mail Schools in Wales could shut a week early to limit Covid spread before restrictions eased at Christmas - The Sun The tech allowing exams to be taken at home - BBC Student Covid testing begins for Christmas exodus - BBC Vanessa Redgrave and Hilary Mantel slam Roehampton arts cuts - Times Higher Education | THE Are open letters an appropriate channel for scientific debate? - Times Higher Education | THE The DfE review of the ITE market - UCET Avoid closing year groups after one Covid case, English schools urged - Times Covid: Pupils may get exam preview to make up for their lost lessons - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Teachers told to turn off NHS tracing app, claim Scottish unions - Times