News archive for 1st October 2020

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A-Level exams ‘will go ahead this summer’ with three-week delay to allow students to catch up after school closures - The Sun A-Levels 'will be delayed next summer by three weeks' - Mail ‘Compelling logic’ in call to scrap GCSEs, says Green - Schools Week Number 10 is driving FE reform too fast and will blame the DfE when the wheels fall off - FE Week Ofqual give Dominic Cummings-linked firm £46,000 contract to clean up exams fiasco - Mirror One in five schools have Covid-19 cases - Times Educational Supplement | TES Emergency powers adopted to require schools to teach online - BBC Remote learning legal order is 'grave error', say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pay and conditions: Teaching staff accept pay offer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted inspection: removal of the outstanding exemption - DfE Schools and early education inspection update: academic year 2020 to 2021 - Ofsted New remote education support for schools, colleges and teachers - DfE Funding competition: Using innovation and intersectional approaches to target mental health support for students - Office for Students Union demands students 'trapped in halls' be allowed to return home from university - Mail DfE to clarify ‘intent’ of controversial new RSE guidance - Schools Week 20% heads say test chaos could close schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Remote learning: DfE announces support grants - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Schools ‘have legal duty’ to provide remote education - Schools Week Let students go home without financial penalties, say unions - Times Higher Education | THE Schools could be unsafe because so many teachers cannot get tests, say experts - Evening Standard No free laptops for schools with fewer than 15 self-isolating pupils - Schools Week 'Outstanding' schools no longer exempt from Ofsted inspections - Evening Standard Government’s announcement on remote learning - National Education Union Universities are failing to address racism on campus - Times Higher Education | THE Call Keir on campus - Wonkhe Coronavirus: Early Years Alliance survey into impact of pandemic - Nursery World Forth Valley College staff ballot for industrial action - Herald Scotland One in six councils underfunding early years providers, EYA investigation shows - CYPN | Children & Young People Now School closures could see pupils miss out on £11bn in future earnings, research finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Programme launched to help EdTech platforms meet the needs of the UK’s most disadvantaged students - Nesta School closures lead to lower social mobility and billions in lost earnings for the covid generation - Sutton Trust UK: Face-to-face teaching vital for international students - PIE News How the National Tutoring Programme can help mitigate the effects of school closures - Sutton Trust Anticapitalism wasn’t banned in English classrooms during the cold war – why is it now? - The Conversation Cambridge to divest from fossil fuels and reinvest in renewables - Times Higher Education | THE Report highlights vital work of school business managers - Voice Unions demand colleges deliver on promise to increase staff pay - UCU NEU statement on certain clauses in the new Relationships, Sex and Health Education guidance - National Education Union UCU and the National Union Students issue joint statement calling for action over university Covid crisis - UCU Locked-down universities warned against "dangerous" blocking of fire exits - UCU ASCL comment on removal of outstanding exemption - ASCL Building a diverse and inclusive research environment - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) How do essential skills impact on young people’s life outcomes? - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Legal threat over anti-capitalist guidance for schools in England - Guardian Cambridge University to cut fossil fuel investments by 2030 - BBC Why colleges must be open for enrolment in January - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools can't order free laptops for pupils on rotas - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Nobody's listening': UK lecturers say their Covid fears are being ignored - Guardian Justin Welby urges schools to extend free meals over Christmas - Telegraph Foreign students 'face ban on studying sensitive subjects at British universities' amid security fears - Evening Standard Williamson: Skills guarantee Covid recovery 'backbone' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education secretary makes ‘guarantee’ T Levels will be ‘available’ to adults in future - FE Week Ofsted admits ‘visits’ fall under inspection remit after NAHT legal challenge - Schools Week Children should be taught more about black British history at school, Keir Starmer says - Metro Students should be allowed home now to learn online, says NUS - BBC The Tories' ban on anti-capitalist resources in schools is an attempt to stifle dissent | Owen Jones - Guardian Autumn term visits are inspections - Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unions call for substantial college staff pay increase following £400m boost - FE Week Cambridge University to dump fossil fuel investments by 2030 - Financial Times University lockdowns: a whole new way to fail young people - Financial Times College boards to be reviewed by the ETF - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU: Colleges must deliver on pay increases for staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ban exclusions during pandemic, MPs told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge University to divest from fossil fuels by 2030 - Guardian 20k autumn A-level ‘resit’ entries – with maths and science most popular - Schools Week ‘Outstanding’ providers set for Ofsted inspections next year – but may face 6-year wait - FE Week Outstanding schools set for Ofsted inspections next year – but may face 6-year wait - Schools Week Maths most popular subject for autumn A-level 'resits' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Outstanding' schools to be reinspected from 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two island schools to stay shut until October break - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils not wearing masks could be reported to police - Times Educational Supplement | TES Super spreader party goer blamed for all 32 coronavirus cases at one university - Mirror Most schools can't afford Covid costs, survey finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are students’ expectations for this academic year? - HEPI The ‘Lifetime Skills Guarantee’ is not new, we have long called for funding for adult education and retraining - PoliticsHome Archbishop of Canterbury: Fund schools properly, now - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'not driving surge in coronavirus' despite infection rise in UK, new study finds - Mirror Time to scrap GCSEs – they serve no good purpose in the 21st century - Telegraph Wondering how uni students are feeling? Like we've been thrown to the wolves - HuffPost Anglia Ruskin university paid Instagram influencer graduates to promote its degrees - Mail National tutoring plan 'not enough' for Covid catch-up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chinese interest in studying abroad plummets amid pandemic - Times Higher Education | THE On-campus Covid tests ‘may worsen UK’s national shortage’ - Times Higher Education | THE No thanks? Victims of acknowledgement abuse ‘defenceless’ - Times Higher Education | THE Universities can be allies in confronting racism - Wonkhe The GuildHE anti-racism initiative: more talk and more action - Wonkhe Avoiding mass lockdowns – students should wear masks in halls - Wonkhe Influencers paid to plug degrees they never took - Times Oxford announces black scholarship - Times Chinese students face ban amid security fears - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: ‘Circuit-breaker’ lockdown prepared for October school holidays - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Glasgow University students exposed to virus as they help sick friends - Times Scotland: St Andrews may train medical staff - Times Ireland: Students hit by Leaving Cert fiasco need answers, says Sinn Féin - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Students ‘can get away with breaching guidelines off campus’ - Times DfE: Teaching Schools and ITT - updated guidance (01 October 2020) - UCET