News archive for 5th October 2020

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GCSE and A-level curriculum could be cut back to help post-Covid generation - Telegraph Lack of clarity makes fresh exams fiasco likely, unions warn - Financial Times It’s time to drop the scathing 'snowflake' label - Telegraph WHO boss: Give teachers the pay they deserve post-Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fears DfE still 'putting all its eggs in exam basket' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School head sparks fury by giving staff day off 'to sleep and relax' four weeks into new term - Mail ESFA to launch £80m adult education budget tender - FE Week Poverty: How colleges can help tackle inequality - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers warned of edtech's 'massive data extraction' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why Boris Johnson's skills speech was a key step - Times Educational Supplement | TES The book being sent to all 22,500 primary schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Retired teachers 'should mentor influx of new recruits' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five things we learned from the IfATE’s 2019-20 accounts - FE Week Students taking GCSE and A-level exams should be prioritised for Covid tests - Mail Three students dead after ‘bad batch of drugs’ - Times 'Exhausting' impact of Covid-19 on families with disabled children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Renewed calls for mandatory sprinklers after schools destroyed - Schools Week PM pressed to address “inflexible” levy to boost creative industry apprenticeships - UK Parliament Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to hepatitis C researchers - Times Higher Education | THE Sheffield universities report more than 850 Covid-19 cases - Times Higher Education | THE A new UK research funding agency: second evidence session - UK Parliament Pearson to deliver two new T Level qualifications in Finance and Accounting from September 2022 - Pearson The power of longitudinal data in schools - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Package of support for students who have to defer their studies - DfE OfS student panel statement on support for students in self-isolation during COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic - Office for Students 'Time is running out' to plan for next year's GCSE and A-Level exams, unions warn - Independent Will the Lifetime Skills Guarantee help people find jobs in the aftermath of COVID-19? - Nesta No Government plan for 2021 exams - National Education Union Universities with Covid-19 cases: full list of 45 UK universities with coronavirus outbreaks - Scotsman Gavin Williamson vows to correct 'shocking' lack of white working class boys at universities - Mail Schools slammed for serving up sub-standard grub under new covid rules - The Sun Hundreds of pupils to self-isolate after 11 covid cases at school - Wales Online No plans for return to blended learning, says Sturgeon - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why teachers need their headteachers to teach - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson draws teachers' ire with impartiality warning - Guardian No evidence of coronavirus spreading among school pupils in Wales - Wales Online Huge coronavirus outbreak infects nearly 500 students at Sheffield University in a week - Mirror The battle over dyslexia (podcast) - Guardian Coronavirus: Schools watchdog under fire for keeping inspections on hold - Herald Scotland Always Tory: Williamson at his ‘star-studded’ 6th form - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson: Teachers have a duty not to indoctrinate - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson says it's a 'shocking disgrace' so few white working class boys go to university - Evening Standard Contracts signed for third wave of T Levels - IfATE EEF commissions research on the impact of Covid-19 school and nursery closures - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Supporting our teachers: Ministers must do better - SecEd Global students to be given free access to 400 online UK higher education courses - British Council Black History Month 2020 at AoC - AoC | Association of Colleges World Teachers' Day: The 3 talents all teachers have - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson urged to intervene to 'save outdoor education' - BBC Research to look at impact of lockdown on Reception children's readiness for school - Nursery World Coronavirus: One in five schools report ‘significant’ absences due to Covid-19 - Nursery World Unions: Allow grade inflation next year – but not as much as 2020 - Schools Week GCSEs: Call to keep some inflation from grades fiasco - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why threatening teachers won't solve our Covid problems - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the specialist teacher system needs an overhaul - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prioritise exam students for Covid tests, DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels: City and Guilds and Pearson win 2022 contract - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two big exam board winners in third wave of T Levels - FE Week Head teachers: Three week exam delay is not enough to prepare students - Evening Standard Huge fire erupts at second school in same city in 48 hours as pictures show devastation - Mirror World Teachers' Day focuses on Covid challenges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: Government launches £238m scheme for jobseekers - BBC Government buys another 100,000 laptops to support self-isolating children - Public Technology Government must act now or risk losing European students for years to come - Universities UK Announcing a Strategic Partnership Agreement between IEP and the Collab Group - Collab Group School leaders, teachers, and governors put forward proposals to make 2021 exams fair - ASCL Proposal for awarding exams grades in 2021 - National Education Union Community family grows - Voice Scottish universities commit to Covid-19 care package - PIE News Stop calling young people snowflakes, headteachers' chief urges - Guardian ASCL update on 2021 exam talks - ASCL 4 ways to help GCSE and A-level students with dyslexia - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why do we expect universities to provide sunshine indoors? - Wonkhe The Prime Minister’s big speech on skills signals some major policy shifts - Wonkhe Modern universities – beware of the higher technical trap - Wonkhe Understanding insolvency in higher education - Wonkhe Primaries to support 3 major Covid learning gap studies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools: Don't call young people ‘snowflakes' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Joseph Rowntree Report: 'Bolder ambition' needed to tackle child poverty - BBC Europe expected to tie research funding to gender equality action - Times Higher Education | THE Is university expansion ‘sucking the brains’ out of UK towns? - Times Higher Education | THE What is Teachers’ Day and how is it being celebrated in 2020? - The Sun T-levels are a source of pride and optimism - FE News Three new studies will assess post-Covid disadvantage gap - Schools Week DfE: Additional SKE Q&As (5th October) - UCET We need an exam plan by Christmas, head teachers tell Nick Gibb - Times Stop calling the young snowflakes, urges head of St Paul’s School - Times Scotland: Edinburgh Napier is third university ditches foreign language courses - Times