News archive for 6th October 2020

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Third of schools see increase in children being home educated over Covid fears - Telegraph 'Unacceptable' for universities to charge over £9,000 fees for sub-standard quality, minister warns - Telegraph Coronavirus: Manchester universities move teaching online - BBC More than 100 Cardiff University students self-isolating after 19 test positive - Wales Online Covid: three universities halt face-to-face teaching as UK strategy unravels - Guardian Covid: Northumbria University staff back ballot for industrial action - BBC Nearly 4,000 students have Covid: 70 Durham University undergraduates are latest to test positive - Mail A fifth of state secondary schools were partially closed last week due to Covid - Mail Number of black students starting at Cambridge University soars by 50% after Stormzy funded tuition - Mail Business Committee publishes Industrial Strategy written evidence - UK Parliament Tory minister blames partying students not following rules for coronavirus spike - Mirror Ofsted COVID-19 series - Ofsted Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March to 1 October 2020 - DfE Ofsted: School leaders determined pupils won’t become 'the COVID generation' - Ofsted HMCI commentary: findings from visits in September - Ofsted A matter of principles: Regulating in the student interest - Office for Students GCSEs 2021: Call to make teacher assessment more robust - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why FE's fight against digital poverty is so important - Times Educational Supplement | TES Manchester students organising 'Covid Positive' parties - Guardian Students may be stoic but they won’t forget | Alice Thomson - Times Scots Tories to support free tuition for students - Times One government department failed to recruit a single apprentice in 2019-20 - FE Week 'Don't abandon our children': Online campaign asks Nicola Sturgeon to re-evaluate restrictions - Herald Scotland Collab Group wins place on DWP CAHERS Framework - Collab Group Local Government Association 'Rethinking youth participation' report - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges New index to capture “multifaceted” global engagement in UK - PIE News UUK calls on govt to reassure EU/EAA students - PIE News Parental anxiety leads to rise in parents choosing to home school children - Ofsted - Nursery World How we punish students with rewards - UKEdChat Science at Meols Cop: Our misconception mission - Research Schools Network The slow difficulties of the October term - Teacher Tapp Lack of nightclubs and 10pm curfew may have contributed to students’ suspected drugs deaths, expert says - Independent Universities accused of 'cashing in' by charging self-isolating students hundreds of pounds for basic food deliveries - Telegraph Post-Brexit research fears spark Welsh university alliance - Times Higher Education | THE Scottish Conservatives back free tuition in major U-turn - Times Higher Education | THE Manchester campuses move teaching online after 1,600 Covid cases - Times Higher Education | THE Occupancy in early years settings rising slowly - Nursery World An Open School for the post-COVID world - Nesta Union could take legal action if ‘vulnerable’ teachers told to sign off sick - Scotsman Universities with Covid-19 cases: more than 50 UK universities with confirmed cases - Scotsman Scottish Conservatives throw support behind free tuition fees in seismic U-turn - Scotsman Keegan: T-level placements a 'challenge' but will stay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson speech at the Conservative Party Conference - National Education Union October school attendance - National Education Union Donelan strikes an uncertain chord at the Commons Education Committee - Wonkhe UCU response to Manchester universities moving learning online - UCU Education Endowment Foundation launches new research over widening attainment gap - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Mental health and school closures ‘biggest concerns’ of children’s homes during lockdown - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Millions of researchers get free access to digital collections through new Jisc and JSTOR collaboration - Jisc Universities should advise students how to spot scam emails - Jisc HMRC warns students on cybercrime threat - Public Technology Northumbria University staff to ballot for industrial action and call for vice-chancellor to resign over Covid failures - UCU ASCL comment on latest decrease in fully open secondary schools - ASCL A commitment by Universities UK to students’ wellbeing - Universities UK Kent council leader promises 'fair' 11-plus amid lockdown concerns - BBC More than 400 University of Nottingham students test positive for coronavirus in one week - Evening Standard Scottish university representatives questioned on sector funding challenges - UK Parliament Ban on overnight school trips threatens 15,000 UK jobs, ministers warned - Guardian Isolating students offered food, toiletries but no financial support by UK universities - Guardian Minister rejects fee discounts for all students - BBC Sturgeon rules out October holiday national travel ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES Abandoned and isolated: the lonely students at Covid University - Telegraph PM wants new 1-1 teaching for the bright and the behind - Times Educational Supplement | TES Majority of students ‘well looked-after’ during self-isolation says Universities UK president - Independent Coronavirus: Students breaking social guidelines 'on the whole' behind university spikes, minister says - Independent Coronavirus: 18% of secondaries send pupils home to isolate - BBC More schools partially closed, but attendance rises - Schools Week Government to ‘explore’ one-to-one teaching for ‘exceptional’ pupils - Schools Week The long shadow of deprivation: differences in opportunities - Social Mobility Commission 'I changed my name because it sounded foreign' - BBC Nearly 1 in 5 secondaries not 'fully open' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE: 94% of further education colleges 'fully open' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Attract teachers to poor areas via Northern Challenge - Times Educational Supplement | TES A defence of the Nuffield Early Language Intervention - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers union warns of grievances over Scots local authority 'fails' in Covid risk assessments - Herald Scotland Vulnerable teachers being put in danger, warns union - Times Educational Supplement | TES The education sector is in a rut. Independent schools can help to break the cycle - Telegraph Jo Johnson: The snobbery about FE has 'gone' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman: Better DfE advice needed to thwart Covid ‘fake news’ fuelling home education rise - Schools Week Ofsted’s visits find schools’ remote learning ‘not aligned’ to curriculum - Schools Week Ofsted: Third of schools see Covid home education rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Covid testing 'barrier' to schools staying open - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Remote lessons 'not aligned' with curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Profile: Jenna Wrathall Bailey, high-performance skills coach, WorldSkills UK - FE Week The Sutton Trust responds to the Prime Minister's speech at the Conservative Party Conference - Sutton Trust John Swinney set to announce plans for 2021 school exams after SQA fiasco - Scotsman Confining students in halls is a mental health crisis in the making | Joanna Moorhead - Guardian Situated professionalism and its influence on the university–school divide within initial teacher education - BERA Does Comic Sans really help dyslexic learners? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland ‘to bring in two-week circuit breaker coronavirus lockdown at 7pm on Friday’ to tackle rising cases - The Sun The schools training the north-west on the new RSE curriculum: 'It's about explaining, this is the law' - Schools Week Coronavirus Scotland: Labour demands 'human rights' universities inquiry - Herald Scotland Teaching healthcare during Covid-19 – a marathon and not a sprint - Wonkhe A new angle on universities’ global engagement - Wonkhe In their words – the experience of teaching during a pandemic - Wonkhe 9:30 a.m. - The Education Committee will hold accountability hearings with the Children’s Commissioner for England and the Minister for Universities - Accountability Hearings Youth jail turns to therapy rather than steel doors - BBC Coronavirus: Isolating students skip meals and fear for mental health - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Scots face two-week ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown to curb infection - Times Scotland: Scrapping language degrees gives us less of a say in the world - Times DfE: New student visa route open for applications (6th October) - UCET