News archive for 7th October 2020

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Sunderland Uni is latest to be hit by major coronavirus outbreak as more than 100 students test positive - The Sun SNP accused of 'throwing in towel' by axing exams in controversial move - Express UK students sent home as universities crack down on Covid breaches - Guardian All the schools in Wales with cases of coronavirus in the last two weeks - Wales Online Staff at UK universities prepare for industrial action over Covid - Financial Times Universities accused of misleading students by pretending they would have 'full campus experience' - Telegraph Exams axed for tens of thousands of Scottish pupils under plan to avoid repeat of results day chaos - Telegraph Primary school kids beat Covid singing ban in class by learning sign language - The Sun Scotland's National 5 exams to be cancelled next year - Guardian Coronavirus Scotland: John Swinney 'told officials to spin exams row' - Herald Scotland SQA results fiasco could have been 'partially avoided' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Department for Education’s handling of pupil data ruled illegal - Guardian ‘It’s like a prison’: students speak of lockdown struggles - Guardian How factory work 'pays more than supply teaching' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: What happens if someone in school tests positive? - BBC National 5 exams cancelled for pupils in 2021 as Scottish Government respond to exam results review - Scotsman Sheffield becomes third university to shift to online classes - Mail Scottish National 5 exams will now be cancelled in 2021 due to Covid - with teachers set to award grades instead - Mail SQA exams: What parents and pupils need to know as National 5s cancelled - Herald Scotland Parents fear for children's education after schools send hundreds of pupils home to self-isolate - Wales Online Coronavirus (COVID-19): test kits for schools and FE providers - DfE Get into teaching: Who unlocked your teacher potential? - Teacher Toolkit ESFA Update: 7 October 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Students holding ‘Covid parties’ where only people who test positive allowed in and boozing all day in lockdown halls - The Sun Scottish National 5 exams to be cancelled in 2021 - BBC Covid: Northumbria and Newcastle latest to move teaching online - Times Higher Education | THE Ex-minister: high-risk research funder must not be ‘destructive’ - Times Higher Education | THE MPs to debate whether to reduce GCSE content for 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams 2021: Why teachers need to know the rules now - Times Educational Supplement | TES National 5 exams cancelled amid coronavirus fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES BAME representation in school governance falls to 3.5% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Devolution of powers needed to tackle youth unemployment crisis, says LGA - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Youth Endowment Fund launches 10-year strategy to tackle youth violence - CYPN | Children & Young People Now School secretary loses tribunal claim that she was unlawfully sacked because of religious beliefs - Mail Coronavirus Scotland: National 5 exams cancelled in 2021 - Herald Scotland A joined-up approach to supporting disabled students - Jisc Jisc supports the University of Buckingham to launch ground-breaking degree that truly embraces technology - Jisc THE announces partnership with ApplyBoard - PIE News UUK releases guidance on self-isolating students - PIE News Gaining knowledge is what makes a degree valuable, not graduate salaries or transferable skills - The Conversation Exams 2021: DfE is still 'some way off' a plan - SecEd Covid-19: Online misinformation and unclear national guidance hampering schools - SecEd Pupils writing memoir: A great literacy topic - UKEdChat Northumbria University moves learning online after staff threatened industrial action - UCU Sheffield's universities' decision to move only some teaching online do not go far enough, says union - UCU Woman sacked over LGBTQ+ education comments loses tribunal case - Guardian Exams in Scotland - National Education Union NASUWT comments on changes to exams in Scotland - NASUWT Sturgeon: 'You don't have to cancel October breaks' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Self-isolating Lancaster University students are being charged £17.95 a day for meals - HuffPost What would half-term 'circuit break' mean for schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students hold 'Covid parties' - only letting in those who have tested positive - Mirror Coronavirus: Nearly one in five state secondary schools not fully open, government figures show - Independent Sheffield University coronavirus outbreak: Another 79 students positive – total now 669 - Express Bring back centre-assessed grading, AELP urges - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE broke student data protection laws, damning ICO audit reveals - FE Week Are school open mornings putting teachers at risk? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we’re still getting feedback wrong - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge University holds unconscious bias and race training after black students rocket 50% - Mail DfE broke pupil data protection laws, damning ICO audit reveals - Schools Week Moving lectures online is a slippery slope for universities - Telegraph DfE broke the law on pupil data protection - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union Learning Fund to be scrapped from March 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dyson institute given power to award its own degrees - Telegraph EuroSkills 2020 postponed ‘indefinitely’ due to Covid-19 - FE Week EuroSkills Graz 2021 postponed 'indefinitely' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kate Middleton visits University of Derby to hear how coronavirus has affected education - Express Coronavirus: Three major universities announce shift to online teaching after spike in cases - Independent Maths at the kitchen table: Capturing teacher and family voices on online teaching and learning in Covid-19 times - BERA Kickstart must focus on quality of placements to tackle doubling of youth unemployment - Learning & Work Institute Campaigners hit out at 'alarming' John Swinney claims around exam appeal system - Scotsman Dyson technology institute to be given power to award its own degrees - Guardian Oxford Islamic centre accused of firing gay academic 'because they feared angering Saudi backers' - Telegraph Legal action warning as EIS launches disputes against two Scots local authorities over Covid 'fails' - Herald Scotland Coronavirus Scotland: Calls to scrap 2021 exams to avoid 'year of uncertainty' - Herald Scotland England’s newest university has a familiar name - Wonkhe We must learn from the experiences of disabled students - Wonkhe This is what leadership looks like on race and racism in universities - Wonkhe Drug dealers slip 'calling cards' under doors at uni halls where 2 students died - Mirror Parents 'more vital than teachers for primary maths' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The European Commission’s single market for research needs buy-in - Times Higher Education | THE THE ‘Table of Tables’ 2021: Scottish universities make gains - Times Higher Education | THE Drug dealers slip their cards under lockdown students’ doors - Times Manchester universities switch to online teaching - Times Big rise in black Cambridge students - Times Dyson reinvents university with its own degrees - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Don’t force at-risk teachers to sign off sick, councils told - Times