News archive for 8th October 2020

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Popular apprenticeship scrapped by government could be revived - FE Week Competition opens for new wave of Institutes of Technology - DfE UK’s first female black head: ‘We started from scratch’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education sector leads WFH drive with 51% planning it in future - Mail Coronavirus Scotland: University halls outbreak ‘past the worst’ but students 'still struggling' - Herald Scotland Universities crack down on Covid rule breakers - Mail Harry and Meghan discuss impact of coronavirus on girls’ education with Malala Yousafzai - Evening Standard Tory MPs back ditching GCSE exams in English school system overhaul - Guardian More than 1,600 students in Newcastle have caught coronavirus in last week - Mirror Newcastle coronavirus outbreak: Over 1,000 university students test positive for COVID-19 - Express Institutes of Technology: Wave two competition launched - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Kickstart jobs scheme: how can we make it work? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why didn't Spielman mention schools' Covid test fears? - Times Educational Supplement | TES St Andrews: The historic law that barred Scotland's oldest university from awarding medical degrees - Scotsman DfE launches tender for 8 new Institutes of Technology - FE Week Can we boost elaboration with retrieval practice? - Learning Scientists Newcastle and Northumbria record 1,600 Covid cases in a week - Times Higher Education | THE UK apprenticeships set to shrink without funding, warns trade body - Financial Times Nursery schools face a perfect storm - Early Education Newcastle University sees more than 1,000 students test positive for coronavirus - Evening Standard Wisepay: School payments service hit by cyber-attack - BBC Wonkhe’s Covid-19 data dashboards - Wonkhe Apprenticeships and traineeships: October 2020 - DfE Statistics: further education and skills - DfE School governance update - DfE Letter from Baroness Berridge to academy trust members - DfE 'Plan for Jobs' skills and employment programmes: information for employers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Why Edinburgh University's lockdown study is not all it seems - Guardian Fostering a healthy and supportive research environment for postgraduate research students - Office for Students Depression link to underachievement in school exams - CYPN | Children & Young People Now DfE broke data-protection law, ICO investigation finds - Public Technology Education committee urged to launch outdoor learning inquiry - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Dispatches from the classroom: Metacognition in the RE department - Research Schools Network Making the best use of teaching assistants in a Covid-secure setting - Research Schools Network Boxer or lock-keeper? Government careers quiz scorned by users - Guardian Occupancy in early years settings on the rise, official figures reveal - EYE | Early Years Educator Launch of our Primary Careers Resources Platform - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth School sports needs a reset. Let's focus on courage, not just competition - Telegraph Weaker schools need help with GCSE teacher assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most parents have not heard of Progress 8 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only 150 of 1,000 mentors will be in England's schools before 2021 - Guardian A-Levels and GCSEs should be scrapped next year as pandemic continues to disrupt education, schools boss says - The Sun Half of students breaking rules on phone use in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the national tutoring scheme won't be enough - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call to use outdoor education to boost pupil wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Priestley review of SQA results fiasco: 17 key findings - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It's relentless': Head teachers describe reopening schools mid-pandemic - Independent St Andrew's Academy: 22 coronavirus cases linked to Paisley school - Herald Scotland SQA exams: why National 5 exams in Scotland have been cancelled for 2021 - and how pupils will be graded - Scotsman Academies boss says exams in England should be scrapped in 2021 - Mail 5 Covid changes to EYFS we want to keep - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Scrap 'gamble' of risky exams, says MAT - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keep exams and help pupils who are disadvantaged, say headteachers - Evening Standard Leeds university hit by coronavirus outbreak as 558 students and staff test positive - Evening Standard Environmental and youth organisations call for MP inquiry into benefits of outdoor learning - Nursery World Former Ofqual director planning new FE membership body - FE Week Poorest students will be hit hardest if universities move all teaching online, ministers warned - Evening Standard Closing schools may increase Covid deaths, warn experts - Times Educational Supplement | TES We must follow Scotland's example and ditch next summer's GCSEs now - Telegraph Lancaster University accused of charging ’unacceptably high rates’ for food for self-isolating students - Independent Traineeships: £65m of promised £111m allocated - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Parents want teacher assessment, not exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Traineeships tender finally launched but with short deadline - FE Week Young people hit hardest in full-year apprenticeship figures - FE Week Learning at home during COVID: challenges and opportunities for students with children - HEPI What can experiment tell us in educational research? - BERA Parents, not schools, hold the key to maths success - UKEdChat Planting the seed: Investing in young people will prevent them becoming a ‘lost generation’ - PoliticsHome School closures and blanket social distancing measures 'increased coronavirus deaths' - Evening Standard Coronavirus: Shutting schools 'increases Covid-19 deaths', scientists claim - Mirror MPs to debate petitions relating to exams during Covid-19 - UK Parliament What teachers need to know about dyslexia - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the US and UK face a university challenge - Financial Times Clean Air Day Scotland: Study suggests less pollution could improve children’s attainment - Herald Scotland Engineering our way to degree awarding powers - Wonkhe Lighthouse Policy Group celebrates ten years of policy wonkery - Wonkhe Social media is our problem – and a great opportunity for teaching - Wonkhe Hey! Tester! Leave those kids alone – they’re not fuelling the Covid outbreak - The Sun Let depressed teens postpone exams, say researchers - BBC Back off and give schools space, heads tell Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES 70% of college leaders opposed to public-sector control - Times Educational Supplement | TES 4 in 10 college leaders 'not confident about finances' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Interrupted fieldwork could mean terminated careers for PhD students - Times Higher Education | THE Behind the mask: reflections on teaching in the Covid era - Times Higher Education | THE University to cut 200 jobs as it faces huge funding shortfall - Wales Online Keeping lower levels of air pollution in and around schools could help pupils’ education - Times Dyslexia can be a blessing, training drive will tell teachers - Times Academic fired by Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies ‘for being bisexual’ - Times Coronvirus in Scotland: Anger as exams cancelled to avoid ‘risk to timetable’ - Times Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (7th October 2020) - UCET DfE: Self-evaluation and improvement planning (7th October 2020) - UCET