News archive for 13th October 2020

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Could schools close again if Covid-19 cases continue to rise? - Telegraph Concept of 'white privilege' will make white working class children suffer even more in school - Mail White working-class pupils suffering due to 'status deficit', MPs told - Guardian White working class boys will continue to be left behind because 'white privilege' suggests they are the problem - Telegraph PM's Covid tiers are 'baffling for schools', say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills minister ‘hopeful’ free level 3 quals will be revealed next month - FE Week GCSEs and A-levels could include more multiple choice questions, exam watchdog chief reveals - Telegraph End of payments worth up to £9k extra for new teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Mocks plan ‘makes mockery’ of allowing more time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding: initial teacher training (ITT) - DfE Headteachers' standards - DfE National professional qualifications frameworks: from September 2021 - DfE National Reference Test 2021 - information for schools - DfE National retraining scheme - DfE Regulating independent educational institutions - DfE Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March to 8 October 2020 - DfE Students to be given more time to prepare for 2021 exams - DfE 'Elitist curriculum not serving white working classes' - BBC Podcast 93: Working with purpose and integrity - Teacher Toolkit Covid: Cancellation of Scotland's National 5 exams raises a question: do they really matter? - Scotsman Hub to protect vulnerable children from online abuse launches - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Local lockdowns threaten students’ mental health, charities say - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Three-tier Covid restrictions come at ‘significant cost’ to local authorities, LGA warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now IOE alumna wins London Teacher of the Year award - IOE London Blog Ada Lovelace Day: 'FE will attract girls into Stem' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Phonics: Adult literacy app launched - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams 2021: 'We must achieve fairness and confidence' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is it time to reboot our entire exams system? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How Gavin Williamson is courting another exams disaster - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Nonsensical’ to teach white privilege to working-class - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges encouraged to meet industry demands for digital skills - Jisc Let’s talk about the impact of teaching assistants - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF MPs set to debate role of colleges in a skills-led recovery in Parliament during Colleges Week - AoC | Association of Colleges Teacher bias: We are all guilty - SecEd 5 reasons to welcome the new Headteacher Standards and NPQ frameworks - Teacher Development Trust | TDT UK government was warned campus Covid outbreaks ‘very likely’ - Times Higher Education | THE A specialized teacher incentive program benefits low-achieving students in China - Best Evidence in Brief Employers can boost economic recovery from COVID by investing apprenticeship levy funds in workforce development to strengthen resilience - ERSA The power of texting: combating student absenteeism - Best Evidence in Brief Effects of ROOTS on kindergarten students’ math skills - Best Evidence in Brief The scars of school violence - Best Evidence in Brief The impacts of physical education on children’s mental health - Best Evidence in Brief Exam delays, Powerpoint use, and the Covid app - Teacher Tapp Coronavirus: PVI recovery fund a ‘lifeline’ for early years settings - Nursery World ASCL comment on latest school attendance figures - ASCL Government ignored scientists' advice to move university teaching online - UCU Parents vow to homeschool son after headteacher bans face masks in class - Metro Government announce new Headteachers' Standards - Ambition Institute Coronavirus: Partial state school closures rise for third week in a row - Independent The Revival of Traineeships (pdf) - FE Week Covid secondary school disruption getting worse in England - BBC Covid: More than one in five secondaries partly closed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Almost 1 in 10 schools now partially closed - Schools Week GCSEs 2021: How do we keep students motivated? - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Call to scrap exams up for debate by MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Retraining Scheme to join National Skills Fund - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Berated' FE leaders want private commissioner reports - Times Educational Supplement | TES SAGE warning over schools spreading Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES £100m pilot integrated into £2.5bn National Skills Fund - FE Week Teacher training bursaries 'cut by 50%' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE wields axe on teacher training bursaries as Covid causes supply rises - Schools Week GCSEs 2021: Ofqual looking at multiple choice and mocks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid's impact on music teaching revealed by survey - Times Educational Supplement | TES More ‘optionality’ in next year’s exams still a possibility, says Ofqual chief - Schools Week Sage: 'Teaching in colleges should be all online' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Do maths schools have proof of concept yet? - Schools Week Profile: Tina Götschi, Principal, Ada National College for Digital Skills - FE Week Why are only four in 10 staff in FE comfortable with mainstream technology? - FE Week Autism: Too many in Scotland 'struggling to get help' - Herald Scotland Securing great outcomes for students means focusing on students, not courses - Wonkhe Tackling the disability employment gap - Wonkhe Policymakers must not forget refugees’ higher education - HEPI 9:30 a.m. - The Education Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds - Accountability Hearings Don’t go to UK for bachelor’s degree, ambassador tells Romanians - Times Higher Education | THE UCU threatens wider industrial action in bid to force move online - Times Higher Education | THE Scottish pupils will lose out without exams, parents warn - Times UCET statement on ITE bursaries (13th October 2020) - UCET