News archive for 14th October 2020

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Headteacher warns parents about 'lesser' coronavirus symptoms she blames for outbreak - Mirror Kids forced to wear coats in class at school with no heating or hot food - Metro Are schools in Northern Ireland closing? - Express Half of UK's outdoor education centres face closure due to coronavirus - Telegraph ‘Don’t expect to get Covid costs back’, schools warned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will schools close again? - The Sun Ministers plan pre-Christmas Covid lockdown for English universities - Guardian 'Urgent' call to train teachers in 'digital learning' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The grades crisis shows it was a mistake to scrap coursework - The Educator Asbestos management in schools - DfE Employer skills survey 2019 - DfE ESFA Update: 14 October 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ‘Six of the best’ as key apprenticeship figures recognised in birthday honours list - IfATE Announcing the Future Ready Follow-on Fund Grantees - Nesta New grant programme could help SME nurseries adapt and diversify - EYE | Early Years Educator What’s behind the rise in first class degrees? - Wonkhe How I designed and introduced CfEY’s new work experience programme - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth They think it's all over . . . well it's not yet! - Independent Head HE in FE: Students need specialists, not generalists - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits: The power of peer-to-peer teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Proposals to tackle child poverty - National Education Union Equality and Human Rights Commission - recording and monitoring of restrictive practices - NAHT Call to publish pupil transmission rates in Northern Ireland - NASUWT Coronavirus and exams: general qualifications updates - NAHT Less than half school staff happy with pay or workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pandemic planning: Developing effective learning behaviours in the time of COVID-19 - Research Schools Network 5 tips for shifting your pedagogy - UKEdChat £27m Covid-secure school transport fund unveiled - Times Educational Supplement | TES Understanding the mental health impacts of COVID-19 - Nuffield Foundation New project to boost creative learning in schools across Europe - Leeds Beckett University Free school meal registrations rising as families struggle to feed their children - SecEd 3 reasons to use the National Tutoring Programme - Teacher Toolkit National Reference Test dates announced for 2021 - NFER Online sexual abuse: Safeguarding leads brace for rise in disclosures - SecEd Exams 2021: Contingency plans not to be published until November - SecEd Treat care leavers with more empathy, business and education leaders urged - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Midlands and northern cities see spike in child poverty rates - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Departing Pearson boss heads for the exit on the back of more weak sales - Mail Education and Covid-19: five needs that must be met to provide vital learning lifelines for children and teachers - IOE London Blog University Technology Colleges failing younger students - London School of Economics | LSE Update to timetabling and entry deadline for BTEC - Pearson New APC-free open access agreements test alternative funding models - Jisc Getting to grips with reading comprehension strategies - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Parents feel their kids have 'closed up' after returning to school following lockdown - Mirror Fears the pandemic pushing children further into poverty - Nursery World Ofsted data shows early years settings with Covid cases doubling every week - Nursery World Nursery expansion continues despite Covid crisis - Nursery World Exams 2021: how do the changes affect your calendar? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boarding school renames house honouring Clive of India after Black Lives Matter protests - Mail December 'circuit-breaker' could save thousands of lives in short term, advisers say - Telegraph Coronavirus and exams: a guide to the rules for absence - Times Educational Supplement | TES If GCSEs fall out of fashion, finding a school could get much more exciting - Telegraph My school will end up with five-figure Covid costs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council mistakenly delivers used coronavirus testing swab kits to students - Mirror Cypher looks to scale up after kids get a head start with its coding courses - Express White working-class boys will fall even further behind if they’re told to apologise for ‘white privilege’ - The Sun Half term circuit breaker: Could UK see two or three week national lockdown over half term - Express School closes for a week after pupils test positive for coronavirus - Wales Online GCSEs and A levels 2021: Can exams ever be fair? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools linked to 'exponential Covid growth' claim - Times Educational Supplement | TES More Covid tests promised to 'high-risk area' schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprentices to be given functional skills reprieve after being ‘stuck in limbo’ - FE Week Governments are failing Black students – and rappers are picking up the pieces | Chanté Joseph - Guardian Ignoring pressure to cancel exams was the right call - Schools Week Covid: What happens if someone in school tests positive? - BBC Government mass survey of employers finds training fallen to lowest level since 2011 - FE Week Campaign builds to save outdoor education centres - Times Educational Supplement | TES The fragilities in the English education system revealed by Covid-19, and how to put them right - BERA University staff angry that Covid teaching advice was 'ignored' - Guardian Why do over-16s at UTCs perform, but under-15s don't? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Asking us students to spend over £100 a week for food parcels just doesn’t seem right' - Telegraph New report: The experiences of disabled students in higher education - HEPI Does blended learning change what learning is? - Wonkhe Coronavirus Scotland: Call to scrap school parents evenings - Herald Scotland New Northern Ireland lockdown set to shut pubs and close schools for a fortnight - Mirror UTC attainment gap for pre and post-16s revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academics claim a two-week 'circuit-breaker' lockdown linked to half-term could save 'between 3,000 and 107,000 lives' - Mail Covid: School insurance fears for cancelled overnight trips - BBC Student engagement predicts final performance ‘within weeks’ - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities sign deal to waive Plos publication fees - Times Higher Education | THE Long Covid impact ‘must be considered’ as cases on campus soar - Times Higher Education | THE Pressure grows on PM for half-term lockdown - Times Don’t ask working-class boys to apologise for ‘white privilege’, experts warn - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Wrap up, pupils told, as windows will stay open - Times Ireland budget: Grant increase could help more students into postgraduate courses - Times Coronavirus: Schools and hospitality ‘will need to close’ to curb infection rate - Times