News archive for 16th October 2020

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The winners of the Tes FE Awards 2020 revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers call for circuit-breaker and two-week half term - Telegraph Teaching union backs Keir Starmer in calling for an urgent two week 'circuit breaker' - Mail End-of-term testing blitz to get students home for Christmas - Telegraph Schoolchildren are being left outside in the rain because of unclear Covid advice - Mail The problem with philanthropy - New Statesman Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 16 October 2020 - Education Eye Dog parades, free food and online meet-ups: What universities are doing for self-isolating students - Independent What schools in lockdown areas need to know - Schools Week Wes Streeting appointed shadow schools minister - Schools Week GCSE resits may come with 'potential public health risks', education body warns - Independent 'Fast' Covid tests to keep schools open just weeks away - Times Educational Supplement | TES Committee to hold accountability hearing with School Standards Minister Nick Gibb MP - UK Parliament At least 20,000 university students have had coronavirus since the start of term, analysis finds - Telegraph Private school association launches partnership with debt collector as parents struggle to pay fees - Telegraph Labour’s call on free school meals - National Education Union School budgets ‘on a knife edge’ due to soaring supply staff costs - Schools Week Coronavirus UK: Locked-down students at Bristol and Edinburgh protest campus restrictions - Mail Wes Streeting is new shadow schools minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Changes to checks for EU sanctions on EEA teachers from 1 January 2021 - DfE Schools happier and healthier in 2020 despite Covid-19, say teachers - Pearson One-to-one support for pupils with SEND - a case study in how specialists and TAs can work together - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF SME Leaders fear not enough is being done to help them prepare their workforce for the end of the Brexit transition period - AoC | Association of Colleges British Council holds first virtual ELTons Awards - PIE News Motivation and self-regulation: insights from Kornell and Bjork - Research Schools Network We need a shared language for social and emotional learning - Research Schools Network Oxford physicist who was forced to retire reinstated by tribunal - Times Higher Education | THE University of Central Lancashire threatens to slash 69 jobs - UCU UCU launches petition demanding universities move online as campus Covid cases hit 20k - UCU Teachers demand 2 week school closures after cases jump - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lisa Capper: Nacro's head of education and skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Circuit breaker for secondary schools and post-16 - National Education Union UCU says all colleges must copy Preston College's two week 'circuit breaker' - UCU Youth work leaders back calls for financial training for young people - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Secondary school pupils unable to access school counselling, YoungMinds says - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Warning that massive competition for limited traineeship funding will repeat controversial non-levy tender - FE Week Coronavirus: College announces two week ‘circuit breaker’ - FE Week Aligning end-point assessment with existing regulation makes sense - FE Week Covid: Nine-fold rise in secondary student infections - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE closes covid attendance loophole 6 weeks into term - Schools Week UCU calls for two week college circuit breaker - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why isn't the government listening to teachers? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Scientists call for 2-3 week 'circuit breaker' with all schools to close - Mirror Universities prepare end-of-term Covid testing blitz to get students home for Christmas - Mail Schools forced to rethink teacher training after ‘short-sighted’ grant cut - Schools Week Sturgeon thanks teachers after term under Covid shadow - Times Educational Supplement | TES Face coverings in education - DfE Pupils will go hungry with no free meals in holidays - Evening Standard Children in coronavirus hotspots need extra exam help, says head - Evening Standard Coronavirus circuit-breaker lockdowns should be enforced every school holiday, scientific advisers warn - The Sun DfE goes soft on apprenticeship public sector reporting rule - FE Week MATs miss apprenticeship targets requirement, but DfE softens stance - Schools Week Ofsted: Lockdown leaves pupils behind in the three Rs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Restaurants offer free school meals after PM rejects Marcus Rashford's plea for help - Mirror Digital skills bootcamps: What are they and how will they work? - FE Week Gordon Brown backs Marcus Rashford's school meals plea - BBC Schools are making contingency plans for a “circuit breaker” lockdown - Wales Online Private schools group branded ‘insensitive’ over partnership with debt collection agency - Schools Week The future of higher education after Covid - HEPI The fear now gripping universities: will students come back in January? | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Second wave of Institutes of Technology will feature ‘strengthened’ criteria - FE Week Almost half of Johnson's 'education catch-up' fund remains unallocated - Guardian Students allowed to break school mask rules - Times Educational Supplement | TES £140m of tuition catch-up cash remains unspent - Schools Week Busting the myths about remote learning - Schools Week Let’s take the remote out of online learning - Wonkhe Do we misunderstand being marginalised? - Wonkhe Podcast: Disabled students, new providers, diverse governors, Conservative conference - Wonkhe SAGE expert 'wants multiple circuit breaker lockdowns over school holidays until Spring' - Mirror SMEs call for further action on skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Government adviser says country should be shut around every school holiday - Mail Investigation: DfE silent on missing £143m tutor cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Are disabled uni students getting enough help? - BBC AoC survey reveals SME gloom on employee skills - FE Week Call for circuit-breaker lockdowns during every school holiday - Times Covid in Ireland: don’t go home for weekends, students urged - Times