News archive for 19th October 2020

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Coronavirus Scotland: School closure 'confusion' warning - Herald Scotland Most of the country's major university towns are now past the peak of the virus, latest data reveals - Telegraph Classrooms look very different this year. Here are 5 research resources to support teachers in adapting your practices - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Now more than ever the government must implement a long-term strategy to combat child hunger - PoliticsHome New roadmap lays out path for OpenDOAR as an international, community-driven repository directory - Jisc Early years practitioners urged to have their say, as work begins on “Birth to 5 Matters” EYFS guidance - Early Education New digital strategy supports FE through the technology revolution - Jisc Male nursery teachers like me are in a tiny minority - but we have so much to offer - Telegraph Keeping it short - UKEdChat Up to 1,000 residents including students are told to 'immediately' evacuate their homes over fire safety fears - Mail Covid in Scotland: schools in hotspots at risk of closure - Times Toby Perkins MP supports Colleges Week 2020 - AoC | Association of Colleges ASCL Cymru comment on ‘firebreak’ arrangements for schools in Wales - ASCL What's it like in colleges at the moment? - ASCL NASUWT reaction to Welsh Government announcement - NASUWT You can’t love what you don’t know: reflections on curriculum training - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth EdTech demonstrator schools and colleges: successful applicants - DfE Free school travel: funding allocations - DfE BePro surrenders Ofqual recognition - Ofqual Bristol students to withhold rent over university's 'lack of support' - Guardian Teachers at 'serious risk' without new safety checks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wilshaw: Covid sent me back to teaching, after 15 years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Climate scientists ‘fly more than other researchers’ - Times Higher Education | THE Welsh universities to continue in-person teaching during lockdown - Times Higher Education | THE Schools in N. Ireland shut for two weeks - BBC Green jobs for graduates: what should you study and how can you reskill? - Guardian DfE sets out on 18-month £10m digital services drive - Public Technology Improving reading in secondary schools - Research Schools Network Colleges Week 2020: Why it is about empowering FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES 8 steps to move from monitoring to developing teaching - Teacher Toolkit Nuffield Research Placements to be delivered in partnership with STEM Learning - Nuffield Foundation Circuit-breaker lockdown necessary to stop rising Covid-19 cases in secondary schools, NEU says - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Education leaders back Marcus Rashford's free school meals campaign - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Pupils taking A-level and GCSE exams this autumn will be treated with 'generosity' by markers - Telegraph Students taking GCSE and A-level resits will benefit from same 'generosity' as their peers in summer - Mail Teachers 'busting a gut', says Wes Streeting - Times Educational Supplement | TES Open schools are public's Covid lockdown priority - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tiered alert system will not dictate when schools close - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students from northern England facing 'toxic attitude' at Durham University - Guardian Schools told not to 'bother' DfE on Covid cases - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers condemn safety ad's 'small class sizes' claim - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus Scotland: School closure 'triggers' being considered - Herald Scotland Primary schools to stay open but Year 9 and above to study at home - Wales Online Residents asked to leave London blocks immediately over safety concerns - Guardian Schools that had 50% of results downgraded revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mock exams 2020: 5 ways to prepare - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of male teachers in England drops - Nursery World Exam uncertainty is creating a teenage mental health crisis - Telegraph History made as University of St Andrews elects first black female rector - Scotsman Coronavirus Scotland: Teachers warn schools must close if needed - Herald Scotland Move.Learn.Grow. - working together to provide schools with unique learning solutions - Harlequins Foundation Scots schools may close again in future Covid lockdowns - Scotsman Autumn resits will have ‘generosity’ of 2020 grades - Schools Week GCSEs: Autumn grades boosted by summer ‘generosity’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will schools close again? - Express Trends in the diversity of teachers in England - EPI The GCSE attainment of black Caribbean pupils is falling - FFT Education Datalab Charities fear impact of masks on deaf children in UK schools - Guardian Scottish universities Covid outbreaks were 'waiting to happen' - Herald Scotland A radical new strategy for lifetime reskilling must be the bedrock of UK economic recovery - CBI Returning to the science classroom - Research Schools Network Movers and Shakers: Edition 330 - FE Week Mask-wearing teachers could have a negative effect on deaf children's education, warns charity - Telegraph 7 reasons schools need more money now - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents fuel rise in claims of misconduct against teachers - Herald Scotland Education: An academic discipline or a field? - BERA Uncertainty persists: What does the latest British Council survey tell us about international students in 2020/21? - HEPI Who exactly is this white working class? - Wonkhe Big decisions about January need to be taken by governors now - Wonkhe Fifty days to leave your uni? - Wonkhe Number of white male teachers falls by 20% in just ten years, sparking fears of a lack of role models - Mail Training providers 'struggling with remote learning' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pay freezes blamed for huge drop in male teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why it's time to rebuild FE for a digital future - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills: £13bn needed to retrain adults by 2030 – CBI - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jisc launches three-year digital plan for FE and skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of male secondary school teachers plunges to just over a third in a decade - The Sun Pupils lose out as number of male teachers falls to new low as white men abandon profession - Telegraph Universities opened halls at full capacity despite warnings of Covid risk - Telegraph CBI warns most workers will need new skills by 2030 to support economy - Mail The best student experience possible right now is online - Times Higher Education | THE School of Advanced Study set to close institutes in cash crisis - Times Higher Education | THE CBI calls time on ‘failed’ apprenticeship levy - FE Week Scrapping in-work training fund will harm economic recovery, warn trade unions - Guardian Exodus of male teachers leaves boys without role models - Times Scotland: Edinburgh University chief insists David Hume’s fall wasn’t a sop to snowflakes - Times Covid on campus: Scottish universities packed halls at full capacity - Times DfE: Guidance on remote lesson observations and travel to/from placements (19 Oct 2020) - UCET