News archive for 2nd September 2020

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Gavin Williamson ‘ignored pleas from Ofqual to not cancel socially distanced exams’ - The Sun David Blunkett: Children are back at school but unions are threatening to hobble universities - Mail Unions warn childcare needs urgent cash boost to help mums get back to work - Mirror Labour demand 'close the gap' scheme to help end widening education inequality - Mirror Fake news fears over return to school as Government warns local authorities to monitor social media - Telegraph Full return to college ‘best for students’ as ‘no substitute for being in a classroom’ - FE Week Are face masks compulsory when schools reopen? - Telegraph BTec students still waiting for grades weeks after results scandal - Metro School forced to delay opening as 20 pupils get coronavirus in Zante - The Sun Families 'too poor' to wash school uniforms daily to fight coronavirus, doctor warns - Mirror Gavin Williamson ignored advice to allow exams to go ahead, says Ofqual chief - Mirror As schools re-open adorable snaps of royal children looking nervous on their first day - Mirror Ofqual chief says adopting results algorithm was a 'fundamental mistake' - Mail Scottish Government 'cannot afford to bail out universities' as more places to be funded - Herald Scotland Ofsted visits 'inspection by another name', say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education plans from September 2020 - Ofsted Ofsted visits to schools and colleges to begin this month - Ofsted Creating a culture: a review of behaviour management in schools - DfE Behaviour and discipline in schools - DfE Refusing to fund Covid costs will plunge schools like mine back into the red - Schools Week Written statement from Chair of Ofqual to the Education Select Committee - Ofqual ESFA Update: 2 September 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted visits to schools and colleges to begin this month - Ofsted Recruitment: Making the case for the dual professional - Times Educational Supplement | TES Evaluation of the OfS Mental Health Challenge Competition - Office for Students Gavin Williamson to blame for England exams fiasco, says Ofqual chair - Guardian Coronavirus: What will schools do if children get coronavirus? - BBC Coronavirus: Small firms need nurseries to reopen to run their businesses - Nursery World University of Oxford is ranked best in the world for fifth year in a row - Mail Ofqual and the exams fiasco: 8 interesting things we learned - FE Week Gavin Williamson ignored regulator’s advice on GCSEs and A-levels, MPs told - Financial Times Coronavirus information (updated) - Voice Oxford ranked world’s best university - Independent Digital dynamite: learning and teaching during COVID-19 - Jisc Research insights for children moving up to secondary school published - IOE London Blog Historic children’s rights Bill to become law in Scotland - Nursery World Ofqual and the exams fiasco: 7 super interesting things we learned - Schools Week Why the government has got the maths ELGs wrong - Times Educational Supplement | TES LSE ranked in top tier of global universities - London School of Economics | LSE SEND pupils face exclusion risk as schools return, commissioner warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Five-a-day - achieving effective learning behaviours within our classrooms - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Back to School Guide: Education technology & remote education - SecEd Student wellbeing: Teachers offered specialist support - SecEd Local lockdown guidance: Schools urged to set 'realistic expectations' - SecEd Nancy Rothwell takes up Chair of the Russell Group - Russell Group Ofsted visits in the autumn term will be a distraction for schools rather than a support - National Education Union Are teachers drowning in a sea of tasks? - UKEdChat Research round up - key research you may have missed over the summer - Research Schools Network Minimising disruption to on-campus and online teaching and learning - Collab Group Innovation – the silver lining of lockdown - GSA ASCL response to Ofqual evidence to Education Select Committee - ASCL The increasing need to educate children about their rights: An outcome of lockdown measures - BERA Clarification needed on masks in classrooms - NASUWT Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer clash over 'exam fiasco' at PMQs (video) - Guardian ASCL comment on Ofsted autumn visits - ASCL Coronavirus: Why deep cleans are 'security theatre' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual says private candidates 'missed out most' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 17% of looked-after pupils leave with no qualifications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual 'wanted A Level and GCSE exams to be socially distanced instead of cancelled', chairman says - Evening Standard New Ofsted ‘visits’: The details that schools need to know - Schools Week Ofqual suggests online tests for GCSEs and A levels '21 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual warned grades system would not win public support - BBC PM refuses to say when he first knew of grading flaws - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 100,000 pupils still not attending school in Scotland - Independent Ofqual decided to ditch tiered GCSE grades 'early' on - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar school is forced to delay reopening by more than a week - Mail ‘Worst-case scenario’: Government pushed forward with flawed A-level algorithm despite other options, exams chief says - Independent Ofsted’s autumn visits: what FE providers need to know - FE Week Ofsted autumn 'visits' could become formal inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual chair apologises for BTEC results delays - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford is best university in world but Cambridge drops to sixth - Evening Standard Ofqual moots online tests as plan B for 2021 exams - Schools Week School forced to delay opening after pupils catch Covid-19 following holiday abroad - Mirror Inside socially distanced classrooms as kids return to school today - Metro Ofqual chairman says it was a "fundamental mistake" to believe algorithm grades "would ever be acceptable" - PoliticsHome Ofqual moots online tests as plan B for 2021 exams - FE Week Universities facing reduced deficit as record number of international students expected - Scotsman Somalinimo: young, gifted and Somali... and at Cambridge - Guardian Coronavirus: How it feels to be going back to school - BBC Education in England is in turmoil, yet the government is still ignoring headteachers | Robin Bevan - Guardian Ofsted to visit FE providers from 28 September - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual: Williamson demand sent grading 'out of control' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School forced to delay opening after outbreak of coronavirus cases linked to holidays abroad - Evening Standard Ofqual: Grades algorithm always doomed but 'not biased’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual: ‘Fundamental mistake’ to believe algorithm grades would ‘ever be acceptable to public’ - FE Week Ofqual: ‘Fundamental mistake’ to believe algorithm grades would ‘ever be acceptable to public’ - Schools Week Gavin Williamson 'was warned of major flaws in algorithm two weeks before A-levels fiasco' - Mail Gavin Williamson overruled advice not to cancel exams, says Ofqual chair - HuffPost SQA appeals: 'No student should be disadvantaged' - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-levels news: Government-backed gap years for students who missed university places this year - Independent Funding audits to restart this month for private providers – but not colleges - FE Week Exam board 'warned DfE about grading problems in July' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers launch £2bn drive to tackle youth unemployment as number of under-25s on benefits doubles - PoliticsHome How the world of teaching changed for children after coronavirus pandemic - Express Millions of pupils in England return to classrooms after historic schools closure - Evening Standard We need an urgent inquiry into the role of the welfare state to tackle widening inequality in Britain - PoliticsHome The exams catastrophe: 16 questions that must still be answered - HEPI I don't want Ofqual heads to roll – I want improvement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Overseas boarders pick 'safe' UK over USA - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will it be a happy new year for higher education? - Wonkhe Doesn’t the science on Covid get #madeatuni? - Wonkhe Face masks: Headteachers left 'picking up the pieces' after government leaves them to make decisions - Independent Coronavirus: What do schools look like now? - BBC Parents get advice for first-day nerves at school - BBC Millions of pupils return after historic shutdown - BBC Will Covid-19 change the scientific method long term? - Times Higher Education | THE Gavin Williamson insists exams will go ahead next year - Mail Education Secretary's statement on the schools fiasco: Gavin Williamson's face had the look of a boy outside the head's study - Mail 9:30 a.m. - The Education Committee will hear oral evidence in its inquiry into the impact of COVID-19 on education and children’s services - Accountability Hearings Back to school: ‘By the end of the day, it was like the pupils had never left’ - Times Heads put Williamson to test on delays for next year’s exams - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: One in six children absent from classrooms last week - Times Scotland: Denying drinking water to pupils is unconscionable - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Leaving Certs boosted under calculated grades system, Norma Foley says - Times