News archive for 3rd September 2020

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Schools asking children to wear face masks even when there is no local lockdown - Telegraph Seven schools in England send pupils home to self-isolate due to students catching Covid - Mail Schools begin teaching reformed Early Years Foundation Stage - DfE School staff must self-isolate after coronavirus case confirmed - Wales Online Schools should reinstate PE lessons, Ofsted chief says - Telegraph Fellows 'booted out' of college offices to make way for extra Cambridge freshers following grades U-turn - Telegraph Eight schools in England hit by coronavirus outbreaks the week pupils returned - Mirror Birmingham City University lecturers will wear visors and personal microphones when campus reopens - Mail We're relying on teachers to show their class and revive country - Mirror We’d planned the first day back at school perfectly. Then it rained - Schools Week Legal challenge possible over IB results - Times Educational Supplement | TES The gap in casual staff pay during lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge state pupil intake jumps after grades u-turn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grading u-turn: How will those A-grade students do now? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Risk of more A-level chaos in 2021 if government doesn't plan for exams delay, Labour warns - HuffPost Number of state school students starting at Cambridge University this term will hit record high - Mail Why are UK children the unhappiest in Europe? - Scotsman Angry parents say children 'treated like animals and made to eat in rain' at school - Mirror What students are telling us about learning during lockdown - Office for Students UCU comment on Scottish government guidance on reopening university campuses - UCU Curriculum guidance for the revised EYFS published by the DfE - EYE | Early Years Educator New non-statutory guidance for the EYFS: comment from Early Education - Early Education Teachers fear Covid exposure in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Breadth and balance: the essential elements of a recovery curriculum - IOE London Blog Mum pulled kids out of school when they were told to remove face masks - Metro Getting the detail right: the case of retrieval practice - Research Schools Network Meaningful memory: Working with memory to enhance teaching and learning - Research Schools Network 20,000 pupils with special educational needs are unlikely to return to school in September - Nuffield Foundation Making us mentally healthier: Pioneering programme for better university mental health - Leeds Beckett University Digest #147: Making your material digitally accessible - Learning Scientists Lessons learned from Leicester’s lockdown - HEPI School forced to stagger opening after ‘20 pupils contract coronavirus in Zante’ - Independent The performance of learning is not higher education - Wonkhe Working mothers now face huge challenge to secure sufficient childcare - EYE | Early Years Educator Does Gavin Williamson deserve an A*? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are booklets the key to better blended learning? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heavy TV and computer use impacts children’s academic results - UKEdChat Tutoring revealed assessment's seedy underbelly to me - Times Educational Supplement | TES How will school kids cope with face masks? As an adolescent boy, I would have welcomed one | Adrian Chiles - Guardian Headteacher threatens to fine parents who refuse to send children back to classroom from next week - Mail I don’t care about fines – I’m not sending my boy, 10, back to school, kids have germs & ‘safety bubbles’ can burst - The Sun School trips get green light – but not residentials - Times Educational Supplement | TES College leaders called on to help prevent unnecessary surge in coronavirus testing - FE Week New early years guidance has 'serious flaws' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 6,000 people sign up to Kickstart programme on day 1 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why Ofsted visits this term just waste valuable time - Times Educational Supplement | TES School leaders called on to help prevent unnecessary surge in coronavirus testing - Schools Week Ofqual suggests online exams could be option next summer in wake of this year’s grading chaos - Independent DfE publishes Development Matters curriculum guidance, as early adopter schools start updated EYFS - Nursery World Working mothers raise concern over lack of childcare - Nursery World Coronavirus: Poor families 'won't be able to wash uniforms daily' - Metro As a teenage girl, I'm worried schools aren't taking sex education seriously - HuffPost Will the SQA listen to teachers on exam changes? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Special school linked to 40 Covid cases to reopen - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual: ‘Wrong to assume’ students with deflated grades have been ‘disadvantaged’ - Schools Week Call for 'cast-iron guarantee' on closing the Covid gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Times Higher Education World University Rankings revealed for 2021 - Herald Scotland 'Mutant algorithm': boring B-movie or another excuse from Boris Johnson? - Guardian Digital teaching and learning in English higher education during the coronavirus pandemic: Call for evidence - Office for Students Can OfS help universities bridge the digital divide? - Wonkhe Coronavirus: is it safe for children to go back to school? (podcast) - Guardian Schoolboy boasts on TikTok about travelling to Zante without a mask before 20 teens bring Covid back - Mail 20,000 pupils with SEND 'may not return' this term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Childcare crisis risks pushing women out of workforce, says TUC - Guardian Coronavirus: Secondary school return ‘a huge risk’ - Times University table marks UK down but Oxford still wins - Times Ireland: Colleges to be monitored on consent policies - Times Covid-19 researchers live and work in lonely bubbles - Times Higher Education | THE Beefed-up TEF and new regulator powers ‘mulled by ministers’ - Times Higher Education | THE UK campuses ‘particularly vulnerable’ to student mobility drop - Times Higher Education | THE