News archive for 7th September 2020

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Coronavirus: Pupils sent home from school across UK amid outbreaks - Mail Pupils isolating as 15 schools in Greater Manchester see virus cases - Metro More than 200 pupils at Bridgend school told to self-isolate after Covid case - Wales Online Kesgrave student 'critical' after shooting on way to school - BBC Lords to debate science research funding in universities report - UK Parliament The latest advice for sending children to school in Caerphilly - Wales Online Vocational and technical qualification assessments in 2021 - Ofqual Applications open for Care Leavers Internship Scheme 2020 - DfE Universities could be shut down in new coronavirus outbreaks - Telegraph Teacher in hospital with coronavirus as school closes for all pupils and staff - Mirror The Guardian view on Covid-19 and the young: a new, dangerous phase - Guardian DfE and Ofqual 'blaming each other' for grading crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Longer school days and Saturday classes could help pupils catch up from lockdown, says Gavin Williamson - Evening Standard Longer school days and Saturday classes could help pupils catch up, says minister - Mirror Arrest after Suffolk teenager shot on way to school - Times Thousands of pupils across England and Wales sent home due to coronavirus - HuffPost Trust faces losing its 4 schools amid ‘serious management breakdown’ - Schools Week Teachers' wait for key course details extended again - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 60 schools have Covid-19 outbreaks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Use £4bn reserves for Covid-19 spending, schools told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning for academy trust over leadership 'collapse' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: What to do if a student tests positive - Times Educational Supplement | TES Getting kids back to school was easy compared with what will come next | Sarah Dry - Guardian How incentivising writing can transform learning loss - Teacher Toolkit 7 ways to set expectations - Teacher Toolkit Williamson claims reopening is ‘very much’ under control despite spate of Covid closures - Schools Week Outreach should be tailored to the new normal for schools and colleges - HEPI UCU attacks Matt Hancock's suggestion that university students could be behind second Covid wave - UCU UCU response to Universities Superannuation Scheme 2020 valuation - UCU Making relationships and sex education work for children with SEND - NAHT ASCL responds to Schools Minister’s comments on GCSEs and A levels - ASCL LSE rises up the rankings - London School of Economics | LSE USS pension contributions ‘could reach 68 per cent of salaries’ - Times Higher Education | THE Flawed assumptions plague our exams system - SecEd Guidance on ‘Integrating students using EAL into mainstream lessons’ has been published by The Bell Foundation - Bell Foundation The professional power of Twitter - UKEdChat Royal Geographical Society report - FFT Education Datalab University of Liverpool report - FFT Education Datalab Coalition of Early Years Sector Organisations' statement on the new non-statutory guidance for the EYFS - Early Education Student, interrupted: How will Covid-19 transform higher education? - New Statesman Two-thirds of FE teachers don't feel safe returning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government doubles care leavers internship offer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Haverhill school closes as staff test positive for Covid-19 - BBC Liam Nolan barred from running academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy scandal heads barred from running schools - Schools Week Ofqual calls time on estimated grades for BTECs and other vocational qualifications - FE Week Kesgrave student, 15, injured after being shot on way to school - Mail Lack of Covid tests 'undermines school opening efforts' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keegan: 5 colleges needed extra funding owing to Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fatigue and headache most common Covid symptoms in children – study - Guardian How can it be fair to teach in the dark for 12 weeks? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher tests positive for Covid-19 at school visited by Boris Johnson - Mail Five schools shut down and hundreds of pupils self-isolating after coronavirus outbreaks - Evening Standard Hundreds of kids forced to isolate after coronavirus cases confirmed in 8 city schools - Mirror Kesgrave student injured in shooting on walk to school - BBC Kesgrave shooting – Boy, 15, is shot on way to school as teen arrested and kids ‘run home in terror’ - The Sun Have ventilation experts ever visited a real school? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: dozens of schools in England and Wales report outbreaks - Guardian 'Entire school year group' isolating after just two days back as pupil gets virus - Mirror Staffer at school Boris Johnson visited just days ago tests positive for Covid-19 - Mirror Coronavirus cases confirmed at three schools in northeast - Independent Teenager arrested after 15-year-old boy shot on way to school in Suffolk - HuffPost Number 10 insist universities should reopen despite Covid-19 spike in young people - Mirror Schools forced to close after teachers catch Covid-19 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Stomach upset in children 'should be added to symptom list' - study - Nursery World More than 60 UK schools have cases of coronavirus - here's which ones - Scotsman Child shot while walking to school in Ipswich - Metro Why schools must try to move away from Covid talk - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students start receiving revised SQA certificates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most teachers 'fear for pupils’ safety online' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Autumn phonics check 2020: What schools need to know - Schools Week Coronavirus: Five teachers test positive in one school - Independent UK rise in coronavirus cases is worst in wealthy youngsters aged 17 to 21 - Mirror Teachers at Suffolk school test positive for coronavirus - Guardian School forced to shut as five staff test positive before all pupils are back - Metro Covid heaps 'incredible' workload on school leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head teachers and senior management staff in schools facing 'excessive and unsustainable' workloads - Scotsman School is shut after five teachers test positive for coronavirus with two more staff awaiting test results - Mail Helping to maintain students’ health and wellbeing during lockdown - PoliticsHome Overzealous social distancing is turning the return to school into a tragedy - Telegraph Mental fitness helps us all to thrive – it should be in the curriculum - Wonkhe What are the Wonkhe community’s hopes for the HE sector post Covid-19? - Wonkhe The first weeks may be critical for the 2020 cohort - Wonkhe Blended learning remains necessary, says Swinney - Times Educational Supplement | TES Marcus Rashford rebukes Tory MP over food poverty - Times Coronavirus: Universities face strikes if they can’t show they are safe - Times Covid-19: don’t gamble with health, says union after Sage report - Times Higher Education | THE Inside Inclusion: supporting teachers and trainee teachers to address bullying and creative inclusive schools in the 20-21 academic year - UCET