News archive for 8th September 2020

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Angry mum’s photo of daughter’s crowded bus to school sparks investigation - The Sun Universities must be honest with students about likelihood of classes going online, regulator says - Telegraph Teachers could threaten schools with strike action over coronavirus safety measures - Telegraph School closures could mean that GDP takes a 1.5% hit for the rest of the century, OECD says - Telegraph Coronavirus: Manchester students warned off club nights - BBC The Guardian view on special educational needs: councils need more money - Guardian MPs told of 158 Covid schools, but DfE won't confirm - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students learn as much outside as inside the classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES All the schools in Wales hit by coronavirus - Wales Online FE commissioner to stay in job 'up to 12 more months' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reveal GCSE and A-level appeal numbers, Ofqual told - Times Educational Supplement | TES School reopenings ‘derailed’ as test and trace system ‘falls over’ - Schools Week Dean of Christ Church Oxford cleared of safeguarding failures - Times Apprenticeship technical funding guide - Education & Skills Funding Agency Universities returning likely to have 'biggest impact' on Covid-19 transmission in Scotland - Scotsman The government mustn't ruin schools' fragile success - Times Educational Supplement | TES Back to school: motivating and assessing pupils after lockdown - Ambition Institute Is it Freshers Flu or Covid-19? - Wonkhe Evidence-based optimist, or profitable doomsday futurology: which take on higher education will prevail? - HEPI A new school year, but what’s missing? Plus, findings on pessimism and school clubs - Teacher Tapp More than marks on paper - UKEdChat New Development Matters meets negative response from many in the sector - EYE | Early Years Educator Colleges best placed to lead a business and skills innovation revolution - AoC | Association of Colleges Black people have lived in Britain since before the English came here – it is time our curriculum reflected that - PoliticsHome Do years in the profession make you a better teacher? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF UK accused of failing to promote minority languages - Guardian DfE awards £27m deal in expansion of laptops scheme - Public Technology MPs launch inquiry into economic impact of Covid-19 on young people - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Research at risk from student mobility disruption, warns OECD - Times Higher Education | THE Back to school: Schools report high attendance and positive responses from pupils, parents and staff - SecEd OECD’s annual Education-at-a-Glance report - National Education Union DJing formally offered at GCSE: a challenge to a 'colonialised curriculum' - Guardian Government offers 500 internships to care leavers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children’s commissioner calls for NHS counsellors in schools to relieve mental health crisis - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ‘I knew what was going on the news, but I didn’t know how to understand it’: is the Prevent policy helping students learn about terrorism? - IOE London Blog ‘Furious’ European Research Council president fears funding cut - Times Higher Education | THE Early years coalition criticises lack of consultation over revised Development Matters and plans own guidance - Nursery World Teachers miss lessons through lack of Covid-19 tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Decision not to fund outdoor centres ‘catastrophic’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two Bs or not two Bs: Can Hamlet teach our children to spell? - Guardian Teachers say 'unfit' Covid testing is hitting school reopenings - Mail 200 pupils from three schools in one town to self-isolate as four kids test positive - Mirror Parents 'in tears' wanting to take children out of school after coronavirus outbreak - Mirror FE White Paper: What do sector leaders want it to say? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning that 'spoon-fed pupils' hardest hit by Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Why it’s time to scrap target grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Entire year at Dinas Powys school to self-isolate after virus case - Wales Online Colleges need cash to employ ‘business innovation account managers’, says AoC - FE Week Let's end the Oxbridge obsession. It does a disservice to our other universities and skews society - Telegraph Schools given days to confirm autumn A-level resit venues - Schools Week Suffolk school closed for second day after Covid outbreak - BBC First look at new £105 million Henry Royce Institute Hub Building - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Supporting students with first payments - Student Loans Company Fraud Facts for Freshers - Student Loans Company Church clears Oxford college dean over alleged safeguarding failures - Guardian ‘Nothing to fear’ if colleges brought into public ownership, says AoC chief in tense exchange with MPs - FE Week College sector status 'irrelevant', says AoC - Times Educational Supplement | TES Here's the plan for this year's GCSEs and A levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES School visited by Boris Johnson to show it was safe confirms coronavirus case - Independent Coronavirus in Scotland: Pupils told to self isolate for two weeks from Capshard Primary School in Kirkcaldy - Scotsman England's teacher pay gap nearly twice OECD average - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish teachers paid less than European counterparts - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK slips from 1st to 4th in OECD for education spending - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK bucks the trend with lower spending on VET students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid safety 'easier in countries with smaller classes' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What happens if a student tests positive for Covid-19? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Older students increasingly taught by 'young' teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 90 UK schools have cases of coronavirus - here's which ones - Scotsman Heightened risks mean more should be done to prevent exclusions now - Schools Week New preservation service makes data more secure and future-proofs UK university digital collections - Jisc Higher education in the UK is morally bankrupt. I’m taking my research millions and I’m off | Ulf Schmidt - Guardian Coronavirus: Will schools be forced to close again? - Express No child’s education should be dependent on their internet connection - PoliticsHome Nepotism, fraud, waste and cheating ... welcome to England's school system - Guardian Evidence- based optimist, or profitable doomsday futurology: which take on higher education will prevail? - HEPI Ranking all over the world – your start of session league table round up - Wonkhe USS 2020 valuation promises another difficult year - Wonkhe Let's hope tough new rules on children's online data collection deliver - City AM Coronavirus: 'I paid for my student house, now all my lectures are online' - BBC NUS: Third of students unable to access online lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES NUS: Colleges must prioritise student wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils could face going to school on Saturdays to catch up on missed lessons, Education Sec reveals - The Sun Quarter of UK students ‘unable to properly access online learning’ - Times Higher Education | THE A-levels crisis: the alternatives to hyper-selective English HE - Times Higher Education | THE To deal with the A levels fiasco fallout, medical schools need a cash injection - Times Higher Education | THE 9:30 a.m. - The Education Committee will hold an oral evidence session on the Further Education White Paper - Accountability Hearings One in four students unable to access online learning during lockdown – survey - Guardian Ireland: Call for more college places after record Leaving Cert results - Times ITT Core Content Framework Exemplification Resource - UCET The TeachVac Review 2020 - UCET