News archive for 9th September 2020

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Government blocks Labour bid for full disclosure of exams fiasco documents - Mail Cambridge University to test students every week even if they show no symptoms - Telegraph Students should not return home if there is an outbreak at their university, Government says - Telegraph America's 'Covid evacuees' flock to Scottish boarding schools - Telegraph Call for governance boost to help teacher 'safety' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson told to 'show more humility' on exams chaos - Times Educational Supplement | TES 1 in 10 pupils has not returned to school, Boris Johnson admits - Schools Week Williamson: Masks should not be part of school uniform - Times Educational Supplement | TES 1 in 10 pupils not in school, admits PM - Times Educational Supplement | TES Success of language teacher SCITT must now 'go viral' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge University to offer weekly Covid tests to students - BBC Labour calls for ‘urgent’ action on UK campus coronavirus testing - Times Higher Education | THE Russell Group ‘assuming’ UK will not join Horizon Europe - Times Higher Education | THE Plan to keep Covid-hit students on UK campuses ‘irresponsible’ - Times Higher Education | THE Interim phase: area SEND - Ofsted Educational psychologists: support for coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery - DfE NLG advisory group: reform recommendations - DfE ESFA Update: 9 September 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted support for area SEND arrangements this autumn term - Ofsted 16 to 19 funding: 16 to 19 tuition fund - Education & Skills Funding Agency Safeguarding: Councils braced for spike in referrals as ‘Covid lockdown cloak’ is lifted - SecEd Union calls for ban on inspections and parent evenings - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASN school staff 'at greater risk of Covid-19' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Toby Perkins: Kickstart funding better spent elsewhere - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of teacher edtech skills a challenge during Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plan to keep Covid-hit students on UK campuses ‘irresponsible’ - Times Higher Education | THE DfE change of heart: catch-up funding can be for students with GCSE English and maths - FE Week ED Hirsch on why education still doesn't produce equity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two of my staff have tested positive for Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swinney reassured by SQA days before results published - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid won't stop counselling in every secondary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Childhood obesity action plan ‘too slow’, says report - Nursery World Government ‘will miss 2030 target to halve childhood obesity’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Food insecurity: Marcus Rashford leads campaign to extend FSM to 1.5 million more pupils - SecEd New Edge report follows the journey to employment for young people with additional needs - Edge Foundation Expectations of differentiation - UKEdChat Racist responses to Marcus Rashford's campaign for children are no surprise | Afua Hirsch - Guardian Ofsted defends autumn term school visits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Widen eligibility criteria for NLGs and pay them, says government advisory group - Schools Week Minister says the quality of an FE course should be judged by job outcomes - FE Week Invest now in digital technology to support FE colleges and learners - AoC | Association of Colleges Celebrating our new PhD graduates - Leeds Beckett University Children with special educational needs ‘repeatedly forgotten’ by Government, survey finds - EYE | Early Years Educator Teachers strike to protect pensions - NASUWT ESFA: 'Relationship with providers isn't close enough' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Whole year group tests 'not appropriate', says Hancock - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid testing an 'absolute shambles' for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers supporting children with additional needs given 'totally inadequate' guidance - Herald Scotland Are schools going to close again? - The Sun Nearly 12% of pupils in Scotland absent from school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anti-racism in the early years - Early Education DfE seeks retired educational psychologists to support returning pupils - Schools Week School's sixth formers told to self-isolate after student tests positive - Wales Online Durham University condemns 'utterly abhorrent' claims students planned competition for 'posh lads' to have sex with 'poorest girl on campus' - Evening Standard School sends entire year group home to self-isolate after confirmed coronavirus case - Mirror Grammar schools told to improve disabled pupils' access - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland half way towards Covid teacher numbers target - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Suffolk's Samuel Ward Academy reopens after outbreak - BBC 'Big concerns’ over Covid catch-up tutors shortage - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools facing funding black hole 'after Covid-19 safety measures eat up budgets' - Evening Standard Plea for laptops to keep pupils online in event of second lockdown - Evening Standard More Scottish school buildings in good condition - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government publishes new strategy to kickstart data revolution across the UK - GOV.UK Invest now in digital technology to support FE colleges and learners - Jisc Covid-19 recovery: Why digital funding for FE is vital - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sir John Kingman to step down as UK Research and Innovation chair - Times Higher Education | THE Government needs to step up support for apprentices whose training has been stopped by the pandemic’, say training providers - AELP Inverting empire: The use of global history to challenge exclusion in the English history curriculum - BERA Creating better materials for distance learning and professional development - Edmodo Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University revoke offer after promising student a place on masters course - Scotsman 'Covid is a social crisis': the university staff and students filling welfare gaps - Guardian Schools seek legal advice over anti-mask parent threats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private school teacher training 'boosts state sector' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Maths teachers asked to help set research agenda - Times Educational Supplement | TES How safe is it to send children back to school? - Metro 6 ways to show trust to your team - Teacher Toolkit A new approach to evaluating higher education leadership - Wonkhe 2021 Masters Dissertation and Doctoral Thesis Awards now open - BERA AELP: Government must step up and support apprentices - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government 'must invest to make FE digital-first' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 2:00 p.m. - The Science and Technology Committee (Commons) will hold an evidence session on university research funding and the impact of COVID-19 - Accountability Hearings Student finance: 'It's tough to find money for the bills' - BBC Apprenticeship providers call on government to find three months of ‘catch-up’ cash - FE Week The UCU should not see students merely as carriers of the coronavirus - Times Higher Education | THE Grammar school discriminated against visually impaired child, tribunal finds - Guardian Durham University freshers ‘aimed to have sex with poorest student’ - Times Poor degrees mean UK graduates earn less than in other countries - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Swinney given a five-day warning over downgrades - Times