News archive for 10th September 2020

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T Levels launch but classes not full - FE Week Ofqual backs out of promise to publish exams communications - Schools Week Coronavirus: School exams set to be held again in 2021 - BBC Updated guidance for universities ahead of reopening - DfE Education Secretary sets out aims for higher education - DfE Universities Minister addresses sector ahead of academic year - DfE Ofqual warned of algorithm legal risk - Schools Week Creative spaces, blended learning and limited ‘bedroom’ contact: How return to university will look - Independent Students are warned they will face 'serious police action' if they ignore coronavirus warnings - Mail Ask the minister: Gillian Keegan on colleges reopening - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK immigration routes that “treat all students equally” to open early - PIE News Ministers can’t muddle their way through to summer 2021 exams - NAHT Reducing bureaucracy in research, innovation and higher education - Russell Group Behave in bedroom to stop spread of coronavirus, students told - Telegraph Plans to get children back to the classroom are being 'derailed' by lack of tests, headteachers warn - Telegraph Ofsted inspectors fear new visits won't work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free maths masterclass offered to disadvantaged pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES 3 leading universities say they won't accept T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why Ofsted inspectors fear becoming 'Typhoid Mary' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Has anyone thought about Covid and special schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Blended learning 'better than traditional instruction' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What will Ofsted's interim visits actually look like? - Times Educational Supplement | TES English universities face tiered restrictions in Covid lockdowns - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Radical’ review for NSS as ministers say it drives down standards - Times Higher Education | THE Changes to English and history GCSEs 2021 revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Revised EYFS: curriculum guidance to be launched soon - Nursery World A-levels scandal: Government blocks bid to release all documents - Metro New guide to supporting migrant children through age assessments - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Researchers to review Childline’s response to children at risk of suicide - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government’s income support schemes have delivered for young, middle and older workers alike - Nuffield Foundation Missing millions: Where will the jobs come from? - Learning & Work Institute Urgent action needed to plug one million jobs gap - Learning & Work Institute UUK response to updated DfE guidance for universities - Universities UK Apprentice employers urged to take part in COVID-19 survey - IfATE Latest government university guidance and young people infection rates prove case for online learning, says UCU - UCU School reopening is being undermined by Covid test delays - ASCL Some university places may be hard to find this year, but a room in halls shouldn’t be - HEPI Response to updated DfE guidance for universities ahead of reopening - Russell Group Ministers hit out at burdensome university sector regulation - Wonkhe New Covid plan for England could confine university students to halls - Guardian Coronavirus: No student parties and more online learning - BBC Tory health minister warns uni students not to spread coronavirus 'in the bedroom' - Mirror Uni students banned from throwing house parties or copping off together on nights out under new corona rules - The Sun Academic freedom and the failure of university league tables - Montrose42 A levels with the biggest U-turn grades lift revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES MSPs told 11 councils have met key early years pledge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Law to be changed to help those made redundant finish their apprenticeship - FE Week GCSEs 2020: England gets smallest boost in top grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exeter University to offer Covid tests to students - BBC Ministers can’t muddle their way through to summer 2021 exams - Schools Week RCT has most cases of coronavirus in schools in Wales - Wales Online Minister’s failed promises on testing ‘undermining’ school returns as thousands face delays - Schools Week Elite universities reveal Covid testing plans - Mail Fury as Covid tests chaos keeps thousands out of school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Regular teacher tests prioritised under 'Moonshot' plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2020: Girls pull further ahead than boys - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary school year group told to self isolate after positive Covid test - Wales Online Why are English schools being left to pay for Covid measures out of threadbare budgets? | Paul Whiteman - Guardian 'Humanities graduates are just as employable': do the sciences really lead to more jobs? - Guardian Post Covid-19 – A ‘brave new world’? - BERA Perceptions of digital education have changed dramatically in six months - Wonkhe Revised guidance for England on universities and Covid-19 means tiers before Christmas - Wonkhe University bosses are told not to send students home in the event of a coronavirus outbreak - Mail EuroSkills Graz 2021: Team UK revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES More schools face shutdown if coronavirus infections among children rise - Mail Watch out Europe: Team UK is ready for the winner’s podium - FE Week Team UK for EuroSkills Gratz unveiled - FE Week Lectures’ days are numbered at Leeds as new v-c takes charge - Times Higher Education | THE Times Higher Education Awards 2020: shortlist announced - Times Higher Education | THE Saïd Business School accused of £1m ‘cut and paste’ trickery - Times Chinese drive record in international students - Times Scotland: Outdoor centres ‘lost for ever’ without government funding - Times National Roll Out of the Early Career Framework (ECF) (September 2020) - UCET