News archive for 11th September 2020

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Oxford University draws up 'anti-party charter' for students to sign ahead of new academic year - Telegraph Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 11 September 2020 - Education Eye Ofqual cancels £80k media recovery plan - Schools Week GCSE English 2021: AQA looks set to U-turn over poetry - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: Testing, Ofsted and Stormzy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lucy Kellaway heads back to school — anxiously - Financial Times Socially distant school drop offs give children a confidence boost, leading headteacher says - Telegraph Three more Cardiff schools hit by coronavirus cases - Wales Online New call for 2021 Scottish exams to be cancelled - Times Educational Supplement | TES Martin Lewis is shocked after girl, 11, admits she's already looking for a job to pay university tuition fees - Mail Council wants schools to ‘prepare’ for Ofsted visits - Schools Week Committee to question Secretary of State, Gavin Williamson MP - UK Parliament Governing in unprecedented times - Ofsted Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Education plans from September 2020 - Ofsted School governors and trustees say they are prepared for COVID impact - Ofsted Students supported to return to preferred choices - UCAS UK Immigration minister meets Study Group - PIE News If you teach good lessons, you won’t face bad behaviour – Myth? - UKEdChat Multitasking and selective attention - Learning Scientists Outrage as teacher pleas to scrap phonics test ignored - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021 changes are 'hugely frustrating', say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES 42 ideas for teachers - Teacher Toolkit PM failure to address school safety - National Education Union Zarah Sultana MP calls on Warwick and Coventry universities to move teaching online - UCU In the news 11 September 2020 - UCU 'Unacceptable risk': Scottish Government told to scrap 2021 exams - Herald Scotland Package of support for students who have to defer their studies - DfE Enhance Digital Teaching Platform expanding with new content and functions - Education & Training Foundation Coronavirus: Scottish childminders to receive £330,000 in extra funding - Nursery World Thousands of pupils across England and Wales sent home due to coronavirus - HuffPost Meet Sally Dicketts, the new AoC president - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers tell PM to 'get a grip' on Covid school safety - Times Educational Supplement | TES Enough blustery promises – schools need real support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reopening college: why we need to embrace the positives - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid chaos in America's colleges offers stark warning to British university students - Telegraph Eton College faces coronavirus outbreak after 'a few' students test positive for Covid-19 - Telegraph Over half of Brit parents fear 'separation anxiety' as kids go back to school - Mirror Head’s ‘fury’ as vulnerable kids miss out due to PPE issues - Schools Week Government must act to support and protect supply teachers - Schools Week Dozens of schools forced to send home pupils amid Covid cases - HuffPost Schools miss T-level enrolment targets - Schools Week Coronavirus: Saliva test study will track school cases - BBC Why teachers must remain neutral in class discussion - Times Educational Supplement | TES The walk towards: reimagining the role of the teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Widespread frustration’ among school governors over ‘nonsensical’ roepening rules - Schools Week Fears of 'crazy' freshers' parties in UK as cooped up students return to campus - Guardian Coronavirus: Study launched into transmission in schools - BBC Schools break into emergency Covid test supplies amid delays - Schools Week TV star and celeb GP hired for ‘back-to-school’ promo - Schools Week Student numbers soaring at new UTC - FE Week Chairs of governors at odds with boards over workload - Schools Week Health fears as study finds high levels of air pollution near schools - Express Swinney still wants to see exams run in full in 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hundreds of jobs at risk at university as it faces £13m cuts - Wales Online Major study launched to map Covid infection in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Treorchy Comp sends two year groups home after positive Covid test - Wales Online Coronavirus: What are the rules for face masks or face coverings? - BBC Home schooling drove me to despair – but it also taught me a valuable lesson - Guardian More than one in three Scottish councils had delivered childcare target - Scotsman Fair pay, fair chance: supporting the ban on unpaid internships - Sutton Trust As young people face a difficult job market, tackling unpaid internships will be more important than ever - Sutton Trust How will social distancing rules affect university? What we know about uni life during coronavirus - Telegraph New EEF rapid evidence assessment on remote professional development - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF In defence of bureaucracy - HEPI Colleges and ITPs miss out again on Covid relief funds - FE Week The social organisation of a conductive education centre in Birmingham - BERA Covid-19: Ofsted rebukes school that did not contact pupils ‘frequently enough’ - Schools Week 4 more DfE deals awarded without competition - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE bought coaching for sacked top official - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: Return to campus, examnishambles, ministers - Wonkhe Does the tone of ministerial speeches to vice chancellors signal a wider shift? - Wonkhe International students need our help - Wonkhe Covid-19: Can colleges help close the NHS skills gap? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges can deliver skills for the NHS – here's how - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher workload and wellbeing neglected, survey finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: what does a local lockdown mean for UK universities? - Times Higher Education | THE Call for colleges to host employer hubs to help fill healthcare vacancies - FE Week Coronavirus in Scotland: Student parties are banned in bid to curb soaring infection rate - Times Scotland: Teacher fired unfairly after images arrest - Times