News archive for 14th September 2020

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Dozens of schools have either closed or sent whole year groups home after just one positive test - Telegraph Secondary school children felt happier and less worried during the course of lockdown, study finds - Telegraph My child thought we were all going to die from Covid - Telegraph Universities with bullying issues should be barred from receiving public research funding, science minister says - Telegraph Heads warn of teacher shortages without Covid tests - BBC England's schools 'will grind to a halt' unless Covid testing improves - Guardian Coronavirus: Cambridge college housed women escaping domestic abuse - BBC DfE won't say how many schools signed up for baseline - Times Educational Supplement | TES Review could lead to 'fundamental change' for colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES The sky won't fall in if 2021 Sats are scrapped - Times Educational Supplement | TES What do we need from the FE White Paper? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy trust co-founded by Tory donor has primary school terminated - Schools Week College drops plans for ‘alternate week’ rota after parent complaints - FE Week Core maths 'crucial to help students post-Covid' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Families should share burden of future home education - Times Educational Supplement | TES New questions over validity of Ofsted visits - Times Educational Supplement | TES How we've engaged students in their own wellbeing goals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disruption to schooling could worsen in winter due to Covid-19, says union - Mail University of Edinburgh under fire after renaming tower commemorating David Hume - Mail Government pay proposals divisive - National Education Union John Hattie: We must build on lockdown teaching success - Times Educational Supplement | TES Local politicians in university towns and cities are bracing for community rifts as thousands of students return after lockdown - PoliticsHome Government pay proposals for teachers and school leaders in England are "divisive and inadequate", says joint union statement - ASCL Behaviour hubs - DfE Qualification funding approval: funding year 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Children from low income backgrounds show elevated mental health difficulties throughout lockdown, survey finds - EYE | Early Years Educator English and maths requirements in apprenticeship standards at level 2 and above - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA policy on funding higher risk organisations and subcontractors - Education & Skills Funding Agency Sally Hunt paid extra £400K by UCU on leaving general secretary jobSally Hunt paid extra £400K by UCU on leaving general secretary job - Times Higher Education | THE Sally Hunt paid extra £400K by UCU on leaving general secretary jobSally Hunt paid extra £400K by UCU on leaving general secretary job - Times Higher Education | THE Harassment hotspots should lose research funding, says Solloway - Times Higher Education | THE Covid-19 increasing risk of burnout amongst academics - Times Higher Education | THE Dr Patrick Roach will lead new antiracism task force - NASUWT Educational psychologists: support for coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19): kits for schools and FE providers - DfE Parents raise concerns over impact of school return on children's mental health - CYPN | Children & Young People Now LSE joins £10m challenge to protect against future pandemics - London School of Economics | LSE The case for a national open school - SecEd GCSEs 2021: Ofqual admits to ‘issues’ with online exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we should always link learning to the real world - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jo Grady tells TUC a second Covid wave can be prevented, but unions must lead the way - UCU Collab Group and the Skills Network are delighted to announce the two winners of the Peter Roberts Bursary Award 2020 - Collab Group The impact of Covid-19 on teaching practices - NFER Government pay proposals for teachers and school leaders 'divisive and inadequate' - Voice UCU boss pockets £400k payoff a year after lambasting college principals as ‘greedy and hopelessly out of touch’ - FE Week University has committed 'intellectual sin' by renaming building dedicated to 'greatest philosopher' - Telegraph Two more schools hit by Covid-19 as more than 160 pupils told to self-isolate - Wales Online Britain's universities have been abandoned to fight Covid-19 alone | Glen O'Hara - Guardian Global: After Covid-19, millions of girls may not return to the classroom. We can help them | Malala Yousafzai - Guardian High-profile trusts win share of £1.5m ‘exemplary leadership’ fund - Schools Week Covid an 'opportunity' to drive change, says Williamson - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we can’t go back to live online lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 'We've had our first positive test' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Quarter of university students unhappy with remote work, poll finds - Evening Standard Top three! High-impact, inclusive questioning strategies - Headguruteacher Warning over ‘divisive and inadequate’ teacher pay plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disabled students urge universities to make online learning more accessible - HuffPost Williamson: Covid is an ‘opportunity’ to drive education reforms - Schools Week GCSE English 2021: What’s all the fuss about? - Times Educational Supplement | TES College switches to ‘alternate week’ rota despite government promising full-time teaching - FE Week Has teaching's reputation changed for good? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Care is needed for an exhausted school business community - Schools Week Digital teaching must be better, say university and college students - Jisc Blended learning: do students actually rate it? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Digital must underpin all aspects of college life - FE Week Coronavirus Scotland: University students asked to 'prioritise public health' - Herald Scotland Movers and Shakers: Edition 325 - FE Week £1.5m funding package to help teachers get over pressure of Covid - Scotsman One in four university students not positive about quality of online lessons - Mail Coronavirus: Will schools close again? - Express Narrow employability metrics miss the wider impact of a university education - HEPI £5 million for new research projects investigating how coronavirus spreads - Cambridge Network Moving the HE landscape’s quality contours … again - MediaFHE I’m a white teacher. This is how I’m bringing anti-racism into my classroom - HuffPost Ex-PRU leader’s mentoring project wins prestigious innovation award - Schools Week What data is useful for responding to Covid-19 risks? - Wonkhe Waiting for perfect data won’t help the students thinking about leaving their course - Wonkhe Is there still a case for national coordination of students’ return to campus? - Wonkhe Pushing student societies underground would threaten community safety - Wonkhe 1 in 3 primary statutory writing grades are 'wrong' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Virtual school library launched for pupils hit by Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union boss who slammed 'out of touch' vice-Chancellor salaries earned over £500,000 last year - Telegraph Breaking promises on campus reopening is the least bad option - Times Higher Education | THE European higher education set for stimulus funding bonanza - Times Higher Education | THE NSS overhaul shows ‘dangerous’ drift towards graduate outcomes - Times Higher Education | THE Covid researchers told to demand equitable vaccine distribution - Times Higher Education | THE Edinburgh University ditches David Hume over slavery link - Times Six-day week for academy chain pupils who lost out - Times Montessori throws off elitist image with new academic partnership - Times St Andrews student paper criticised for making light of sex predators - Times University union boss took home £530,000 - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Students must make health ‘a priority’ - Times