News archive for 15th September 2020

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Pupils may be sent home just weeks into new term thanks to coronavirus test fiasco - Mirror Schools wait three days for official PHE advice on how to respond to coronavirus cases - Schools Week Parents blast schools over 'meat free Mondays' as kids only have veggie options - Mirror Coronavirus: Can my child go to school with a cold? - BBC Covid-19: Why good (digital) careers advice is crucial - Times Educational Supplement | TES 99 per cent of schools have reopened but one in 10 children still haven't gone back after lockdown - Mail University Covid testing chaos warning as students head back amid fears track and trace system is failing - Evening Standard One in nine pupils absent as schools in England reopened - Guardian Too often, staff suffer from bad leadership decisions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March to 10 September 2020 - DfE 99.9 per cent of schools open for start of autumn term - DfE Downturn won't fix the teacher shortage, DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES David Hume Tower: Edinburgh University has undermined itself by renaming building - Scotsman Chinese students’ academic performance and parenting styles - Best Evidence in Brief Universities United: New season higher education football sponsorship excitement - Wonkhe A model emerges on Covid-19 and universities - Wonkhe Trainee teachers being taught to lead remote lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why ‘exams as usual’ are a bad idea - HEPI Why working in silos stops progress in education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly nine in 10 children return to school after coronavirus lockdown - Evening Standard Cutting face-to-face teaching ‘best way’ to control Covid spread - Times Higher Education | THE ASCL response to Ofqual reply on centre-assessed grading proposal - ASCL Workplace safety is central to high quality service provision and the economy - NASUWT Reducing academic anxiety and supporting young people’s mental health - NAHT Pandemic exposes poor treatment of supply teachers - NASUWT Bring colleges back into public ownership and fund them properly, says UCU - UCU Is teacher leadership related to students’ outcomes? - Best Evidence in Brief How can education technology enhance learning outcomes? - Best Evidence in Brief Immersive learning experiences - UKEdChat Further engagement from all quarters required for Core Maths to fulfill its potential and boost participation in post-16 maths - Nuffield Foundation Core Maths could boost post-16 students’ numeracy skills - Nuffield Foundation Pupil attendance, curious headteachers and baking GCSE grades! - Teacher Tapp The relationship between the Kumon maths programme and Key Stage 2 maths outcomes in England - EPI New pathway to achieving Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills status - Education & Training Foundation Environment design and school building competition inspires young architects - SecEd Jisc response to Demos report, Research 4.0: Research in the Age of Automation - Jisc There is a diversity crisis in AI, but there are ways to break the mould - Jisc What food-insecure children want you to know about hunger - IOE London Blog Scottish Government urges uptake of digital inclusion fund - Public Technology New research highlights the postcode lottery of social mobility - IOE London Blog Young people worst hit by impact of Covid-19 on jobs market, ONS reveals - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Nesta launches £2.8m Covid-19 recovery challenge - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Nursery workers struggle to get Covid-19 tests leaves settings with staff shortages - Nursery World Education alone will not close social mobility gap - study - Nursery World Parents worry about children's mental health and well-being in return to school - Nursery World Ofqual accused of ‘scapegoating’ heads’ union over deflated grades fall-out - Schools Week Track and trace is not adequate to keep schools open - Times Educational Supplement | TES Back to school: How to teach without circulating - Times Educational Supplement | TES High levels of engagement in lockdown music teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Over 300 schools in England and Wales forced to close or send pupils home after positive Covid tests - Mail One in ten kids still not back to school as classes reopen - The Sun School figures show 88% of pupils were back for start of term - BBC School rebuilding programme ‘will disappoint more than it pleases’, warns DfE director - Schools Week We must put pupil wellbeing above all else - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Protect teachers or face legal action, DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why send 200 pupils home over one positive Covid test? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third of teachers 'lack soap and water at school' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus 'rule of six' could see parents fined for stopping to chat in street - Mirror UK government promises support for ELT sector - PIE News Attendance: 8% of schools not ‘fully open’ last week, says DfE - Schools Week 9 in 10 pupils in school at the start of term - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE-funded research to assess Covid catch-up need - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: How far behind are Year 11 students? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE to measure lockdown learning losses without extra tests - Schools Week Delivering payments and keeping students safe online - Student Loans Company The 'rule of six' won't work for teenagers - 'mingling' is a crucial part of growing up - Telegraph GCSE English 2021: Unseen poetry still compulsory - AQA - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents' fury as 'thousands' of kids out of school and unable to get Covid-19 tests - Mirror Investigation: College sector recruitment highs & lows after virus and exams fiasco - FE Week It’s official: DfE doesn’t know how many schools have covid cases - Schools Week Schools can order more Covid-19 test kits from tomorrow - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Government asks how many teachers have symptoms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Full list of schools with Covid-19 outbreaks - Mirror England's exam system is broken – let's never put it together again | Laura McInerney - Guardian 'People thought I was too young to protest': the rise of student activism - Guardian 'It's my calling': new teachers in a pandemic – meet the class of 2020 - Guardian The long shadow of deprivation: Report highlighting differences in opportunities - Social Mobility Commission The long shadow of deprivation - Social Mobility Commission Parental engagement is key to overcoming continued disruption - Schools Week Profile: T'Challa Greaves, lead practitioner for science, Meridian High School - Schools Week UK universities see record admissions, despite the pandemic - Financial Times Universities must embed digital for the long term - Wonkhe Education is part of the answer to social mobility, but not all - Wonkhe Children raised in hard-up families have a higher chance of doing well if they live in southern England, report suggests - Mail Thousands of kids unable to return to school as desperate parents can’t get them tested for coronavirus - The Sun Prospective UK students prioritise teaching quality - Times Higher Education | THE Ethnic minority sociologists ‘face hostility’ when teaching race - Times Higher Education | THE Disadvantaged young men earn 50% less in economic ‘cold spots’ - Times Scotland: Renaming David Hume Tower is craven, scholars tell Edinburgh University - Times Scotland: Aberdeen University to teach Doric dialect - Times Thousands more student homes needed in Irish cities - Times