News archive for 16th September 2020

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University students are entitled to tuition fee refunds due to Covid-19 disruption, Government suggests - Telegraph Schools draw up plans to go part-time if testing chaos continues - Telegraph Teachers feel less trusted by ministers than before coronavirus lockdown - poll - Mirror All the schools in Wales with confirmed virus cases so far - Wales Online A-level and GCSEs could be held in public buildings next year, education secretary says - Telegraph Up to 25,000 teachers in England self-isolating due to Covid fears - Guardian Plans to ration Covid testing in England will prioritise healthcare and teachers - Guardian Men who have taken a Masters degree in English earn 30 per cent less than if they had not, data shows - Telegraph 76 winners scoop silver Pearson Teaching Awards for 2020 - FE Week Scotland: State school urged to change name because of founder James Gillespie's slave trade links - Mail Women gain more than men from master's degrees, finds IFS - Guardian Academics criticise Edinburgh University over David Hume renaming row - Herald Scotland HSE spot check call handlers are not health and safety experts - Schools Week Schools 'will be on Covid-19 testing priority list' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What school leaders need to know about HSE spot checks - Schools Week DfE seizes control of handling school and college covid cases after PHE local teams ‘overwhelmed’ - FE Week 9 things we learned today from John Swinney - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Testing 'chaos’ could force widespread school closures, teachers and unions warn - Independent Parents warned not to test kids for coronavirus unless they have symptoms - Mirror Headteachers warn 740 schools have been forced to shut or send pupils home - Mail 76 winners scoop silver Pearson Teaching Awards for 2020 - Schools Week Warning of 'lockdown by default' as Hancock faces fury over testing shambles with offices and schools forced to shut - Mail Not enough Covid testing capacity, admits Johnson - Schools Week Covid case advice hotline for schools set to launch - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swinney under fire over SQA grade appeals process - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Nurseries thrown a lifeline in ruling on business interruption insurance - Nursery World Campaign to rename Edinburgh's James Gillespie's High School due to slave trade links - Scotsman Boris Johnson says classes shouldn't be sent home unless a pupil or school teacher tests positive for coronavirus - PoliticsHome Top charities launch coronavirus emergency fund for vulnerable children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Subcontracting in further education and skills - Ofsted The education and training professionals survey - DfE Postgraduate degrees: labour market returns - DfE SEND review delayed until ‘early next year’, Gavin Williamson confirms - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK universities are launching their own coronavirus testing schemes as test and trace descends into a "shambles" - PoliticsHome Dedicated schools grant (DSG) deficit management plan - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted seeks to make oversight of subcontractors more comprehensive and transparent - Ofsted ESFA Update: 16 September 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Coronavirus testing: Education secretary defends system for schools - BBC Coronavirus tests: Nurseries hit by staff shortage as workers struggle to access testing - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Large variation in earnings returns among postgraduate degrees, with returns of more than 15% for masters in business and law, but negative returns for many arts and humanities courses - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Containing Covid-19: Testing and attendance monitoring in colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges A minister has suggested pupils and parents will be a high priority group when testing is rationed - PoliticsHome Pressure builds over inconsistent school safety measures and Covid-19 testing problems - SecEd Coronavirus: 'Booking a test is like getting Harry Potter tickets' - BBC Local authorities urged to act now on air pollution around schools - SecEd Pay rises branded 'divisive and inadequate' by both teacher and leadership unions - SecEd Damn it, you’ve got to be kind! - UKEdChat DfE seizes control of handling school covid cases after PHE local teams ‘overwhelmed’ - Schools Week Want a postgraduate degree that ups your salary? Choose carefully - Times Higher Education | THE School leaders and governors issue Covid testing plea to Prime Minister - ASCL Where now after Covid’s ‘Great Pause’? - SecEd Report on our submission to the minister for education in response to pay offer 2020-21 - NAHT ASCL responds to Education Secretary’s evidence on grading fiasco - ASCL UCU puts Government and employers on notice as it launches Covid monitoring in colleges and universities - UCU New guidance on university governance: to strengthen and to protect - HEPI Montessori to open new institute with Leeds Beckett University - Nursery World Around a third of early years settings remain closed - Nursery World Why there are no right answers on Covid-19 for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Was this the day we learned 2021 exams won't go ahead? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales' largest secondary school confirms second case of coronavirus - Wales Online Gavin Williamson says holding GCSE and A Level exams this year 'would have hit disadvantaged children hardest' - Evening Standard Another positive test for coronavirus at school in Caerphilly county - Wales Online John Swinney: Scottish exams at a ‘very real risk’ of disruption again next year - Scotsman 740 schools forced to send kids home over coronavirus testing shambles, teachers warned - The Sun School Covid test chaos ‘utterly, grimly, predictable’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson refuses to say Ofqual is 'fit for purpose' after exams fiasco - Mail Williamson’s education committee exams hearing: 4 things we learned - FE Week Williamson’s education committee exams hearing: 5 things we learned - Schools Week Williamson: Some teachers didn't do as much in lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND review delayed until next year due to coronavirus - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND review won’t be out until 2021, says Williamson - Schools Week Lack of Covid tests puts schools in 'impossible situation', teachers warn PM - Guardian Don't take away the one thing that will guarantee a thriving global Britain - Telegraph Keeping schools open 'unsustainable unless Government fixes coronavirus testing crisis', ministers warned - Evening Standard Williamson defends use of calculated exam grades - BBC 1 in 8 college staff leave within a year, survey finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE exams could be held in public buildings in 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU threatens to ‘name and shame’ unsafe colleges - FE Week Andrew Neil urges teachers to stay in UK amid quarantine fears - Express Headteachers warn Boris Johnson over lack of access to coronavirus tests - Telegraph UCU: 'We will name and shame unsafe colleges' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: how can new teachers find the CPD they need? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge college threatens to evict students if a Covid-19 outbreak occurs - Guardian Time running out for GCSE and A Level exams to be delayed, headteachers warn - Evening Standard School Covid test crisis 'out of control', say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted pledges to improve FE subcontractor oversight - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA exams update delayed after rise in Covid cases - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson fails to give school Covid testing guarantee - Times Educational Supplement | TES Campaign to rename Edinburgh school over slavery link - Times Educational Supplement | TES Give schools tests to end Covid pupil ‘chaos’, says MAT - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schoolchildren should be next in line for Covid tests, says UK minister - Guardian Angry parents hit out as children are crammed onto standing-room-only school buses - Mail You have put schools in ‘impossible’ position, PM told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted chief now ‘open to exploring’ direct inspection of all FE subcontractors - FE Week Teachers could sue Gavin Williamson over test and trace failures - HuffPost Financial sustainability of colleges in England - National Audit Office Financial sustainability of colleges in England - AoC responds to NAO report - AoC | Association of Colleges The National Audit Office verdict on colleges in 2020 - AoC | Association of Colleges ASCL responds to NAO report on financial sustainability of colleges - ASCL What can multimodal data tell us about learning? Opportunities for positioning the learner as the real protagonist in learner-centred design - BERA DfE has spent £700m propping up further education in England - Guardian Worries that teachers are already 'exhausted' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rise in Scottish children going to school hungry - Herald Scotland CUC finalises its code of practice - Wonkhe Can research clusters help level up the country? - Wonkhe 10 things we learned from today’s NAO report on finance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government intervened in nearly half of colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents, teachers and children will go to the back of the queue as Matt Hancock reveals plan to ration swabs in testing shambles - Mail NAO reveal £726m in college bailouts and loans with ‘nearly half’ in intervention - FE Week Campus free speech legislation ‘to target students’ unions’ - Times Higher Education | THE Sunetra Gupta: social media attacks ‘stifling coronavirus debate’ - Times Higher Education | THE Colleges' financial health 'fragile', says audit office - BBC £26.6m cost of Hadlow Group transfer and how five colleges were bailed out to avoid insolvency - FE Week Financial pressures on colleges cut courses and student support, watchdog says - Mail Teachers face half-term coronavirus travel ban - Times Coronavirus: Thousands of pupils fail to show up for first week of school - Times Scotland: Thinkers criticise Edinburgh University’s move to rename David Hume Tower - Times Scotland: Leading school urged to rename over founder’s slavery links - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Learning disabled go months without seeing family - Times 9:30 a.m. - The Education Committee will hold an accountability hearing with the Secretary of State for Education, Gavin Williamson - Accountability Hearings Parents forced to play the system so children can get appointments - Times