News archive for 17th September 2020

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Schools that do not teach about LGBT+ relationships could fail Ofsted inspections - Telegraph Ofsted officials will mark down schools that don't teach pupils about LGBT relationships from next year - Mail Schools can now get 10 Covid test kits per 1,000 pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted wins battle to inspect all apprenticeships - FE Week UK home schooling numbers double in a week, amid Covid test shortages - Guardian Anger as government admits test and trace website coding error - Schools Week Two more Cardiff schools confirm virus cases as pupils sent home - Wales Online FE Podcast: Reclassification with Audrey Cumberford - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE issues more bans after schools scandals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools and universities on alert following ‘reprehensible’ rise in cyber-attacks - Independent Housing wealth matters for children’s mental health - IOE London Blog Cautious optimism as international students begin arriving at UK campuses - PIE News Pioneering digital approaches to raising English and maths' standards - Jisc New advice helps education and research community prevent ransomware attacks - Jisc Your guide to the Early Careers Framework - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Remote Professional Development: A summary of the EEF Rapid Evidence Assessment - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Working together to stay safe - Leeds Beckett University Education Support survey on Covid pressures on schools - National Education Union Around a third of early years settings remain closed, official figures show - EYE | Early Years Educator Figures show 1,441 school staff off because of Covid-19 - Times Educational Supplement | TES College leader pay: fewer colleges paying over £200K - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inspecting initial training for the Armed Forces - Ofsted Separation by sex: implications for inspections of mixed-sex/co-educational schools - Ofsted Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Inspecting teaching of the protected characteristics in schools - Ofsted Inspectors talking to pupils on inspection - Ofsted Tailored review of the Teaching Regulation Agency - DfE Help us tackle national shortage in higher technical skills - IfATE UK and Canada ‘becoming more attractive’ to Indian students - Times Higher Education | THE The school I run has lost five staff due to Covid test delays. This can't go on | Jules White - Guardian 'Record' state pupils at Oxford Uni after grades U-turn - Times Educational Supplement | TES School closes after staff party sparks Covid outbreak - Times Educational Supplement | TES MoJ plans to change legislation to allow charity to run first secure school - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Leading a school through Covid - Teacher Toolkit Coronavirus (COVID-19) - extending the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: analysis - ERSA Six universities ban sex between lecturers and students - Mail 3 changes we need for more teachers to become heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools could get more home-testing kits, says Hancock - Times Educational Supplement | TES A tale of 10 tests: who do schools' Covid tests go to? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should let children born prematurely start a year later, and not just for academic reasons - Telegraph Independent schools chief inspector goes in shake-up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Caerphilly has the most schools with cases of Covid-19 in Wales - Wales Online Schools to be marked down for failing on LGBT teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES New helpline for early years providers and school to report positive Covid-19 cases launched - Nursery World Government considering extra testing kits for schools - Schools Week Children with a runny nose don't have Covid-19, expert warns - Mail Delay exams, urges head of London’s biggest academy chain - Evening Standard Teaching from behind the safety line - Headguruteacher Staff blamed for Covid outbreak at Bacup primary school - BBC Colleges must focus on evolution, not revolution - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads concerned as Covid safety checks 'outsourced' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is this an answer to the school Covid-19 testing chaos? - Times Educational Supplement | TES No excuses, pupils must wear masks around school - and it's up to teachers to sort this out - Telegraph Coronavirus: Will schools close again? - The Sun NHS staff, care workers and teachers to get priority for coronavirus tests - The Sun Coronavirus: Swansea's Olchfa school sends home 455 pupils - BBC Ofsted will check school ‘readiness’ to teach relationships and sex education from January - Schools Week School Covid hotline criticised over failure to advise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Entire sixth form at Swansea school sent home after coronavirus case - Wales Online Leeds freshers shun social-distancing as droves hit the town for first week of university term - Mail Edinburgh University say students could be suspended if they’re caught flouting Covid-19 regulations - Scotsman Schools 'could go part-time' amid testing chaos and claims 740 hit by coronavirus - Mirror School headteacher blames 'staff party' for severe outbreak of coronavirus - Mirror Intrapreneurship Award – CfEY to develop new databank - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Testing fiasco threatens schools chaos: Teachers call for coronavirus screening - Mail SQA appeals system ‘not human rights compliant’ as Swinney criticised for ‘new low’ - Scotsman Designing curriculum in ‘the new normal’ - Ambition Institute At the 2019 General Election, Labour’s vote share was 25 percentage points higher in student constituencies – and the Conservatives’ vote share was 25 percentage points lower - HEPI Student voters: Did they make a difference? - HEPI The battle over dyslexia: we should be trying to help all children with literacy difficulties - Guardian Policymakers claiming the NSS is driving down standards should get their own house in order - Wonkhe Postgraduate study is not a passport to high earnings - Wonkhe Schools warned over rising dark web attack threat - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in ten teachers has had Covid symptoms, poll finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers ‘unsupported and unappreciated’ in pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools cyber warning: Spy chiefs issue security alert - Mail Schools plan to go part-time if coronavirus testing shambles continues - The Sun Coronavirus: Majority of teachers’ mental health declines - Schools Week Government issues cybersecurity alert for UK education sector - City AM Cyber threat to disrupt start of university term - BBC Lecturer-student sex banned at six English and Welsh universities - Times Higher Education | THE UK student vote ‘shifting further towards Labour’ - Times Higher Education | THE Covid testing crisis: ‘Schools are closing and hospitals are buckling’ - Times Postgrad degrees are not the path to a bigger salary - Times Scotland: John Swinney suggests more pupils can challenge grades - Times Scotland: David Hume move damages our university, say Edinburgh scholars - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Dublin colleges ‘need more clarity on virus measures’ - Times Covid-19: less than 1 in 4 staff feel safe returning to campus - Times Higher Education | THE Launch of teachers' well-being and resilience project - UCET