News archive for 22nd September 2020

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One million pupils skip classes due to parents' Covid fears - Mail Over a million kids missing school during wave of suspected Covid outbreaks, figures reveal - The Sun Why Britain’s childcare system is on the brink of collapse - New Statesman Ridiculous Covid rules are hurting the young – nobody wants them to be punished in our name - Telegraph University of Liverpool confirms 87 Covid cases in week before start of term - Guardian Christian not sacked by UK school for LGBTQ+ 'beliefs', tribunal hears - Guardian Schools urged to keep teacher training placements to prevent recruitment bottleneck - SecEd Government suggests schools relax phone bans to allow use of NHS Covid app - Schools Week One million pupils skip classes due to Covid fears as 4% of schools are closed - Mail Government suggests schools and colleges relax phone bans to allow use of NHS Covid app - FE Week NHS Covid-19 app: 5 things teachers need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government urges colleges to use Covid-19 app - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: 'Challenging points for improvement' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland bans home visits in bid to keep schools open - Times Educational Supplement | TES Online GCSE tests? 'Pie in the sky', say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES What if Covid policy were a school behaviour strategy? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March to 17 September 2020 - DfE Use of the NHS COVID-19 app in schools and further education colleges - DfE Joint statement from AoC, AELP, HOLEX, FAB, JCQ and Ofqual on VTQs - Ofqual High needs funding arrangements: 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Schools need to stay open because 'economic and social consequences' of shutting them are too high - Mail London NHS bodies team up to plan £2m digital mental-health platform for young people - Public Technology Widening access to LSE remains a top priority for the School - London School of Economics | LSE Mayor of London's £2.4m boost to help vulnerable young people return to school - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofsted ‘will not downgrade’ primary schools that do not teach LGBT lessons - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Independent schools can play a part in tackling regional inequality in education - PoliticsHome Handbooks for Humans – 5 simple ways to use stories to deepen children’s social and emotional learning skills - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF School closes after spate of Covid-19 positive cases leaves just two teachers on site - Mirror New boarding school enrolments down - PIE News Universities must do more to embed digital education, Jisc survey suggests - PIE News Leeds Beckett to partner with European-wide project to look at the transition to school - Nursery World Test & trace: A catalogue of broken promises - SecEd Employability skills will become even more crucial post-Covid - SecEd High-profile new trustees join Villiers Park - Villiers Park Educational Trust The ABCs of supporting EAL - UKEdChat Yet another new experience in these strange times: Teaching my class from home - Research Schools Network Lessons you look forward to (and the ones you dread) and an update on wellbeing - Teacher Tapp Teachers’ well-being and work-related anxiety did not decline during lockdown, according to new Nuffield-funded research from UCL - Nuffield Foundation Far-right networks ‘sizeable’ Twitter audience for some pre-prints - Times Higher Education | THE Universities work to reduce Covid-19 transmission on campus - Russell Group One million kids kept home because of coronavirus fears, according to latest figures - The Sun Post-Covid: Do we have enough teachers? - Teacher Toolkit ASCL comment on school attendance figures - ASCL Survey shows major vote of confidence in apprenticeships but more work to do - IfATE UCU response to prime minister's new Covid restrictions statement - UCU NEU welcomes Keir Starmer's call for urgent efforts to close the education gap - National Education Union NEU comment on the Government statistics for school attendance - National Education Union Call for immediate action to protect staff, students and local community at Northumbria and Newcastle universities - UCU Staff at Liverpool's universities call for immediate action to protect staff, students and local community - UCU Manchester Metropolitan University must share full details of Covid cases - UCU What should colleges focus on in the coming months? - Times Educational Supplement | TES A third of apprentices get less than 20% training - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I'm going to make the most of it': can freshers' week be fun despite Covid? - Guardian Covid-19: number of schools in England 'not fully open' quadruples - Guardian Coronavirus outbreaks see number of partially closed schools quadruple in a week - Mirror Education sector appears exempt from new Covid restrictions in battle against second wave - FE Week 'I would hate it if I was a fresher': UK students on life during Covid - Guardian Test and trace is failing UK schools - Financial Times Coronavirus: Will schools close again? - Metro Quadrupling in schools sending pupils home in Covid cases - BBC Apprenticeships will become unprofitable if ineligible costs excluded from funding bands - FE Week Ofsted inspections schedule 'shaky' amid Covid surge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Youngsters taught skills to deal with Covid and climate change fall-out - Scotsman National Skills Fund can't be for advanced skills only - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do you deal with 15 Covid cases in 4 days? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: What are the rules for face masks or face coverings? - BBC Last chance! Students hit the town before new 10pm Covid curfew kicks in on Thursday - Mail Ofsted visits won't help parents or schools, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Quickly' assess Covid learning gap, teachers advised - Times Educational Supplement | TES CBI: £130bn needed to prevent skills gap post-Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Around 1,000 schools not fully open last week, says DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'You must be mad': Opening a new school in a pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools to stay open as Johnson announces tougher lockdown restrictions - Schools Week Pupils at four Cardiff schools test positive for coronavirus - Wales Online Proportion of schools not fully open due to Covid quadruples in a week - Schools Week What happened when a teacher at my school tested positive for Covid - Telegraph Flexible learning will stop pupils being left behind - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus restrictions: 'I'm going to struggle at university because of my ADHD' - BBC Starmer demands taskforce to close attainment gap - Schools Week I could lose my child if Covid closes her special needs school again | Beverley Cohen - Guardian Jamaican director of UCL's slavery research centre: British racism is 'clear and sharp' - Guardian Teacher anxiety in a typical – and atypical – year - FFT Education Datalab Were female teachers more anxious about work during lockdown than male teachers? - FFT Education Datalab How did lockdown affect teachers’ psychological wellbeing? - FFT Education Datalab How school pupils and staff can stay safe from coronavirus under new Covid-19 rules - Telegraph Keir Starmer has to abandon Corbyn's promise on student fees | Steven Fielding - Guardian HESA research finds Black graduates are less likely to report being satisfied with their career - HESA ASCL response to UCL-led study on teacher wellbeing - ASCL UCU response to HESA research on how career satisfaction among graduates varies by ethnicity - UCU GCSEs 2021: Will exam chaos impact student motivation? - Times Educational Supplement | TES University and coronavirus: What social distancing rules and bubbles mean for freshers’ week - Telegraph Profile: Andy Hargreaves, Professor of education, writer and policy adviser - Schools Week Profile: Victoria Copp-Crawley, Principal, Ashford College - FE Week Black graduates are less satisfied with their careers - Wonkhe To be a science super power we must support the whole research ecosystem - Wonkhe Happy days are here again – it’s the 2021 Times & Sunday Times league table - Wonkhe 1 in 3 pupils 'have witnessed racism in school' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Attractive female academics ‘rated as better teachers’ - Times Higher Education | THE Ottoline Leyser: boost efforts to make science accessible for all - Times Higher Education | THE Heads’ anxiety peaked before lockdown and school reopenings, finds UCL study - Schools Week Black graduates less likely to be satisfied with career than white peers - study - Mail One-third of children in UK 'have heard racist comments at school' - Guardian 9:30 a.m. - The Education Committee will hear evidence re long-term strategy for adult skills and lifelong learning - Accountability Hearings Rationed coronavirus testing will give teachers and health staff priority - Times I don’t believe in gender fluidity, says Christian sacked by school - Times British universities charter jets to fly in Chinese students - Times Philippe Sands: lack of UK BAME law academics a ‘major problem’ - Times Higher Education | THE DfE: Trainee teach & 'critical worker' status (22nd September) - UCET