News archive for 24th September 2020

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Tripling traineeships: Large colleges refuse to rise to the challenge - FE Week Scot students banned from going to pubs and restaurants as more than 1,000 isolate due university Covid outbreaks - The Sun Students 'treated like criminals' after they are banned from Scottish pubs and family homes - Telegraph The Government and Ofqual respond to exam cancellation and calculated grades report - UK Parliament Now the Government wants to cancel Christmas for students – what crackpot policy will we have next? - Telegraph Scotland's locked-down students are being held hostage thanks to Nicola Sturgeon's ridiculous rules - Telegraph Hundreds of thousands of students in Scotland banned from socialising - Guardian Scots students ordered to stay out of pubs - Scotsman Students wrongly accused of cheating in visa test take fight to Downing Street - Guardian Edinburgh Napier coronavirus outbreak sees 120 students test positive - Herald Scotland Coronavirus in Scotland: Abertay University principal says face-to-face teaching must continue - Times GCSEs and A levels: Ofqual will now publish appeal data - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools hit hard by coronavirus with 900 sending pupils home - Mirror Coronavirus Scotland: All students banned from returning home under new rules - Independent Resources to help students back at school - Teacher Toolkit Attainment gap widens due to COVID lockdown - The Educator NASUWT comments on DESC report - NASUWT UCU response to rules banning Scottish students from socialising - UCU Nicola Sturgeon accused of terrifying children with 'horrifying' Scottish COVID-19 advert - Express Outcry from the early years sector as minister confirms testing kits for maintained nurseries only - Nursery World Pupils 'routinely cough on others' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don't use apprentices as cheap labour, campaigners warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES TOEIC scandal students call for “transparent scheme” to clear names - PIE News Why Edinburgh University should not cravenly disown David Hume - Scotsman Students issue cries for help using post-it notes while isolating due to University Covid outbreaks - Mail Plan your relationships, sex and health curriculum - DfE Teaching about relationships, sex and health - DfE Student loan forecasts, England: 2019 to 2020 - DfE Government-commissioned report recommends paid community work for 100,000 young people - CYPN | Children & Young People Now More students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds across the UK are set to start degrees this autumn - UCAS Thousands of students in isolation at 20 UK universities - Guardian The need for constant hand washing in schools could lead to Generation OCD - Telegraph Rishi Sunak urged to ‘put children at the heart’ of spending review - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Record number of international undergrads accepted onto UK courses - PIE News Chancellor's winter economic plan - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Developing STEM across the curriculum - UKEdChat Teach First diversity statistics 2020 - Teach First ASCL welcomes increase in disadvantaged students going to university - ASCL UCU response to potential Christmas lockdown for students away from home - UCU How reduced bureaucracy can help universities - Russell Group Data shows more students going to university - Russell Group EPSRC seeks applicants for Strategic Advisory Network - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Coronavirus: Technology vital in communicating with parents and supporting children at home - study - Nursery World Thousands of UK students isolating as Covid cases rise at universities - Financial Times Colleges exempt from new Covid rules on adult indoor sport - FE Week School secretary sacked after criticising LGBT lessons must wait for judgement - Mail Spielman: Not ‘realistic’ to expect schools to provide ‘full’ online teaching - Schools Week Five more schools in Cardiff confirm cases of coronavirus - Wales Online Don't label pupils' gender identity, teachers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why Covid catch-up classes are a really bad idea - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid in Scotland: 172 test positive in Glasgow University outbreak - BBC SAGE's Grinch-like plan to stop students going home for Christmas will be a disaster - Telegraph Coronavirus: Students might be asked to stay on campus over Christmas, government admits - Independent University coronavirus crisis: Hundreds forced to self-isolate as students could miss xmas - Express Teachers told to up efforts to spot abuse post-lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Russell Group attracts £14m for degree apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chancellor told to 'get serious' on training and skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Watchdog fears Brexit could dilute teaching standards - Times Educational Supplement | TES How schools can help the hidden victims of Covid-19 - Times Educational Supplement | TES What happened when Ofsted came for a visit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Partial closures ‘will continue until we have a vaccine’, says national schools commissioner - Schools Week Universities chief admits not enough tests were available for students at the start of the academic year - Scotsman Headteachers ‘lose faith in the Government over exams’ - Evening Standard London teacher behind lockdown maths website on $1m prize shortlist - Evening Standard Start giving our teachers some respect. They hold the key to schools staying open - Telegraph University students 'face Christmas on campus' to stop spread of coronavirus - Mirror Nurseries should be more diverse 'to fight racism in young children' - Metro Durham University student loses place after poorest girl sex competition - Metro Why the White Paper has to focus on the structure of FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hancock refuses to rule out Christmas student lockdown - BBC Dr Hilary warns university students might not be able to return home for Christmas - Mirror Durham University withdraws student's offer after 'abhorrent' competition for 'posh lads to have sex with poorest girl' - Evening Standard GCSE results 2020: How did within-school attainment gaps change? - FFT Education Datalab Even after the COVID-19 crisis, councils will need billions of extra funding to address a growing funding gap - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Handling Covid crisis required stronger leadership and a better use of a wider range of evidence says Gus O’ Donnell - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS New polling shows students’ support for the Labour Party has grown under Keir Starmer and students have become more politicised since the start of 2020 - HEPI Sutton Trust launches new employability programmes and partnerships in 2020 - Sutton Trust Major Covid outbreak at Glasgow University, after positive tests at Liverpool, Abertay and Dundee - Mail Coronavirus Scotland: University of Glasgow student discusses lockdown parties - Herald Scotland 93% of GCSE teachers say pupils are ‘behind’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Does student voting intention tell us more about students or politics? - Wonkhe Covid-19 has not dampened the appeal of UK higher education - Wonkhe Back to campus essentials – don’t forget about the data - Wonkhe Coronavirus: SAGE experts tell students they should stay at university over Christmas - Mail Record rise in disadvantaged starting university - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK maths teacher named as finalist for $1m prize - Times Educational Supplement | TES 92% of school staff lack trust in DfE on Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Russell Group chair wants ‘sustainable, agile’ research funding - Times Higher Education | THE UK student support for Labour recovers as Tory backing plummets - Times Higher Education | THE New legislation will not eliminate student no-platforming - Times Higher Education | THE Warning over school leaders with ‘reactivity fatigue considering early retirements’ - Schools Week UK universities recruit record numbers of international students - Guardian London maths teacher shortlisted for $1m teaching prize - Guardian Schools warn parents of Worcester ‘kidnap gang’ - Times Teenagers drawn to far-right extremism, terror chief warns - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Students at the University of Glasgow told to stop house parties amid university outbreaks - Times DfE: SKE courses & conditional offers (24th September 2020) - UCET