News archive for 28th September 2020

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Number of young Brits out of work hits 3.6million as Boris Johnson unveils plan to reverse job losses - The Sun Downing Street vows to get university students home for Christmas as critics slam campus lockdowns - The Sun Boris Johnson to announce 'Lifetime Skills Guarantee' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson told to ‘end Invisible Man act’ as students rage over Covid restrictions - Mirror Johnson to outline new measures to retrain unemployed - Financial Times PM to announce major ‘expansion’ in FE funding for adults - FE Week Adults in England without A-levels to get free college course - Guardian Three more UK universities clamp down as campus cases soar - Financial Times Universities u-turn sparks call for students to be taught online if possible - Herald Scotland Playground games of the past return at boarding school after shopping trips axed due to Covid - Telegraph 'It's worse than prison': Living with university lockdowns - Telegraph The Guardian view on universities: test, trace and teach - Guardian 'Where is the money going?': students demand tuition fee refunds - Guardian Covid-19: what are UK students' rights over accommodation and courses? - Guardian Parents contacted after Portobello High School pupil tests positive for Covid-19 - Scotsman Colleges need funding - but they need other things, too - Times Educational Supplement | TES English universities must consider partial fee refunds, says regulator - Guardian Full list of universities hit by coronavirus cases with thousands forced to isolate - Mirror All the schools in Wales that had cases of coronavirus in the last week - Wales Online Lawyers offer free help to freshers fighting campus lockdowns - Mail Highlight collective responsibility and teach social communication skills to reduce cyberbullying - London School of Economics | LSE Civil service graduate scheme seeks 60 budding technologists - Public Technology IOE’s London Centre for Leadership in Learning renamed as the UCL Centre for Educational Leadership - IOE London Blog Coronavirus in Scotland: Teachers’ plea for return to part-time learning falls on deaf ears - Times British students are learning one lesson this term: trust no one | Suzanne Moore - Guardian Universities and the government can’t agree on who should refund students for online-only degrees - PoliticsHome Stirling University accused of breaching Covid-19 regulations over accommodation contracts - Scotsman British Council seeks EU student bounce back - PIE News Why are we still predicting GCSE grades for Year 9? - Times Educational Supplement | TES New deal for skills and colleges is the next step on the UK’s road to recovery - AoC | Association of Colleges Should we abandon “reading for pleasure”? - UKEdChat Teaching students to spot fake news? Tick it off your list! - Research Schools Network Busy pictures hinder reading ability in children - UKEdChat Strike ballot at Heriot-Watt University in row over rushed job cuts - UCU 'Move universities online now': UCU's demand to PM - UCU Update on the EPSRC review of Support for Doctoral Education - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) English universities told to consider refunds as Covid cases rise - Times Higher Education | THE Interim phase: further education and skills providers - Ofsted Coronavirus (COVID-19): school and college performance measures - DfE Interim phase: maintained schools and academies - Ofsted Gavin Williamson, Education Secretary letter to Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector - DfE How to improve the therapeutic experience for students of colour accessing wellbeing services - BERA ASCL comment on expansion of post-18 education and training - ASCL Oxford don branded 'transphobic' will head new women's rights research programme - Mail Use unspent billions to support 'desperate' childcare providers, says alliance - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Prince Charles: 'Up to one million young people need urgent help' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Covid-19: Where is the plan for schools? - SecEd 10 things all teachers should do to focus their efforts - Teacher Toolkit Covid: About 40 universities report coronavirus cases - BBC Warning that NQT pay rise 'devalues' older teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted interim visits: A first-hand account - Times Educational Supplement | TES First Minister's warning to GCSE and A level pupils taking exams this year - Wales Online How universities can ensure students still have a good experience, despite coronavirus - The Conversation DfE: Ofsted to inspect all apprenticeship provision - Times Educational Supplement | TES No.10 'expects' university students will be allowed to go home for Christmas - HuffPost DfE sets out plan for Ofsted to take on degree apprenticeships - FE Week No10 'expects' students can go home at Christmas - but won't give fee refunds - Mirror Schools still safe to open full time, says Sturgeon - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Timid' DfE 'no longer pulling strings' on education - Times Educational Supplement | TES SNP accused of 'muddying the waters' with confusion over university rules - Herald Scotland Why community-based learning delivers big benefits - Times Educational Supplement | TES University staff are being balloted for strike action over cuts - Scotsman Does the DfE think you can clean a school for free? - Times Educational Supplement | TES University students should be treated like the paying customers they are, rather than criminals - Telegraph Children’s well-being a focus as many return for first time - Nursery World We're paying £9,000 a year to be in prison, say students stuck in halls - Evening Standard 'Struggling' university students in Scotland told they can return home amid coronavirus outbreaks - Evening Standard The universities crisis exposes the government’s failures on Covid-19 - New Statesman Aberdeen University threatens students breaking rules with £250 fines with landlords used for enforcement - Scotsman Scottish ministers accused of 'panicky' response to Covid outbreaks on campuses - Guardian Gibb: 'Not possible' to know teacher Covid case numbers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister won't rule out keeping students in halls for Christmas - Evening Standard Teachers warn schools are no longer 'Covid safe' after cases soar - Herald Scotland RSCs will ignore trusts’ 2020 results data and ‘pseudo Progress 8’ scores - Schools Week ‘Cancel culture’, gender stereotypes and ‘extreme political stances’: What new DfE guidance says about RSE - Schools Week Black working-class pupils unfairly excluded in England, thinktank warns - Guardian Evidence from visits won't be used in future - Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'You're state funded!' Gavin Williamson in angry warning at 'crazy' universities - Express Class of 2020: Inside the chaos of a lost freshers’ week - New Statesman Students self-isolating at universities are 'trapped' in 'disgusting' conditions, union boss warns - Evening Standard Too many children are being tested for coronavirus, top paediatrician claims - Mail Long-running apprenticeship provider goes bust - FE Week Shadow education secretary apologises after calling Covid-19 a ‘good crisis’ - Schools Week Shadow education secretary apologises after calling Covid-19 a ‘good crisis’ - FE Week Movers and Shakers: Edition 327 - FE Week Coronavirus UK: Students can go home from university if it's long term - Metro White kids from poor backgrounds do worst at school - Express 'We deserve to be taught about it': why students want climate crisis classes - Guardian Effective learning behaviours: Identifying the struggles - Research Schools Network Seeking input from pupils, parents and specialist professionals: how do schools make it work? - Research Schools Network ‘Back in Business: what can modern universities do to support Britain’s recovery?’ - HEPI Is Ofsted really ready to inspect all apprenticeships? - FE Week Putting SEND learners at the heart of the college means all my students are back - FE Week One in seven teachers ‘on the brink’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford moves to protect students from China's Hong Kong security law - Guardian Deck the halls with illegal posters - Wonkhe Funding the full cost of research would allow universities to renew their public mission - Wonkhe What is happening at universities right now, and why? - Wonkhe Call for university courses to be put back until chaotic testing system is fixed as row grows over campus lockdowns - Mail AoC: Coronavirus support funding should be extended - Times Educational Supplement | TES Growing support for cycling on national curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of freshers imprisoned in halls as Covid-hit universities face calls to close - The Sun Coronavirus lockdown students told their woes are matter for universities - Times Let girls be tomboys, says gender guidance - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Students flee halls to get away from virus carriers in kitchen - Times Swinney backs limited testing despite the number of cases soaring - Times Edinburgh and Stirling student unions ‘fail’ abortion activists - Times Crisis has taught us that online lessons work for pupils - Times Ireland: Less than half of campus sex assault claims investigated - Times