News archive for 29th September 2020

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The Education Secretary's statement on the fiasco in our universities - Mail Students' anger at decision to suspend in-person lessons at Welsh university - Wales Online Teachers struggling without Covid tests in London's worst hit borough - Metro Police report attacks 'panicked response' by SNP ministers and universities to student Covid outbreaks - Telegraph Only one in five universities has adopted anti-Semitism definition despite Government's threats - Telegraph Government should introduce 'Nightingale classes' say union chiefs - Mail Covid app 'causing confusion over whether children can go to school if parents told to isolate' - Telegraph Boris's speech was designed as a quick win. Then he opened his mouth | John Crace - Guardian Self-isolating pupils who miss Autumn resits face entering 2021 exams - Schools Week One in six state secondary schools not fully open, figures show - Independent 200 Coventry University students flout lockdown rules with huge party in halls - Mirror A welcome boost to adult education in England - Financial Times Universities could be asked to end face-to-face teaching early to allow students home for Christmas - Telegraph GCSEs: Schools in lockdown areas expected to hold exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pisa: Teacher shortages more uneven in the UK - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK: Half of Chinese university students may cancel or delay study plans - PIE News Prime Minister to announce plans to 'transform skills and training system' - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Questioning history - UKEdChat Girls benefit from doing sports - UKEdChat Who is happy? And do we know it? Teacher anxiety in the new term - Teacher Tapp Self-isolating students are given free booze in Manchester as three more universities impose coronavirus curbs - Mail PM's skills speech: 29 September 2020 - GOV.UK The impact of coronavirus on children’s education examined - UK Parliament Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March to 24 September 2020 - DfE Opportunity North East programme grants: S31 determination letters - DfE New chair of the Skills and Productivity Board confirmed - DfE Academy trusts: late financial returns 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Return of students to universities statement - DfE CBI responds to Prime Minister's plans to transform skills and training - CBI Collab Group Statement on EDSK 'Further Consideration' report - Collab Group Committee Chair Robert Halfon comments on Prime Minister’s speech on the Lifetime Skills Guarantee - UK Parliament UUK response to prime minister’s speech on adult learning and skills - Universities UK ASCL comment on drop in fully open secondaries - ASCL MillionPlus comment on the Prime Minister’s ‘Skills’ speech - MillionPlus DfE's statistics on outcomes of children in need for the academic year 2018-2019 - NAHT NAHT writes to Nick Gibb urging him not to withdraw from TALIS - NAHT Gavin Williamson "clearly wrong" to say universities are well prepared for Covid crisis - UCU "These plans will not undo a decade of cuts" - UCU response to Prime Minister's skills speech - UCU Warning that exams crisis 'could easily be repeated' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers want 'urgent' help with cold Covid classrooms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prime Minister's speech on 29 September: "Time to get radical on adult retraining by using individual skills accounts", says AELP - AELP Students’ unions are a crucial puzzle piece for this academic year - HEPI Children’s commissioner: Young people's rights ‘actively downgraded’ during lockdown - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Care leavers at risk of 'digital isolation' as Covid-19 restrictions tighten - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Support young people at risk of youth violence during futher lockdowns, youth work leaders warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now PISA 2018 results (volume V): Effective policies, successful schools - OECD Catch-up funds not for PPE or supply staff, DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES NEU comment on Pisa report - National Education Union Skills and lifelong learning - National Education Union The Children’s Commissioner’s report highlights the multiple ways the pandemic has impacted on young people’s lives - National Education Union Coronavirus: School closure data - National Education Union Is that a real honorary degree on your CV? - Wonkhe Do higher level vocational qualifications lead to higher earnings than degrees? - Wonkhe Why aren’t students getting clarity on compensation and refunds? - Wonkhe Reallocate skills funding to regions to rescue ailing apprenticeship system - Wonkhe Boris Johnson warns 'huge numbers' of Brits will need to change jobs in Covid-19 wake - Mirror Time to end ‘bogus’ HE-FE distinction, says Boris Johnson - Times Higher Education | THE Minister pledges students will be able to go home for Christmas - Times Higher Education | THE Is it time for technology in math education? - Best Evidence in Brief School turnaround: Potentially positive, but it depends - Best Evidence in Brief Joint union letter about TALIS - Voice Evaluation of Achievement for All - Best Evidence in Brief Williamson sets out plan to allow students in England home for Christmas - Guardian Children’s prosocial behaviours also promote happiness - Best Evidence in Brief Free adult education: What is the National Skills Fund? - Express How can adults without A-levels get onto free college courses? - Metro Covid amnesty for failing schools to end in November - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nicola Sturgeon warns universities 'no excuse' to not support self-isolating students - Scotsman Britain among worst countries in world for learning foreign language, OECD report reveals - Telegraph University teaching 'could finish early' to get students home for Christmas - Mirror RSE update: How the new guidance may change your plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson says students will be able to return home for Christmas (video) - Guardian Students home for Christmas with end of term online - BBC Boris Johnson is looking for political gain in a crisis he helped to create - New Statesman Boris Johnson refuses to act on demands for fee refunds and says it up to unis - Mirror Two universities to give students rent refunds and food vouchers after local outbreaks - Mirror FE white paper to simplify adult education funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson promises free courses and flexible loans for people who lose their job due to coronavirus - The Sun Covid: PM promises 'radical' shake-up of adult education - BBC One in six secondaries send pupils home with Covid - BBC PM: End 'pointless, nonsensical gulf' between FE and HE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prime minister Boris Johnson’s speech on adult skills: The full text - FE Week Covid secondary school closures double in a single week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Nearly one in six secondaries not fully open, DfE data suggests - Schools Week Boris Johnson announces 'radical' plan to boost vocational training - Guardian DfE: Apprenticeships advice for adults not good enough - Times Educational Supplement | TES Big drop in secondary schools open to all pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why continuous provision shouldn't stop now - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads say staff shortages 'hindering instruction' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities may end lectures early to get students home for Christmas, says Williamson - HuffPost Boris hails breakthrough moment of 'radical change' as UK launches free training for all - Express Who is the first chair of the skills and productivity board? - FE Week Named: Academy trusts that missed 'essential' deadlines - Times Educational Supplement | TES Give us both barrels, say heads of ‘inadequate’ schools - Schools Week 23 trusts submitted financial returns late - Schools Week Year 10 pupils at a Neath school told to stay home after Covid case - Wales Online 'Stark' pre-Covid online learning gap revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES School buildings 'hinder teaching of 1 in 3 students' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers ‘indoctrinating’ pupils with left-wing ideas, claims former Tory minister - Independent 10 FAQs about the challenges teachers face - Headguruteacher Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities formally launches - IOE London Blog What are the new rules for teaching identity in schools? - Telegraph Students could 'isolate for two weeks before Christmas' so they can see their families - Mirror Major expansion of post-18 education and training to level up and prepare workers for post-COVID economy - GOV.UK Boris Johnson will offer every adult in England without an A-level a fully-funded college course - Mail Thousands of adults without A-levels to be offered free college course by the government - Mirror Dear Gavin Williamson, here's how to avoid more exam catastrophes | Michael Rosen - Guardian Profile: Carol Thomas - CEO and Principal, Coventry College - FE Week University students claim they are being left without food for days in campus lockdowns - Mirror Students 'could be told to self-isolate for so they can go home for Christmas' - Mail WorldSkills UK Live: Two-day event to take place online - Times Educational Supplement | TES NSS may be fatally wounded by limbo year, experts fear - Times Higher Education | THE WorldSkills UK LIVE back for 2020 with online event - FE Week Children 'must be the priority' in Covid-19 planning - BBC DfE introduces intelligence gathering to monitor exclusions ‘in real time’ - Schools Week Exempt under-12s in England from Covid rule of six, says report - Guardian 9:00 a.m. - The Education Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into adult skills and lifelong learning - Accountability Hearings Students could be told to isolate before going home for Christmas - Times Coronavirus: Free college courses to help adults gain skills - Times Take stand against Chinese bullying, universities urged - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Ministerial U-turn led to student halls chaos - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Give rent rebates to students, Sturgeon urges universities - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Anxious freshers are going back home - Times Scotland: Student shambles erodes Sturgeon’s authority | Alex Massie - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Fears for mental health as students return to college - Times Special needs education in Northern Ireland ‘needs urgent reform’ - Times Initial teacher education providers: unsung heroes of the pandemic (September 29th, 2020) - UCET