News archive for 30th September 2020

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No link between schools re-opening and coronavirus infection rates, global analysis finds - Telegraph Universities watchdog warns against punishing students with 'heavy-handed sanctions' amid backlash over campus lockdowns - Telegraph Universities should be seeking to help, not punish, students stuck in lockdown - Telegraph Ex-Education Secretary calls for next year’s A levels and GCSEs to be scrapped - The Sun Education Committee launch home education inquiry - UK Parliament Higher education: reopening buildings and campuses - DfE Young people NEET or activity unknown: comparative data scorecard - DfE ESFA Update: 30 September 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Online tool lets parents check how close their children could be to nearest outbreaks in the area - Mail New coronavirus stats show schools don't drive infection with rates in kids staying low - The Sun Tens of thousands of teachers on the verge of quitting unions over handling of coronavirus crisis - The Sun Single superspreader is blamed for Swansea University outbreak - Mail Why the PM's speech on skills is a 'ragbag' - Times Educational Supplement | TES We need education on suicide awareness more than ever - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adult education: three pressing problems remain - Times Educational Supplement | TES Whitty: Covid rates 'not rising in school-age children' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford University to offer postgraduate scholarships for black British students - Guardian Could we see a rise in apprenticeship gap years? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Children must be at the ‘forefront’ of Covid-19 planning - Nursery World Online learning 'little more than revision', say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: What are the rules for face masks or face coverings? - BBC Rise in pupils in England being home-schooled due to Covid fears, says Ofsted chief - Guardian Coronavirus Scotland: Students could be screened for Covid-19 as 759 positive - Herald Scotland Coronavirus: Councils ignoring DfE guidance on funding nurseries and childminders at pre-Covid levels - Nursery World NYA launches new national youth work curriculum - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Education committee launches home learning inquiry - CYPN | Children & Young People Now A London university has become the first in the capital to confirm an outbreak of coronavirus - PoliticsHome Jisc and EMS Press sign agreement supporting mathematicians publishing open access - Jisc Education Development Trust gains 'Excellent' Merlin Standard accreditation - Education Development Trust | EDT Jisc supports universities and colleges to gain ‘essential’ cyber certificates - Jisc Covid-19: Government action demanded as student attendance falls to 84 per cent - SecEd Does growth-mindset intervention at scale work? - Best Evidence in Brief Missing pages: increasing racial diversity in the literature we teach - Teach First Edge's response to the Prime Minister's announcement - Edge Foundation Substantial resources needed for remote learning - NASUWT Guidance finally compliant with health and safety laws - NASUWT Summer reflections - AoC | Association of Colleges Why early maths teaching should focus on play - Times Educational Supplement | TES England pulls out of Talis international teaching study - Times Educational Supplement | TES 5 Steps to Mental Health and Wellbeing: developing a whole-school approach - NAHT GCSEs: Could your lesson trigger mental health issues? - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA refuses to rule out funding clawback for ‘under delivery’ - FE Week Access to higher education before, during and after the pandemic - HEPI As the Government begins implementing the more popular elements of the Augar report, we shouldn’t forget the rest of it (including what it said on fees)… - HEPI A levels 2021: 'Trust teachers and cancel exams' - Times Educational Supplement | TES NEU launches interactive School Covid Map website - National Education Union Funding for adult learners will boost the UK's economic recovery - Universities UK Thousands of teenagers experiencing period poverty since coronavirus pandemic - Express Emergency recovery package needed for early years sector, says the Children's Commissioner for England - EYE | Early Years Educator Secondary schools report bills of as much as £39K a term for Covid safety measures - SecEd Teachers to debate infection rate 'thresholds' for school closures - SecEd Covid map offers schools local infection rate data - SecEd All the confirmed cases of coronavirus in Welsh universities so far - Wales Online Ministers 'sticking fingers in ears' over 2021 exams - BBC Covid crisis shows ministers mistrust us, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ten years on, Covid shows why we need the Equality Act - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of Edinburgh students hit back at 'negligent' institution - Scotsman Exams should be scrapped next year to take away tension and fear, says Michael Morpurgo - Evening Standard Swinney: 'The last thing I want to do is close schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two problems with the guidance on positive tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to check Covid infection rates near your school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Going through the motions: What NEU members will debate at their special virtual conference - Schools Week DfE pulls out of major TALIS survey to ‘reduce considerable workload burden’ - Schools Week Coronavirus is damaging Britain's young people – and that didn't have to happen | Sonia Sodha - Guardian Cancel 2021 GCSE and A-level exams, says Lord Baker - Times Educational Supplement | TES Safety and impact of home education to be probed by MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could 'Nightingale classes' keep schools fully open? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: What happens if someone in school tests positive? - BBC MPs to look at ‘more active’ inspection role in new home education inquiry - Schools Week Coronavirus Scotland: Demands for 'full transparency' over students fiasco - Herald Scotland Forget Sats and focus on Covid recovery, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES NEU launches ‘school Covid map’ website - Schools Week Children leaving school having never studied a book by a black author - Metro Freshers' week behind bars is a new kind of nightmare for students | Joel Golby - Guardian University covid chaos: Can uni students return home? - Express Hundreds of students cram into Coventry University halls for illegal late-night rave - Mail Should students be refunded for online-only courses – and who should pay? - Public Technology Many GCSE pupils never study a book by a black author - Guardian From partners to prisoners, what is it about student accommodation? - Wonkhe An inevitable crisis: how Covid-19 hit universities (podcast) - Guardian University bosses call for next year's A-level exams to be scrapped - Mail Covid-19 putting 'massive strain on teacher workload' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Call for more BAME authors in English lit texts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools must do more for low-income families - Times Educational Supplement | TES University students will be able to go home for Xmas — but some must isolate first - The Sun Campaign calls for BAME author quotas in GCSE study lists - Schools Week 2:30 p.m. - The Women and Equalities Committee will examine the impact of coronavirus on children’s education - Accountability Hearings Hundreds of Coventry University students cram into illegal late-night party flouting social distance despite Covid spike - The Sun To question the biomedical consensus is not to lack moral accountability - Times Higher Education | THE No-deal Brexit ‘biggest threat’ to UK hope of joining EU research - Times Higher Education | THE University leaders call for next year’s A-levels to be axed - Times Enemies of capitalism have no place in school | Daniel Finkelstein - Times Next year’s A levels should be cancelled - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Muslim given ham in ‘food chaos’ at university residence - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: St Andrews students can quit halls without paying full rent - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Students congregating in streets of Galway face suspension - Times