News archive for 4th February 2021

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Winchester College row as parents revolt over sex education lessons - Telegraph Russell Group demands clarity on grade inflation as they suggest they may have to limit offers - Telegraph ‘Please look after yourselves,' Duchess tells teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kate Middleton lines up adorable family photos for video call chats with teachers - Mirror ESFA investigation into fastest growing apprenticeship provider - FE Week Wales to reopen schools for children up to age 7 from 22 February - Guardian 'No case' to delay school restart until March, say government scientists - Telegraph Coronavirus: 'Road map' call to ensure students can graduate - Herald Scotland Sir Kevan Collins: Who is the new Covid catch-up tsar? - Times Educational Supplement | TES A levels 2021: Schools should report missed learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leicester University academics resign in disgust at move to 'decolonise' English curriculum - Mail Oxford University accepts record number of ethnic minority students - Evening Standard How student loan repayments leave graduates squeezed - New Statesman “Be honest about how bad things are for our kids”: Katharine Birbalsingh on why schools need to reopen – now - New Statesman Teachers want rotas for school re-openings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lockdown: Task force to help students complete courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND: Five steps towards sustainable work placements - Times Educational Supplement | TES Remote learning could continue until at least mid-March - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools need revolution to undo Covid damage | James Forsyth - Times - New International students locked out of Australia by pandemic switch to UK and US - Guardian Teachers refusing to go into schools due to Covid fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES The UK government must do more to help students through the pandemic - Times Higher Education | THE A whole-school approach to mental health - Teacher Toolkit Petty fees and Covid fines are making student life even more miserable - Telegraph Five predictions for the Covid catch-up programme - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to offer strength-based pastoral support - Times Educational Supplement | TES IGCSEs 2021: Cambridge Assessment could scrap UK exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Digital skills programme to tackle youth unemployment rolled-out - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sir Kevan Collins named as education recovery tsar - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Digest 150: How to read an academic paper - Learning Scientists Youth Social Action: What are the benefits for careers education? - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Teaching pupils empathy measurably improves their creative abilities, study finds - Cambridge Network Closing the attainment gap: how disadvantaged pupils have been impacted by COVID-19 - HEPI Russell Group response to DfE/Ofqual consultation on summer 2021 assessment - Russell Group Fairness in assessment in the Covid-19 era - NFER Education recovery must recognise unprecedented challenges in schools - NASUWT UCU calls for more universities to join fight for fair pensions - UCU Graduate opportunities in a new tech world - Office for Students Young people fear unemployment in ‘post-Covid world’, study reveals - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Covid: 'I don't want a holiday, I want to go to school' - BBC Why colleges shouldn't see employers as the enemy - Times Educational Supplement | TES International Baccalaureate: No exams for some schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES International Baccalaureate: Why UK exams are unlikely - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children thrive on structure and purpose – so set them one achievable goal each day - Telegraph Why the skills guarantee must be local at heart - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why Covid is a chance to rethink the school calendar - Times Educational Supplement | TES Opening schools 'could spread virus up the age groups’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES When we reopen schools, they need to stay open - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: London nursery group forks out £6,000 a week for Covid testing kits - Nursery World Children’s online habits revealed in survey - Nursery World Anger at University of Leicester's 'decolonised curriculum' plans - BBC Firm in 'unacceptable' school meals row to pay for half-term provision - Guardian Compass Group apologises for free school meals fiasco as revenue plummets - City AM Students loan interest scrapping proposals rejected by the state - alternatives proposed - Express Class cancelled: how Covid school closures blocked routes out of poverty - Guardian ‘I’ve had to fight’: Kehinde Andrews on life as the first UK professor of Black studies - Guardian Geography, not race, explains the disparity in England's educational outcomes | Alex Mistlin - Guardian Stringing out exam decisions is deeply unfair to pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers 'up for school reopenings but all need jabs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Compass apologises for school meal parcels that 'fell short’ - BBC Record number of students accepted onto medicine courses, Ucas data shows - Independent Coronavirus: Full NI school return 'unlikely for some time' - BBC Students turn to technology with university choices - UCAS Britain risks becoming a 'monolingual society' after Brexit, headteachers warn amid steep decline in modern language degrees - Telegraph Doing data differently - BERA ASCL comment on students turning to technology courses at university - ASCL The future of teacher and school leader recruitment - Independent Head Coronavirus in Scotland: John Swinney opens door to classroom access - Herald Scotland Coronavirus in Scotland: Schools reach breaking point as pandemic takes its toll - Herald Scotland UCAS End of Cycle 2020: Unconditional offers, student characteristics - Wonkhe UCAS End of Cycle 2020: Winners and losers - Wonkhe Tracing the Chris Whitty effect in the 2020 end of cycle admissions subject data - Wonkhe Number of students accepted on to language degrees drops by more than third - Mail Ucas data: Russell Group boosted recruitment as post-92s squeezed - Times Higher Education | THE Times Higher Education’s Digital Teaching Survey results - Times Higher Education | THE When will schools reopen in the UK? - The Sun University students ditch arts degrees and opt for medicine - Times - New Covid in Scotland: School pupils face a summer of catch-up tutoring - Times - New Covid in Ireland: Department of Education ‘must provide post-pandemic support for teachers and pupils’ - Times - New