News archive for 5th February 2021

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Warning about schools and lockdown restrictions next winter - Wales Online Using the apprenticeship brand - Education & Skills Funding Agency Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 5 February 2021 - Education Eye Atkins: 'I am more optimistic now than when I started' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Older pupils in Wales will return to school 'part-time' - Wales Online News podcast: When will it be safe to reopen schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Weekly highlights: From traffic lights to chair yoga - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Consider' primary return after half-term, DfE urged - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of Edinburgh: Former refugee elected as new rector - Scotsman Older pupils in Wales to return to school 'part-time', First Minister says - Mail Unions threaten to scupper 'plans to extend the school day' to help children catch up after lockdown - Mail Covid: When will schools reopen? - BBC Schools are forced to ring employers to check which children really need to be in class - Mail Ministers questioned on the educational underachievement of white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds - UK Parliament Committee endorse appointment of Chair of Office for Students - UK Parliament Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Information about the School Rebuilding Programme - DfE School Rebuilding Programme: first 50 schools - DfE Children in London ‘at risk’ of falling behind due to the pandemic - Nursery World Play spaces must be kept open, or children will suffer, sector warns - Nursery World Enhanced safety mitigations must be in place for wider school reopening in Wales - NASUWT Joint statement: fair summer assessment - National Education Union Gavin Williamson plans phased return to English universities in March - Guardian Covid: Halls party with 150 students stopped in Sheffield - BBC DfE ‘unconcerned' over profiteering from £425m free school meals contract - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Education organisations set out principles for fair assessment this summer - AoC | Association of Colleges Winchester College is accused of condoning underage sex - Mail Two new CPD courses to support staff delivering apprenticeships launched - Education & Training Foundation Progression from GCSEs not working for many young people - Nuffield Foundation Primary school kids in Wales to return to class from February 22 - The Sun ASCL comment on Education Minister’s announcement on return of some pupils to school in Wales - ASCL ASCL comment on school rebuilding programme - ASCL Financial support needed for all supply teachers - NASUWT Education organisations set out principles for fair assessment this summer - ASCL Covid-19 vaccine denied for special school staff – and then reinstated - Schools Week Principles set out for fair assessment this summer - NASUWT Curriculum Journal announces Editors’ Choice Awards for 2020 - BERA BPS responds to analysis and reports on the decline of children and young people’s mental health - BPS | British Psychological Society Children in Wales up to age seven to return to school after half-term - Guardian English schools to get extra £10m to open sports facilities after hours - Guardian School closures and job losses in UK 'could lead to social unrest' - Guardian Grade appeals should be made to exam boards not schools, say unions - Schools Week Government under fire over failure to cancel testing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Wales 'not ready' for full school reopening - BBC Parents give the news schools are going back a mixed reaction - Wales Online Hundreds of teachers in London 'book Covid vaccine through NHS booking link sent on Whatsapp' - Mail Meet Sue Lovelock: Transforming technical education - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Teachers' plan to avoid more grades ‘chaos' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Huddersfield University Bahrain degree 'providing torture hub with legitimacy' - Guardian Climate change: 5 reasons why FE needs to act now - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why FE's priority must be digital inclusion - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academia helps boost Scottish cyber sector - Public Technology Alternative provision in crisis: deficits, closed sites and restructures - Schools Week Schools are going to start returning in Wales - Wales Online Education minister's full speech announcing school return in Wales - Wales Online Why the sudden concern about children not in school? - Times Educational Supplement | TES A make-do-and-mend approach to opening schools is what we need - Telegraph FE recruitment drive ‘pipedream’ without pay rises - FE Week Talks under way on threshold rate for college adult education under-delivery - FE Week Tes Schools Awards 2021: The search for winners begins - Times Educational Supplement | TES First phase of school transformation launched - DfE Direct cash payments to vulnerable young people could help mental health during COVID-19 pandemic - London School of Economics | LSE ASCL responds to PAC report on free school meals voucher scheme - ASCL Leaders forced to cap places as school attendance rises - Schools Week Ministers ‘were surprisingly unconcerned’ over whether free school meals firm profited from taxpayer - Independent Wales: Children aged three to seven expected to return to school after half term - Wales Online Oxford increases intake of BAME students despite making lowest number of offers in a decade - Telegraph Micro-credentials and credit transfer: Giving credit where credit is due - HEPI Providers complain of ‘impossible timelines’ for lifetime skills guarantee offer - FE Week Williamson won’t commit to delivering laptops before schools reopen - Schools Week We must secure education technology’s great leap forward - Schools Week Scared teachers want masks in classrooms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus in Scotland: Parents slam test plan for P1s after schools reopen - Herald Scotland Podcast: UCAS end of cycle, learning experience, student hardship, free speech - Wonkhe Does good policy need good politics or good evidence? - Wonkhe MPs challenge value for money of meal vouchers - BBC Coronavirus: How will 'Generation Covid' catch up? - BBC No wonder fewer students want arts degrees when Lefty lecturers make them such a waste of time - Mail In full: The schools benefiting from £1bn revamp fund - Times Educational Supplement | TES £1bn school revamp scheme focuses on North and Midlands - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could Covid lead to a four-day working week? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE 'surprisingly unconcerned' over FSM voucher profits - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Missed opportunity’ to save cash on £452m free school meals national voucher scheme - Schools Week DfE names 21 free schools approved in wave 14 - Schools Week The 50 school rebuilding projects selected to split £1bn capital cash revealed - Schools Week Government 'unconcerned' over whether firm 'profited' over free school meals - Mirror Ministers 'unconcerned' about whether free school meals company was 'profiting at taxpayers' expense' - Telegraph How to navigate choppy, elitist waters as a working-class academic - Times Higher Education | THE Publishers claim Plan S’ repository rules will bankrupt journals - Times Higher Education | THE Kehinde Andrews: Enlightenment ideals perpetuate racism in academy - Times Higher Education | THE DfE 'unconcerned' over suspected large profits at free school meals provider - Guardian Leicester University considers lessons in diversity as medieval studies axed - Times - New Oxford University accepts over 100 black students - Times - New Covid in Scotland: Pupils face ‘ten more weeks out of school’ - Times - New Ireland: Leading parents’ councils to merge into one - Times - New