News archive for 8th February 2021

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Dr Alex issues warning over kids returning to school after becoming mental health ambassador - Mirror Teachers will be asked to increase learning time due to impact of pandemic, education tsar says - Independent Apprentices bring a fresh perspective to the UK's renewables industry – we need that - Guardian Even Gavin Williamson’s own wife is pushing him ‘every day’ to reopen schools as soon as possible - The Sun Apprenticeships: 'People from BAME backgrounds are not getting through' - Guardian Sport, music and drama 'should be part of England's pupil catch-up' - BBC Chinese involvement in UK university research is 'inadequately' monitored - Telegraph Children will have to learn to play together again when they return to school, says catch-up tsar - Telegraph Employers on apprenticeships: ‘It’s proved to be a brilliant way of recruiting’ - Guardian Forget 'crowd-pleasing' catch-up 'gimmicks' warn heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Investing in apprenticeship training is about to become easier for businesses - Guardian ‘All ideas on the table’ says catch-up tsar as Johnson won’t rule out extending school term - Schools Week Reforming GCSE English literature and language - The Learning Spy War Horse author on 'dire and urgent need to help and educate our trapped children' - Mirror Ruth Davidson: Teacher accused of homophobia over ‘fatherless child’ comments - Times - New Summer holidays could be shortened to help children catch up - Telegraph Estimating the impact of EU exit on UK higher education - DfE Higher education student finance 2021 to 2022: equality analysis - DfE Banned: Teacher who sent inappropriate messages - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch-up tsar wants teachers to increase learning time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why Covid must not become an excuse for students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities may need to set own exams because of 'flattering' A-level grades - Telegraph Will schools open in the summer holidays 2021? - The Sun Housing wealth, not bursaries, explains much of private school participation for those without high income - IOE London Blog Minister: strip degree powers if graduate employment falls short - Times Higher Education | THE Elite scientists increase stranglehold on academic publishing - Times Higher Education | THE Take part in our latest survey: understanding sustainability - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Unions push back as Ministers say they are looking at extending school summer term - Mail As councils continue to hold back underspent early years funding, NDNA calls for an overhaul of the system - EYE | Early Years Educator Almost 200 academics from British universities could face jail for sending information to China - Mail Boris Johnson refuses to rule out cutting summer holiday to help kids catch up on missed classes - The Sun Digital training to future-proof staff and learner skills earns TEC Partnership 2021 Beacon Award - Jisc BMJ and Jisc collaborate to support open access publishing across the UK - Jisc Social mobility: "Re-do" the curriculum, says expert - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy trust 'paid fraudsters nearly £400K' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Promoting teaching excellence for all - Advance HE Aardman Animations collaborates with LSE on mental health campaign for young people - London School of Economics | LSE Apprenticeship starts halved last year – to really build back better we must focus on sectors and regions to stimulate skills recovery - ERSA We can support teaching communities to build a better system for a post-Covid world - PoliticsHome Learning secondary maths in lockdown: How to help your students ‘have a go’ - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Five ways children could make up for lost school time - BBC Data is useful – but context is king - Jisc Letter to new Education Recovery Commissioner calls for task group to combat lost learning - AoC | Association of Colleges An Early Years qualification for primary school headteachers? - Early Education Association of Colleges Beacon Award 2021 winners announced - FE Week Colleges celebrate success at Beacon Awards 2021 - AoC | Association of Colleges National Apprenticeship Week 2021 - Education & Training Foundation National Apprenticeship Week: Building future leaders - Training Journal "Levelling the playing field" in one of the UK’s most deprived areas - Teach First Early intervention key to success - UKEdChat Bristol City Council to support children who are eligible for free schools meals during February half term - EYE | Early Years Educator ‘Free must mean free’, says Ombudsman as it calls for more transparency over free entitlement place fees - EYE | Early Years Educator Could the pandemic make the video games industry even more white and middle-class? - Guardian Call for more help for supply teachers forced to ‘beg’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents, don’t worry if your child knows more about grammar than you do | Debra Myhill - Guardian We can't let them take away our summer holidays - Times Educational Supplement | TES How teachers can have authority like Jackie Weaver - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers are key to extended school hours, says Harris Academy chief - Evening Standard Covid cases in early years settings nearly double in a week - Nursery World Providers renew calls for Covid-19 testing in all early years settings - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Mum blasts ‘inedible’ school food parcel after it turns up mouldy - The Sun Finding your balance in the mad new world of teaching - SecEd Covid: Ventilation just as important as hand-washing, schools told - SecEd Covid UK: Teaching unions are accused of 'hijacking' the pandemic to push for pay rises - Mail Why this is 'the moment' for colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don’t you dare lengthen the school summer term: my holiday is not up for grabs - Telegraph Lost learning expert group scrapped by DfE before it’s even set up - Schools Week Education and Covid-19: how other nations have fared - Times Educational Supplement | TES Summer holidays could be cut short to help pupils catch up, Tory minister hints - Mirror Schools reopening: Williamson looking into summer extension to have pupils catch up - Express 300,000 extra government laptops for remote learning have not yet reached schools - Independent Summer schools or repeat the whole year: six realistic ways our kids could catch up - Telegraph Building back better with apprenticeships - DfE Teachers ‘hijacking Covid’ to push through pay rise as they hail pandemic as ‘turning point’ - The Sun National Apprenticeship Week: Student stories - Sutton Trust How to raise a concern about a university or college - Office for Students Movers and Shakers: Edition 342 - FE Week The higher education sector needs high integrity carbon offsetting – it starts by asking the right questions - HEPI The value of a national TEF is in enhancing university learning and teaching - Wonkhe Intergenerational fairness will be central to Covid recovery – it can’t be left to universities alone - Wonkhe Are we nearly there yet? Getting the basics right for effective online learning - Wonkhe Questioning the statistics that underpin TEF - Wonkhe The government’s response to the Pearce review of TEF doesn’t do justice to it - Wonkhe GCSEs 2021: Lockdown 'hits exam year students hardest' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Traineeship pilots launched for Apprenticeship Week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mail Force praised as head teacher begs business 'to do your bit' and back laptops for lockdown children drive - Mail Catch-up tsar asked to set up lost learning task group - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE pupils have suffered the most during Covid lockdown says report - Mail Covid hits exam-taking and poorer pupils worst, study finds - Guardian Covid-19 has hit exam years hardest, finds study of 62,000 pupils - Schools Week Racism victims ‘struggle to access mental health support’ - Times Higher Education | THE I’m on track to learn, says UK’s oldest apprentice, 76 - Times - New Hundreds of UK academics investigated over weapons links to China - Times - New GCSE pupils hit hardest by anxiety over Covid-19 lockdown - Times - New