News archive for 9th February 2021

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Number of students in school during lockdown increases for second week in row, government figures show - Independent Primary school attendance in England rising in latest Covid lockdown - Guardian Children will get Covid vaccines by end of year, government adviser predicts - Telegraph School catch-up plans in doubt as teacher union says contracts must be renegotiated - Telegraph Vaccinate teachers at half term so our children can get back to school, Labour says - Mirror Winchester College to admit girls and day pupils for first time in 640-year history - Telegraph Gavin Williamson slams outgoing chairman of student watchdog for failing to protect free speech on campuses - Mail How apprenticeships could play a key part in the post-Covid economic rebuild - Guardian Help for children catch up at school may last beyond summer holidays - Herald Scotland Why we should back the National Tutoring Programme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scientist questions need to keep schools closed as Covid case rates fall - Telegraph Shadow education secretary celebrates National Apprenticeship Week with ‘top class’ virtual tour - FE Week Schools minister refuses to rule out longer school days in England - Guardian Turing Scheme: Further details of UK’s Erasmus+ replacement revealed - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Why I’ve spent my career championing apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK must market harder; value vocational, optimise online, says economist - PIE News Adult lockdown lessons for home schooling - PoliticsHome UK could lose 57 per cent of EU student numbers, says DfE study - Times Higher Education | THE New OfS chair Lord Wharton must resign Tory whip, says Labour - Times Higher Education | THE The government responds to the consultation on arrangements to rectify the age discrimination in public sector pension schemes - NAHT Laptops and tablets progress data as of 9 February 2021 - DfE Responsibility for exams - DfE Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 4 February 2021 - DfE Higher education student data UK: 2019 to 2020 - DfE Coronavirus: Childminders in Scotland to receive sustainability grants - Nursery World Department for Education looking to spend £4m on catch-up resources - Schools Week Catch-up tests and teacher resources to cost DfE £3.9m - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hundreds of volunteers sign up to children’s reading scheme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The public value of higher education - Advance HE As families get poorer, the government must not block measures to make uniforms more affordable - PoliticsHome Changing focus when things go wrong - Education & Training Foundation Free period products: More than 10,000 schools still to apply - SecEd Reducing school exclusions key to tackling youth violence and criminal gang exploitation - SecEd CfEM's focus on research - Education & Training Foundation Lost learning recovery: Evidence does not support extending the school day or year - SecEd Councils respond to Welsh Government announcement on schools re-opening - Wales Online ASCL comment on speculation about extended school days and summer term - ASCL Industrial action suspended at Solent University following positive talks - UCU Secretary of State for Education Gavin Williamson's address to 2021 Annual Conference - AoC | Association of Colleges Higher Education Student Data 2019/20 - HESA Collab Group agrees apprenticeship partnership with Mitie - Collab Group Our Impact in Focus 2020-21 - National Numeracy AoC Chair: Huge challenge to diversify leadership in FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES School drops Winston Churchill and JK Rowling as house names after student consultation - Mail Parents fume as teachers cancel Zoom lessons for pupils because of snow - Mail Sir Kevan Collins Q&A: Covid innovations can drive catch-up challenge - Schools Week Ministers will consider longer school days to help with Covid-19 catch up - Mirror Schools could open if rest of lockdown stays, say researchers - BBC How Covid-19 has changed the university admissions process - Telegraph Keele University accepting funds for researcher who shared vaccine misinformation - Guardian Working with a disability: how can apprenticeships become inclusive? - Guardian Covid catch-up needs more cash says Collins - Times Educational Supplement | TES School summer holidays could be cut to a month permanently to help kids catch up after Covid - The Sun A test of some hunches: Is this lockdown going the way you think? - Teacher Tapp Covid catch-up can't take tired teachers for granted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the catch-up plan is a step in the wrong direction - Times Educational Supplement | TES Degree apprenticeships: higher-level study, but no uni fees? Yes please - Guardian Gibb: ‘Challenge’ schools with low EBacc entries to address ‘unequal opportunities’ - Schools Week Heads warn against 'grinding out hours' in summer catch up - BBC £500 bill for orange juice: Trust rapped for spend at ‘luxury’ spa hotel and ‘high fashion’ mag - Schools Week Apply now for 2021 apprenticeships at Dstl - GOV.UK Students who use ‘essay mills’ to cheat coursework threatened with blackmail - Express Investigation report: Galileo Multi Academy Trust - Education & Skills Funding Agency How should we talk about resilience after the pandemic? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Key worker pupils surge by 45,000 in a week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch-up tsar given ‘wide remit’ over £300m pot - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy trust rapped for ‘excessive’ gifts and trips - Times Educational Supplement | TES Closure of college campus confirmed by FE commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES School attendance rises to 16% as key worker numbers leap - Schools Week Mental-health tsar: Anxious pupils should return gradually - BBC Six ways we've adapted to set exams remotely - Times Educational Supplement | TES Profile: Steve Kelly, Principal, Keighley College - FE Week Williamson ‘strongly encourages’ colleges to embrace lifetime skills guarantee level 3 offer - FE Week Williamson: Colleges 'at the heart of Covid recovery' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Squalid' to suggest teachers trade holiday for vaccine - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extend Scottish school day to let pupils catch up on lost teaching - Scotsman Michael Gove's free schools at 10: the most successful policy since the war – or a costly mistake? - Guardian University pensions: ‘If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.’ Part I: The underlying challenge - HEPI Teachers could be given Covid vaccine sooner if they agree to cut summer holidays short - The Sun Why tackling fake news needs a whole-school approach - Times Educational Supplement | TES 70% of teachers see a Covid behaviour slump - Times Educational Supplement | TES OfS sets off in a new direction with new guidance and a new chair - Wonkhe Obsessions with outcomes won’t deliver the flexible revolution - Wonkhe Pupils ‘need eight extra hours of tuition a week to make up for learning lost during lockdown’ - Evening Standard Coronavirus: Teaching unions are making outrageous demands before returning to the classroom - Mail Teacher sacked from Eton over anti-feminist video could be banned from teaching for life - Mail Pupils need individualised support – not more school - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK risks ‘turning clock back’ on gender equality in pandemic - Guardian 9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence on the educational underachievement of white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds - Accountability Hearings UK overseas master’s enrolments shot up in year before pandemic - Times Higher Education | THE The importance of keeping apprentices in work - FE News Sacked Eton master Will Knowland faces lifetime ban from schools - Times - New Oxford renames 120-year-old Wykeham professorship for Tencent, Chinese software company - Times - New Ireland: Period poverty could be blighting lives of 85,000 women and girls - Times - New