News archive for 10th February 2021

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Scotland: St Andrews tells students to stay away until autumn - Mail New Teaching School Hubs to be rolled out across the country - DfE Scotland: Teenagers to be urged to test themselves for Covid under schools return plan - Telegraph Boris Johnson to reveal more details on Monday about schools reopening in England - The Sun PM’s pledge of Monday school opening update was mistake - Times Educational Supplement | TES School catch-up plan is thrown into doubt as union makes pay demand - Mail 93% of staff oppose Ofsted visits this term - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of Manchester vice chancellor faces no confidence vote - BBC NAW 2021: Why we're boosting apprenticeship numbers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching school hubs: Is your school on the list? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Campaign to get laptops for pupils hits £10,000,000 mark in 16 days - Metro The 77 schools set to run new £65m ‘teaching school hubs’ revealed - Schools Week PISA 2018 in England: additional analysis - DfE High needs national funding formula: proposed changes - DfE Scotland: Teachers 'could work voluntarily in summer schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE pledges £65m for 81 new teaching school hubs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Overseas starters ‘down by a third’ at some English campuses - Times Higher Education | THE Improving local prosperity: the big challenge for higher education in 2021 - Office for Students ESFA Update: 10 February 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Start and end dates for Scotland school holiday - and when pupils could return to class - Scotsman School staff must wear masks when in close contact with youngest pupils when schools return - Wales Online Croynism row as Boris Johnson's former campaign chief handed £60,000-a-year, two-days-a-week job - Mail Cheating on the rise in UK universities during Covid, say researchers - Guardian 'Community of practice' to showcase FE research - Times Educational Supplement | TES School catch-up in England could take 5 years, says education recovery tsar - Financial Times Happy or not? How wellbeing in young people in the UK is changing - NFER Agile and accessible: updating HESA training - HESA Covid Scotland: Supply teachers report lack of work opportunities amid pandemic - Herald Scotland Using online audio tools to provide feedback - Teacher Toolkit Ambition welcomes teaching school hubs - Ambition Institute Police-led lessons on drugs and the law in schools increases student engagement and trust - London School of Economics | LSE What bookworms need to thrive - IOE London Blog Spend unused apprenticeship levy on early years training, LEYF urges - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How to choose educational apps for pre-school children - The Conversation Going the extra mile to embrace LGBT+ equality in higher education - Universities UK Covid-19 and schools - what needs to happen next - NAHT Strategic development programme launched for leaders and governors involved in apprenticeship delivery - AELP NFER analysis of wellbeing of 15-year-olds reveals strength of personal relationships and a sense of belonging key - NFER Consultation launched to ensure high needs funding awarded ‘fairly’ as councils struggle - Schools Week Winchester going co-ed could be the death knell for boys' schools – and that's no bad thing - Telegraph All apprenticeship providers told to reapply to RoATP yet again - FE Week UK student offered £5,000 after he was bullied by lecturer - Guardian Vaccine priority row amid claims council staff who work with children offered Covid jab - Mail Children may be asked to take 'diagnostic tests' to see how far they have fallen behind - Telegraph 'Cronyism' warning over Tory peer as student watchdog - BBC How to improve online student engagement - Times Educational Supplement | TES The best catch-up plan? Supporting teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher feedback and school 'climate' key to wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for large businesses to transfer unspent apprenticeship levy to the early years sector - Nursery World Tories accused of cronyism over universities watchdog Lord Wharton - Times - New Why inquiry-based learning is so valuable right now - Times Educational Supplement | TES Digital poverty: 49,000 laptops delivered to colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools' catch-up spending choice likely to be limited - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Lancaster students climb out of windows to escape party fine - BBC Socio-economic diversity in the tech sector - Sutton Trust NAW 2021: FE White paper & the next phase of apprenticeship reform (recording) - FE Week Covid: Outdoor education centres bid to reopen after Easter - BBC Former Tory MP in row over appointment as head of Office for Students - Guardian Covid testing in schools: DfE aligns advice with NHS following confusion - Schools Week Mental health warning for children who missed lockdown homeschooling - Evening Standard Technology is here to stay, so let’s embrace it - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch up? Teachers know what to do, so leave us to it - Times Educational Supplement | TES The impact of adult education on unemployment - Times Educational Supplement | TES The impact of adult education on unemployment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children will need eight extra hours in classroom a week for two years, experts claim - Mirror Government should enlist civil society to help our children catch up on lost learning - PoliticsHome Poverty not ethnicity the reason for underperformance of working-class white students, says minister - Independent University pensions: ‘If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.’ Part II: Why it is so hard to deliver change - HEPI Describing young people’s use of digital technology - BERA Latest details on how GCSEs and A-levels will run and be graded in Wales - Wales Online 'It's the isolation': parents on the impact of lockdown on children - Guardian The government’s bung to university students doesn’t go nearly far enough - PoliticsHome CEG announces launch of University of Southampton pathway - PIE News ‘Secure schools’ call as Committee welcomes drop in youth detention - UK Parliament 10% of teenagers have tried hard drugs by age 17 - IOE London Blog Survey of care experienced young people - apprenticeships and the national minimum wage - ERSA School staff trust in DfE on Covid plummets - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students prepare to board the bandwagon of Covid complaints - Wonkhe HESA, HESES and the missing students - Wonkhe Winchester College is to admit girls for first time in its 640-year history - Mail Supply teachers 'forgotten' during Covid lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in 10 teens in UK has tried hard drugs - BBC Area studies must be decolonised - Times Higher Education | THE Nicholas Hitchon: the ‘Seven Up’ scientist known to millions - Times Higher Education | THE Is it too soon for a Nobel Prize for the Covid vaccine? - Times Higher Education | THE Mental health crisis in the wake of Covid-19 – education is the answer - FE News ‘Snow days’ cut no ice with stressed parents - Times - New ‘Generation Covid’ tag risks blighting resilient children - Times - New Tencent: Tech giant backed by Beijing funded Cambridge research - Times - New Middle-class UK teenagers more likely to binge drink and shoplift - Times - New Don’t let girls’ schools vanish in the rush to co-ed - Times - New Coronavirus in Scotland: Edinburgh University principal back on full pay after taking cut in crisis - Times - New Scotland: Ruth Davidson ‘fatherless child’ comments are my free speech, insists teacher - Times - New Ireland: Dundalk Institute of Technology lecturers withhold students’ exam grades - Times - New