News archive for 11th February 2021

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Is Boris Johnson’s March 8 school reopening date really slip sliding away? - HuffPost ‘We don’t want these volunteers’ – heads reject catch-up proposal and demand more cash - Schools Week Mouldy fruit and bruised vegetable in food parcel sent to low income family - Wales Online IGCSEs 2021: Exam board 'sorry' for exam decision delay - Times Educational Supplement | TES School return date must be 'signed in blood', Boris Johnson told - Telegraph What the law says about who really gets to decide if schools will re-open after half term - Wales Online Covid-related death of college lecturer investigated - FE Week 'Paying £9,000 a year for Zoom calls is mad': apprentices on how Covid-19 changed university plans - Guardian Return to school 'a logistical nightmare' for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge college named after Winston Churchill debates his ‘backward’ views on race - Times - New Disadvantaged children and those with SEND lost most learning in first lockdown, research shows - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Nursery staff call for training to deal with complex mental health needs in under-fives - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs question secure school delays - CYPN | Children & Young People Now To be transformed by research-informed practices, schools must have the right leaders - IOE London Blog Rethinking engineering education - Advance HE Over £42 million to extend projects for children with SEND - DfE Beyond the Covid catch-up for children, our education system needs a long-term plan - PoliticsHome Pearson and Mable Therapy collaborate to help schools and children access online speech therapy and mental health support - Pearson Initiative to address student mental ill-health - PIE News Social mobility and diversity within apprenticeships - Sutton Trust Two in five top universities see drop in students from state schools - Independent School lessons to reassure pupils over safety of Covid vaccines - Evening Standard For Women and Girls in Science Day, we are calling on the Government to ensure the gender gap is closed - PoliticsHome Scottish schoolgirls succeed in UK cyber security competition - GOV.UK Higher education performance indicators UK: widening participation 2019 to 2020 - DfE Prerecorded lesson bank for teachers hits 1,000 uploads - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK Performance Indicators: Widening Participation, 2019/20 - HESA Sodexo and Collab Group announce apprenticeship partnership - Collab Group ASCL comment on avoiding use of schools for May polls - ASCL Nine tips for supporting school and college leaders during lockdown - ASCL UCU statement on death of teacher at Burnley College - UCU University pensions: ‘If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.’ Part III: What is likely to happen - HEPI How has Covid-19 affected the way in which teacher educators engage their students with learning? - BERA Tory Cronyism has struck again – and higher education will suffer | Kate Green - Guardian Nurseries urgently need to benefit from unspent 2020 apprenticeship levy funds - EYE | Early Years Educator Five young women set out their stall for improving apprenticeship take-up with Skills Minister Gillian Keegan - Careers & Enterprise Company Early years staff say they are struggling to deal with young children’s mental health issues - EYE | Early Years Educator Building a green future one apprenticeship at a time - Nesta Manchester University students urge vice-chancellor to quit - Guardian Letter to Children's Minister Vicky Ford MP - Voice Covid: How we vaccinated 200 students in seven hours - Times Educational Supplement | TES IB: Schools outside UK being told if exams will happen - Times Educational Supplement | TES £31m pledged to avoid using schools as polling stations during May elections - Schools Week Tony Blair's son urges unemployed to become apprentices in coronavirus pandemic - Mirror Call to Covid-test teachers for March 8 school openings - Times Educational Supplement | TES How apprenticeships can help disadvantaged learners - Times Educational Supplement | TES Do longer school days work? Lessons from history - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trainee teachers can qualify on ‘progress’ for 2nd year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Launch of the Get Help Buying for Schools service - DfE What if we spent catch-up money on more teachers? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: Trainees can get qualified teacher status based on progress again this year - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2020: Bumper top grades in November resits - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A levels: Dominant AQA grows market share - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gillian Keegan: Apprenticeships 'are a superior way to learn' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Percentage of LA schools in red doubles in 5 years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: MP Lia Nici to chair diversity network - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Catch-up tsar will have no role in grading - Times Educational Supplement | TES Almost six in ten students improved GCSE grades in autumn exams - Schools Week Former FE lecturer turned MP appointed new Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network chair - FE Week At a boys' day school, young men don't see themselves as second best to girls - Telegraph I'm wary of too many plans to help our children catch up - they just perpetuate guilt - Telegraph Five Welsh councils say kids aren't going back to school on Feb 22 - Wales Online NUS Scotland calls for students to be exempt from £1,750 quarantine charge - Scotsman Exam prices hike drops off but still above inflation, Ofqual price guide shows - Schools Week Covid catch-up tsar appointed for initial 9-month spell - Times Educational Supplement | TES Magazine podcast: Effort, men in primary and 90s games - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE and A-level fees rise busts inflation again - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE launches national buying service to help schools deliver ‘value for money’ - Schools Week 1 in 8 LA-maintained schools now in deficit as primaries’ financial health worsens - Schools Week Schools must be reopened in stages or it will push R rate above 1 and Covid cases will increase - The Sun Children may have to take 'diagnostic tests' when they finally return to school - Mail Early years staff struggling to support children's emotional and behavioural needs - Nursery World Covid: Head warns of effect on early years pupils 'lasting years' - BBC Supporting parents is key to unlocking the UK’s next generation of apprentices - UCAS Rethinking higher education: Case studies for the 21st Century - Edge Foundation Defunding BTECs could set the widening access agenda back by decades - Wonkhe Employers are putting their faith in apprenticeships to help them bounce back from Covid-19 - Wonkhe Concern over pandemic’s unequal impact on TEF ratings - Times Higher Education | THE Cocaine death puts Oxford college in the firing line - Times - New Chris Skidmore: Outlaw essay firms exploiting students - Times - New Scotland: University chiefs criticised by unions in pay cut row - Times - New Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (February 2021) - UCET DfE: Covid-19 February 2021 updates - UCET