News archive for 12th February 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 12 February 2021 - Education Eye Johnson looks at staggering school reopening with secondaries delayed - Financial Times MPs to hold a general debate on the proposal for a national education route map for schools and colleges in response to the covid-19 outbreak - UK Parliament Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Harmful online challenges and online hoaxes - DfE National tutoring scheme proposed as 'catch-up plan' for Scottish pupils by Conservatives - Scotsman Over 3 million rapid coronavirus tests in schools and colleges - DfE 19+ funding allocations guidance 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency UCL board rejects IHRA definition of antisemitism - Guardian The battle to stop children falling off the radar while schools are shut - Wales Online Let schools tell pupils their teacher assessment grades before submission, says exam board - Schools Week Covid testing: More than 3m tests carried out by schools, and 4 other things we learned - Schools Week Scotland: Return of pupils to school - practical subject guidance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: how to reverse the decline in starts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: The highs and lows of remote teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES 3 in 10 prep schools could change term dates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can nursery and childcare workers get the covid vaccine? - Express Owners of failed school lettings firm set up again - Times - New Association of Apprentices launches to support trainees and boost retention - FE Week Learning from the past - Edge Foundation Exams 2021: Young people share their views - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Families receive vital home learning basics thanks to Help a Child to Learn campaign - Mirror Scotland: 'Caution' over pupil return as Covid progress 'stalls' - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE White Paper: what does it mean for social mobility? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lockdown end date: Schools will open on March 8 as No 10 finally confirms exit plan - Express More than half of university students in Edinburgh plan to stay in capital after graduating - Scotsman Anxiety has increased for individuals with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities - IOE London Blog Weekly highlights: Catch-up, longer days and resilience - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE podcast: Adult education with Simon Parkinson - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE faces £263k bonus bill for staff who helped set up mass testing scheme - Schools Week Logistics apprentices pandemic response recognised during National Apprenticeship Week - ERSA Labour: Apprenticeship wages should be subsidised - Times Educational Supplement | TES Councils organise local computers for remote schooling schemes - Public Technology EEF publishes findings from independent evaluation of National Online Tutoring pilot - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Students call on the Government for more support after no return to face to face lectures - Express Young people more worried about Brexit than catching COVID-19 - Nuffield Foundation Nurturing the next generation - UKEdChat Why we must keep the 20% off the job training - Unionlearn Job cuts amid threat to close modern language department at University of Hull - UCU Wendy Alexander: Assessing the new International Education Strategy - HEPI Parental engagement at St Aidan's Primary School - National Numeracy Facing maths anxiety as a teacher: Gillian's story - National Numeracy Scotland: Greens call for SQA board to resign after Covid chaos - Times Educational Supplement | TES Follow the science? This government does no such thing - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Call for reform of 'old-fashioned’ assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES We do need to 'catch up' – with every single pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES Re-apply – again! Anger as ESFA tells providers to make fresh RoATP application - FE Week When will schools reopen in the UK? - The Sun Symptom-tracking app predicts daily Covid cases will fall to 3,000 when schools re-open - Mail Old-fashioned GCSEs should be reformed in post-Covid years, says leading head - Mail Profile: Joan Scott - WorldSkills' award-winning hero - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tories call for post-lockdown school 'catch-up' plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sprinklers still not mandatory for school rebuilding projects - Schools Week UK school closures are sacrificing childhoods to save older people - now it's payback time | Laura McInerney - Guardian Two-thirds of London nurseries are on verge of closure - Evening Standard Unfairly sacked teacher at Rose Hill prep school wins £140,000 damages - Times - New John Swinney should sack Scottish exams body board, demand Greens - Scotsman Schools deploy more than 3 million rapid Covid tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads demand transparency over £1 billion school rebuilding programme - Schools Week I felt I was being held to ransom by my university - it wouldn't let me graduate - Telegraph International students: Why college income is in freefall - FE Week Coronavirus transmission 'low-risk' in schools, says Robert Halfon (video) - Mail Ofsted cuts length of remote inspections in half - Times Educational Supplement | TES School removes ‘unsuitable’ Churchill and Rowling as house names - Independent Length of Ofsted’s remote inspections reduced to one day - Schools Week Gavin Williamson accused of ‘punching down’ London universities with planned cuts to higher education funding - Evening Standard I’m teaching free lessons on Instagram to help kids who may be falling behind - Metro PM has 'some bandwidth' for March opening, says expert - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted parks new provider monitoring visits - FE Week Report 11-plus results and link them to pupil data, say campaigners and academics - Schools Week Lonely, frustrated and angry, children and teenagers 'crushed' by pandemic - Wales Online AoC warns there is still ‘not enough detail’ for colleges to plan new level 3 adult offer - FE Week Covid: Pandemic 'having crushing impact on young lives' - BBC Jo Grady: Keeping USS alive and making it more affordable will raise the bar for workers everywhere - HEPI Conducting research during the pandemic using an ‘ethics of care’ - BERA Safeguarding failures exposed at free school where staff had ‘too many responsibilities’ - Schools Week An inspector (video) calls. Our experience of Ofsted remote visits - Schools Week 2/3 teachers positive about remote education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pyjamas and disco lights: Remote teachers reveal all - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch-up tsar: 'No one controls the advice I give' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Live lessons are teachers' most popular remote option - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships are a crucial vehicle for tackling worsening Covid inequalities - FE Week Flexible higher education facilities can help universities adapt post-Covid - Wonkhe HESA Spring: Widening Participation UKPI - Wonkhe Podcast: Regulation, complaints, essay mills, WP - Wonkhe Another Covid student support package is possible - Wonkhe Covid UK: Boris Johnson under pressure to reopen schools on 8 March - Mail Five lessons from first online tutor experiment revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Youngest pupils in England worst affected by Covid learning loss - Guardian Online tutoring during school closures ‘feasible’, but digital divide a key barrier - Schools Week Overseas aid research cuts raise doubts over £22 billion target - Times Higher Education | THE Ministers must set out remit of ‘high risk’ research funder – MPs - Times Higher Education | THE Journalists ‘gloss over’ preprints’ unreliability - Times Higher Education | THE For Generation Covid schools outdated GCSEs may no longer make the grade - Times - New University students told to stay away until September - Times - New Schools lose millions after hire company collapses - Times - New Scotland: Teacher can keep job after ‘offensive’ Ruth Davidson video - Times - New DfE: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (February 2021) - UCET