News archive for 16th February 2021

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Top colleges at Oxford are in the grip of 'unconscious bias' training - Mail Children's Commissioner urges Boris Johnson to remember vulnerable children in fiery parting shot - Mirror Catch-up threatened by poverty, ministers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children’s commissioner to warn of over-focus on school improvement in critical last speech - Schools Week Watchdog to accuse UK ministers of institutional bias against children - Guardian Coronavirus: Nicola Sturgeon under pressure over face masks - Herald Scotland International Education Strategy: global potential, global growth - DfE Students told they can’t cook in groups in new Covid rules in halls - Wales Online More than 300 Covid cases at schools in Wales in past three weeks - Wales Online Nicola Sturgeon confirms phased return of Scottish schools (video) - Guardian Covid economic fallout leads to rise in postgraduate applications - Guardian Reopening all schools may push R over 1, say scientists - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kids have missed nearly one billion days of school due to Covid, shocking stats reveal - The Sun Gavin Williamson’s proposals on free speech and universities are a half-baked mess - New Statesman Williamson accused of 'tsunami of incompetence’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students are feeling ripped-off and abandoned | Alice Thomson - Times - New Covid in Scotland: School return not an excuse for socialising, Sturgeon warns parents - Times - New UK government criticised over plans to oversee free speech at universities - Guardian Nicola Sturgeon confirms Scottish schools to partially return from Monday - Scotsman Nicola Sturgeon confirms that Scottish schools will reopen on Monday - Mail Mother launches High Court challenge over claims council is trying to force children to go to school - Mail When will schools go back across UK as Sturgeon unveils plan for Scotland - Express Covid in Scotland: Youngest pupils to return to classrooms - BBC Gavin Williamson hits out at campuses that ‘stifle freedom of speech’ - Times - New Schools left to pay £42m Covid costs by DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we need a self-improving education system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meeting the Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills - Careers & Enterprise Company When will FE stop trying to avoid permanent contracts? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Using the science of mental models in my classroom - Ambition Institute Statement on phased return for schools in Scotland - Voice Sturgeon confirms children will be able to return to school next week - Express Some Scottish pupils back to school on Monday, announces Nicola Sturgeon - HuffPost Not sure what the author meant? Why not just ask them? - Times Higher Education | THE Academic freedom can’t be legislated into existence - Times Higher Education | THE Nicola Sturgeon has announced the "phased" return of Scottish schools from Monday - PoliticsHome Wider school reopening must not undermine progress in tackling Covid - NASUWT Does teacher merit pay improve student test scores? - Best Evidence in Brief Efficacy validation of a preschool SEL program - Best Evidence in Brief What works in mathematics for elementary school students? - Best Evidence in Brief Higher education: free speech and academic freedom - DfE Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 11 February 2021 - DfE Laptops and tablets progress data as of 16 February 2021 - DfE Covid: When will schools reopen? - BBC Landmark proposals to strengthen free speech at universities - DfE Government delivers more than one million devices to disadvantaged pupils - DfE Nicola Sturgeon reveals some schools will go back from Monday but Scotland’s lockdown could be extended - The Sun Sturgeon: Schools in Scotland to begin phased return from Monday - Guardian Nicola Sturgeon gives go-ahead for phased reopening of schools - Herald Scotland Filling a youth-shaped gap in the FE White Paper: Reducing inequalities in post-16 progression - IOE London Blog Advance HE to conduct national survey on perceptions of STEM education - Advance HE Schools offered £14m to set up on Google or Microsoft learning platforms - Public Technology Demotivated teenagers treating online classes like ‘background noise’, students group warns - Evening Standard TLPD Route Specific Training – what to expect and how to get involved - Education & Training Foundation Full school re-opening: Bitten too many times? - SecEd Pupils to return to schools in Scotland from Monday - Metro Can motivation be embedded in the lesson plan? - UKEdChat Chancellor awards scholarship to four students to help enhance opportunities - Leeds Beckett University Scotland: Youngest pupils to return to school buildings on Monday - Times Educational Supplement | TES BAM and Collab Group announce apprenticeship partnership - Collab Group Pressure mounts to reform SQA and Education Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities committed to promoting and protecting free speech - Universities UK Ballot for strike action at Chichester College Group in jobs row - UCU UCU response to government 'free speech' proposals - UCU Russell Group responds to free speech measures - Russell Group This is not the first government crack down on free speech in universities - Wonkhe How much does working from home cost teachers? And other findings from a lockdown term! - Teacher Tapp Government free speech proposals represent a breakdown of trust and confidence - Wonkhe How we make a longer school day work for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the IB cancelling exams leaves us with questions - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE passes one million laptops milestone (but 250k still to go) - Schools Week Education Scotland: Move to break up schools watchdog - Herald Scotland University of Edinburgh launches review of buildings linked to slave trade - Herald Scotland ‘Free speech’ group claims victory over Oxford college - Times - New Primary school attendance now six times higher than in the last lockdown - Schools Week Profile: Rebecca Conroy, CEO, East Sussex College Group - FE Week Current lockdown having greater impact on girls’ wellbeing, Girlguiding says - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sadiq Khan warns thousands of London's early years providers fear closure within a year - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Thousands of school laptops set to arrive after 8 March - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lockdown: Primary attendance up for third week in a row - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Nurseries speak out about confusion over priority for vaccine - Nursery World Plan for campus free speech post prompts autonomy warning - BBC Podcast: Are new campus free speech laws really necessary? - New Statesman 'Not possible' for Scotland to rejoin Erasmus in blow to Scottish Government hopes - Scotsman Brexit: EU chief closes door on separate Scottish participation in Erasmus - Herald Scotland Movers and Shakers: Edition 343 - FE Week National Apprenticeship Week 2021 supplement (download) - FE Week Governesses enjoy a Covid comeback thanks to wealthy locked-down families - Guardian Grammars’ selection like ‘Wild West’, says 11+ designer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson launches plan to protect free speech and combat ‘unacceptable silencing’ - Independent Time for new ‘Attenborough Award’ to inspire today’s schoolchildren on nature, say citizens on new climate jury - IPPR Look to the Budget to secure the recovery, not to fix the public finances - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS 'This is the direction the world is going in': the vital role of green postgrad degrees - Guardian 'Real change is needed': addressing the BAME postgrad attainment gap - Guardian The future of online learning: the long-term trends accelerated by Covid-19 - Guardian Mental health: more support needed for postgraduate students - Guardian ‘It’s an exciting time for students' why it's important to have a generation of climate leaders - Guardian Proposed free speech law will make English universities liable for breaches - Guardian Supporting students in times of hardship - HEPI Boris to announce new measures to combat 'cancel culture' at universities - Express Profile: Clive Lawrence, Executive Headteacher, St Giles School, Derby - Schools Week Covid in Scotland: Sturgeon set to confirm phased return to schools - BBC Transforming SLC to support the post-Covid economy - Wonkhe Give us a break: booking a holiday from regulation - Wonkhe Students and academics will be able to sue universities for censoring free speech under planned Government crackdown - Mail Measures to protect free speech on university campuses unveiled - Evening Standard Professor: end ‘myth’ of marginalised early career researcher - Times Higher Education | THE New free speech rules target English universities - Times Higher Education | THE V-cs fear logistical headache of staggered return to campuses - Times Higher Education | THE Mail Force drive: Former Navy engineer refurbishes old computers for schools to help needy pupils during lockdown - Mail Tories accused of war on 'phantom threats' to free speech with university fines plan - Mirror Scotland: Covid variant risks to teachers have not been played down, says nursing chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chitchat 101: BPP University Law School offers lessons in small talk - Times - New Schools are not driving Covid infections, study finds - Times - New ‘Free speech’ academics can seek legal redress - Times - New Covid in Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon plots cautious lockdown exit with schools reopening - Times - New Coronavirus in Scotland: Dental students condemn repeating year as ‘negligent’ - Times - New Ireland: Norma Foley was told she could have ‘blood on her hands’ over school reopening for Leaving Certificate - Times - New