News archive for 18th February 2021

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Wales plans wider school return from 15 March - BBC Exeter University in no-platforming row as societies told to uninvite external speakers - Telegraph Unions and governors urge cautious reopening of schools - Financial Times Covid jabs: 'Education staff should be prioritised' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Remote education research - Ofsted Student Loans Company asks students to get ready to apply - Student Loans Company Children in care homes: Education Committee to launch new inquiry - UK Parliament Education Committee session on funding and financial management of schools - UK Parliament Three councils say young pupils won't be back full time until March - Wales Online Cambridge International cancels iGCSE exams and moves to teacher assessment - Schools Week UK degree fraud: 85 fake university websites taken down in five years - Guardian Outrage after female gender studies academic to be ‘replaced by men’ - Independent When will universities reopen, and which courses will return first? - Metro Lockdown extended until April in Northern Ireland - but some schools return on March 8 - Mirror Nicola Sturgeon vows Scottish children in low risk areas 'will not be held back from school' - Scotsman Joint education statement on vaccines - National Education Union Teachers engaging with research - Teacher Toolkit Government condemned for ‘dwindling support’ as sector faces drop in funding and demand - EYE | Early Years Educator Why teachers should get a salary rise this year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents could be asked to test children for coronavirus twice a week under new plans - PoliticsHome Oxford University Press and Jisc agree transformative read and publish deal - Jisc The importance of weaving wellbeing into university life - Jisc UCAS reveals 17% rise in non-EU applications - PIE News A look at the apprenticeship landscape - Sutton Trust Education catch-up plans of all four UK governments fail to offer pupils the support they need - Nuffield Foundation Hope and agency: Consider nothing impossible - Headteachers' Roundtable Universities are facing pressing issues. ‘Free speech on campus' isn’t one - HuffPost Guernsey teachers must be given priority for Covid vaccine - NASUWT ASCL comment on phased reopening of schools in Northern Ireland - ASCL Supply teachers must be part of the solution to the safe recovery of education - NASUWT Back to school: 'No deal' on Covid tests plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hire supply teachers to cut class sizes, says union - Times Educational Supplement | TES 3.1k college staff put at risk of redundancy - Times Educational Supplement | TES EPI on education recovery - National Education Union CareerTech Challenge Prize: Driving innovation for future careers - Nesta Parents will be told to test their teenage children for Covid twice a week when schools reopen - Mail Primary-aged children had second highest Covid-19 rates in early February, REACT study finds - Schools Week John Swinney urged to set out education reform timetable - Herald Scotland Government urged to let pupils quarantine in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why teachers should take control of 2021 exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES IBacc: 70% of schools using controversial 2021 exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: Record number of students apply for nursing - BBC Covid: Testing means 'staggered' school return, say heads - BBC Give free meals to all primary pupils now, say Greens - Times Educational Supplement | TES Magazine podcast: Exams, spellings, laminators - Times Educational Supplement | TES No pay rise? I'm worse off than I was five years ago - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years sector unites to give thumbs up for early years - Nursery World Cornwall Council to review alternative education provision after ombudsman warning - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Early years providers join forces to give sector a ‘thumbs up’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Education catch up plans across all UK nations 'do not go far enough' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now DfE consults on minor changes to the EYFS - Nursery World 9 in 10 parents fear homeschooling kids will damage their future - The Sun Scotland 'not giving up on rejoining Erasmus scheme' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid test plans for school return 'work in progress' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams 2021: How international schools are tackling TAGs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupil well-being comes before’ catch up’ when schools reopen, says top headteacher - Evening Standard Britain has prioritised the health of the vulnerable old over the futures of the vulnerable young - Telegraph Student essay mills have boomed during the pandemic – but banning them won't solve the problem - Telegraph Nicola Sturgeon humiliated as Holyrood unites to shame SNP over Scottish education - Express Level 2 courses: Why we must not kick away the ladder - Times Educational Supplement | TES Remote learning increasing workload say 86% of teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Deluded SNP demand Erasmus return - despite humiliating EU snub - Express Mixed report for Scotland's Covid catch-up work - Times Educational Supplement | TES EPI report on catch up plans across the nations - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Tactical and strategic digital learning decisions in our schools - EPI Education reopening and catch-up support across the UK - EPI ASCL comment on university application statistics - ASCL UUK response to UCAS January 2021 deadline data - Universities UK ASCL comment on EPI analysis of catch-up plans - ASCL Mixed media: What universities need to know about journalism - HEPI UCAS figures show rise in applications - Russell Group New Chair of Advance HE’s Board of Governors appointed - Advance HE Parents to test children for Covid twice a week when schools reopen - Metro School reopening: Parents must test children twice a week as part of Boris plan - Express Parents ‘will be told to give children Covid tests twice a week’ - Evening Standard Parents will be told to test their teenage children for Covid twice a week when schools reopen - Mail Scotland: Parents' anger at Nicola Sturgeon's 'patronising' claims over schools' return - Scotsman 'Nightingale effect' sees applications for nursing courses soar - Telegraph The student and the algorithm: how the exam results fiasco threatened one pupil’s future - Guardian Brexit: Scottish universities hit by 40 per cent slump in EU applicants - Herald Scotland Qualifications review consultation response - Ofqual Nursing applications soar as UCAS publishes latest undergraduate applicant analysis - UCAS Scots pupils to have the 'right' to outdoor activity in new plan to fight mental health concerns - Herald Scotland University of Glasgow to bring in 'respect advisers' as half of its ethnic minority students report racial harassment - Herald Scotland Ministers told disadvantaged are poorly targeted in the crisis of lost schooling in Scotland - Herald Scotland This year’s university applicants face an uncertain admissions experience - Wonkhe UCAS January application deadline 2021 in depth - Wonkhe Providing maintenance loans to sub-degree students would cost peanuts – but make a real difference - Wonkhe English schools face tighter mask rules when pupils return - Independent Record number seek to study nursing after being inspired by NHS heroics during Covid-19 heroics - Mail Catch-up funding 'should be targeted at most deprived' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid catch-up cash 'very modest' and 'poorly targeted' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents face having to test kids twice a week for Covid to help schools reopen - Mirror England outspends Wales and Northern Ireland on catch-up, but funding is ‘poorly-targeted’ - Schools Week Demand for UK nursing degrees rises by a third in pandemic - Guardian Online learning not a green panacea, researchers warn - Times Higher Education | THE EU applications to UK universities plummet by 40 per cent - Times Higher Education | THE Parents to test children for Covid twice a week - Telegraph It’s not about apprenticeships vs university - it’s about the power of choice - FE News Black and LGBT Edinburgh University students attacked in Zoom meeting - BBC Thousands of university students want jobs in nursing - Times - New EU students shun Scotland after Brexit brings end to free tuition - Times - New Scotland: Glasgow University admits racism is rife across campus - Times - New