News archive for 24th February 2021

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Williamson puts teachers in charge of GCSE and A-level grades - Financial Times Millions of schoolkids may not be back for at least a week after March 8 as teachers face mass Covid testing nightmare - The Sun Gavin Williamson is dunce of our schools at time when role is most vital - Mirror Schools told they cannot force pupils to wear masks - Telegraph Teaching unions are top of the list of Covid baddies - The Sun Gavin Williamson says teachers will decide exam results and algorithms will be ditched - PoliticsHome Frontline workers and BAME groups will not be prioritised for UK vaccines - Guardian Teachers' stark warning as they say 'extremely unlikely' all kids back on March 8 - Mirror University of Liverpool: Academics sign letter against 47 'callous' job cuts - BBC Williamson ignores teachers' distrust in DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson hopes children will get time in school this summer (video) - Guardian Gavin Williamson says exam grades 'in the hands of teachers' after algorithm debacle last year - Mail Schools 'able to' pay teachers for summer catch-up work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Longer school day 'not part' of DfE's catch-up plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vaccinate prisoners en masse, not police or teachers, JCVI tells ministers - Times - New FE commissioner calls for protected brand for colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson says ‘low risk’ for kids as he confirms staggered starts & masks for March 8 return - The Sun Careers education 'is not acceptable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted 'pauses' remote inspections for school return - Times Educational Supplement | TES Higher education providers: coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Embrace PQA or have it imposed by Whitehall, UK v-cs warned - Times Higher Education | THE Plans for awarding grades in 2021 set out by government - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Phased return v 'big bang' restart: UK split on how best to reopen schools - Guardian NELI (Nuffield Early Language Intervention programme) - DfE Higher education performance indicators UK: non-continuation 2019 to 2020 - DfE Catch-up premium: coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE National Skills Fund - DfE Pupils' progress in the 2020 to 2021 academic year: interim report - DfE ESFA Update: 24 February 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency How to register to deliver T Levels in 2023 to 2024 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency How to use the apprenticeships standards revision status report - Education & Skills Funding Agency Free school meals supplementary grant: 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted monitoring inspections paused for week of schools’ return - Schools Week Teachers share 5 ways to help kids catch up - from summer school to longer days - Mirror Lost learning study: Pupils in poorer-intake schools further behind in reading, and 4 other key findings - Schools Week How has Covid-19 impacted on gender equality in HE? - Advance HE New resource to help HE sector understand structural racism in the UK - Advance HE How can we help parents support their children to learn from home? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Summer schools – what the evidence tells us and what it doesn’t - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Colleges can start testing students on-site before March 8, DfE confirms - FE Week Gavin Williamson hints school day could be lengthened to help pupils catch up after Covid disruption - PoliticsHome IfATE launches new reports to pre-warn sector of apprenticeship standard revisions - FE Week Outstanding students celebrate success at Student of the Year Awards - AoC | Association of Colleges Sutton Trust and EEF response to education recovery package - Sutton Trust Four ways AI can be used to tackle the skills gap - Training Journal Covid: Frustration at ringfenced recovery funding amid March 8 fears - SecEd Review offers SEN-specific teaching tips for remote education - SecEd Education recovery: What approaches do young people want to see? - SecEd Effective target setting for educators - UKEdChat Williamson 'struggles to pinpoint' catch-up cash reach - Times Educational Supplement | TES Working-class students invited to share experiences of university in new research study - Leeds Beckett University Schools can start Covid testing before 8 March opening - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK Performance Indicators: Non-continuation, 2019/20 - HESA New £302m ‘Covid recovery premium’ to be allocated based on pupil premium - Schools Week Education recovery cannot be done on the cheap or at the expense of school staff - NASUWT ASCL comment on education recovery package - ASCL Government’s education recovery package - National Education Union Anne Longfield’s final speech as the children’s commissioner for England - BERA Statement on education recovery package - Voice European Research Council grants open to UK‑based researchers - Russell Group How to ensure students wear their masks in classrooms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Winners of the AoC Student of the Year Awards 2021 revealed - FE Week Gavin Williamson promises 'granular detail' of exam substitute plans - Mail Secondary schools can start testing pupils on-site before March 8, DfE confirms - Schools Week Police chief: 'Powerful case' for vaccinating teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools need to share SEND post-16 options, says report - Times Educational Supplement | TES More teaching time may have cut learning loss by half - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the catch-up charity stepping in to tutor the nation's kids for free this summer - Telegraph What does real-world, non-exam-based learning look like? Like the future - Telegraph Education leader slams masks in schools and jokes pupils could abuse teachers with them on - Express Why teenagers and Covid testing don't mix - Times Educational Supplement | TES When are schools reopening? Date schools go back in Scotland - and when other pupils could return - Scotsman Disadvantaged pupils targeted in government’s £700m school catch up plans - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Covid UK: Gavin Williamson unveils £700m catch-up package - Mail Scottish council U-turns over autistic youngsters' school return - Scotsman How much cash will schools get in the catch-up package? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch-up plans must put people ahead of systems - Times Educational Supplement | TES School catch-up package 'nowhere near big enough' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Impact of online learning on children’s self-esteem in spotlight - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How it feels to be a vaccinated teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parent campaigners call for 'new deal for childcare' - Nursery World Coronavirus: Early language support for disadvantaged children in 'catch up' plans - Nursery World Lord Agnew makes Inspiration Trust comeback as he returns to trustee role - Schools Week What you need to know about applying to deliver T Levels from 2023 - FE Week Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted 'It's broken me': UK students on financial strain in the pandemic - Guardian Tears and excitement as children return to primary school for the first time in months - Wales Online School leavers choose FE or HE in record numbers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Debate: Face masks in schools - Telegraph Summer catch-up schools planned for pupils in England - BBC Need to know: Richard Lucas fitness-to-teach case - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary schools returns could be staggered over two weeks, Williamson says - Guardian School days could be lengthened and holidays shortened to help kids catch up - Mirror Secondary schools in England asked to deliver summer teaching as part of catch up plan - Scotsman 'That doesn't cover one teacher!' Gavin Williamson embarrassed over summer school fund - Express Boris Johnson to unveil £700million summer school programme to help secondary pupils catch up - The Sun Summer lessons for pupils as part of £700m school catch-up scheme - Evening Standard Universities are leaving themselves open to money laundering by accepting cash - Scotsman Number of Scottish school leavers going to 'positive destinations' falls as attainment gap grows - Scotsman Boris Johnson told £700m catch up plan 'not enough' to help children who missed school - HuffPost Secondary pupils and all children leaving primary school will be offered summer lessons - Mail School days could be extended to help pupils catch up on missed lessons - Metro Teachers to run ‘summer school camps’ in £7,000,000 catch-up plan - Metro The gradual reshaping of the education sector - HEPI New education recovery package for children and young people - DfE Face it: we’re worried about wearing masks in the classroom - Telegraph I won't force children to wear masks in my classroom – and I won't be wearing one either - Telegraph Teachers to run 'summer school camps' in £700m catch-up plan - Telegraph Authentic learning can provide a route to happiness - Wonkhe Reaction and reform in university medical education - Wonkhe Committees to question Government Minister on Black history and cultural diversity in the curriculum - UK Parliament How to support SEND pupils with online learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid catch-up plan: Summer schools and more tutoring - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch-up cash for 16-19 Tuition Fund announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE pledges £302m ‘recovery premium’ for schools and £200m summer schools fund for secondaries - Schools Week Extra £102m to extend 16-19 Covid tuition fund announced - FE Week England's Covid catch-up plan for pupils: summer schools and tutoring - Guardian Mature students blocked from PhD study by ageist admissions practices - Times Higher Education | THE Imperial leadership ‘unaware’ of changes to bullying policy - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Glass cliff’ pioneer aims to keep female scholars from precipice - Times Higher Education | THE England’s schools to receive £400m to help pupils’ lost learning - Financial Times Languages decline sees numbers drop to zero at UK universities - Times Higher Education | THE Summer school plans boosted by £300m 'recovery premium' to help kids catch up - Mirror Covid testing rules mean schools will struggle to reopen in March, say heads - Times - New National tutoring scheme to help with lockdown lag only halfway to target - Times - New Covid in Scotland: Secondary pupils ‘left on scrapheap’ by plans for school reopening - Times - New Covid-19 in Scotland: Hundreds of school leavers fell off grid last year - Times - New