News archive for 25th February 2021

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It's hard to look at Gavin Williamson without seeing him wearing dunce's hat - Mail Teachers deciding pupils' final exam grades is another blow for underdog children - Mail Children need normality, not public health 'interventions' that may do them more harm than good - Telegraph English school leaders despair over new rules on Covid tests and masks - Guardian 'I’d 100% prefer to sit exams': pupils on teacher-assessed grades - Guardian Over 75% of students have experienced stress or anxiety over exam changes, research reveals - Evening Standard National Tutoring Programme: Schools could pay 90% of session costs within three years as DfE ‘tapers’ subsidies - Schools Week UK universities brace for A-level grade inflation - Financial Times Gavin Williamson's plan for A-Levels and GCSEs 'will be wide open to abuse' - Mail To improve teaching in FE, collaboration is the key - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in 10 places on secondary teaching courses unfilled - Times Educational Supplement | TES How will teachers decide exam grades in England this summer? - Guardian Stockport student Esha Mumtaz wants award 'to inspire other girls' - BBC Response to joint DfE and Ofqual consultation outcome for Educators - Pearson Response to joint DfE and Ofqual consultation outcome - Pearson Third of academics ‘want live lectures to stay online’ post-Covid - Times Higher Education | THE Williamson: ‘dead-end’ degrees give students ‘nothing but debt’ - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities’ digital teaching must be far more imaginative - Times Higher Education | THE OfS review of digital teaching and learning - Russell Group New survey explores gender differences in UK HE staff experiences of remote working - Advance HE Making remote teaching easier - Teacher Toolkit Schools need to balance reality and optimism in 2021 - The Educator Boris Johnson calls new exam grading system a "good compromise" as details are confirmed - PoliticsHome Schools minister defends ditching exams due to Covid despite backlash over possible grade inflation - PoliticsHome The digital divide includes families in the early years - Sutton Trust Free COVID-19 data modeling app can help colleges reopen safely - Jisc Low-income students more likely to be missing out on extra-curricular activities - Sutton Trust New £4.8m collaboration with JPMorgan Chase to improve access to employability opportunities - Sutton Trust The Sutton Trust responds to the government’s new assessment proposals - Sutton Trust Valuable CPD for teachers to enhance T Level delivery - Education & Training Foundation How do you get people a job when the world has shut down? - Learning & Work Institute Building bridges towards future jobs - Learning & Work Institute Higher education staff data UK: 2019 to 2020 - DfE Decision making of adult learners below level 2 - DfE Apprenticeships and traineeships: February 2021 - DfE Awarding qualifications in summer 2021 - DfE Consultation on how GCSE, AS and A level grades should be awarded in summer 2021 - DfE Consultation on alternative arrangements for the award of VTQs and other general qualifications in 2021 - DfE SMC response to the government's plan for 2021 exams and catch-up - Social Mobility Commission Supporting people into work during a pandemic - Learning & Work Institute Government announces £8 million to extend rollout of Nuffield Early Language Intervention - Nuffield Foundation Education Secretary statement to MPs on education recovery and qualifications - DfE Education Committee to hold evidence sessions on i) Covid catch-up plans and ii) Awarding of student grades - UK Parliament This is the higher education sector’s moment to learn, change and innovat - Office for Students Gravity assist: propelling higher education towards a brighter future - Office for Students Direction issued to Ofqual - DfE Education Secretary speaks at launch of digital learning review - DfE How qualifications will be awarded in 2021 - Ofqual Simon Lebus responds to the Secretary of State’s direction of 23 February 2021 - Ofqual Cyber gang hacks into Oxford University's Covid-19 lab - City AM ‘Impossible, messy and meaningless’: Teachers react to news they will set grades - Independent University admissions teams will 'pull out all the stops' this year - Universities UK Higher Education Staff Data 2019/20 - HESA Questions persist on reliability and manageability of grading process - NASUWT ASCL comment on plans for awarding grades - ASCL UCU threatens industrial action across all Northern Ireland colleges over pay - UCU Awarding grades for 2021 - National Education Union Russell Group responds to DfE announcement on assessment conditions for summer 2021 - Russell Group The £350 billion home-schooling question - BERA Gravity Assist lacks force - Wonkhe Inspection: Ofsted to prioritise 'safety' while 'assurance' visits will no longer go ahead - EYE | Early Years Educator Locked-down but not locked-in: Understanding the value of spending time outdoors as pupils return to school - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Functional Skills: Government changes apprentice rules - Times Educational Supplement | TES It’s time to put Gavin Williamson into special measures - Telegraph Schools face 'onslaught' of exam appeals over teacher-assessed grades, education chiefs warn - Telegraph When will GCSE and A-Level results be released in 2021? - The Sun GCSE and A-Level exam results to be released early this year – hated algorithm scrapped - Express What did the Education Secretary say in today’s speech - The Sun A-level and GCSE results plan a 'good compromise', PM says - BBC Exams 2021: Heads will have to confirm pupils have learned ‘sufficient content’ for progression - Schools Week GCSEs 2021 a terrible tangle says DfE's Ofqual adviser - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson says A-Level and GCSE grades will be down to teachers - Mail Gavin Williamson’s ‘Wild West’ A Level & GCSE exam plan blasted by Tory MPs - The Sun DfE won't say where catch-up cash came from - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams 2021: How will teacher assessed grades for GCSEs and A-levels work? - Evening Standard Pupils stranded in exams ‘Wild West’: Dithering, delay... now generation desperation - Evening Standard Boris Johnson promises parents teacher grading system for A Levels and GCSEs will be ‘fair’ - The Sun Functional skills barrier removed for ‘eligible apprentices’ from today - FE Week A-level and GCSE results: What do students and teachers think? - BBC GCSEs 2021: Questions may come from defunct exam papers - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: No minimum requirement for content studied - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Grading won't be pegged to any other year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Early years assurance inspections cancelled, ahead of return to full inspection - Nursery World Gavin Williamson sets out how ‘fair exam grades’ will be determined this year - Metro School exams boss quits over scrapped A-Level and GCSEs & ‘warns students face free for all’ - The Sun Mental health will be the biggest problem facing young people by 2040, doctors warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Edinburgh University calls a halt to all investments in fossil fuel companies - Scotsman Magazine podcast: Ditching grades, teaching creativity - Times Educational Supplement | TES System to replace school exams in England 'will be fair to every student' - Guardian GCSEs 2021: Coursework will not be moderated - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: masks and tests not compulsory at English schools, says minister - Guardian Experts warn A-Level and GSCE exam replacement could be worse than last year - Mail SQA has been dumbing down languages exams for years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is Gavin Williamson placing his trust in teachers, or setting them up to take the blame? - Telegraph Ofsted monitoring inspections paused for week of colleges’ return - FE Week Parents must make sure children get tested regularly, says Education Secretary - Express A-level and GCSE results day dates change in Wales - Wales Online Shorter summer holidays with longer Christmas break still possible in Wales - Wales Online Sending kids to summer school is like giving them detention for an offence that wasn't their fault - Telegraph Covid tests and masks will not be compulsory at English schools, says minister - Guardian Masks and tests in secondary schools won't be mandatory - but are 'highly recommended' - Mirror GCSE 2021: Exam dates, timetables and key information - Times Educational Supplement | TES A level 2021: Exam dates, timetable and key information - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will schools open in the summer holidays and is the school day going to be extended? - The Sun What will replace GCSEs and A-levels exams 2021? Here’s how grades will be awarded this summer - The Sun Exams 2021: How will teacher assessed grades for GCSEs and A-levels work? - Evening Standard ‘Extremely unlikely’ all school pupils will return on March 8 due to Covid testing logistics, teachers warn - Evening Standard Teachers to get sweeping powers to determine students’ GCSE and A-Level exam results - Evening Standard Ofqual adviser 'quits' over A-Level and GSCE exam replacement plan - Mail GCSE and A-level exams 2021: Externally-set questions to be ‘optional’ - FE Week GCSEs 2021: 10 unanswered questions about summer exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams scrapped with teachers to decide on A Level and GCSE results and new grade system in place - The Sun How will GCSE and A-Levels grades be awarded? All the details on the new exam plans - Mirror Teacher assessed grades for students - DfE Teachers will take control in school exams free-for-all - Mail This is how school exams will be graded this year - HuffPost Exam grades will not be decided by algorithm this year, Gavin Williamson confirms - HuffPost Welsh watchdog criticises lack of action since home-school scurvy death - Guardian Schools could take vastly different approaches to grading exams, top educator warns - Evening Standard Children are not legally required to wear face masks in schools - Mail What will replace GCSEs and A-levels and will the system be fair? - Mail Civic universities and social enterprise - HEPI The pandemic has decimated the university experience – how do we put that right? - Wonkhe Review of ITT must recognise the unique contribution of universities to teacher training - Wonkhe DfE’s announcement on A level grades is another headache for university admissions teams - Wonkhe Ofqual assessment plans: What FE staff need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams 2021: Ofqual reveals plan for Btec and other VTQs - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Teacher-assessed grades get green light - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: How exam boards will help teachers' grading - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Teachers relieved of appeals burden - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: A-level and GCSE results to be decided by teachers - BBC GCSEs 2021: 'Excessive grade inflation' warning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams 2021: What we know so far about the government’s plans - Schools Week Exams 2021: Externally-set questions to be ‘optional’ for schools - Schools Week Give education workers up to £700 ‘tax-free coronavirus compensation payment’, says report - Schools Week ‘Pyrrhic victory’: Functional skills learners can receive teacher assessed grades - FE Week Confirmed: How BTEC and other vocational quals will be graded in 2021 - FE Week Exam plans confirmed as schools set to hold 'mini-tests' - with new results date - Mirror Teachers to get sweeping powers to decide exam results in England - Guardian 11:00 a.m. - Scottish Affairs Committee will hear evidence in its Universities and Scotland inquiry - Accountability Hearings GCSE and A-level exams 2021: What we know so far about the government’s plans - FE Week Schools told to work out their own GCSE and A-level exam grades - Times - New Grammar schools face call to spend extra cash on widening intake - Times - New Doubts over summer schools as poor pupils fall months behind in lockdown - Times - New Scotland: Glasgow University in wokeism row for cancelling ‘eugenics’ talk - Times - New Covid in Ireland: Landlords could be forced to refund students’ rent - Times - New English school-leavers to get grades on earlier results day - Times Higher Education | THE Summer exams to be voluntary sparking fears over repeat of last year's chaos - Telegraph