News archive for 26th February 2021

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Employer cash incentives to double to £3,000 for adult apprentices - FE Week Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 26 February 2021 - Education Eye Committee to hold second evidence session into its Green jobs inquiry - UK Parliament IGCSEs 2021: Tens of thousands demand exam cancellation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school teachers told their pupils should not be wearing masks - Mail Primary school kids don't need to wear face masks in classrooms, say health chiefs after confusion - The Sun Podcast: Schools reopening, catch-up and exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES International Baccalaureate 'algorithm defies logic' - Times Educational Supplement | TES PM thanks schools for work 'throughout the pandemic' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lubavitch academy trust rapped again over finances - Schools Week Teacher pay: Strike action looms in Scottish FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish teachers not prioritised for Covid vaccines - Times Educational Supplement | TES College facing ‘uncertain future’ agrees merger partner - FE Week Disadvantaged pupils' A-level grades 'could be under-predicted' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now GCSE and A-level teacher assessments: benefits of replacing exams undermined by lack of transparency - The Conversation Chancellor expands Plan for Jobs ahead of budget - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Failing to prioritise teachers for vaccines risks further disruption to learning - NASUWT Some pupils in Wales will go back part time when schools re-open - Wales Online Podcast: Reflecting on February's biggest FE news - Times Educational Supplement | TES Diversity toolkit launched by leadership group - Times Educational Supplement | TES Weekly highlights: School return, GCSEs and creativity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Remote education: Schools cut screen time to boost mental and physical health - Schools Week Avoiding ‘inclusion exclusion’ – keeping stakeholders on board - Advance HE Digital teaching and learning review - Advance HE Exams: changing the rules of the game while you are playing will not rebuild trust - IOE London Blog Recovery and renewal: Tackling long-term unemployment - Learning & Work Institute Lockdown learning: English language conversation clubs online - Learning & Work Institute Decision making of adult learners below level 2 - Learning & Work Institute Lit in Colour campaign - NAHT Free school meals (FSM) supplementary grant extended - NAHT ASCL comment on JCVI advice - ASCL What if…? Thoughts on Gavin Williamson’s ‘landmark’ proposals to strengthen ‘free speech’ at universities - HEPI Vaccination decision deeply disappointing - Voice Geoff Barton: Why a bit of grade inflation is a price worth paying - Times Educational Supplement | TES Profile: Sue Pember, Adult education activist - Times Educational Supplement | TES England's teachers will feel the pressure over student grades this summer - Guardian Unions disappointed over decision not to prioritise teachers for vaccine - Mail Teachers and police blast vaccine priority list - key groups that aren't bumped up - Mirror ‘Child abuse’: How masks in schools became latest cause of Covid rage - Independent UK students among most likely to say mental health has suffered during Covid - Independent Government’s £4m catch-up resources could be ‘downloadable, printable’ materials - Schools Week Education staff won’t be prioritised for vaccine as government continues with age-based approach - FE Week Vaccine list: Are teachers eligible for Covid vaccine? Phase 2 priority group announced - Express Coronavirus: Early years workers and teachers will not be prioritised for phase 2 of the vaccine - Nursery World GCSEs: 'Gavin has left a big whoopsie on our carpet' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils both relieved and upset as GCSEs and A-levels cancelled - BBC Bursary scheme for Stem student teachers is extended - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spending power of students resilient and robust despite Covid chaos - UCAS Adult education funding boost needs strings attached - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inspectors criticise Wetherby and Keppel YOI over education failings - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Opening windows ‘much more effective’ than face masks in primary school - Metro School staff won’t be prioritised for vaccine as government continues with age-based approach - Schools Week This year's A-level students are woefully under-prepared for university - Telegraph When can I return to campus? This is what Britain's universities are doing to re-open - Telegraph Student teachers 'have been through a traumatic event' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher priority for Covid vaccine ruled out - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher priority for Covid vaccine ruled out - Times Educational Supplement | TES This is how my sixth form college will tackle the mass testing challenge - FE Week Teachers should be prepared to ‘sacrifice their lives’, says ex-Ofsted head - Independent Opening windows more effective than masks in stopping school Covid transmission, says scientist - Independent College handed emergency cash as merger hits a second delay - FE Week Covid: Opening windows is 'much more effective' than face masks in primary school, SAGE adviser says - Mail Primary schools telling kids as young as five to wear face masks - Metro Fears system for deciding exam grades ‘could be open to abuse’ - Metro Grade inflation could be here to stay unless entire exam system is overhauled, Ofqual advisor warns - Telegraph Headmaster becomes first to break ranks and defy Government guidance on face masks in classroom - Telegraph Children as young as five being told to wear masks in school - Independent PM insists new system set up to replace A-Levels and GCSE exams 'fair for everyone' - Express ‘Bureaucratic’ process for adding courses to level 3 lifetime skills guarantee offer slammed - FE Week Academy trust will take battle to keep school to the High Court - Schools Week Coronavirus: Scots parents 'confident' schools are safe for pupils - Herald Scotland New research will provide support for schools in identifying common areas where pupils could need additional assistance - NFER How Gavin Williamson’s “fix” for cancelled exams makes everything worse - New Statesman Law: Young Welsh people lack confidence for legal career - BBC ‘No algorithms whatsoever’ – teachers to rule on pupils’ grades - Public Technology N. Ireland teachers avoid 'catch-up narrative' - BBC GCSEs 2021: Fears teachers will be 'vilified' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: Return to campus, digital learning, wider experience, examnishambles - Wonkhe Feature in National Numeracy Day! - National Numeracy Mary Bousted: Boris Johnson’s ‘big bang’ is a big risk - Schools Week Longer days and early appointments on cards as schools gear up for ‘mammoth’ Covid testing effort - Schools Week Delay to Covid-19 testing for providers branded ‘madness’ - FE Week Now primary schools tell children as young as five to wear a face mask - Mail Global metrics experts attack Liverpool redundancy criteria - Times Higher Education | THE Kids as young as five told to wear face masks at primary school despite guidelines saying they don't need to - The Sun Masks not compulsory for children going back to school - Times - New Quentin Letts: Gavin’s carpet of clichés takes a lot of beating - Times - New Children shouldn’t be allowed to rewrite history - Times - New Scotland: Racism inquiry labelled ‘meaningless’ by ex-pupil - Times - New