News archive for 3rd January 2021

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Parents face week of uncertainty over school reopenings in England - Guardian Doctor warns children could infect parents if they return to classroom - Express Is it illegal to keep my child off school? - Express The Guardian view on schools: ministers outclassed by teachers - Guardian Headteacher tells parents you can keep your kids at home - The Sun PM urges parents to return children to schools as councils fight to stay closed - Mail Primary schools: Send children to school on Monday, says PM - BBC Covid-19: Keep schools shut, council leaders urge - BBC SAGE warning kids 7 times more likely to spread Covid - The Sun Headteachers warn GCSEs and A-Levels should be cancelled this summer - The Sun John Harris: What England really needs is creative thinking re keeping education safe - Guardian UCL tells students 'stay away for at least seven weeks' over Covid fears - Guardian People have to be `realistic´ over calls to scrap exams, says Johnson - Mail Schools in England may stay closed for weeks, admits Williamson - Guardian FE People of the Year: The Black FE Leadership Group - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head teachers call for GCSEs and A‑levels to be cancelled this summer - Sunday Times Primary school reopening in chaos as unions call for rethink - Financial Times Teacher unions demand schools in England stay closed for another two weeks - Express Burnham: DfE cannot plough on with primary schools plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head teachers call for GCSE and A-Level summer exams to be cancelled - Metro PM refuses to rule out cancelling this year’s A-Level and GCSE exams - The Sun Broken employability metrics need a post-pandemic revamp - Times Higher Education | THE London Higher head aiming to counter government ‘preconceptions’ - Times Higher Education | THE Johnson: Parents should 'absolutely' send their children to open primary schools - Schools Week Johnson: No guarantee of school reopening date - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid school closures 'put children's lives on hold', says Ofsted chief - BBC Heads call for GCSEs and A-Levels to be axed - Mirror Northern Ireland primary and post-primary schools to extend remote learning - National Education Union Sonia Sodha: Meet the new breed of cabinet minister – too rubbish to fail - Guardian Head teachers´ group calls for scrapping of exams - Mail Headteachers call for GCSE and A-Level exams to be scrapped - Mail Don’t furlough kids for months on end or they will suffer, warns Ofsted chief - The Sun Private school pupils twice as likely to get on to civil service fast track - Times - New Coronavirus surge in children may hit return to school - Times - New In testing times, exams are the fairest form of assessment we have - Times - New