News archive for 4th January 2021

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Prior Information Notice: establishment of an institute of teaching - DfE The back-to-school debacle: a week of blundering U-turns - Schools Week Spring school closures: What we know so far - Schools Week GCSE and A-level exams set to be cancelled as Boris Johnson shutters schools - Mirror Pushing ahead with summer exams `as normal´ would not be fair - Mail Schools caught out by government Covid U-turn on closure - Financial Times Wales covid cases rise despite schools being closed - is England strategy doomed? - Mail Toughest national lockdown since March as Johnson orders schools to close - Mail School closures blamed on ministers’ handling of Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES These closures are testament to a failed government strategy - Schools Week England to enter toughest Covid lockdown since March - Guardian National Lockdown: Schools and colleges to close - National Education Union Message to NAHT members following the Prime Minister's announcement - NAHT Toughest national lockdown since March as Johnson orders schools to close - Mail Relief amid the 'chaos' as Covid shuts down all schools in England - Guardian Nurseries will stay open in new national lockdown - The Sun UK Covid: Boris Johnson tells people to stay at home as England enters third national lockdown — as it happened - Guardian GSCE and A-Level exams will be scrapped after Boris Johnson says summer tests not possible or fair - The Sun Vocational exams in January to go ahead, despite national lockdown - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Are schools closed in UK full lockdown? - Express BTEC and other vocational exams to go ahead this week despite national lockdown, DfE confirms - FE Week National lockdown: DfE says January exams will go ahead - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools to close until February under new lockdown after another Boris Johnson U-turn - Mirror All schools moving online until half term, says Johnson - Times Educational Supplement | TES All schools moving online until half term, says Johnson - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE and A Levels are cancelled - second summer of predicted grades - Mail GCSE and A level 2021 exams won't happen as normal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools and universities closed, next summer's exams cancelled or under threat - Mail Restrictions will last at least six weeks with schools closed until February half-term - Guardian Schools closed to most pupils and 'alternative arrangements' for exams - Schools Week GCSE and A-level 2021 exams cancelled - FE Week Private schools 'bewildered' by Covid test costs U-turn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kirsty Williams' full statement announcing schools to stay closed in Wales - Wales Online Kirsty Williams' full statement announcing schools to stay closed in Wales - Wales Online DfE can't say how many teachers have died of Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Such a mess': England's teachers and parents united in frustration - Guardian Heads question safety of DfE's mass Covid test plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: First minister hopes to 'accelerate' vaccination of teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES All schools in Wales to stay closed until at least January 18 - Wales Online Williamson promise to test teachers before returning is ‘logistically impossible’ - Schools Week Gateshead College accounts reveal the story behind shock deficit - FE Week ‘It cannot be safe’: Teachers baulk at government insistence on reopening schools - Independent Thousands of primary pupils face closed schools - BBC Schools 'set to close' for weeks to stop Covid surge after 'confusion' in first week of term - Schools Week Vaccinate teachers now to keep schools open - Times - New Keir Starmer calls for school closures as part of national lockdown measures - Mirror College return: Leaders call for further delay ahead of prime minister’s address - FE Week NTP admits catch-up sessions ‘may be postponed’ as only half of providers can deliver home tuition - Schools Week Education unions’ joint statement on the safe reopening of schools - NASUWT The lack of honesty over school closures in England has eroded what little trust was left | Zoe Williams - Guardian How did we get to the point where teachers have no faith in the DfE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Close schools 'right away', says ex-health secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Last six months worst in life, head teacher says - BBC London headteachers demand clear plan to get children back to school - Evening Standard Exam board drops only black composer from music A-level syllabus - Guardian Request for parents to report how they have been affected by the delay to schools reopening - Guardian UCL delays student return to campus - BBC Unions unite to keep schools shut on day hundreds of primary heads defy PM - Mail Call for school closures as coronavirus cases soar - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Will exams be scrapped again this summer? - Mail Hundreds of primary school heads defy PM and keep gates shut - Mail School closures: Which primary schools are shutting in Tier 4 areas? - The Sun Is there a full list of schools closed in January 2021? - Express Do schools go back today? - Express Tier 4: Will nurseries open in Tier 4 in January? - Express Tes Liveblog: Coronavirus and schools - 04 January 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid school closures: latest news on the January restrictions - Telegraph Parents face classroom closures chaos today as primaries across the country stay shut - Mail 'Keep them at home': Headteacher in Berkshire tells parents - Mail Uncertainty as primary pupils return in England - BBC MPs urge Johnson to ensure all pupils have digital resources for home learning - Guardian Stand by for tough new Covid curbs, PM warns - Times - New Scotland: Schools deserve far better than this hapless exam body - Times - New Primary schools poised to defy government by staying closed - Times - New Scotland: Experts call for abolition of ‘arrogant’ exam body - Times - New Teachers want schools to be open — but only if they are safe - Times - New Exclusions of schoolgirls on the rise - Times - New Scotland: Give teachers jabs now to keep schools open, says McConnell - Times - New Ireland: Teachers ‘very concerned’ as schools prepare to open - Times - New UCET statement on the DfE review of the ITE market and the Institute for Teaching - UCET