News archive for 5th January 2021

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Pupils without laptops can still go to school in England lockdown - Guardian Schools could be shut past February half-term as Boris Johnson refuses to guarantee return - The Sun Kids in poverty facing third lockdown without laptops a national scandal - Mirror AoC response to the DfE's decision not to cancel VTQ exams - AoC | Association of Colleges DfE backtracks: Schools and colleges left to decide whether BTECs go ahead - FE Week GCSE and A-level students in England will not be asked to sit exams in summer 2021 - Independent GCSE and A-levels cancelled this year, Government announces - Mail Gavin Williamson confirms students will not sit tests - Express Exams cancelled as students in England ‘not asked’ to sit GCSE and A-Levels this summer - The Sun Lockdown: BBC broadcasting lessons for children on TV while schools closed - Herald Scotland Tier 4 failure to blame for schools shutting, says Johnson - Schools Week Schools to teach via remote learning `until February´ - Mail Pressure mounts on Williamson after BTec exams reversal - Guardian Critical workers and vulnerable children can access schools or educational settings - DfE GCSE and A-Level exams cancelled in England for 2021, Gavin Williamson confirms - Mirror DfE backtracks: schools and colleges left to decide whether BTECs go ahead - Schools Week Schools and colleges given flexibility to decide whether to run Btec exams - Mail More pupils expected in schools than in March lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Was DfE in dark on PM's exam announcement? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students: Lockdown restrictions spark demands for reduced fees and 'no detriment' policy - Herald Scotland BBC to provide biggest education offering as England begins new lockdown - Mail Special schools demand clarity on vulnerability criteria amid closure warning - Schools Week Call for pupils without laptops in England to be allowed into schools - Guardian Teachers' predicted grades likely to replace A-levels and GCSEs as exams are ruled out - Telegraph Vocational exams allowed to go ahead in England - BBC BBC to expand educational shows in response to UK Covid lockdown - Guardian Early years workers express fear and frustration over Government decision to keep nurseries open - Nursery World 2 Cancelled exams are a 'big disappointment' - BBC BBC to restart lockdown lessons on TV to ensure children without internet don’t miss out - Schools Week Schools expecting more pupils onsite than in March lockdown - Mail BBC to restart lockdown lessons on TV to ensure children without internet don’t miss out - Schools Week Post-primary transfer tests cancelled in N. Ireland - BBC Phased return of schools possible, says Sturgeon - Times Educational Supplement | TES BBC will broadcast TV shows to help remote learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Robert Halfon Why we must stop prioritise education - The Sun Does the Government realise how much damage has been done to our children by closing schools? - Telegraph If Boris Johnson cared about schools, he'd already have sacked Gavin Williamson - Guardian Unison calls for nurseries in England to close amid third Covid lockdown - Guardian England's schools closed 'with heaviest of hearts' - Gove - BBC Johnson is to blame for the schools fiasco, but there are lessons for Starmer too | Sienna Rodgers - Guardian DfE under pressure to address digital divide as partial closures kick in - Schools Week Are schools in Wales really going to re-open on January 18? - Wales Online Exam boards call for this month’s BTECs to be cancelled - Schools Week GCSEs: ‘Deafening silence’ over fairness expert group - Times Educational Supplement | TES SAGE scientist - decision to keep nurseries open 'may be political' - Nursery World 2 SAGE scientist - decision to keep nurseries open 'may be political' - Nursery World 2 Telling staff to attend school is breaking the law - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vodafone, Three and BT offer free data and unlimited broadband for kids studying at home - Mirror England's schools in disarray after government's exam U-turn - Financial Times Wilshaw: Williamson must take rap for getting it wrong - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primaries told by DfE they must wait to order laptops - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keeping nurseries open in lockdown may have been political' decision - Mirror Wales' education minister on reopening schools, exams and vaccinating staff - Wales Online Vaccinate teachers during closures so schools can re-open ASAP, says Halfon - Schools Week Lockdown: 'Why haven't our BTec exams been cancelled too?' - BBC BTECS: Petition against January exams reaches 100,000 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Huge shambles: Top Tory on government schools policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams in core subjects may still go ahead in England this summer - Guardian Stop treating early years staff as if we're expendable - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government must cancel January vocational exams with no delay - AoC | Association of Colleges Schools in Wales should stay shut until February, says union - Wales Online Ofqual will 'consult rapidly' on replacing exams, with 'a number of options' on the table - Schools Week The lack of consideration for Year 11 is staggering - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Gove points towards teacher assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris vows to work with tech firms to lift pupils out of digital poverty - Metro Online schooling: Calls to cut data fees during Covid lockdowns - BBC Schools could stay shut after February half term - Mail Teacher priority for vaccine up for debate by MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES BTECs: Dismay at DfE decision on January exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trade unionist slated after suggesting teachers jump vaccination queue ahead of over-75s - Express Schools need testing plan and tech for pupils, says children’s czar Anne Longfield - Evening Standard Boris Johnson's decision to open schools for one day put lives at risk - New Statesman Michael Gove confirms GCSE and A-level exams are definitely cancelled - Mail Maths and English GCSEs and A-levels may still go ahead - Mail Do primary schools and nurseries stay open? - Express Relief amid the 'chaos' as Covid-19 shuts down all schools in England - Guardian Piers Morgan blasts Boris Johnson for reopening schools for a day before u-turn - Mirror Catriona Stewart: In this new Scotland lockdown parents need more support to work and home school - Herald Scotland Teacher Covid rates up to 333% above average - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools to close in new Covid lockdown - Telegraph Headteachers despair at 'madness' of Boris Johnson opening schools - for just one day - Mirror Btecs: Colleges decide to cancel January exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES All schools shut and exams called off - The Sun Schools to close and exams facing axe in England - BBC NASUWT responds to the PM's announcement re the latest lockdown - NASUWT Scotland: More misery ahead, but the alternatives are worse - Times - New Ireland: Ministers mull delaying school openings past January 11 - Times - New Scotland: Open schools or condemn pupils to misery, says head - Times - New Back to the drawing board for big exams - Times - New Coventry University boss faces sex trip claims - Times - New Nurseries to remain open despite new national lockdown - CYPN | Children & Young People Now DfE: Prior Information Notice on the Institute of Teaching (5th Jan 2021) - UCET