News archive for 8th January 2021

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What actually has to happen before schools can go back? - Wales Online Ofsted flooded with parents praising schools after Gavin Williamson asks for complaints - Mirror IGCSE exams to go ahead in UK and international schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students must be refunded, ministers told - Herald Scotland Union anger as schools face long wait for plan B after exams cancelled - Schools Week Primary schools in England still 'rammed' with pupils, say heads - Guardian Fears over special school staff Covid safety - Times Educational Supplement | TES International Baccalaureate '21: Exam safety questions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why this dereliction of duty stretches beyond the DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fresh ideas in education blocked by stale thinking | Letters - Guardian Steve Besley's unmissable weekly Education Eye policy round-up is back! - Education Eye Tripling traineeships: £65m tender deadline slightly delayed - FE Week Student pressure for refunds in England becoming unstoppable - Times Higher Education | THE DfE and PHE not on same page over school face masks evidence - Schools Week Few laptops, nowhere to work: remote learning at a deprived Hackney school - Guardian Gavin Williamson rejected offer of free offer for kids who couldn’t afford broadband - The Sun 'I've nothing left to give': parents on home schooling in lockdown - Guardian Surge in pupils at school in lockdown sparks call for limit - BBC School sends parents a letters saying it won't open until February half term - Wales Online Government denies 'snubbing' BT's wi-fi for pupils offer - BBC Rule out Ofsted lockdown visits, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Who is eligible to attend college during lockdown? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: University campuses to stay closed for most until March - Herald Scotland 1 in 27 secondary pupils had Covid by Christmas Day - Times Educational Supplement | TES Special school staff ‘should get vaccine priority’ - Schools Week IGCSE exams taken in private schools still going ahead - BBC Labour Party calls for apprentice wage subsidy - FE Week Praise for invaluable teachers after Ofsted threat - Times Educational Supplement | TES Foot the bill for refunding student fees, Downing Street told - Guardian Government publishes apprenticeship guidance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities warned they could be breaking law by refusing to allow students to return to halls - Telegraph Cambridge becomes first university to confirm it will freeze rent payments - Telegraph Apprentice assessment flexibilities extended again - FE Week National lockdown 3 FE guidance: What you need to know - FE Week First joint ETF and AoC director of diversity appointed - FE Week How exam boards will proceed: a one-stop shop of what we know so far - FE Week DfE updates lockdown guidance for FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools in impossible position over key worker places - Times Educational Supplement | TES Second national college set to dissolve - FE Week January exams on or off? How colleges have responded - FE Week School laptop scheme: How to apply for a free school laptop, tablet or iPad - Express No need for ‘no detriment’ assessment policy, says Russell Group - Times Higher Education | THE Student pressure for refunds in England becoming ‘unstoppable’ - Times Higher Education | THE Former DfE director rails against ‘insensitive’ Skills Toolkit campaign timing - FE Week Cancelling exams is the wrong decision. They should be reinstated - Schools Week Glasgow's head of education defends decision to keep all schools open - Herald Scotland Students pledge rent strike over unused uni rooms - BBC Gavin Williamson 'turned down an offer from BT to provide children from disadvantaged backgrounds with cheaper broadband - Mail UK school closures mean mothers will take twice as much unpaid leave as fathers - Guardian The UK’s Erasmus exit is cause for regret on both sides of the channel - Times Higher Education | THE Put Sage scientists on special contracts, MPs told - Times Higher Education | THE Scottish ministers rebuked over vague home school advice - Times - New