News archive for 10th January 2021

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Remote learning: Live or offline, cover the basic elements - Headguruteacher Labour calls for more help for working parents in England lockdown - Guardian Teachers excused from giving live online lessons after claiming 'Zoom invades their privacy' - Mail Lockdown Scotland: Home schooling for Scots pupils to begin amid concerns of 'huge disparities' - Herald Scotland This much I know about. My modest proposal for grading GCSEs and A Levels this summer - JohnTomsett Who’s the worst education secretary? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How university societies have become sanctuaries for students - Independent Tories attack 'woefully inadequate' plans for online learning in Scotland - Scotsman Key workers told to keep children out of school 'if at all possible' - Mirror Key workers told to keep children out of school 'if at all possible' - Mirror How England’s schools are coping with sudden move to remote learning - Financial Times Horrible Histories goes mainstream with BBC home schooling slot - Guardian Keir Starmer says nurseries should probably be closed - Mirror Homegrown students may not fail to secure a place in Scottish universities - Times - New Students 'will sit mini exams this summer that will be marked by their teachers - Mail As lockdown hits universities hard, students just want to be heard - Guardian University World News - 10/01/2021 - University World News Pupils could sit mini exams marked by teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools catch-up scheme ‘needs a rocket boost’, says children's commissioner - Guardian Zoom classes invade our privacy - reasons to not give online lessons - Mail Williamson doing 'brilliant job', says health secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Remote learning: How to apply Rosenshine's principles - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government facing legal action amid claims it is ‘forcing low-income and Bame children into schools’ - Independent Remote Learning Solutions: Crowd-sourced ideas for checking students’ writing - Headguruteacher Households with only one key worker should not still be sending their children to school, Matt Hancock says - PoliticsHome Lives are falling apart. Enough talk about inequality, it’s now time to act | Kenan Malik - Guardian 15 (remote teaching) pedagogical approaches - Teacher Toolkit We hedged our bets, now we’re back at square one – why the faux assessment plan was always doomed to fail - Education matters 6 safety tips for staff in schools during lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our children are at risk of becoming the worst-hit victims of Covid | Observer editorial - Guardian Threats of legal action as over 1,000,000 children can’t access online lessons - Metro The future of education: school’s outmoded and it’s time to rewrite the rules - Times - New Gavin Williamson must stand up to the school unions like Margaret Thatcher - Mail Legal fight looms over lack of laptops for poor pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lockdown Learning: BBC puts school materials on TV, iPlayer and online - BBC Scots youngsters set for postcode lottery of learning - Times - New Exams are off — but that may be no bad thing - Times - New Pupils to sit mini summer exams, marked by their own teachers - Times - New