News archive for 11th January 2021

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They're playing politics with children's lives - and letting down our heroic teachers, too - Mail Channel 4 chief who called Boris Jonson a liar leaves broadcaster for good to run Cambridge College - Telegraph Vaccinations: Why education staff should be prioritised - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers at no greater risk of mortality, says minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Super tutors: The parents paying to outwit the pandemic as schools close - Telegraph FE staff should get Covid vaccine priority, say college leaders - FE Week ‘I’m a key worker but I’m ashamed to tell people I’m sending my children to school’ - Telegraph First day of online learning in Scotland thrown into chaos by online platform problem - Telegraph Schools are ignoring government guidelines and refusing to allow children into class unless both parents are key workers - Mail 'Judgy' parents intrude on teachers' online lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE won't rule out 2021 autumn phonics check - Times Educational Supplement | TES Muslim schoolgirl feels 'bullied' after school sent her home for wearing a skirt that was 'too long' - Telegraph Ofsted deploys extra staff as emails surge past 10k following school praise campaign - Schools Week Teachers could be next in line to receive Covid vaccine - Metro Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted What’s working well in remote education - Ofsted September Guarantee: education and training for young people - DfE Ofsted publishes short guide to what works well in remote education - Ofsted Employers should pay for laptops so apprentices can be remote educated, says Keegan - FE Week Dame Barbara Stocking is replaced as Cambridge college president a year after Oxfam scandal - Mail Why DfE must tread carefully on qualifications reform - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nurseries in England warn they face ruin without Covid support - Guardian Fact check: What does the guidance on key worker children attendance actually say? - Schools Week A-level and GCSE cancellation: a missed opportunity to rethink assessment - IOE London Blog Birmingham University signs 10-year £15m deal for online learning - Public Technology Jeff Greenidge appointed Director for Diversity by ETF and AoC - AoC | Association of Colleges New year, new lockdown - a renewed challenge - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF How leading education nations develop and reform their curriculum systems - EPI Education research and evaluation in leading education nations: How nations organise, focus and fund their research for policymaking - EPI New bite-size EdTech modules to support digital learning - Education & Training Foundation Schools missing out on traffic bans to protect pupils from polluted air - Times - New Numeracy, literacy and…. oracy - UKEdChat What works well in remote learning? 7 tips from the inspectors! - UKEdChat ASCL comment on Ofsted’s remote education guide - ASCL Children's Mental Health Week 2021 - NAHT East Durham College slammed for forcing staff on-site to teach remotely - UCU NEU comment on Keir Starmer speech - National Education Union Education and early years staff must be tested and vaccinated now, says Voice Community after survey - Voice Thousands of UK university students offered 50% rent reduction - Financial Times Btec debacle shows we are still too often forgotten - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the BBC is bringing back educational programming to help children in lockdown - Telegraph Ofsted gets thousands of emails praising schools after minister's remarks - Guardian Labour calls for clarity on support for most vulnerable children during lockdown - CYPN | Children & Young People Now DFE faces legal action over claims 'low-income families at risk of catching Covid-19' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now LGA urges Ofsted to postpone monitoring visits during lockdown - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Key workers advised to keep children at home ‘if they can’ in latest DFE U-turn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Investigating and strengthening child safeguarding and protection responses in light of the covid-19 pandemic - NAHT Student-to-community Covid transmission low, says Cambridge study - Times Higher Education | THE Scholars fume as PhD theses sold as e-books on Amazon - Times Higher Education | THE Academics demand v-cs and ministers rethink ‘key worker’ status - Times Higher Education | THE Why colleges are the key to a fairer, greener economy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Key workers are told they can’t send their children to school as survey reveals some are 60 per cent full - Mail Schools' plan to vaccinate all teachers by mid-February - Times Educational Supplement | TES Demand for school places ‘greatly increased’ since spring lockdown, poll finds amid calls for teachers to get vaccinated - Independent 'Broken and defeated': UK university students on the impact of Covid rules - Guardian Reflections on a collaboration to tell and imagine past, present and future stories of FE - BERA First day of online learning hits major problems - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should pupils who have missed nearly a year of school just redo the year? - Wales Online Uni students paying £1,000 to have coursework completed by someone else - Mirror London head calls for students to repeat year instead of trying to ‘patch up’ education - Evening Standard Will nurseries follow primary and secondary schools by closing in England? - The Sun Tender launched for national rollout of skills ‘boot camps’ - FE Week Covid-19: Early years staff 'should have vaccine priority' - BBC Teacher-assessed grades: everything you need to know - Telegraph Charities forced to plug school laptop shortage gap so pupils are not left without - Mirror Scotland: Technical problems disrupt first day of remote learning for pupils - Scotsman Here is a 7-point checklist to make sure the impending FE White Paper doesn’t fail - FE Week We shouldn’t call 2021’s exams ‘GCSEs’ and ‘A levels’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher fury as remote lessons are 'publicly shamed' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What Ofsted says works well in remote learning - Schools Week Coronavirus: Government revises guidance for children of key workers - Nursery World Whose children are eligible for a key worker place at school during lockdown? - Telegraph Make further Covid curbs in next 24 hours to halt spread, says Keir Starmer - Guardian Early years settings will be given rapid Covid-19 testing kits - Nursery World From vaccines to laptops: The pandemic to-do list for education grows... - SecEd Skills and recovery resources from unionlearn - Unionlearn At the chalkface: Because you’re poor - SecEd Why research on remote learning offers hope - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities and colleges in Scotland move teaching online until end of February - Independent How to do remote learning ‘well’: Ofsted's 7 top tips - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are teachers just collateral damage? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Largest UK student accommodation provider gives 50% off rent for lockdown - Independent London schools dealing with more pupils than March as confusion grows over rules - Evening Standard Ofsted inspectors to have Covid tests before visiting schools - Schools Week Furious mum refuses to homeschool her daughter, 5, during Covid lockdown because she ‘is not a teacher’ - The Sun Coronavirus: Glow Scotland network disrupted for thousands on first day of remote learning - Herald Scotland Vaccine will ‘very quickly’ get to teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will the rise in local hires continue? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted's Covid safety plan for school visits - Times Educational Supplement | TES £350m National Tutoring Programme faces slipping behind schedule - Schools Week When will schools reopen? - Express Matt Hancock is accused of mixed messaging after saying pupils should only be sent to classes as a last resort - Mail Movers and Shakers: Edition 338 - FE Week Five questions to ask about the Turing scheme - HEPI New Institute of Teaching sparks warning of the ‘Gibb-isation of education’ - Schools Week Students shouldn’t pay for things they can’t use - Wonkhe Understanding the IHRA definition of antisemitism - Wonkhe Skills to thrive – academics’ perceptions of student skills development - Wonkhe Covid-19: The challenges of home-schooling - BBC Students due to sit GCSE & A-level exams ‘will sit mini exams instead’ - The Sun ‘High demand’ drives 48% of heads to prioritise places - Times Educational Supplement | TES Almost 50 universities chiefs have kept their fat cat salaries since pandemic began - Mail Nearly half of schools have prioritised pupil places amid higher demand - Mail The hand-wringing over the UK’s Erasmus withdrawal is misplaced - Times Higher Education | THE More English universities preparing for full term teaching online - Times Higher Education | THE Some schools are 60 per cent full, poll finds as teachers call for cap on places - Telegraph Headteachers in England forced to ration on-site lockdown learning - Guardian Give A-level and GCSE grades early to avoid repeat of chaos, heads urge - Times - New High turnout leaves schools struggling in lockdown - Times - New Student’s dismay as Warwick University finds man groped her but lets him stay - Times - New Coronavirus in Scotland: Parents feign key-worker status to send children to classrooms - Times - New Coronavirus in Scotland: Remote working may mean the end of school uniforms - Times - New Coronavirus in Ireland: Disability groups call for urgent progress on teaching for special needs pupils - Times - New