News archive for 18th January 2021

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Schools could be shut until Easter with pupils kept away from class in Covid hotspots - The Sun School closures warning: Pupils to 'stay at home until Easter' - Express Whistleblowing teacher wins unfair dismissal claim - Mail Schools are supporting kids with no internet, food, or family support - Wales Online National free school meals voucher scheme opens to orders - DfE Primary staff Covid testing: what the new guidance says - Schools Week Coronavirus (COVID-19) asymptomatic testing for staff in primary schools and nurseries - DfE Heads want 'confusing' Covid tests paused - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools could be shut until Easter with classrooms in Covid hotspots kept empty - Mirror The impact of digital poverty on BAME students - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 4 big issues colleges are dealing with right now - Times Educational Supplement | TES Virologist: Jab teachers before ‘risky’ schools reopen - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus in Scotland: Don’t get your hopes up about schools opening, parents told - Times - New Waiting for the FE white paper – skills reform and “levelling up” - Policy Exchange Inspectors to assess schools’ remote-learning set-ups - Public Technology Ofqual launches consultation on awarding arrangements - Pearson £40m boost for vulnerable students in Wales - PIE News Government action called for to lift HE students out of digital poverty - Jisc Commission calls on the Government to provide a package of changes for the Early Years Workforce - Early Education CLC launches new IBM-supported blended learning programme - Education Development Trust | EDT Nursery update - NAHT Light at the end of the tunnel for thousands of held-up apprentices in exams controversy - AELP Universal credit and free school meals - National Education Union Making MOOCs go further: utilising MOOCs in teaching and learning - Advance HE Early years sector is at risk of becoming ‘unsustainable’ unless drastic and immediate action is taken, new report warns - EYE | Early Years Educator Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Qualifications review consultation response - Ofqual Williamson repeats ‘unhelpful myth’ live lessons claim, and 4 more edu Qs findings - Schools Week Live lessons are 'best' - Williamson contradicts Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most schools finding zero Covid cases say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE requests 'rapid' health advice on school Covid test - Times Educational Supplement | TES BPS joins coalition calling for urgent inquiry into the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children - BPS | British Psychological Society Huge rise in children seriously injured or killed during first lockdown, government figures show - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Employability programme launches to help young people into work - CYPN | Children & Young People Now One in three early years staff 'considering leaving the sector' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Three remote teaching priorities - Teacher Toolkit Post-Brexit procurement changes for education - ASCL With school trips cancelled, are interactive online museum tours the answer? - Telegraph If I were a Year 11 student currently being assessed at Levels 1 – 3, I would boycott the system - Telegraph Ministers accused of 'punishing' nurseries that fail to stay open to all children - HuffPost Call for 'critical worker' rethink to help teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE Covid test plan goes 'against manufacturer guide' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should teachers have to police school uniform online? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nicola Sturgeon 'not raising parents’ expectations' as she issues school reopening update - Scotsman Changing school holiday dates is being considered in Wales to make up for missed teaching - Wales Online Beating the cheating: The next hurdle for students and schools after exams are cancelled - Independent Fewer UK children 'school ready' after Covid nursery closures - Guardian What's the point of the DfE remote learning framework? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extra £40m for students in rent protests in Wales - BBC Apprenticeships: How to improve access to level 4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Compulsory GCSE languages? - SecEd Covid: Is the government finally beginning to listen to professionals? - SecEd 10,000 children without access to education in Tower Hamlets - Evening Standard Assessments and tests ‘are fairest way to grade pupils’ - Evening Standard EYFS Profile will not be mandatory this summer - Nursery World School return on 1 February looks increasingly unlikely - Times Educational Supplement | TES What GCSE students are worrying about (and how to help) - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Urgent’ action needed to prevent the early years sector from collapse – workforce report - Nursery World Ofqual raises concerns over DfE reforms to BTECs and other level 3 qualifications - FE Week 'Risky, vague, inconsistent': nursery teachers in England lament Covid strategy - Guardian Ofqual raises concerns over DfE’s proposed BTEC reforms - Schools Week Government criticised over ‘incomplete’ attempt to get laptops to students, amid frustrations over device quality and delays - Independent No conditions on local FSM vouchers – but schools need ‘decent audit trail’ - Schools Week Btecs: Ofqual asks DfE to delay qualifications reform - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson accused of letting kids go hungry over free school meals - Metro Reflecting on the changes of teaching in 2020 - FE Week Securing ​‘science capital’ - Research Schools Network Apprenticeships at Level 4 and above - Learning & Work Institute Interleaving: The cure for misconceptions? - Research Schools Network Encouraging self-regulated learning through effective homework - Research Schools Network The Government’s emerging vision for universities: labour-market need at the heart of the system - HEPI Movers and Shakers: Edition 339 - FE Week Compensation blues - Wonkhe To conquer Covid, universities need time and money - Wonkhe The race against time to graduate new key workers - Wonkhe How do you solve a problem like a final year show? - Wonkhe Paid placements for health students during Covid-19 are giving health faculties a headache - Wonkhe Coronavirus Scotland: Coaches drafted in to help exhausted teachers - Herald Scotland V-cs voice ‘significant concern’ on regulator’s ‘quality’ metrics - Times Higher Education | THE 'Digital poverty' could lead to lost generation of university students, vice-chancellors say - Guardian Free fast broadband offered in UK to support home schooling - Guardian Students returning home for Christmas caused thousands of Covid infections, study suggests - Independent Replace A-levels with SATs, urges Birmingham University chief Sir David Eastwood - Times - New Pupils help dispel Covid vaccine myths for minorities - Times - New DfE: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (January 2021) - UCET