News archive for 20th January 2021

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Youngest and oldest pupils set to go back to school first under 'phased return' plan - Telegraph No full time screen-based learning for primary pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE White Paper: Our sector needs support and respect - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted receives 13,000 emails praising schools (but just 260 complaints) - Schools Week Covid testing in schools: What do we know? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How vulnerable children are being forgotten during the Covid-19 lockdown - New Statesman Pupil attendance rates: what latest Covid data shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers to decide students' grades in Wales - BBC Schools to remain shut for at least another four weeks as Sturgeon extends lockdown - Telegraph Strathclyde University pledges to help Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boater communities - Herald Scotland England leads way on access to selective universities, but lessons to learn from other countries - Sutton Trust Andy Burnham rejects suggestion government could decide which regions can re-open schools first - PoliticsHome Cameras in schools: how Ofsted will inspect in lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nick Gibb the ed tech convert? Minister wants ‘resilient education system’ with ‘firm digital foundations’ - Schools Week Barber: capping student numbers would stifle social mobility - Times Higher Education | THE Teachers learning from other teachers - Teacher Toolkit High-risk students gain the most from an argument-based approach to elementary science teaching - Best Evidence in Brief Government adviser incorrectly says all early years staff eligible for regular testing - Nursery World ESFA Update: 20 January 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Alternative provision census - DfE Three quarters of schools struggling to support SEND children during Covid lockdown - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Early years leaders hit out at contradictory government advice on home testing - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Teachers under pressure: working harder, but with less control over how they do their jobs - IOE London Blog Teachers having to work harder than any other professionals, says study - IOE London Blog Statement on the Higher Education Staff Statistics 2019-20 - Advance HE Early Education calls for clarity on safety and a funding U-turn - Early Education International students in the UK using food banks during lockdown - PIE News Music A-level exam board to reinstate its only black composer - Guardian New union checklist and government U-turn on lateral flow testing as an alternative to self-isolation - NAHT Petroc College becomes SET corporate partner - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Teachers having to work harder than any other professionals, says study - UKEdChat New union checklist and government U-turn on lateral flow testing as an alternative to self-isolation - NAHT ASCL comment on lateral flow tests decision - ASCL Managability and fairness on qualifications vital - NASUWT Alternative arrangements for the award of VTQ and other general qualifications in summer 2021 - ASCL ASCL comment on qualifications system announcement in Wales - ASCL Pause on lateral flow testing - National Education Union Children’s mental health crisis: ‘Chatting online is such poor substitute for seeing each other’ - Evening Standard NEU launch remote education hub - National Education Union Will Higher Technical Qualifications foster greater collaborations between universities and colleges? - HEPI Why higher education needs a strong regulator - HEPI Russell Group response to APPG for Students inquiry on the impact of Covid-19 on students’ tuition and accommodation - Russell Group Russell Group universities are working to help ramp up UK Covid vaccinations - Russell Group New research highlights ‘crisis’ in SEND and warns that SEN pupils could fall further behind peers during third national lockdown - EYE | Early Years Educator BERJ, BJET and RoE announce Editors’ Choice Awards for 2020 - BERA UKRI appoints Tim Bianek as Chief Operating Officer - UKRI Covid testing plan for English schools paused after health bodies’ warning - Financial Times GCSEs and A-levels in Wales will be graded by teachers as external assessments plan dumped - Wales Online Digital divide: why adults need laptop funding, too - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rashford demands a 'meal a day' for all school pupils in need - Guardian Daily Covid testing in English classrooms is scrapped as Government admits it isn't working - Mail Covid will improve teachers' use of tech, says Gibb - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plans for daily testing of secondary school pupils and teachers put on hold - Telegraph Finding remote classes hard? Now Ofsted may be watching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents 'ignored' over ASN provision amid worries over teacher training - Herald Scotland As parents’ stress levels rise, why it’s time to ease up on home schooling - Telegraph Why pupils with additional needs are assets to schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Btecs: Why removing student options would be disastrous - Times Educational Supplement | TES More calls for exam system to be overhauled - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid tests: Heads' frustration at 'yet another U-turn' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rollout of daily testing of close contacts paused in English schools - BBC Covid in Scotland: Phased return 'likely' for Scottish schools - BBC SENCOs reveal their fears over lockdown impact for SEN students - SecEd Covid-19 infection rates 1.9 times higher among teachers - SecEd Covid: Use of lateral flow tests as alternative to self-isolation paused in secondary schools - SecEd Ofqual sets out proposal for external exam papers to support teacher-assessed grades this summer - SecEd 'Milestone' plan for daily testing in schools paused after warning from experts - Mirror John Swinney criticised for 'drip-feeding vague plans' around pupils returning to schools - Scotsman Traineeships tender results revealed - FE Week Coronavirus: Infection rates among teachers and school support staff 'much higher' than among general public - Nursery World Why there's no such thing as lost learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES If Gavin Williamson had to teach a live lesson... - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hull College Group to close down Goole campus - FE Week Government pauses key part of school testing plan, after PHE says balance between risk and benefit ‘unclear’ - Independent Teenagers left feeling lost over axed exams, warns education expert - Evening Standard Schools told to test teachers for Covid twice a week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boards return just 25% of fees for cancelled exams - Schools Week Millions of parents could face postcode lottery for opening of schools, warns doctor - Express Older and younger pupils could go back to schools first in phased return - Herald Scotland Youngest pupils could be first back in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid testing in schools put on hold because of mutant strain - Metro ‘The benefit-risk balance is unclear’: Government pauses daily Covid contact testing in colleges - FE Week School daily teacher and pupil Covid testing 'paused' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Daily Covid testing plans 'paused' in English schools - Guardian ‘The benefit-risk balance is unclear’: Government pauses daily Covid contact testing in schools - Schools Week Jisc and Springer Nature extend commitment to open access publishing - Jisc Schools postcode lottery: Will schools reopen region by region? - Express Boris Johnson plots Easter coronavirus lockdown escape as school bosses fear the worst - Express Invest in stopping ineffective things - BERA Coronavirus: Demand for mass hiring of teachers as pupils struggle - Herald Scotland Time to make the most of Turing in Global Britain - Wonkhe Making the Towns Fund fit for purpose in levelling up - Wonkhe How teaching became the hardest profession - Times Educational Supplement | TES Daily Covid testing in English schools is halted just weeks after £78m 'milestone' programme was announced as regulator - Mail Experts doubt lasting change to academic work practices post-Covid - Times Higher Education | THE Universities negotiate with lenders as pandemic finances bite - Times Higher Education | THE Sir Michael Barber in free speech plea to stop university groupthink - Times - New How Covid kids can become Generation Grit | Alice Thomson - Times - New Ireland: Special needs teachers ‘being scapegoated’ over government’s school reopening failures - Times - New