News archive for 21st January 2021

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Scientists warn classrooms should remain closed until Covid-19 cases falls dramatically - Mail Two selfless teachers killed by Covid as devastated families ask 'why weren't they protected' - Mirror UK schools closed: Will schools open after half term? - Express College’s £240k rugby stadium naming deal investigated - FE Week Call for parents to get cash payments as experts slam school meal voucher abuse claims - Mirror University tuition fees will be frozen at £9,250-a-year maximum for another year as Government considers minimum entry requirements for students - Mail White paper Q&A with skills minister: ‘We have got an awful lot to do and an awful lot to prove’ - FE Week Teachers say government’s ‘mini-exam’ proposal is ‘flawed and cheeky’ - Independent Independent review of TEF: report - DfE Consultation outcome: Independent review of TEF - DfE Post-qualification admissions in higher education: proposed changes - DfE Further Education Capital Transformation Fund - DfE Post-18 education and funding review: interim conclusion - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care - DfE Skills for jobs: lifelong learning for opportunity and growth - DfE Over three quarters of secondary schools order free period products - DfE Pioneering reforms to boost skills and jobs - DfE Long-term funding key to new further education plans, says SMC - Social Mobility Commission The Disabled Students’ Commission: Making a difference for disabled students in higher education - Office for Students Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF): Findings from the second subject-level pilot 2018-19 - Office for Students UCAS response to Department for Education consultation on post-qualification admissions - UCAS Laptops given to home-schooled children during lockdown were infected with Russian computer virus - Mail Designing a curriculum that can help to bridge the attainment gap - Ambition Institute Turnaround MAT chief moves to International school role - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grade me on school system leadership, says Williamson - Times Educational Supplement | TES Post-16 reform: Today's announcements at a glance - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Teacher workload a ‘concern’, says Ofqual - Times Educational Supplement | TES University term could be pushed back to October under plans for admissions system shake-up - Telegraph Principles for remote instruction: Notes from a TLAC masterclass - Headguruteacher Disabled Students’ Commission publishes annual report - Advance HE Mandarin programme putting thousands of pupils ‘on path to fluency’ - IOE London Blog The skills White Paper will make Further Education more resilient - Policy Exchange Racism is an age-old virus - Advance HE Malware found on laptops given out by government - BBC AET chief executive Julian Drinkall to step down - Schools Week Gavin Williamson claims no one could have predicted schools would have to close in January - PoliticsHome Today’s early years census likely to reduce government spending on childcare significantly - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Pearson response to Skills for Jobs White Paper - Pearson UK unis eye China teacher training opportunities - PIE News Skills for Jobs White Paper - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges ETF welcomes White Paper publication - Education & Training Foundation Lockdown 2.0: Engagement with remote education is up but significant poverty gaps remain - SecEd DfE investigates reports of malware found on laptops for disadvantaged children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Can you avoid burnout? - Learning Scientists Keegan: Skills White Paper is FE's 'day in the sun' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'find malware' on DfE laptops - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: Scientists challenge 'flawed' lateral flow tests report - BBC Edge publish latest Skills Shortage Bulletin - Edge Foundation Edge response to the ‘Skills for Jobs’ White Paper – January 2021 - Edge Foundation Educational dog whistles (and how not to blow them) - The Learning Spy Schools could open before Easter, says Gavin Williamson - Telegraph 8 points of note from today’s announcements - HEPI Only academics can run universities effectively - Times Higher Education | THE Ministers consider loan changes and minimum entry bar in England - Times Higher Education | THE Subject-level TEF scrapped and new grades to be created - Times Higher Education | THE Pupils could take exams earlier and apply to university after results, under government plans - Independent Skills and further education White Paper doesn’t go far enough - Voice Malware reportedly found on laptops given to children in England - Guardian School nurseries to receive top-up for census funding shortfalls - Nursery World ASCL comment on skills white paper - ASCL ASCL comment on Sutton Trust’s ‘learning in lockdown’ report - ASCL UUK response to government’s interim response to the Augar review, post-qualifications admissions consultation and TEF - Universities UK MillionPlus greets new flexible approach to HE – but calls for further advances - MillionPlus CBI comments on Skills for Jobs White Paper - CBI Collab Group Reacts to the Skills for Jobs White Paper - Collab Group Update on nursery funding this morning - NAHT Urgent update regarding nursery funding and census day - NAHT UCU vows to fight closure of Goole College - UCU UCU response to further education white paper - UCU UCU comments on interim Augar Review response and TEF - UCU Gavin Williamson on wider reopening of schools and colleges - National Education Union Outcome focused approach in FE white paper welcomed by training providers - AELP Sutton Trust on learning in lockdown - National Education Union NEU Cymru welcomes changes to awarding grades - National Education Union Russell Group response to Government’s interim response to review of post-18 education and funding - Russell Group Fast response to some slow thinking: Initial comment on today’s slew of documents from the Department for Education by HEPI’s Director - HEPI What do the interim Augar response and Skills for Jobs white paper mean for HE? - Wonkhe Skills for Jobs White Paper charts clear course for careers education - Careers & Enterprise Company Everyone’s into clearing in DfE’s post qualification admissions scramble - Wonkhe Russia-linked viruses found on school laptops handed out by Government - Metro Schools could stay closed for most pupils until Easter as fears grow in government - Mirror Funding boost for mathematical sciences institutes - UKRI Why don’t the government “do the right thing”? The role of values in education policymaking - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Research centres are found to be ‘internationally excellent’ - UKRI Parents' fury as Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says he can only 'hope' schools will reopen before Easter - Mail Treasury expected to balk at further education loan plans - Guardian Millions of young women promised free period products by government still not receiving items - Independent TEF latest assessment – the Pearce review and the government’s response - Wonkhe No sign yet that teachers will get vaccine priority - Times Educational Supplement | TES University tuition fees frozen at £9,250 for a year - BBC Schools find Russia-linked viruses on laptops given out by Government - Telegraph Covid: Gavin Williamson hopes England's schools will reopen by Easter - BBC Parents to find out if schools will open after half term next week as Gavin Williamson ‘hopes’ for return before Easter - The Sun Kate Green says White Paper has come too late - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pause on school daily Covid testing gets expert backing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary heads relief after funding U-turn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tuition fees to be frozen for another year under government plans - Independent Private exam students left behind by the latest guidance on A-levels - Telegraph Newham to keep Eat for Free school meals scheme after outcry - Guardian Ofqual boss admits teachers face ‘heavier responsibility’ in exams replacement plan - Schools Week Covid disruption leaves over half of £5.8m free sanitary products budget unclaimed - Schools Week A levels could be taken earlier in year in PQA shake-up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Supply teacher: 'I'm being treated like cannon fodder' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rainsbrook STC still subjecting children to ‘bleak’ isolation regime, inspectors find - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Careers guidance and training for disadvantaged groups among pledges to boost post-16 education - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children’s commissioner: Politicians must take child poverty 'out of the too difficult box' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Here are 4 things the FE White Paper missed out - FE Week DfE extends emergency school admission appeals flexibilities until September - Schools Week ‘Not good enough’: Rent strikes continue at universities despite lockdown concessions - Independent ‘Compressed’ exams and early results day: Post-qualification admissions proposals revealed - FE Week Research bodies launch fund for children's mental health services - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Short summer admissions process ‘feasible’ for UK, ministers say - Times Higher Education | THE The DfE’s policy responses mix weak soup with meaty steak - Times Higher Education | THE Universities can request ‘emergency’ extensions to REF deadline - Times Higher Education | THE DfE finally publishes ‘interim’ response to Augar Review - FE Week Williamson won’t say what would make him resign - Times Educational Supplement | TES Protecting pupils' mental health in Covid – and beyond - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching excellence in HE to be assessed every 4 years - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Compressed’ exams and early results day: Post-qualification admissions proposals revealed - Schools Week Next phase of £1.5bn college capital funding programme launched - FE Week Post-qualification offers: What the government thinks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Augar review: Government plans ‘modular’ approach to HE - Times Educational Supplement | TES When will schools reopen after lockdown? - Metro I fear today’s FE White Paper is the worst of both worlds - FE Week DfE to toughen up Baker Clause and extend careers requirement to year 7s - Schools Week FE White Paper: Government to ‘overhaul’ accountability - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers to get 2 weeks' notice of school reopenings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents to get two weeks' notice before schools reopen, says Gavin Williamson - Mirror Can students go back to university or is home the best and only option? - Telegraph Schools will be first to open when lockdown relaxed, Gavin Williamson says - Evening Standard Gavin Williamson says he hopes schools in England reopen before Easter - Guardian Schools to get two weeks’ notice of reopening, plus 4 more findings from Williamson’s media rounds - Schools Week Poorer pupils struggling most in second period of school closures - Sutton Trust Response to FE White Paper on 21 January - Learning & Work Institute Putting employers at the heart of the system: Will the White Paper support colleges to build back better? - FE News Schools to find out next week when they are likely to reopen - Metro Why Education for Sustainable Development – and why now? - HEPI Student Finance in England from 2012 to 2020: From fiscal illusion to graduate contribution? - HEPI New HEPI Debate Paper argues for the student loan scheme to be replaced by a graduate contribution scheme - HEPI Commissioners respond to the Skills For Jobs White Paper - College of the Future Never in 37 years have I seen colleges in the limelight like this White Paper - FE Week Home schooling is widening attainment gap between rich and poor, finds report - Guardian Only a quarter of working-class children doing five hours of schoolwork a day in lockdown - Telegraph 'Flawed' student loans should be abolished and replaced with graduate tax, ministers urged - Telegraph Skills for Jobs White Paper: The FE sector reacts - Times Educational Supplement | TES The continued threat of reducing fees will not help students or universities - Wonkhe Responding to climate change in teaching - Wonkhe Classic cars, careers, consumerism and confidence – how to address students’ complaints during the pandemic - Wonkhe FE White Paper: Government to 'overhaul' accountability - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills for Jobs White Paper: What does it propose? - Times Educational Supplement | TES New Covid support for teachers ‘under immense strain’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Your pupils' remote learning class divide revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-thirds of leaders ‘sourcing IT equipment’ for poorest pupils themselves, study finds - Schools Week Universities degree 'not the only route to success' - BBC Government to reform post-16 education to better align with employers' needs - Mail Millions of pupils don't have the laptops they need for home schooling - Mail Bonuses and rises boost v-c pay despite voluntary cuts for Covid - Times Higher Education | THE Ministers ‘rebalance’ teaching grant in ‘interim’ Augar response - Times Higher Education | THE Back graduate tax and make pre-fees students pay too, England told - Times Higher Education | THE Further education blueprint promises more say for UK employers - Financial Times Ministers could intervene over 'failing' colleges in wide-ranging new education plan - Mirror FE white paper sets out ‘ambitious’ reforms - FE Week Overhaul of skills and vocational education to focus on employability - Guardian Home schooling’s digital divide is having a devastating impact on poorer kids’ life chances - The Sun UCET Discussion paper on effective Continuing Professional Development (Jan 2021) - UCET University funding to attract poorer students may fall - Times - New Poorer pupils falling behind during lockdown - Times - New How to salvage children’s wrecked education | Iain Martin - Times - New Ireland: Madigan apologises for comparing schools for vulnerable to mother and baby homes - Times - New