News archive for 22nd January 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 22 January 2021 - Education Eye Trust in exam board and regulator lost after results debacle - Wales Online University of Edinburgh announces no return to campus until September - Herald Scotland The Big Lockdown-Learning Parent Survey - Teacher Tapp Primary school teachers are six times more likely to be off sick with Covid than pupils - Mail COVID-related teacher and pupil absences in England over 2020 autumn term - EPI What can we learn about Covid transmission in schools from teacher absence figures? - FFT Education Datalab News podcast: 'Draining' online classes and Covid tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Regulator: ONS should have ‘elaborated on limitations’ of controversial teacher Covid analysis - Schools Week Exams price row: AQA says schools can now pay just half of fees upfront - Schools Week Review of remote learning: What you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Half of early years staff feel unsafe at work - Times Educational Supplement | TES IOE experts appointed to investigate Trends in Mathematics and Science Skills (TIMSS) 2023 - IOE London Blog Headteacher reveals six things every homeschooling parent should know - Mirror New ETF CPD courses to support staff delivering apprenticeships - Education & Training Foundation Focus on quality to reach long-term targets, UK HE told - PIE News Early Years census 2021 return - National Education Union ASCL responds to EPI analysis on teacher Covid absences - ASCL Leaving behind a positive legacy from lockdown for school and college leaders - ASCL The importance of maintaining access to learning for prisoners during lockdown - Bell Foundation Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Early years provision and early intervention to be examined - UK Parliament MPs to hold a general debate on the UN International Day of Education - UK Parliament Level 4 Apprenticeships and above - we need to widen access to level up - Learning & Work Institute Substitute teacher scheme welcomed - NASUWT Structural racism should be a wake-up call for Government - NASUWT ASCL responds to EPI analysis on teacher Covid absences - ASCL Online learning in Covid times: Reflections from my first term - HEPI Coronavirus infection survey - National Education Union Russell Group submission to the 2021 Budget - Russell Group Departing Hull College chair lashes out at ‘failure’ of government oversight - FE Week Scotland: Teachers slam efforts to 'replicate' normal school year - Times Educational Supplement | TES First Minister gives update on when schools might re-open in Wales - Wales Online The FE White Paper is too little, too late - Times Educational Supplement | TES Post-16 reform: Why all eyes are on the Treasury - Times Educational Supplement | TES Six steps to a safe and full reopening of schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES When will schools reopen in the UK? - The Sun Exams 2021: International schools split on exams plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Survey reveals 'serious concerns' among early years workers about their safety - Nursery World ‘I worry about their social skills’: parents on children's screen time in lockdown - Guardian The Skills for Jobs White Paper is validation for FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jeff Greenidge: the man tackling FE's diversity problem - Times Educational Supplement | TES Concerns grow for children’s health as screen times soar during Covid crisis - Guardian Chair of Hull College Group resigns amid spending concerns and FE Commissioner visit - FE Week Covid: Early years staff safety 'cause for concern' - BBC 'Despicable in a pandemic': fury as UK universities plan job cuts - Guardian How the school laptops scandal let down teachers and pupils - New Statesman From head’s cookery show to Playstation lessons – how some schools have changed teaching - Express A new fiasco in the making? We grade the various exam replacement plans - FE Week Fact check: Are school staff at greater risk from Covid-19? - Schools Week A new fiasco in the making? The flaws with Ofqual’s 2021 exams plan - Schools Week Why is the government making early years staff beg? - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE White Paper: Why we need to trust, and be trusted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edinburgh Uni mostly online for rest of academic year - BBC How some schools have changed the way they teach in lockdown - Mirror Why are primary teachers being hit extra hard by Covid? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Family fury as two ‘inspirational and selfless’ teachers, 42 and 65, killed by Covid - The Sun 'Highly likely' teacher Covid rates higher than average - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Sutton Trust responds to the Skills for Jobs white paper - Sutton Trust Give us freedoms on reopening schools, leaders tell ministers - Schools Week Ofqual delays decision on teacher-assessed grades for functional skills - FE Week Ofqual delays decision on solution for apprentices stuck in limbo - FE Week A sudden desire to trust teachers hints at a poisoned chalice - Schools Week ‘Ridiculous’: Boards slammed for raising exam fees at a time of crisis - Schools Week Teachers' Pension Scheme exodus escalates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kate Green on how bullies left her 'torn-up' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Teachers’ marking burden not ‘much greater’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES School closures in Covid lockdown: latest news on when they could reopen - Telegraph Podcast: Augar response, TEF review, PQA, Skills for Jobs, funding - Wonkhe All the President’s degrees - Wonkhe Tes FE Awards 2021 open for entries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minimum entry bar for English HE ‘would level down opportunity’ - Times Higher Education | THE Chief fundraiser at Oxford’s Christ Church college quits - Times - New Covid-19 in Scotland: Private schools prepare to stay remote until after Easter - Times - New Talks could expand Erasmus scheme to Scottish students - Times - New Awarding QTS in 2021 - UCET