News archive for 25th January 2021

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Headteacher threatens to withdraw pupils from school over coronavirus breaches - Mirror Schools could reopen to kids in primaries and key exam years first - The Sun Headteachers left frustrated over missing out on ‘thousands of pounds’ for disadvantaged students this year - Independent 'We want to go to school': Kids plead for return with 1.5m facing mental health crisis - Mirror Boris Johnson sparks lockdown confusion as Tories face increasing pressure over schools - Mirror Group campaigning for UK schools to reopen wins backing of 17 Tory MPs - Guardian Johnson promises clarity on England school reopenings ‘as soon as we can’ - Financial Times Young people demanding plan for their education must be heard - Mirror Boris Johnson fights to reopen schools before Easter - Telegraph Online academy downplays link to top Tories - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It's a struggle': three teachers on remote learning and returning to school - Guardian The Guardian view on calls to reopen schools: a dangerous distraction - Guardian Which age group is really losing the lockdown learning race? - Telegraph 6 problems with remote learning, according to Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Teachers face 'impossible task', say 3/4 parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we shouldn't welcome the FE White Paper - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Teacher deaths double when over-64s are added - Times Educational Supplement | TES Need to know: Mass Covid test plan for Scottish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES They may not be disadvantaged, but middle-class kids missing school suffer too - Telegraph Ofsted research finds pupil motivation around remote education is a significant concern for parents and school leaders - Ofsted Sector gives FE white paper the thumbs up - FE Week Remote education research - Ofsted When will schools reopen? - Express 'Knackered and confused.' That's just the parents. - BBC Shutting schools during lockdown means a whole host of children have been lost to the pandemic after being 'hidden' from social services - Mail Disease research institutes get £10 million after UK charity cuts - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities’ half-hearted support for Erasmus+ must not be repeated - Times Higher Education | THE Green at fifteen – what schools can do to support the climate - OECD Wanting children back in school does not make you a lockdown sceptic, MPs warn - PoliticsHome Get school-to-school support from system leaders - DfE College collaboration fund (CCF) projects - DfE Children’s commissioner and Tory MPs lead calls for ‘routemap’ to end school closures - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Soaring teacher workload, and 6 more findings from Ofsted’s remote learning research - Schools Week Concern as reports of Covid in early years settings more than double in a week - Nursery World FE White Paper: boost for status of colleges needs proper funding to make it fly - IOE London Blog Government challenged to explain its schools reopening plan as "dismayed" MPs warn they cannot stay closed until Easter - PoliticsHome Around 20,000 young people still unable to access online learning in Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham says - Independent The impact of being long-term disadvantaged at KS2 and KS4 - FFT Education Datalab Here are 4 things the FE White Paper missed out - Learning & Work Institute ASCL comment on full reopening of schools and Ofsted research - ASCL Can the pandemic bring a new dawn for flexible higher education? - HEPI ERSA responds to today's Kickstart announcement - ERSA A new tool to support EDI in HE - Advance HE Kickstart scheme changes: Government removes ‘gateway’ application system - CYPN | Children & Young People Now School staff are not more likely to die of Covid-19 than the general population - Mail New ‘Voices from the Classroom’ – lessons from remote learning - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Teacher Covid death data ‘only half the picture’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Breaking the cycle of youth crime involves learning - not prison cells - Teach First Strong support for age bands in guidance on EYFS - survey - Nursery World Teacher Covid-absences ‘significantly higher’ than pupils - Nursery World Ofsted on remote education - National Education Union Online lessons mean children are missing out on practical learning - Telegraph Axing Courtney Pine from music A-level shows how easily schools ignore Black stories | Lavinya Stennett - Guardian Covid: Teachers 'not at higher risk' of death - BBC Most teachers confident in quality of remote lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES Using Scots language in class is 'immensely valuable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Invicta Academy drops top Tories’ ‘sponsor’ tag after backlash over founder’s comments - Schools Week Furious MPs summon Gavin Williamson to Commons over schools plan - Mail Ucas: We want to be a one-stop shop for apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let's stop comparing ourselves with other schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools looking to use video lessons in teacher shortage subjects after pandemic, Ofsted study finds - Schools Week Lockdown review will be on February 15 - fuelling fears of schools shut until March - Mirror Furious MPs demand Gavin Williamson faces Parliament to lay out a ‘roadmap’ to reopen schools - The Sun Covid: Schools will be told of reopening plans 'as soon as we can' - BBC English schools not expected to start fully reopening until at least March - Guardian Ofsted: Remote learning 'threat' to teacher wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jisc to manage OCRE cloud procurement framework for UK - Jisc Avoid 'dithering' and release half-term plan, heads say - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams 2021: Whistling in the dark, once again - SecEd Common path visible amid avalanche of DFE policy papers - MediaFHE Covid has intensified the student mental health crisis - universities must step up - Telegraph ONS: Covid death rate among secondary teachers above average, but ‘not statistically significant’ - Schools Week Johnson 'looking at potential of relaxing some lockdown measures' next month - Guardian Exams farce leaves us anxious, says student group founder - Evening Standard Boris Johnson refuses to give date for schools to reopen despite mounting revolt - Mirror George Galloway blasts BBC schools show for telling 9-year-olds there are 100 genders - Express Boris Johnson: English schools 'priority' for reopening but no date yet (video) - Guardian Calls for a 'route map' on reopening schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES How Mindful Mondays support student mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES When will Scottish schools fully reopen? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Give us a ‘routemap’ to reopening schools, says education committee chair - Schools Week Angry Tories demand Boris Johnson re-open schools - Express Boris urged to provide parents with ‘route map’ for reopening schools - Metro We're at a turning point for further education - Times Educational Supplement | TES 139 teacher and education worker Covid deaths in 2020 - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK schools closed: Will schools open after half term? - Express Tory MPs revolt over plans to keep children off school until after Easter - Mail Movers and Shakers: Edition 340 - FE Week Plea to give lockdown pupils the tools they need to thrive in lessons - Mail DfE laptops for home-schooling found to contain malware - Public Technology Funding boost for mathematical sciences institutes - Cambridge Network Will the current lockdown ease financial pressures on schools? - Schools Week 75% teachers against school re-opening plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Sitting ducks': Why teachers fear school re-openings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Workplace trainers say government is keeping apprentices from full-time work - Financial Times Student maintenance gets pushed into the long grass again - Wonkhe The Skills for Jobs white paper is what happens when policy is made in a vacuum - Wonkhe From footwear to strategic funding – the curious world of subject-level data - Wonkhe One in three locked-down families don't have enough computers for their children to study - Mail Is it still too dangerous for researchers to admit drug use? - Times Higher Education | THE Cuts for London and arts ‘will damage universities and students’ - Times Higher Education | THE Extended lockdown threatens to keep schools closed until Easter - Times - New Graduate job slump is worst since 2008 recession - Times - New Covid in Scotland: Schoolchildren may be forced to resit a whole year - Times - New Coronavirus in Ireland: ‘All options’ being considered for Leaving Certificate exams - Times - New