News archive for 26th January 2021

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Get these kids the laptops they need, writes former Education Secretary - Mail Real danger' schools could stay shut until summer, Children's Commissioner warns - Mirror Huge £1m gift to help Britain's poorest pupils working from home without pens and books - Mirror 'Real danger' schools could stay closed until summer, Children's Commissioner warns - Telegraph The case for schools to go back as soon as possible - Wales Online NEU survey shows need to support students during lockdown - National Education Union NEU and Daily Mirror launch Help a Child to Learn appeal - National Education Union Poor pupils doing remote school work on toilet roll - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Laptops and tablets progress data as of 26 January 2021 - DfE Student Loans Company responds to Skills for Jobs white paper - Student Loans Company Education Secretary speech to Education Policy Institute on remote learning - DfE Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 21 January 2021 - DfE School closures mean crisis is looming over award of national qualifications, expert warns - Telegraph Why class clown Gavin Williamson has never seemed under more pressure to do his homework - Telegraph Is now the best of times or the worst of times for FE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: 'Exams' will be 'fair' for all, says PM - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education secretary under fire over remote learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pandemic 'changed learning for better', says Williamson - Times Educational Supplement | TES See if you can do better, head tells critical parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years: 'Massive' lockdown hit to pupils' language - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister sidesteps school reopening dates but pledges announcement ‘in next few days’ - Independent Eton pupils are victims of 'inverted snobbery' over mental health problems, says Stephen Fry - Telegraph No confidence vote in Leicester v-c as 145 at risk of redundancy - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Blue card’ call for free movement of academics across UK and EU - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland and Wales seeking to stay in Erasmus+ - Times Higher Education | THE Why are training providers missing from FE White Paper? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The kids are not alright: London’s troubling new classroom divide - Evening Standard Schools to fully close for February half-term, but staff needed for contact tracing - Schools Week White teens in former industrial towns ‘among least likely to go to university’ - Independent Covid England: New hopes primary schools could reopen before Easter - Mail Three quarters of disadvantaged white pupils say they feel 'left behind' at school during pandemic - Telegraph Some early years workers set to receive Covid-19 vaccine as a priority - Nursery World Degree apprenticeships – challenges and opportunities - Advance HE While calls for help about child abuse increase, 600,000 vulnerable children remain invisible to the state - PoliticsHome Treating students as consumers was always going to be a double-edged sword - PoliticsHome Tory MP warns children are “falling out of society” as pressure mounts to reopen schools - PoliticsHome Train UK employers ahead of graduate route rollout, say stakeholders - PIE News Boys 'more likely to struggle with online learning' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School Covid rotas 'difficult', says minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES E-safety – the ongoing issue - UKEdChat Staring at our screens: Findings from lockdown 2.0, week 3 - Teacher Tapp Why now’s the perfect time to fix our broken assessment system - Edge Foundation No confidence vote at country's biggest prison educator amid claims of unlawful recordings and fake Twitter accounts - UCU GSA Head shares her pandemic experience - GSA How can schools help students without laptops? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Helping teachers to explain more clearly: 3 remote learning tips - Ambition Institute £10m to alleviate research institution charity funding shortfall - UKRI Labour MP in furious row with Hartley-Brewer over 'disaster' school reopening plans - Express Parents are at their ‘wits’ end’ amid school closures, Tory MP warns Government - Evening Standard Reopening schools: Announcements coming ‘in next few days’ as minister remains tight-lipped - Schools Week Reopening colleges and providers: Announcements coming ‘in next few days’ - FE Week A lack of research? How Ofsted misrecognised cultural capital - SecEd Why meaningful Holocaust education in school is crucial - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools announcement pledged in 'next few days' - 4 things before they can reopen - Mirror Promised laptops may take another 6 weeks to be delivered, new figures suggest - Schools Week Poor white teenagers are least likely group to go to university, watchdog warns - Mail Opening schools a national priority, says government - BBC Gavin Williamson 'continues to do a good job', says PM - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are inflated grades the fairest option for 2021 exams? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Consider teachers for vaccine priority, says NHS boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE under-reported key worker pupil attendance by 100K - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parent condemns barrister over 'stroppy teenager of colour' tweet - Guardian Schools to find out when they can start reopening ‘within days’ - Metro Back to school? Appeal for reopening plan and preparation time as minister hints return next month - Evening Standard Covid: Oldham school to withdraw places for lockdown-breach pupils - BBC Covid home-schooling: Head teacher pens heartfelt letter to parents - BBC Teachers 'sickened' as DfE delays cash for poor pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fears of new 'strict' teacher training hitting supply - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Scottish government launches £1m fund for childminders - Nursery World DfE to stop publishing Covid case data for school staff working from home - Schools Week Prison education: Staff vote of 'no confidence' in CEO - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keeping pupils motivated at home is significant challenge, watchdog warns - Independent Primaries 'safe' to open soon, say health experts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school kids could be ‘resistant’ to Covid as ministers consider reopening - The Sun Podcast: Why mentorship is a must for school leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Profile: Ian Livingstone, CBE, Co-founder, Livingstone Academy Bournemouth and Trustee, Aspirations Academies Trust - Schools Week Focus: Animal care college courses during Covid - FE Week Poor white youngsters in 'left behind' towns much more likely to miss out on university - Mirror Teachers in England ‘should pick vulnerable pupils for early return’ - Guardian Challenges in applying curriculum design theory in university settings - BERA The Government risks narrowing the path to higher level skills - HEPI Our children are paying the highest price in lockdown - we owe them answers - Telegraph How frazzled parents are trying to solve the homeschooling dilemma - Telegraph White students who are left behind: the importance of place - Office for Students The Westminster government’s skills agenda is the narrowest of all the UK nations - Wonkhe What’s the University of St Andrews (Degrees in Medicine and Dentistry) Bill all about? - Wonkhe Unlock potential of colleges to secure a progressive, sustainable and prosperous Wales for future generations - College of the Future Schools to 're-open primary school and key exam years first' under new plans - Mirror Gavin Williamson plans phased reopening as move to get children back to classrooms - Mail Keeping schools shut risks having ‘calamitous’ impact on children’s mental health - Mail 70% of parents fear school closures are bad for kids’ mental health and worry they will become a ‘lost generation’ - The Sun Call to legally force colleges to consider skills needs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Surge in British private schools opening in China - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poor white teens in 'left behind' towns not going to uni - BBC Universities fear Ucas plan for postgraduate applications tool - Times Higher Education | THE Proof that the poorest are bearing the brunt of this crisis - Mail 9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence on the importance of early years provision and early intervention - UK Parliament Coronavirus: Primary schools ‘safe to open soon’ - Times - New Coronavirus: Depression among children is at frightening levels, doctors warn - Times - New Coronavirus: Frazzled parents spend up to £1,500 a week on private tutors - Times - New Home school hell! Parents confess all - Times - New Scotland: Hundreds more pupils take up the Scots language - Times - New Adam Habib: SOAS will be ‘voice for developing world in the West’ - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Left-behind’ white working class shun university places - Times Higher Education | THE UCET press notice on the ITT Market Review (26th January 2021) - UCET