News archive for 27th January 2021

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Education attendance restrictions to remain in place - DfE Government must step up and give kids vital home learning support they need - Mirror Labour demands struggling kids be given free school meals during February half-term - Mirror 'Poorer pupils without materials will be falling behind their peers in lockdown' - Mirror Teachers won't be able to jump the queue for a jab, says Prime Minister - Telegraph NCSC recognises cyber expert universities - Public Technology Will the DFE’s new Institute reflect what teachers need to learn? - IOE London Blog Boris Johnson says schools must stay shut until at least 8 March - PoliticsHome Non-EU students drive UK enrolments in 2019/20 – HESA - PIE News Culture change is the biggest challenge for colleges starting their digital journey - Jisc Managing colleges' financial sustainability report published by Public Accounts Committee - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Robert Halfon MP lays out his vision for post-Covid education and assessment system - Edge Foundation New EdTech modules released with a focus on digital wellbeing and managing online learning - Education & Training Foundation Funding boost to get more young people into work - Cambridge Network HESA spring 2021: qualifications, subjects, student characteristics - Wonkhe UCU responds to prime minister's statement on lockdown and re-opening of school sites - UCU NASUWT comments on announcement on full school reopening - NASUWT Our response to the government’s plans for the ‘full re-opening’ of schools - NAHT Damning failures of governance and leadership at Hull College, says UCU - UCU HTRT response to DFE and Ofqual exam replacement consultation - Headteachers' Roundtable ASCL comment on plan for full reopening of schools - ASCL Higher Education Student Statistics 2019/20 released - HESA Collab Group launches programme for the next generation of college leaders - Collab Group Vulnerable children have 'dropped off the radar' in lockdown - Wales Online Ofsted's phased return to inspection - Ofsted Funding boost to get more young people into work - DfE Guidance: Traineeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 27 January 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Traineeships: information for employers and education providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Traineeship employer incentive registration form - Education & Skills Funding Agency Health chief: Not clear teachers get Covid in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES School tells ‘highly critical’ parents to try and be teachers themselves - Metro Covid: English schools could return 8 March 'at the earliest' - PM - BBC Boris Johnson 'hopeful' schools will reopen on 8 March (video) - Guardian Higher education student statistics UK: 2019 to 2020 - HESA Teachers are not 'markedly' more likely to get Covid, Jonathan Van-Tam says - Mirror Scotland and Wales to explore ways to maintain Erasmus scheme despite Brexit - Independent Record one in three UK students gained first-class degree in 2020 - Guardian GCSEs 2021 ‘Weimar’ grade inflation warning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Risk of 'false hope' over reopening, warn teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will schools really open in March? Shattered parents have had their hopes dashed too many times - Telegraph Schools could reopen from 8 March, Boris Johnson says - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Early years workers struggle to access school places - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Two reasons why Alexa is no good for your brain - Teacher Toolkit Prime Minister’s roadmap for schools - National Education Union Remote learning: Ofsted shares tips for improving pupil engagement and motivation - SecEd Learning materials: £1m fund kick-starts Help a Child to Learn campaign - SecEd Social media, poverty and lack of exercise drive mental health crisis - SecEd Covid UK: Teaching unions push for an even longer schools closure - Mail 8 March school reopenings: 5 things you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES March school reopenings: how safe would teachers be? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Notes on a crisis: With Covid and the climate crisis, we are failing the next generation - New Statesman Fears for children’s welfare as Boris Johnson extends UK lockdown by another three weeks - The Sun Schools in England to remain closed until at least early March - Financial Times Schools reopening on March 8: Boris outlines hopes for children to return classroom - Express Schools reopening: When will schools reopen? - Express When will schools reopen after lockdown? - Metro Free school meals to continue during lockdown until March 8 - The Sun When will schools reopen in the UK? - The Sun Schools to receive further £300m for catch-up tutoring - Times Educational Supplement | TES Date for submitting grades is moved back in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Youth unemployment: Why we need to invest £4.6bn a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland's universities hit target for widening access - Herald Scotland We need a long-term plan for education in England - Schools Week Keir Starmer says every teacher should be vaccinated over half-term to get schools open as soon as possible - Mail Boris Johnson reveals schools won't reopen until at least March 8 - Mail Boris Johnson says schools in England won’t reopen until March 8 - Evening Standard Fed-up headmaster tells "highly critical" parents to retrain as teachers in scathing letter - Mirror Schools won’t open after February half term - Metro Schools won't reopen after February half-term and only ‘hopes’ for March 8 return, Boris Johnson confirms - The Sun Johnson hopes to begin reopening schools from March 8 if vaccine target met - Schools Week Schools to stay shut until March 8, Boris Johnson confirms - HuffPost PM: We hope to reopen schools from 8 March - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson hopes schools in England will reopen from 8 March - Guardian Coronavirus: Vaccinate teachers at half-term - Starmer - BBC Ministers should scrap the school year and force pupils to start it again in September says leading head teacher - Mail Keir Starmer demands Boris Johnson use half term to vaccinate teachers - Mirror Richard Lochhead: 'Above my pay grade' to say when students can return - Scotsman Quality and standards in higher education - Advance HE Call for teacher vaccination program at half term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland announces £20m for students struggling financially in pandemic - Independent Pandemic sparks ‘perfect storm’ for increase in online child sexual abuse - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ‘Evidence into Action’ - EEF podcast returns with new episode on ‘Managing behaviour and building habits’ - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Thousands of early years staff unable to access key worker places at school for their own children - Nursery World One in three UK graduates got a first under ‘no detriment’ rules - Times Higher Education | THE University students have been treated with contempt. They are ready to revolt - Telegraph Kids write school homework on toilet paper and go without pens as desperate parents struggle for food - The Sun Erasmus: could Scotland stay in EU study abroad scheme - Scotsman College students in Scotland fall by 26,000 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteacher warns pupils could be banned from school if their parents break coronavirus rules - Mail Young people’s mental and emotional health: Trajectories and drivers in childhood and adolescence - EPI Schools could stay shut until summer, Children’s Commissioner warns - Metro A higher skills ambition for Northern Ireland: Skills for growth and social inclusion - Learning & Work Institute Action required to stop Northern Ireland slipping behind other countries on skills - Learning & Work Institute 'No movement' towards repeating school year for Scottish pupils, say independent schools - Scotsman ASCL responds to PAC report on college finances - ASCL ASCL comment on Generation Z mental health report - ASCL Climate activist Luisa Neubauer: 'how can we turn this anxiety into something constructive?' - Guardian Subject knowledge: Love, learn, teach - UKEdChat Children write homework on toilet paper as parents choose between books and food - Mirror Will schools reopen before Easter - latest updates on coronavirus lockdown - Telegraph Time to write off this academic year and start again in September, says leading headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh - Telegraph Schools in England need post-Covid fund to tackle mental health decline, says report - Guardian Pandemic brings "significant disruption" to universities' innovation projects, survey finds - MediaFHE Exam appeals – a contradiction that must be resolved - HEPI Coronavirus: 'Fewer than one in 10 pupils manage five hours a day learning' - Herald Scotland Coronavirus: Scotland's universities facing £132m in losses - Herald Scotland Government must get a grip on further education sector, with nearly half of colleges in financial measures - UK Parliament How we get what we value - Wonkhe Should students tell tales on their university or college? - Wonkhe How to keep homeschool costs down - Mail MPs criticise the DfE over college finances - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools in North hit by pre-Covid 'disadvantage chasm' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher training: More than 600 get new FE bursary - Times Educational Supplement | TES 7 school policies to solve the Covid children mental health crisis - Schools Week Girls’ mental health plummets in their early teens — with the decline fuelled by social media - The Sun Schools announcement ‘coming in next few days’, says minister after fears kids won’t return until Easter - The Sun How employers claim the £1,000 traineeship incentive - FE Week Social media triggers a sharp decline in teenagers' mental health - Mail PAC college financial sustainability report: The 7 recommendations - FE Week Public Accounts Committee criticises expensive and ineffective college oversight - FE Week Mental health decline in girls made worse by social media - Times - New Schools in low Covid infection areas may open sooner, parents told - Times - New Gavin Williamson stays away while adults do the real work | Quentin Letts - Times - New Scotland: Universities want boost from cash that funded Europeans’ free tuition - Times - New Coronavirus in Ireland: Ministers ‘have no idea’ about provision of special needs education - Times - New Coronavirus in Ireland: Prisoners ‘should get tablets to enable remote learning’ - Times - New