News archive for 28th January 2021

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Disadvantaged primary pupils seven months behind peers due to Covid, study suggests - Schools Week Ministers favour priority for exam year groups if full March 8 school reopening not possible - Schools Week Two month reading and maths "Covid-19 gap" - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary schools: pandemic causing 'significant' learning loss in England - Guardian ASCL responds to EEF study on impact of Covid disruption - ASCL Gavin Williamson faces calls to set out ‘credible’ plan for reopening schools - Evening Standard EEF publishes new analysis on impact of Covid-19 on attainment gap - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Kids in parts of England have spent just 60 days in school in nearly a year - The Sun Flagship £50m skills bootcamps prioritise courses dominated by men - FE Week DfE knew about new strain before issuing Greenwich direction, admits top civil servant - Schools Week Coronavirus: Doubt over financial sustainability of universities - Herald Scotland Parents call for pupils to repeat whole year to prevent 'lost generation' - Mail Reality check: Teachers' risks from Covid - BBC Teachers have ‘no confidence’ in Covid catch-up plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student mental health: 14 ways to tackle the crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES WorldSkills Diversity and Inclusion Heroes award winners 2021 - FE Week Pre-appointment hearing with candidate for Chair of the Office for Students - UK Parliament Phased return to English schools from 8 March being planned, say insiders - Guardian EEF publishes interim assessment results on primary-age pupils in reading and maths - NFER Real-terms pay freeze lets down teachers, says union - Times Educational Supplement | TES Six ways Covid has hit poorer pupils the hardest - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mental health: 94% of colleges report suicide attempts - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE teacher grading ‘much harder’ for 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who sent ‘sexually explicit’ emails - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: why new starters are so important - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rotas and masks in class needed to reopen, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships and traineeships: January 2021 - DfE Further education and skills: January 2021 - DfE School funding statistics: 2020 to 2021 financial year - DfE DfE programme evaluating long-term outlook for online learning - Public Technology Advance HE launches a new employability case study series for 2021, ‘Employability: breaking the mould’ - Advance HE Serious mental health conditions in children up 50 per cent in three years - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 'Free must mean free' when it comes to childcare, ombudsman says - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government must save outdoor education centres for the sake of our young people - PoliticsHome Pandemic pressures on the early years sector - Sutton Trust Call for universities to embed wellbeing in curriculum, to save student mental health - Jisc Launch of grants to support EdTech development using the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Honours' nominations for New Year 2022 - now open - AoC | Association of Colleges Covid-19 and the shift to online learning - Learning Scientists Support for Scottish ambitions, but proper funding needed - UCU Public sector pay must adequately recognise work of teachers - NASUWT UCU condemns government for 'levelling down' university teaching quality and access - UCU NEU launches plan for education return and recovery - National Education Union Leading universities mull mandatory vaccine policies - Times Higher Education | THE Nursery staff are being treated like cannon fodder so 'higher-value' work can go on | Christine Berry - Guardian How will Covid affect teacher recruitment this year? - Times Educational Supplement | TES When will teachers get the Covid vaccine and how many teachers are there in the UK? - Metro Schools catchup programme could last five years as so many kids left behind in lockdown - The Sun MPs call for student Covid disruption funding in England to be doubled - Guardian Teachers urged to let EAL pupils learn in own language - Times Educational Supplement | TES New data shows improved picture for apprenticeship starts amid pandemic - FE Week Can you get cheaper broadband for home schooling? - BBC How can we improve support for students who have been in care or required the support of a social worker? - Office for Students Boris Johnson under growing pressure for schools reopening plan as young pupils ‘could be first to return’ - Evening Standard Keir Starmer says there's a case for closing nurseries in England's lockdown - Mirror Local government watchdog warns nurseries over top-up fees for 'free entitlement' - Nursery World Why saying 'schools are safe' is just petty politics - Times Educational Supplement | TES The exams situation could have been very different - Times Educational Supplement | TES Magazine podcast: Periods, rote learning and candour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Action taken into alleged SATs maladministration drops after heads given right to challenge - Schools Week Secondary school kids could stay off school until after Easter as Gove hints younger kids will return to class first - The Sun Real-terms boost from extra school funding wiped out by Covid - Schools Week Community learning: participation falls by almost 50% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges to reopen by 8 March at the earliest, DfE confirms - FE Week Exams 2021: OxfordAQA cancels IGCSE and IA levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools return date could extend beyond March 8, Michael Gove hints - Evening Standard Parents fear 'generation of dumb kids' after schools closed until March 8 - Mirror Time to replace ‘formal observation’ systems with instructional coaching for everyone - Headguruteacher Children's books by black British authors will be given to every primary school in England - Mail Could schools stay closed until summer? ‘Real danger’ of delay - Express Collaborative online international learning (COIL) in UK higher education: Reloaded - BERA Making the case for the London Weighting - HEPI Steve Bell's If … Boris Johnson would love to reopen schools but … - Guardian DfE laptops don't work, say 1 in 5 heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cost of Covid: Teachers' grim figures on learning loss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Huge shortages in DfE pupil laptops revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding plea amid concern children 'forced' to start P1 aged just 4 - Herald Scotland We need a review of initial teacher education – just not this one and not now - Wonkhe Free anthology of black authors to be given to all primary schools in England - BBC Covid causes 'slowdown' in academy chain growth - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid closure savings help boost trust surpluses by £25k, study finds - Schools Week Nursery top-up fees probe prompts England-wide warning - BBC Academy chiefs' pay rises up to twice that of teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academies plan to employ supply teachers direct to save cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES Triple triumph for laptops as Sir Tom Hunter backs campaign with £500k donation - Mail Despairing parents warn of ‘generation of dumb kids’ as Boris shuts schools until March 8 but unions push for longer - The Sun Staff or students? PhD students face worst of both worlds in lockdown - Times Higher Education | THE Cabinet split over schools reopening date - Times - New Record number of complaints to ombudsman for England and Wales - Times Higher Education | THE Train as a teacher or stop moaning about online learning, head tells parents - Times - New School closures: Pupils will fall a year behind but the mental harm may last longer - Times - New Coronavirus in Ireland: Parents go to court over closure of schools for pupils with special needs - Times - New One in six children struggling with mental health due to school closures and Covid lockdown - Mail Online exams: is technology or authentic assessment the answer? - Times Higher Education | THE Employers’ leader calls for understanding as UK pay talks fail - Times Higher Education | THE