News archive for 29th January 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 29 January 2021 - Education Eye Further education college workforce analysis - DfE SLC statement in response to CMA statement of 29 January 2021 - Student Loans Company CMA warns firms over price-fixing of supplies to disabled students - Student Loans Company Headteachers and unions respond to back to school plans - Wales Online The school where 50 members of staff caught coronavirus - Wales Online Headteachers say pupils must not be forced to sit 'mini-exams' this summer - Mail Government school Covid safety claim 'contradicts SAGE’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid UK may mean permanent shift to virtual parent-teacher evenings - Mail News podcast: Why some teachers fear an 8 March return - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student loans company confirms monthly repayment threshold for graduates increases from April 2021 - Scotsman FE podcast: Student mental health with Stuart Rimmer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher vaccine row: When should school staff get jabs? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students make up half of respondents to ‘largest ever’ exams consultation - Schools Week NEU Cymru notes plans to open schools for early years - National Education Union NAHT's responses to consultations on awarding qualifications in summer 2021 - NAHT Become a National Numeracy Day Champion for 2021 - National Numeracy BPS welcomes publication of report exploring the impact of school closures on the attainment gap - BPS | British Psychological Society Warning GCSE abolition would hit teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges to receive 16-19 funding boost - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Concern' over social distancing in school staffrooms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Remote learning reports: what you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Shame of universities sitting on £46.2bn as students pay thousands to be 'neglected' - Express Welsh pupils could return 'straight after half-term' - Times Educational Supplement | TES March school reopenings: how safe would teachers be? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to teach coding with Rubik’s Cubes - UKEdChat Philosophy of vocational education debate: Work-based learning and professional judgement - Edge Foundation Edge responds to EDSK’s new report “Re-assessing the future” - Edge Foundation Laying the foundations for a skills-led recovery - Universities UK Modern universities crucial to Scotland’s success - MillionPlus ASCL comment on plan for full reopening of schools in Northern Ireland - ASCL ASCL sets out proposals for grading GCSEs and A-levels - ASCL NASUWT comments on partial Wales school reopening - NASUWT ASCL comment on plan for youngest pupils to return to schools in Wales - ASCL Loic Menzies to pass on the baton as Chief Exec - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Reducing social isolation for vulnerable people - Teacher Toolkit Why mini-exams are unfair for students – and teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Speaking removed from modern languages qualifications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of school and college students without devices for remote learning - Wales Online Most international schools 'don't want 2021 exams' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the government’s £400m laptops roll-out is crashing - Schools Week Stacey loses role in overseeing this summer’s grading process as 2021 committee disbanded - Schools Week Most Welsh children won't be back in school until March at the earliest - Wales Online Ofqual and DfE GCSE grade plan 'unworkable', say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly half of public want teachers to get vaccine next - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jon Richards: The man speaking up for support staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Wales' school return could start after half-term - BBC 'Price gouging from Covid': student ebooks costing up to 500% more than in print - Guardian Three ways Covid has improved teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: We're not planning 'mini exams', says Lebus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher pay gap between college types widens - Times Educational Supplement | TES WorldSkills: 3 ways we're pushing for skills diversity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Making teachers work as unpaid examiners is an outrage - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mayors want more courses included under lifetime skills guarantee - FE Week GCSEs 2021: Heads say no to 'mandatory mini exams' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Externally-set papers aren’t ‘exams by the back door’, says Ofqual chief - FE Week The FE White Paper: It's disappointing at first but... - Times Educational Supplement | TES Externally-set papers aren’t ‘exams by the back door’, says Ofqual chief - Schools Week Schools could reopen after half-term in Wales as lockdown is extended for three weeks - The Sun CfEY think tank chief Loic Menzies to stand down - Schools Week Thousands of parents could get refunds for charges on ‘free’ childcare - The Sun Wales aims to reopen primary schools after February half-term - Guardian Re-assessing the future (part 1) - EDSK EPI proposals for awarding grades in summer 2021 - EPI Covid risks hardwiring in disadvantage for our most vulnerable young people - PoliticsHome Registrations for DfE’s £1m ‘skills toolkit’ could be from all around the globe - FE Week DfE confirms schools can reclaim lost cash after Covid testing funding change - Schools Week Student contracts: an opportunity to streamline and reduce regulatory burden in English higher education - HEPI Behind closed bedroom doors, a teenage mental health crisis is brewing | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Digital divide 'locking children out of education' - BBC ASCL comment on EPI exam grading proposals - ASCL Councils seize initiative to give Covid-19 vaccine to special school staff - Schools Week Teachers don't need uncertainty of back-to-school plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK placed second in teacher respect rankings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students face second year of Covid money woes - Financial Times Influential MP calls for inquiry over fears £2bn Kickstart scheme has become ‘chancer’s charter’ - FE Week Are tuition fee refunds as difficult as they sound? - Wonkhe Podcast: Grade inflation, skills, student housing, care leavers - Wonkhe Children 'could be asked to go to summer school to catch up on lost education' - Mirror Disabled teachers ‘sidelined’ and told ‘get on with it’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call to replace GCSEs with 'Covid-proof' online tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A levels 2021: 5 risks in Ofqual and DfE plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers, be kind to yourselves, says Stephen Fry - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils could be offered summer classes to catch up on lessons missed during Covid-19 lockdown - Mail Pupils could be offered summer school to catch up on lessons missed during Covid lockdown - The Sun Think tank calls for GCSEs to be scrapped by 2025 - Schools Week Covid-hit pupils 'should be allowed to repeat a year' - BBC Primary pupils lost ’equivalent of seven months’ learning’ after lockdown and school closures - Evening Standard Female academics bounced back in publishing as lockdowns eased - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Rule-bending’ needed for devolved nations to stay in Erasmus+ - Times Higher Education | THE Keep slaver plaque or lose our money, donors tell college - Times - New TeachVac Annual Review of 2020 - UCET