News archive for 4th March 2021

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Williamson pledges to back teachers ‘all the way’ on exam grading - Schools Week Pupils would not be sent home when one child tests positive under new Government plan - Mail GCSE and A-level grades 2021: ‘I will back you all the way’, Williamson says to teachers - FE Week Boris Johnson faces Tory backlash over masks in classroom - Telegraph GCSE and A level pupils to be told expected exam results in June - Wales Online A flexible and supportive approach to reforming EQA - FE Week Show evidence for masks in class or drop the measure, Gavin Williamson told - Telegraph Schools to get £10m Turing Scheme cash for 5,000 placements - Schools Week Coronavirus: Pupils who won't wear masks 'should be barred' - Herald Scotland Colleges and training providers in line for £35m slice of the Turing Scheme - FE Week Williamson's 'traditional' teaching push condemned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers' Covid death liability row erupts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Some students may need to repeat a year if they can’t get a grade, says exam board chief - Schools Week Gove gave DfE too much say over schools, says his aide - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four in five university and college staff struggling because of pandemic, union says - Guardian Just 0.14% of secondary school Covid tests are positive, but concerns over accuracy - Schools Week GCSEs 2021: Some may get no grade, exam board suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Some pupils will only go back to school for one day before Easter - Wales Online SMC responds to Budget 2021 - Social Mobility Commission We can’t teach in a technological dystopia - Times Higher Education | THE Covid rules relaxed as launch day set for UK post-study work visa - Times Higher Education | THE Making student mental health a priority - Office for Students Post-16 education subcontracting: using funding to offer education and training - Education & Skills Funding Agency Evaluation of the Tailored Support Programme (TSP) 2020 - DfE T Level Professional Development Initial phase evaluation - DfE FE funding: initial teacher education (ITE) 2021 to 2022 - DfE Apprenticeships in England by industry characteristics 2019 to 2020 - DfE UKHO donates second-hand laptops to support students with remote learning - GOV.UK Magazine podcast: Catch-up, sociopaths, quiet kids - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers blindsided by 'shock' school return plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents fear pupils will face 'mask apartheid' if they refuse to wear face coverings at schools - Mail EDI is an investment, not an expenditure - Advance HE Leadership Insights Library: practical tools and guidance - Advance HE Fury over ‘absurd’ exclusion of childminders from Covid-19 home testing - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Student recruitment is vital for sector survival – technology could be the answer - Jisc Digital learning in FE: ‘big-ticket barriers remain’ - Jisc DfE incapable of managing crisis, ex-top dog suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools urged to act after Microsoft breach - Times Educational Supplement | TES The value of work experience to students and employers - Education & Training Foundation Engaging employers to secure work placements - Education & Training Foundation Families Connect programme found to support parents to strengthen the home learning environment - Nuffield Foundation Edge Foundation’s response to Budget 2021 - Edge Foundation Nine tips to support EAL learners returning to school - Bell Foundation Is PE the most important school subject of all? - Times Educational Supplement | TES What’s Up With Everyone? Starting a conversation about students’ mental health - Universities UK NASUWT responds to Welsh Government statement on further school reopening - NASUWT Alistair Jarvis: The growing challenges facing USS - HEPI Sector view: Did the Budget ‘meet the moment’? - EYE | Early Years Educator Education Committee Chairman worries about 'face mask anarchy' (video) - Mail EPSRC publishes detailed ethnicity data - UKRI How is it any safer now than it was in December? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of teachers 'lack tech needed to close Covid gap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children told to sit at the back of class if they don’t wear a mask - Metro Secondary school league table: The top schools for A-level results - Telegraph Secondary school league table: The top schools for GCSE results - Telegraph Sharp rise in 'Neets' shows impact of Covid lockdowns on UK young - Guardian ESFA announces new subcontracting cap - FE Week Boarding pupils from overseas can quarantine in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES How are schools tackling transition in 2021? - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in five UK schools has set up a food bank in Covid crisis, survey suggests - Guardian Pupils arriving from red-list countries can self-isolate at boarding schools rather than hotels - Mail Narrowing attainment gap stopped being ‘main focus’ of DfE in 2015, says former permanent secretary - Schools Week This madness of masks in schools will cause anarchy - Telegraph Covid: Huge rise in young people classed as Neet - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fears over spike in out-of-work young - BBC Back to school in Scotland: 7 key points from the guidance - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Transformational': Yorkshire firm cleans up donated laptops for pupils at home - Guardian Student mental health during the pandemic - Sutton Trust How uni students can claim Covid compensation - HuffPost An English Social Mobility Index: new report proposes a ranking of universities’ impact on social mobility - HEPI A (very) inconvenient truth? - BERA Scottish secondary pupils could wear masks in class - BBC HEPI Debate Paper 27: Designing an English Social Mobility Index by Professor David Phoenix - HEPI Quarantine arrangements for boarding school students from red list countries - DfE The psychological contract for higher education beyond Covid - Wonkhe Collaboration, not competition, will help students struggling with their mental health - Wonkhe Schools in England told to allow kids back to class even if they refuse Covid test - The Sun Teachers 'need support to handle pupil lockdown trauma' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers have ‘excess’ Covid risk during lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK universities ‘increasingly reliant’ on agents for EU enrolment - Times Higher Education | THE Oxford faces questions as Naomi Wolf PhD stays under wraps - Times Higher Education | THE Will international recruitment survive Covid-19? - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities ranked world’s best in quarter of all subjects - Times - New Irish language colleges gamble on reopening this summer - Times - New FE ITE bursaries and grants programme 2020/21: application window open - UCET