News archive for 5th March 2021

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 5 March 2021 - Education Eye Nine out of 10 teachers say job is more stressful since coronavirus pandemic - Mirror Gavin Williamson hints school summer holidays could be shortened permanently - Mail Reopening? The doors of colleges were never closed - Times Educational Supplement | TES School openings 'not safe' in third of areas - Times Educational Supplement | TES How could children make up for lost school time? - BBC School year could be split into five terms - with shorter summer holidays - Mirror Children as young as five being told to wear masks in school - Independent News podcast: Are schools ready to open to all pupils? - Times Educational Supplement | TES League tables could still include summer term attendance - Schools Week Teachers struggle with parents' consent on Covid tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools: ventilation and testing will be key in England's 'big bang' reopening - Guardian Covid: How will testing work in schools? - BBC What have we learned online? - MillionPlus Obtaining parental consent is biggest challenge for school Covid tests - ASCL Vote for strike action at University of Central Lancashire - UCU UCU condemns planned closure of Newcastle University's London campus - UCU Boris Johnson faces testing time as schools prepare to reopen - Guardian Parents not giving Covid test consent, warn heads - BBC One-fifth of the world’s top universities led by women - Times Higher Education | THE International Women’s Day: what now for girls’ access to education around the world? - IOE London Blog Leading LSE academics call for post-COVID wellbeing agency - London School of Economics | LSE Chris Whitty told to urgently explain science behind masks in schools before children return on Monday - PoliticsHome Employability outcomes in focus at online unis - PIE News UK: extended furlough “not enough” for ELT - PIE News UK international students call for tuition fee compensation - PIE News Sign up for two free services that will help improve cyber security - Jisc FE Choices - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted EEF publishes emerging findings from ‘Big Lockdown-Learning Parent Survey’ - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF We're on the cusp of an extraordinary social experiment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Weekly highlights: tutoring, transition and masks - Times Educational Supplement | TES IGCSEs: Past performance to be used to calculate grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: What are the rules around student absence? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half-day week for Edinburgh pupils branded 'inadequate, unclear, and likely to make lives more complicated' - Scotsman Parents face Monday’s return to school with trepidation - Financial Times Unify roles of regional schools commissioners and councils, says report - Schools Week Podcast: 16-19 attainment gap with EPI's Sam Tuckett - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual expects 2020 grades pressure means staff will go - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers hit out at ‘dialogue’ with Swinney event date - Times Educational Supplement | TES 39% of parents are not confident schools will be open all year - according to a new survey - Scotsman Mandatory school attendance will ‘pit heads against parents’ - Schools Week Covid testing: Over half of heads report problems obtaining consent - Schools Week How should schools organise Test and Trace? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pregnant teachers' Covid fears over return to classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet Clare Howard, the CEO who battled Covid and cancer - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA exams 2021: 5 things we learned about what's replacing them - Times Educational Supplement | TES High schools reopen: Headteachers hit out at Nicola Sturgeon - Herald Scotland New provider monitoring visits back on for March 15 - FE Week Covid-19: Last day of home-school is 'end of an era' - BBC Labour wants 'big conversation' on early years - Nursery World We need an autism and learning disability champion - Times Educational Supplement | TES NEET figures hit by highest quarterly rise in a decade - CYPN | Children & Young People Now DCMS announces £79m funding boost for children’s mental health services - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Four in five children ‘less active during lockdown’, parents say - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Awarding of student grades: Education Committee to question Nick Gibb and Ofqual - UK Parliament Lucy Kellaway: what is the point of schools? - Financial Times ‘It’s been tough’: parents react to plan to reopen England’s schools - Guardian 'We want the best for them': English schools prepare for pupils' return - Guardian What schools need to know about the NTP and tutoring - Times Educational Supplement | TES Quarantine rule change welcomed by boarding schools - BBC Spare a thought for the Year 7s, the school system's lost boys and girls - Telegraph University students are getting value for money, say lecturers – at least, academically - Telegraph What scientists are telling the Welsh Government about reopening schools - Wales Online What's the best way to support EAL students? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes FE awards 2021: Deadline for entries extended - Times Educational Supplement | TES More teachers key to ‘education-led’ Covid-19 recovery - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early provisional exams grades in Wales - BBC Stop calling kids the snowflake generation – they're more resilient than we ever were - Telegraph Coronavirus in Scotland: Teaching union calls for ‘education-led recovery’ from pandemic - Scotsman ‘Flexi-job’ apprenticeships: What are they and how will they work? - FE Week Williamson defends independent provider Covid-19 testing ‘madness’ - FE Week Ignore this manufactured crisis: free speech is alive and well in our universities | John Bowers and David Isaac - Guardian Longer school years could be split into five terms, says Gavin Williamson - The Sun School rules: Do pupils have to wear masks and take weekly Covid tests? - Metro Boarding school pupils from overseas will not have to isolate in hotels after rule change - Mail Peter Scott: Designing an English higher education Social Mobility Index - HEPI School year could be split into five terms to help kids catch up - Metro Skills bootcamps ‘counter-intuitive’ to long-term FE simplification, top civil servant admits - FE Week Data reveals scale of National Tutoring Programme’s northern challenge - Schools Week Reopening: Managing teachers’ reasonable objections - Schools Week Intervention regime will include college failure to comply with local skills improvement plans - FE Week GCSEs 2021: Warning over taking teachers for granted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: Budget, complaints, pensions, history - Wonkhe For many students isn’t it all about the money? - Wonkhe Let’s admit that students have learned less - Wonkhe How to avoid a student gambling and gaming crisis - Wonkhe Schools to reopen on Monday: all you need to know about Covid testing and face mask rules - Telegraph Whole classes will not be sent home if one child tests positive for Covid with help of rapid testing - The Sun Covid: Fresh air 'key to safer classrooms' - BBC ‘Unsustainable’ pressure 'could lead to heads' exodus' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Right and just' for students to get Covid refunds - BBC London Met creates £15 million fund to hire 80 minority staff - Times Higher Education | THE Festival of Education goes virtual for 2021 - FE Week Festival of Education goes virtual for 2021 - Schools Week Pupils to wear Covid masks all day for return to secondary school - Times - New