News archive for 7th March 2021

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Catch-up breakfast clubs will help pupils recover time with friends, say Labour - Mirror Scotland: Glasgow University cancels eugenicist lecture by economist Gregory Clark - Times - New England’s school catch-up scheme 'chaotic and confusing', say headteachers - Guardian Boris Johnson says kids more at risk from staying at home and schools ‘ready’ for return - The Sun Oxford University uses lockdown loophole to allow in-person MBA teaching - Guardian Number of private school tutors paid more than £100,000-a-year soars - Mail The kids are all right but uncertain — and that’s OK - Financial Times UK minister plans post-pandemic schools shake-up - Financial Times Longer school days and shorter holidays could help children catch up - Metro Williamson looking at longer day and summer break cut - Times Educational Supplement | TES What do pupils think about Covid catch-up priorities? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Gavin Williamson 'looking at' longer school day and shorter holidays - BBC Children need normality after misery of schools shutdown - Ofsted chief - Mail Gavin Williamson considers changes to school year as pupils go back - Guardian Hopes that pupils will only have to wear face masks until Easter - The Sun Pupil wellbeing must be priority, teachers say as classrooms in England reopen - Guardian The schools pandemic recovery plan must ensure the attainment gap does not widen | Kevan Collins - Guardian Teachers grapple with how to help students scarred by pandemic - Financial Times Two-thirds of parents concerned about lost learning – and want policies to promote children’s well-being as well as to catch up on education - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Ofsted head warns against lengthening school day and shortening summer holidays so pupils can catch up from Covid - PoliticsHome Two thirds of parents concerned about lost learning – and want policies to promote children’s well-being as well as to catch up on education - Nuffield Foundation Labour launches Bright Future Taskforce - National Education Union The lockdown generation: 16 young people on spending a year at home - Guardian Enough of the ‘lost generation’. Instead, let’s reimagine school for our children | Peter Hyman - Guardian ASCL pays tribute to work of schools and colleges on full reopening - ASCL Covid places new obstacles in way of academic refugees - Times Higher Education | THE Special needs pupils in England living in dread of returning to the classroom - Guardian Podcast 107: Research + multi-academy trusts - Teacher Toolkit Curriculum: The star of the show - Teacher Toolkit Children deserve a summer ‘filled with play’ - EYE | Early Years Educator How not to do Covid catch-up in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson given warning over plans for longer school days and five-term years - Mirror Trinity College reckons with slavery links as Ireland confronts collusion with empire - Guardian Boris Johnson hails return to 'normality' as schools reopen - Express The government’s delay to Covid testing for students with training providers is disgraceful - FE Week Anti-racist dogma shouldn’t replace real curriculum thinking - Schools Week Schools and colleges to reopen from tomorrow as part of Step One of the roadmap - DfE The Sunday Times view on back to school - Times - New Blended learning ‘worse than studying exclusively at home’ - Times - New While students get Zoom, leaders of top universities get bumper paydays - Times - New Back to school: 'I'm ready for a coffee in peace' - BBC Children can live with inconvenience of masks, says Ofsted head Amanda Spielman - Times - New Covid: Parents worry about lost learning as schools reopen - BBC