News archive for 1st April 2020

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Coronavirus: 'Prioritise teachers for PPE and testing' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford University creates new degree class for students unable to take exams due to coronavirus - Telegraph Wales' Education Minister answers questions on schools and coronavirus - Wales Online Coronavirus: Private schools 'wrestling' with fee cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 'Refund our exam fees,' say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 37% more teachers seek help on bereavement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: NQT absences won’t lead to induction extensions - Schools Week Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for schools and other educational settings - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19): induction for newly qualified teachers - DfE Private schools in UK struggling as coronavirus costs bite - Guardian ESFA Update: 1 April 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Coronavirus: Heads demand ‘urgent’ clarification on exam fee rebates - Schools Week Free school meal supermarket vouchers - all you need to know - Mirror Growing gap in children’s socio-emotional skills - UKEdChat College staff hold protest rally - via Zoom - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exclusions: Rates down but some excluded over 10 times - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education disrupted – education rebuilt: Some insights from PISA on the availability and use of digital tools for learning - OECD Coronavirus crisis - Joint union advice on COVID-19 Wales - National Education Union Building the future – helping the West Midlands through the coronavirus outbreak - FE Week Language counts when learning mathematics with interactive apps - BERA Supplier relief: Liverpool reveals Covid-19 provider support - FE Week Can universities safely implement “no detriment” policies? - Wonkhe Funding for free school meals over Easter holidays - National Education Union Apprenticeships on the brink of collapse after Education Department refuses to implement Cabinet Office Covid-19 guidelines - AELP Coronavirus and the cancellation of summer exams and assessments 2020: vocational and technical qualifications - NAHT Coronavirus update: bank holiday working in schools - NAHT How to support pupil, staff and parental wellbeing when your school is closed - Independent Head Home educating your children: 10 supportive statements - Teacher Toolkit Councils give families money instead of free school meals - Wales Online Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Schemes for financing schools - Education & Skills Funding Agency DfE 'should extend free schools meals scheme' as settings set to open over Easter - CYPN | Children & Young People Now I spent three years trying to fix a hole in a Labour policy and it nearly broke me - New Statesman Sector pulls together to deliver unprecedented amount of e-textbooks to minimise impact of COVID-19 - Jisc Swifter government bailout vital, says English UK - PIE News AoC Beacon Awards set to get new Chief Assessor - AoC | Association of Colleges Taking Teaching Further Round 3 registrations open for all providers - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Leeds Beckett University joins NHS battle against Covid-19 - Leeds Beckett University Educating young children at home: key lessons from research - IOE London Blog Primary school admissions: how to apply in Scotland and the deadline for applications - Scotsman Coronavirus: Teacher protection 'a matter of urgency' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Elite private school group HMC takes on new chair - Times Educational Supplement | TES Angelina Jolie lends her support to new BBC My World: Coronavirus educational content - Mail Coronavirus: ESFA urges caution as fraud cases soar - Schools Week Applications to apprenticeship provider register to be suspended - FE Week Insolvency: College campuses transferred to EKC Group - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers now see that teaching is a vocation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland puts childcare expansion on hold - Nursery World Coronavirus: ESFA to close apprenticeship register - Education & Skills Funding Agency Coronavirus crisis will widen the attainment gap - SecEd Child poverty hits 4.2 million amid coronavirus impact fear - SecEd Ofsted urged to "build faith" in inspection complaints process - SecEd NUS elects new vice president for further education - Times Educational Supplement | TES When will UK schools reopen and what’s happening with exams? - The Sun Vocational areas can't be hived off to instructors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Delayed Ney report into financial oversight of colleges still with ministers - FE Week Coronavirus: School staff who live with at-risk people should stay home ‘where possible’ - Schools Week Colleges set to furlough staff through Covid-19 job retention scheme - FE Week Coronavirus: Schools kept waiting for FSM vouchers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Departing DRET boss set to become new Astrea CEO - Schools Week Coronavirus: Stop Ofsted for 18 months says ex DfE tsar - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary teacher numbers at highest in over a decade - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students with non-UK university offers are being kept in the dark about what the new A-Level system means for their futures - HEPI 1 in 6 training providers warn they may go bust - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Special needs parents in 'survival mode' - BBC Apprenticeship crisis looms in England over coronavirus payments - Financial Times I’ve got autism and I feel abandoned by my university during this crisis - Times Higher Education | THE How could the coronavirus crisis change research spending? - Times Higher Education | THE Imperial College London, university at centre of virus strategy, attacked over exams - Times It’s history in the making as Cheney School’s museum gains official recognition - Times