News archive for 3rd April 2020

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What teachers have been told about how to award GCSE and A level grades - Wales Online BBC unveils plan to support education for 'every child in the UK' - Mail Minister: 'Extend moratorium on unconditional offers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes Podcast: Teachers to decide GCSE and A level grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Assessment: Time to close down the exam factory - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual sets out how GCSEs, AS & A levels will be awarded in summer 2020 - UKEdChat Coronavirus: Union warns grades must be fair for all - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: ‘Supply teachers are crucial - use them’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES When are GCSE 2020 results out and how will they be graded? - The Sun Universities are pleading for a bailout to paper over their failures - Financial Times Universities UK response to Ofqual guidance - Universities UK Coronavirus safety failings - NASUWT Disadvantaged students most likely to miss out under exam plans, warns UCU - UCU Coronavirus - a few updates after another tough week - NAHT Awarding grades for GCSE, AS and A levels summer 2020: what do schools and colleges need to do? - NAHT BBC education service - National Education Union Home schooling and the educational divide - National Education Union Summer 2020 grades for GCSE, AS and A level - National Education Union ISC response to Ofqual announcement about summer exams - Independent Schools Council | ISC Influencing student aspiration levels in FE and HE colleges: Does anybody care? - BERA Voice comments on Ofqual exams statement - Voice Predicted or calculated – getting grades without exams - Wonkhe Supporting vulnerable young people through Covid-19 - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Learning remotely: what to prioritise during COVID-19 - Nesta How can we support the most vulnerable pupils through Covid-19? - Ambition Institute DfE updates Covid-19 funding plans for colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES More colleges supporting their students and communities through coronavirus - AoC | Association of Colleges Coronavirus: updates on programme delivery - Ambition Institute Boarding schools 'must teach pupils about sexual abuse' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Just great teaching: Exams and selection - Teacher Toolkit Moratorium on unconditional offer-making - Office for Students Coronavirus daily digest - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Clap for our carers: UK pays tribute to teachers, early years staff and social workers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Coronavirus: School and college teachers to judge pupils’ grades as exams cancelled - Independent Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urged to provide supply teachers with employment 'safety net' amid coronavirus job crisis - PoliticsHome BBC to deliver biggest push on education in its history - Primary Times Statement from Rod Bristow on exam fees - Pearson Ofqual plans for 2020 qualifications announced - AoC | Association of Colleges Coronavirus (COVID-19): maintaining further education provision - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19): attendance recording for educational settings - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19): cancellation of GCSEs, AS and A levels in 2020 - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19): school closures - DfE How GCSEs, AS & A levels will be awarded in summer 2020 - Ofqual Direction issued to the Chief Regulator of Ofqual - DfE UCAS statement following Ofqual’s announcement on awarding grades this year - UCAS Guidance for providers about quality and standards during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic - Office for Students Funding clawback warning to colleges for deliberate under delivery - FE Week Coronavirus help for parents with BBC Bitesize lessons on iPlayer - Express Mum humiliated as Tesco refuse to accept free school meal vouchers for son - Mirror How councils are providing free school meals where you live - Wales Online How to keep children occupied during Easter lockdown (when they’ve already been at home for two weeks) - GSA MillionPlus comment on summer 2020 GCSE, A level and AS level awards - MillionPlus DfE ploughs on with plans for T-level launch despite coronavirus concerns - FE Week Kids are online far more during coronavirus lockdown - Telegraph It's going to be an Easter holiday unlike any other - Telegraph What’s on offer for children and families learning at home together? - Nursery World Set year 11s work on post-16 courses from June, sector leader urges - Schools Week Coronavirus: Schools and councils step up to feed pupils over Easter - Schools Week Teachers will use homework, mocks and coursework to give students GCSE and A-Level grades after exams scrapped - The Sun Covid-19 and education: Why have we waited until now to improve the accuracy of predicted grades? - IOE London Blog Teachers to grade students for cancelled exams - BBC BBC launches daily educational shows to keep children studying - Guardian Coronavirus: 'Self-isolating teachers asked to work' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: How A level and GCSE students will get their grades explained - Mirror Students appealing against A-level grades may have no choice but to take gap year - Telegraph Schools to rank GCSE and A-level students to award grades amid cancelled exams - Mail GCSE and A-Level grades will change if schools are too severe or generous, warns Ofqual - Mail How will law exams be affected by coronavirus? - Guardian Forget freshers' week: universities prepare to teach new first years online - Guardian Teachers must lead schools' response to Covid-19 - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A levels 2020: What you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE and A levels: Ofqual lists evidence that should be used to decide grades - SecEd Chief regulator offers ‘reassurance’ over this summer’s GCSE and A-level grades - FE Week Chief regulator offers ‘reassurance’ over this summer’s GCSE and A-level grades - Schools Week Coronavirus: An explainer on how grades will be awarded this summer - Schools Week Coronavirus: Teachers to rank order pupils for GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: An explainer on how GCSE and A-level grades will be awarded this summer - FE Week Coronavirus: Grades plan imperfect but fair, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: GCSE and A level grade 'rationing' fear - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Schools will rank GCSE and A-level pupils within grades - Schools Week Assessment: 'Disadvantaged students will lose out' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Schools and colleges will rank GCSE and A-level pupils within grades - FE Week Exam regulator unveils GCSE and A-level plans for coronavirus crisis - Guardian Coronavirus: MP warns over vulnerable children tech gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: BBC unveils 'biggest ever' education push - Times Educational Supplement | TES BBC offers biggest online education push 'in its history' - BBC Hadlow break-up hits two month delay due to ‘complexity’ - FE Week Homework in the time of Corona - The Learning Spy When will UK schools reopen - and what's happening with exams cancelled over coronavirus? - Mirror Parents forced to leave jobs to look after children during coronavirus lockdown - Mirror Supporting apprenticeships during coronavirus pandemic - Unionlearn Meet the teacher and pupils making 200 coronavirus masks a day for NHS staff - Telegraph Edinburgh private nurseries still charging parents despite closing due to coronavirus - Scotsman Emails reveal Ofsted permitted use of its logo by private company - Schools Week The government must protect universities in this crisis or job cuts will follow | Jo Grady - Guardian Remote assessment guidance too vague and open to malpractice, say awarding bodies - FE Week If a student numbers cap is to return, then the sector needs to demonstrate that it was the last resort - HEPI Explore Learning launches new at-home service to keep education going - Primary Times A level students still setting their sights on undergraduate study - UCAS University in drive to push MBA apprentice places as government reviews funding - FE Week Coronavirus: GCSE analysis gives ‘confidence’ to teacher assessment plan - Schools Week ‘Will our pupils ever come back?’ ask private schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hundreds private schools 'bust by Christmas' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to build sustained and sustainable remote learning - Schools Week Coronavirus: Most A-level students won't sit 2020 exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: UK PhD students urge automatic funding extensions - Times Higher Education | THE Most prospective overseas students ‘not shifting plans’ - Times Higher Education | THE 119 universities in deficit after lecturers go on strike - Times UCAS Teacher Training Bulletin - UCET