News archive for 6th April 2020

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School closures do not have a significant effect on the spread of coronavirus, study finds - Telegraph Coronavirus: School closures play ‘marginal’ role in containing COVID-19 - Schools Week Coronavirus: How do we re-open schools safely? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: DfE criticised for apprenticeship guidance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Legal action for online learning equality - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sir Craig Tunstall: ‘Superhead’ in fraud inquiry could lose his knighthood - Times UK councils face lawsuits over access to education in lockdown - Guardian Coronavirus: Baseline going ahead as planned, says DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: ‘We must plan now for return to school' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus (COVID-19): apprenticeship programme response - Education & Skills Funding Agency Schools offer to stay open until 9.30pm to support key workers - Schools Week School transition during a pandemic - UKEdChat Time for a university rankings furlough? - Wonkhe Changing student recruitment in light of Covid-19 - Wonkhe Leading through coronavirus: strategy, sweet spots and shifting to sustaining - Advance HE Free school meals available over the Easter holidays - National Education Union New Shadow Education Secretary announced - National Education Union NEU launches microsite for parents and carers - National Education Union Free secondary and post-16 resources to support learning in the home environment - NAHT Free early years and primary resources to support learning in the home environment - NAHT Surge in child exploitation cases - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Keeping children safe online: support for parents and carers - NAHT Free school meals scheme to cover Easter holiday - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ghost college - ASCL Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Guidance on contacting the Student Loans Company - Student Loans Company Labour Party appoints Rebecca Long-Bailey as Shadow Education Secretary - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Coronavirus: GCSE grading plan 'unfair', say pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Remote working made easier with education platform - Teacher Toolkit Coronavirus: 'No one-size-fits-all for assessment' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Comment on Ofqual announcement regarding public exam grades - GSA UCU response to Hepi poll: University applicants need "support and safety nets" - UCU How are teachers coping with lockdown? - Teacher Tapp Who is Rebecca Long-Bailey? 8 facts about the new shadow education secretary - Schools Week Apprenticeships: 'No one should be disdavantaged' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rebecca Long-Bailey named shadow education secretary - Nursery World The three reasons you'll still be paying summer term fees at your private school - Telegraph Wales puts 30 hour childcare on hold to pay for key worker children - Nursery World Rebecca Long-Bailey appointed shadow education secretary - Schools Week School closures affect Muslims more than most - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rebecca Long-Bailey is new shadow education secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bright Horizons launches website to help key worker parents find local childcare - Nursery World Coronavirus: Council provides £300,000 to keep settings open for Easter break - Nursery World Rebecca Long-Bailey appointed as Labour’s new shadow education secretary - FE Week Nursery group opens 24-hour centres for keyworkers in coronavirus crisis - Nursery World Without support, training providers will not survive - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free school meal vouchers to continue over Easter holidays - BBC Coronavirus: What are school inspectors doing now? - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK school closures: Are schools closed till September and when will they reopen? - Express Labour reshuffle: Rebecca Long-Bailey appointed as shadow education secretary - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Coronavirus: DfE flags risk of school places shortage - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 'Delay baseline tests and EYFS reforms' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'A weird time': students tell of a future snatched away - Guardian Coronavirus: Admission appeal panels could be held by phone or video call - Schools Week Your son needs a feminist education just as much as your daughter - Telegraph Education and Covid-19: how can we manage change when yesterday is no longer a predictor of tomorrow? - IOE London Blog Coronavirus: Social distancing is cutting asylum seekers off from education and support - The Conversation Families in lockdown feeling the strain - BBC Free recording: Latest FE policy response to Covid-19 outbreak - FE Week Labour's Angela Rayner gets new shadow cabinet job - Times Educational Supplement | TES We must not forget the impact of Covid-19 on postgraduate study in 2020/21 - HEPI Movers and Shakers: Edition 313 - FE Week Former superhead may be stripped of knighthood - Schools Week Science will withstand the coronavirus lockdown backlash - Times Higher Education | THE Fake news laws may ‘catch on’ during coronavirus - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus charity appeal 2020: Help for parents with house full of hungry children - Times DfE: Impact of COVID-19 on applicants (England only - 06.04.20) - UCET