News archive for 9th April 2020

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Podcast: How long will schools stay shut? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Full steam ahead as T-level qualification content launched - FE Week Labour announces shadow education ministers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Margaret Greenwood appointed shadow schools minister - Schools Week Labour appoints shadow apprenticeships minister as Hardy holds onto colleges - FE Week T-level content finally published as minister says most colleges ‘wanted to continue’ - FE Week College apprenticeship provider cuts staff wages by 25% to ‘buy time’ - FE Week Direction issued to the Chief Regulator of Ofqual - DfE Awarding vocational and technical qualifications this summer - Ofqual ESFA: Business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency Coronavirus and awarding bodies: all you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: ‘How will you protect teachers?’ DfE asked - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government fully committed to T-level delivery in 2020 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour MPs demand student debts owed by trainee nurses helping fight coronavirus are cancelled - Mail UK's poorest families suffering as free school meal vouchers delayed - Guardian Ofqual’s announcement today is ‘sensible, positive and fair’ - FE Week Do interventions that improve financial capability work for people with low numeracy? - National Numeracy Home schooling: The haves and have-nots - Teacher Toolkit No single approach: Ofqual's calculated grades plan for technical awards - SecEd Half of nurseries open to children of Covid-19 keyworkers, study finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now DfE data protection ‘tightened significantly’ after massive breach of learner records - Public Technology Ofqual: Vocational and technical qualifications - National Education Union Accountability arrangements, FSMs and guidance for special schools - NAHT Statement from Cindy Rampersaud on BTEC, vocational and technical qualifications - Pearson Ofqual announces assessment process for technical and vocational qualifications - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges HE institutions face ‘battle’ for Chinese students as 39 per cent of applicants unsure about cancelling study plans - British Council T Levels: next steps for providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency ASCL comment on grading of vocational qualifications - ASCL Unacceptable actions by DESC in COVID-19 crisis - NASUWT The blogs you missed: a quick recap of HEPI’s Covid-19 output so far - HEPI Digital masters? Reflecting on the readiness of students and staff for digital learning - BERA Crowdfunding in a crisis - Nesta EuroSkills 2020 postponed owing to coronavirus - Times Educational Supplement | TES EuroSkills 2020 postponed until 2021 - FE Week Coronavirus: College students welcome extra support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Functional skills grades to be 'calculated' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free resources for FE during the COVID-19 crisis - Jisc It is humbling how schools are handling the coronavirus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Symptom-trackers and doctor dorms: how universities are fighting Covid-19 - Guardian Coronavirus: Schools can claim for own meal vouchers – but only if they meet funding criteria - Schools Week Coronavirus: Are schools opening after the Easter holidays? - Mirror Coronavirus: Schools will grade BTECs, says Ofqual - Schools Week Teachers to estimate functional skills results this summer - FE Week Is necessity the mother of invention? - Advance HE Coronavirus: Government funding 'a sticking plaster', say charities - Nursery World Teacher training: Keeping the pipeline open - SecEd Nursing students respond to early NHS call up in fight against COVID-19 - Leeds Beckett University First T Level Technical Qualifications (TQs) approved - IfATE Coronavirus: 'Worryingly low number' of at-risk children in school - BBC Coronavirus: 'Delay complaints handling', schools told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual moves to clarify GCSE grading plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nursery group secures £1.6m loan to support business during pandemic - Nursery World When will schools reopen in the UK and what’s happening with exams? - The Sun Ofqual to announce teachers will ‘calculate’ BTEC and other qual results but delay detail - FE Week School closures are a catalyst for much-needed reform - Schools Week The longer schools remain closed, the more vulnerable children will suffer - Metro How should we decide what knowledge to teach? - The Learning Spy Coronavirus: Employers urge DfE to protect FE sector - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: How one school set up its own TV channel - Times Educational Supplement | TES Around half of nurseries staying open for key worker families - Nursery World Coronavirus: Chinese private school 'feeding frenzy' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pensions after the pandemic - Wonkhe Coronavirus: University of Hull to provide NHS with thousands of face shields a day - Express Prince William and Kate Middleton carry out their first royal engagement via video call to school children - Mail Coronavirus: Students angry at empty rooms rent charge - BBC Nearly third of nurseries still charging fees despite Covid-19 closures - Mail Schools will not reopen this month despite reports, Downing Street says - Mail Coronavirus information - Voice Online university as good as the real thing (just less fun) - Times Ireland: No pupils at most schools kept open for key workers’ families - Times Ireland: UCD scraps plan to weaken policy on academic freedom - Times Huge Covid-19 output prompting ‘sea change’ in access to research - Times Higher Education | THE Could the coronavirus force positive change in higher education? - Times Higher Education | THE Scenario-based learning - UCET