News archive for 17th April 2020

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Kids going hungry because firm behind coronavirus meal scheme ‘can’t supply enough vouchers’ - The Sun Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care - DfE Inquiry into white working class pupils’ underachievement is not 'racist', select committee chair says - Telegraph Coronavirus: State schools can furlough some staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: DfE publishes furlough guidance for FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Study to probe impact of school closures on coronavirus - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE concedes AEB and apprenticeship funded providers ‘may be eligible for support’ in new guidance - FE Week DfE publishes furlough rules for colleges and training providers - FE Week DfE publishes furlough rules for schools - Schools Week Durham University faces backlash over plans to cut face-to-face teaching by up to 25 per cent - Mail Gypsy and Traveller education suffers from irresponsible programming like this - Schools Week NHS opens coronavirus testing sites on college car parks - FE Week Covid-19: 80,000 sign petition to keep schools closed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher creates free virtual school in his shed to help kids during the pandemic - Metro Training providers supporting new Nightingale hospital - FE Week Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Over 80,000 sign NEU petition to "open schools when it is safe" - National Education Union Further extension to moratorium on unconditional offer-making - Office for Students Left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds - Accountability Hearings DfE becomes only AEB contractor unwilling to introduce coronavirus supplier relief for training providers - FE Week Alumni: shaping the conversation - Sutton Trust Job Retention Scheme: Update and joint statement with unions - AoC | Association of Colleges A bad time to graduate - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Supporting disadvantaged young people into meaningful work - ERSA Birmingham launches free online counselling service for young people - Public Technology Meet the nursing apprentice on the NHS front line - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus (COVID-19): cancellation of GCSEs, AS and A levels in 2020 - DfE Government makes U-turn on nurseries' access to furlough cash - Nursery World Coronavirus: Thousands of pupils with 'no recourse to public funds' to get free school meals - Schools Week Number 10 insists schools aren't running out of vouchers despite kids 'going hungry' - Mirror Coronavirus: Create 'emergency' 2020 baseline, DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs to investigate underperformance of poor white pupils - Schools Week Shadow early years minister to meet with sector to discuss coronavirus impact - Nursery World Supply teachers' 'daily fight' for pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 'Emergency' call to help supply teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Despite constraints, flexibility means assessment of apprentices can go on - FE Week Tes Podcast: GCSEs and the school reopening debate - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: MPs to examine impact on poor white pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Natecla: Esol students should be assessed by teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Co-ordinated admissions 2021: series 17 files - DfE NCG places training providers into liquidation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stage presence: how drama schools adapted to the age of social distancing - Guardian Lecturers condemn Durham University's plan to shift degrees online - Guardian New practices don’t add up a new normal for colleges… yet - FE Week As the lockdown bites, it's women who are taking the strain | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Schools know that they do way more than just education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lockdown: Little research on how children will cope - Times Educational Supplement | TES New social media advice draws on primary pupils' views - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will virtual classrooms replace the physical classrooms of tomorrow’s schools? - UKEdChat Schools must start thinking about how to reopen - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parliament must open before schools or government will face major protest - Express Does working from home exacerbate gender inequalities? - Wonkhe In the turmoil of the Covid-19 crisis, students must not bear the brunt of universities’ woes - HEPI Parents urged not to worry about children coping with coronavirus lockdown - Mail ResearchGate chief enthused by lockdown research collaboration - Times Higher Education | THE To Zoom or not to Zoom? That is the question - Times Higher Education | THE Exchange students across Europe face hefty coronavirus toll - Times Higher Education | THE Durham University’s online teaching plan scraps tutorials and live lectures - Times Scotland: Glasgow School of Art students see red over ‘failures’ and demand refunds - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Start of term for first-year college students likely to be delayed - Times