News archive for 23rd April 2020

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Schools cannot ‘realistically’ open again until June 1, warn headteachers - Express Meet shadow apprenticeships minister Toby Perkins - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools reopening: When could children be back at school? - Express Coronavirus: ‘Lessons on wheels close disadvantage gap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: What do you need to stay safe in school? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Baseline 'may not be sensible', say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free coronavirus tests for school staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES Talks underway to extend apprenticeship frameworks cut-off date - FE Week Coronavirus: School staff to get free tests - Schools Week Testing for school staff, vulnerable pupils and PPE - NAHT £1.6 million for research to understand and address the social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic - Nuffield Foundation ‘Positive sentiments’ in survey of international students from Pakistan and India - British Council The unique child in a unique time - Early Education What school leaders are saying about re-opening schools on June 1 - Wales Online Harness TNE to prepare for post-coronavirus landscape - PIE News Pay and workload agreement 'a major step forward' - NASUWT Managing the unimaginable - Headteachers' Roundtable DfE plans £5m upgrade to digital apprenticeship platform - Public Technology Whatever this is, let's not call it teacher assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rona Tutt's SEND summary April 2020 - NAHT Free laptops not guaranteed before schools reopen - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: ex UK minister calls for four-year post-study work visa - Times Higher Education | THE Leveraging the institutional impact of Aurora at University College Cork - Advance HE The social science community’s response to our COVID-19 call - Nuffield Foundation Scottish Government asks Westminster for universities to be bailed out - Herald Scotland Head teachers call on Government to abandon new assessments for four-year-olds - Mail Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for schools and other educational settings - DfE MPs to question Secretary of State for Education and Ofsted - UK Parliament Councils given flexibility with free childcare funding - DfE Testing for teachers and school staff - National Education Union If there’s no going back, how do we get forward to a new normal? - Wonkhe Bailouts, admissions, September (podcast) - Wonkhe The Knowledge Exchange Concordat: published but not yet activated - Wonkhe Coronavirus: Social distancing to continue in schools when they gradually reopen - Herald Scotland Online support services 'less effective' than face-to-face sessions - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Councils can switch early years funding between settings, new DfE guidance states - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Why mentors are now more important than ever - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: FSM waiting times increase to 4 days - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should only open from June 1 at the earliest, headteachers say - The Sun The dire future Welsh universities face with job losses and £98m lost income - Wales Online Hard-up parents complain that their children are missing out on BBC's Bitesize homeschooling lessons - Mail School closures leave poorest pupils at huge exams disadvantage, warns Grenfell head - Evening Standard MPs call for grants to help students in difficulty - Guardian Ministers split over bailout package for universities - Guardian Coronavirus: Warning that 250,000 childcare places could be lost - Nursery World Classrooms may be redesigned to allow social distancing - Times Educational Supplement | TES The attainment gap was yawning long before Covid-19 - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of Edinburgh principal and vice chancellor to take 20 per cent pay cut due to coronavirus - Scotsman From Joe Wicks to Noel Fielding: grading our celebrity teachers - Guardian When will schools reopen in the UK, and is it safe to send children back? - Telegraph Don’t look back in anger – Peter Roberts, Covid 19 and an opportunity to reframe? - Collab Group What is it like in Denmark's reopened schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES EBacc 'fixation' stymied online learning investment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education and Covid-19: why we need inspections when schools are shut down - IOE London Blog Coronavirus: Headteachers say June 1 is earliest 'realistic' school opening date - Mirror UK universities face £2.5bn financial 'blackhole' due to drop in lucrative overseas students in new term - Mail Heads reassured there will be ‘no rush’ back to school - Times Educational Supplement | TES University warning: Tory Lord fears return of old system as institutions crippled by virus - Express Nicola Sturgeon: Pupils could attend school part time to maintain social distancing - Telegraph Most young people 'worried about coronavirus impact' - Times Educational Supplement | TES More action is required quickly for thousands of ‘invisible’ children - Schools Week Universities' £2.5bn 'black hole' will cost economy £6bn and 60,000 jobs, warns report - UCU Universities are expecting 230,000 fewer students – that's serious financial pain | Jo Grady - Guardian Response to the new report on Covid-19 and university finances by London Economics and UCU - HEPI Don’t panic … yet - HEPI Experts divided over reopening schools during coronavirus crisis - Financial Times Coronavirus: 'Confusion' over who pays supply teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Childcare sector facing collapse after ministers backtracked on promises to allow nurseries to furlough staff - The Sun Teach kids Maths with fun and practical lessons for children aged 5 to 14 - The Sun Coronavirus: Heads say 1 June earliest realistic school opening - BBC Adult education 'needs financial support' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Health-focused universities ‘catapulted into the limelight’ - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus: UK universities ‘face £2.6bn hit with 30k jobs at risk’ - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus UK: Universities face £2.5bn tuition fee loss next year - Guardian Coronavirus: Universities to lose out as students plan to defer - Times Girl launches changing room privacy case - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Glasgow University opens Covid-19 test centre - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: University head takes salary cut amid crisis - Times Universities could face £2.5bn funding black hole without Government support - Mail Russell Group universities’ finances will be hit the hardest by coronavirus, study finds - Telegraph