News archive for 27th April 2020

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Too early to open schools as coronavirus spread among children largely unknown - Mail Recruit a qualified international teacher - DfE Teachers’ pension grant: 2020 to 2021 allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Local authorities adult education budget and apprenticeship funds return and 16 to 19 funds return 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency School improvement monitoring and brokering grant allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teachers’ pay grant: allocations for 2020 to 2021 financial year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Schools to remain closed until September in some UK areas, announcement confirms - Express UK schools warning: Teacher breaks silence over biggest fears for returning to classrooms - Express Open schools 'would increase infection'. But how much? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lazy children will be among the biggest losers of lockdown, Ofsted chief warns - Telegraph Attainment gap between deprived pupils and peers set to widen, Ofsted boss warns - Mail Free recording: In conversation with apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan - FE Week How can we protect the futures of vulnerable learners? - Times Educational Supplement | TES School holidays could start and end earlier in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poorest children 'losing an education' due to coronavirus as gap widens further - Mirror The poorest pupils will miss out most due to the coronavirus shutdown - Mail Ofsted got primary language wrong, admits Spielman - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: All school pupils returning on same day 'is inconceivable' - BBC Making learning stick - Teacher Toolkit Coronavirus information - Voice Universities’ role in economic recovery - Wonkhe Giving scientific advice to government during a crisis - Wonkhe GCSE attainment gap for children who have ever needed a social worker - Nuffield Foundation Learning for learning’s sake in the Covid-19 pandemic - HEPI Is educational research evidence-based? - BERA Dark days ahead for Felpersham University - Wonkhe Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Students challenged to design Outdoor Learning Centre of the Future - SecEd Don’t neglect 2021 international student recruitment pipeline, HEIs urged - PIE News Research centre produces online resources for teaching the Holocaust - IOE London Blog Flexible learning comes of age - Advance HE Ufi funds new partnership programme with AoC to create ed-tech strategy for the future that leaves no learner behind - AoC | Association of Colleges Sector leaders call on government to make education websites free for UK students - AoC | Association of Colleges Help with home learning - Talk with TRUST - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF New research gives voice to victims of human trafficking - Leeds Beckett University What are teachers doing at home? (and where are you doing it?) - Teacher Tapp Expert advice on supporting the learning of EAL pupils during and after school closures - Bell Foundation Schools shutdown likely to widen attainment gap, says Ofsted chief - Guardian Hundreds of children each week 'suffer abuse and neglect during lockdown' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How to protect children from online abuse during lockdown - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Supporting young people to reduce increased risk of trauma - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Lockdown home schooling is teaching us all a lesson about value of teachers - Scotsman How are vulnerable learners coping amid coronavirus? - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: DfE and Ofqual accused of not addressing bias - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lock down and lock up: how to keep systems and data safe - Jisc Return to school in children's interests - Ofsted - BBC It looked as though our regulators were finally willing to trust teachers – but Ofqual’s latest guidance suggests otherwise - IOE London Blog Parents told not to feel guilty if they stray from school timetable - Evening Standard Exam body to be questioned by MSPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Here is what children want to know about coronavirus - Telegraph University College London medics don ‘lockdown costumes’ for online graduation ceremony - Evening Standard Coronavirus: Lockdown home-schooling will widen education gaps, says Ofsted chief - Independent Remote learning can't replace a teacher in class - Times Educational Supplement | TES Locked down in lockdown: a prison educator's diary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted 'won't judge schools on coronavirus response' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers must go further and faster on online access - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted’s 1,700 staff ‘considerably under occupied’ admits chief inspector, but available to volunteer - FE Week Coronavirus: Routine inspections not likely before summer, says Spielman - Schools Week Curious Kids: if the whole world is dealing with coronavirus, will there be less war? - The Conversation Businesses offering lockdown pupils virtual work experience - Evening Standard Brian Cox praises teachers' 'skill and professionalism' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lockdown: Call to stop GCSE gap for vulnerable widening - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are schools closed till September and when will they reopen? - Express The ‘forgotten third’ simply cannot shift to online learning - FE Week Movers and Shakers: Edition 314 - FE Week Why do students value science but not want to be scientists? - Schools Week DfE spent £50k trying to hide academy chief vetting failure - Schools Week All systems go: the virtual open day has arrived - FE Week Coronavirus lockdown parents using garden and walks as classroom for their kids - Mirror 9:30 a.m. - Oral evidence session with Ofsted Chief Inspector re accountability - Accountability Hearings Coronavirus: English teacher 'energised' by lockdown learning - BBC Archbishop to take online academy's first assembly - Times Educational Supplement | TES Europe seeks to centralise fractured coronavirus data - Times Higher Education | THE Archbishop of Canterbury to deliver live streamed assembly - Mail The key areas to look at in easing the UK coronavirus lockdown - Guardian Fitness to Teach: optional guidance to support ITT providers - UCET Toby Belfield: Head who sent inappropriate texts sets up new online academy - Times Schools will guide pupils from cradle to career - Times Underperforming universities should be allowed to fail - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Holidays may change to let pupils return to classroom - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Parents and children left to struggle after councils ban online teaching - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Leadership vacuum over home schooling ‘is failing pupils’ - Times