News archive for 30th April 2020

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Revealed: Covid-19 hit to apprenticeship starts - FE Week Plans to reopen schools plunged into chaos as experts clash over whether children can pass on Covid-19 - The Sun Infection rate needs to be substantially lower before decisions on schools says Swinney - Scotsman The work of teachers is valuable beyond measure - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney urged to use emergency powers to resolve home schooling 'lottery' - Telegraph Covid-19 will change education far beyond lockdown - New Statesman AELP publishes legal advice in relation to the DfE's exclusion of levy funded apprenticeships from the scope of Cabinet Office Covid-19 government contractor protection guidance - AELP Teachers warned over 'unconscious bias' amid fears that ethnic minority children will get the wrong grades - Telegraph PM: Plan to reopen schools will be set out 'next week' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE summons unions to school re-opening safety talks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson will set out ‘comprehensive’ plan for school reopenings next week - Schools Week Coronavirus: Families still waiting for free school meal vouchers - BBC GCSE attainment gap 'inevitable' this year, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sturgeon: Qualifications process 'very clear' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Surge in supply teachers seeking aid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted seeks views on proposals to revise post-inspection arrangements - Ofsted After lockdown, an opportunity for something even better than before - Schools Week Nesta and DfE support innovations to pave the way for future employment in a changing workforce - Nesta Supporting student mental health - Office for Students NEU members win case against grade inflation - National Education Union New look panel launches survey for apprentices - IfATE Coronavirus and summer 2020 exams updates - NAHT Digest #143: Using podcasts - Learning Scientists Delivering lessons remotely - UKEdChat ‘Survivor mentality’ developed by children in care, new research shows - Nuffield Foundation Returning to and starting school in 2020 - Early Education Volunteering update - Education and Employers New evaluation reports: catch-up programme boosts young children’s language skills by +3 months - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Providing feedback during school closure - Research Schools Network Childcare leaders criticise inclusion of nurseries in consumer watchdog probe - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Coventry University moves to mobile-first learning platform - PIE News Response to Ofqual consultation on awarding grades - Sutton Trust Shaw Trust ‘Care Academy’ to recruit and support social care workers: Meeting a national need in challenging times - ERSA New partnership to research enhancements for HE leadership in Mexico - Advance HE LSE report identifies best practice for virtual inclusion during pandemic - London School of Economics | LSE UK watchdog to investigate parents' complaints against nurseries over fees - Nursery World ESFA post-16 provider relief scheme - Education & Skills Funding Agency Free meals in further education funded institutions: guide for the 2020 to 2021 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Further education skills index - DfE How can students be helped to avoid the risks of sexual assault? - Times Higher Education | THE Statistics: key stage 1 - DfE Providing free school meals during the coronavirus outbreak - DfE Statistics: performance tables - DfE Changes to the law on education, health and care needs assessments and plans due to coronavirus - DfE Apprenticeship and traineeships: April 2020 - DfE Key workers, complaints, international demand, mental health (podcast) - Wonkhe Coronavirus: scientists caution against reopening schools - Guardian A statement on our updated guidance for private candidates - Ofqual Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Help teachers minimise risk of exams bias against minorities, urges watchdog - Mail University students: Have you stayed or returned to your term time address? - Guardian Apprentice survey on coronavirus impact launched - Times Educational Supplement | TES Design teachers put together 200,000 masks, scrubs and visors - Evening Standard Apprenticeship quango launches learner satisfaction survey - FE Week A blow for plans to reopen schools? Children do catch the coronavirus as often as adults - Mail Equalities watchdog warns exam bosses that BAME students will suffer from grading bias - Mail Teachers autonomy - and the quest for professional status - Montrose42 When will schools reopen in UK and will exams be on? - The Sun How to take part in the Big Schools Quiz - Schools Week Archbishop of Canterbury delivers virtual assembly on hope to pupils at home - Mail Refugee families hit by funding exclusions in coronavirus crisis - Nursery World 'Vastly increased' test capacity needed to open schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children's commissioner 'concerned' over low attendance at school hubs during Covid-19 lockdown - Scotsman Further Education skills index falls by more than 15% - Times Educational Supplement | TES First Scottish college joins FE foodbank initiative - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edtech specialist puts expertise to good use to support sector through COVID-19 pandemic - FE Week Private candidates allowed to transfer exam centres amid concerns of missing out on grades - Schools Week AELP: "Apprenticeship starts are falling off the cliff" - Times Educational Supplement | TES WorldSkills UK sets out emergency package of support - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA provider relief application deadline extended - FE Week DfE will now ‘replace’ and ‘repurpose’ the cancelled monthly apprenticeship statistics - FE Week Evidence is clear: teachers are doing all they can - Times Educational Supplement | TES Equalities watchdog warns Ofqual over GCSE grading bias - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND children and families need more help - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plans to scrap MBA apprenticeship delayed until possibly 2021 - FE Week Archbishop of Canterbury leads national assembly (video) - Times Educational Supplement | TES Monthly apprenticeships update: February starts fall 11% - FE Week Five ways lockdown during Covid-19 will help children to build resilience - Telegraph Children's commissioner concerned by hub school figures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children's screen time up by two hours a day in lockdown - Nursery World Coronavirus: Fears universities could be merged if they don't embrace new normal - Herald Scotland Phased school return could see kids doing exams back first before the summer - Mirror New report suggests further falls in the wellbeing of university staff - HEPI Why PR is higher education’s best friend during the crisis - HEPI Pressure Vessels II: An update on mental health among higher education staff in the UK - HEPI Children could be sent back to school part-time before the summer holidays - The Sun A third of teachers have Covid-19 mental health fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES Life in the Zoomiverse: What we miss about the physical campus - Times Higher Education | THE Poor handling of pandemic ‘could damage student recruitment’ - Times Higher Education | THE Waheed Saleem, disgraced official in Trojan horse scandal, given top police force role - Times Child coronavirus infection rate deals blow to hopes of schools opening - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: recruit tutors for disadvantaged, say education experts - Times Record number of student complaints fuelled by refund demands following lecturer strikes - Telegraph The damage being done to our kids’ ­education during lockdown is a disaster - The Sun Lecturers can’t sustain the hasty pivot to online teaching. We need a plan B - Times Higher Education | THE UK university staff ‘mental health crisis not getting better’ - Times Higher Education | THE