News archive for 8th August 2020

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Coronavirus: Boris Johnson calls school closures 'morally indefensible' despite safety concerns - Independent Boris Johnson 'would close pubs before schools' in local Covid-19 lockdown - Guardian UK schools fear backlash from parents over 'unfair' A-level exam results - Guardian Welsh universities charter planes to bring students here from China - Wales Online Heads fear for top children in deprived schools in Wales exam controversy - Wales Online Students with autism join Chris Packham to support butterflies and nature - Express Something important is missing from Ofqual’s 2020/21 Corporate Plan - HEPI Multi-million-pound funding package for school transport - DfE England's school behaviour tsar: 'Letting children off again and again is like a snooze alarm' - Guardian 'A dangerous first step': Simon Armitage among poets to blast GCSE decision - Guardian Government to hand councils £40m to help with home-to-school transport - Schools Week Covid-19: £40m to help pupils travel to school 'safely' - Times Educational Supplement | TES