News archive for 10th August 2020

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Universities must hold places for students challenging their A-level grades after exams scrapped, ministers urge - Independent Boris Johnson vows classrooms will be the last places to shut if second coronavirus wave hits UK - Mail Coronavirus: Government research indicates secondary school pupils may pose greater virus risk than primary students, reports suggest - Independent Schools are reopening in September - what does the guidance say? - Telegraph Number 10 asks Chris Whitty to publish evidence review in bid to show schools return is safe - Telegraph Plan B needed to keep schools open amid second coronavirus wave and lockdown fears - Mirror Russell Group universities prepare to lower entry grades after struggle to fill courses - Telegraph Why the battle to get children back to school will be Boris Johnson's 'Thatcher moment' - Telegraph Union leader told school reopening worries are 'exaggerated' after making over 200 demands - Express The back to school 'checklist' is more like a ransom note - Telegraph Sturgeon sorry for exams fiasco and admits student outrage a 'bigger problem' than grade inflation - Telegraph Thousands of teachers agree with Boris Johnson on reopening schools and I do too - Mirror Boris Johnson must try harder for kids - empty words aren't enough - Mirror UK universities 'bribe' prospective students with laptops and up to £1,200 cash in desperate scramble to fill places - Mail Scientists urge routine Covid testing when English schools reopen - Guardian A-level students 'expecting the worst' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson: Lockdowns should not force schools to close - Times Swinney should go — but he probably won’t | Alex Massie - Times When are schools reopening in the UK? Latest information and guidance for September - Mirror Parents fear for P1s’ wellbeing after school transition scrapped - Scotsman Learning and Skills policy update - August 2020 - Unionlearn Results day: We need to build a more resilient system - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE English 2021: Has poetry been dropped? - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE English: Why we must develop critical literacy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nicola Sturgeon apologises to tens of thousands of Scottish pupils over exams chaos - Mirror Response to media coverage about results in Scotland - Ofqual The fairest possible way to recognise students’ achievements this year - by Roger Taylor, Chair - Ofqual Focus apprenticeships on young people instead of skilled graduates, CSJ urges - CYPN | Children & Young People Now PM insists Test and Trace system ‘world-beating’ - Public Technology New global learner survey: The ‘three Rs’ set to become the ‘three Ts’ - Pearson Boris Johnson says teachers doing an ‘incredible job’ as union warns staff ‘losing patience’ with school reopening plan - PoliticsHome Study UK launches new campaign in 16 countries to drive up international student recruitment - British Council Two-thirds of teachers support mandatory masks for older pupils - Scotsman A-Level results 2020: Four things to look out for on Thursday - FFT Education Datalab New research project to assess the impact of Covid-19 on early years staff - EPI Nicola Sturgeon hails return of schools in Scotland from tomorrow - weeks before they will return in England - Mail Humiliated Nicola Sturgeon vows to 'tear up' grades for Scottish pupils after 'standardising' fiasco - Mail Boris Johnson adamant that England’s schools will reopen in September - Financial Times Schools reopening: Boris Johnson takes aim at ‘demanding’ unions as he says it’s our ‘moral duty’ to get kids back - The Sun Looking to the start of term, we must acknowledge how these past months have changed all of us - NAHT Schools must prepare for a long-term hybrid future - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most teachers want mandatory face coverings in class - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson will face the ire of parents if English schools don't reopen safely - Guardian 'I'm sorry' Nicola Sturgeon forced to make embarrassing U-turn on Scottish exam results - Express Boris Johnson told to ramp up test and trace to safely reopen schools - HuffPost University picked as preferred bidder to take over HS2 college at risk of insolvency - FE Week Schools ‘losing patience’ with lack of plan B for Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Opening schools ‘the right thing for everybody’ says PM - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why more trainee teachers is good news for everyone - Times Educational Supplement | TES 150k extra free laptops for local lockdowns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nicola Sturgeon 'sorry' over Scottish exam results - BBC Sturgeon promises urgent review of 124,000 downgraded exam results - Guardian Coronavirus: PM understands 'anxiety' over exam grading - BBC When do schools go back in the UK? - The Sun Dive for cover – Boris Johnson is invoking 'morality' in his Covid policies | Simon Jenkins - Guardian A levels with teacher grades odds-on to stay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could Covid-19 spread in schools? What scientists say about transmission risks - Scotsman The UK's exam results farce only deepens the inequality between private and state pupils | Zoe Williams - Guardian Huge coronavirus study 'to show schools are safe' - but it's not published yet - Mirror Nursing degree apprenticeship funding announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could UK go into lockdown for schools to reopen? - Express School pupils & teachers should have coronavirus tests weekly warns children’s tsar as Gov slaps down ‘demanding’ unions - The Sun Gavin Williamson slaps down unions' bid to 'sabotage' school reopening - Mail Boris Johnson vows 'full' reopening of schools in weeks despite teacher anger - Mirror Boris Johnson says schools are 'safe' and getting pupils back to the classroom is ‘right thing for everybody’ - Evening Standard Pupils and teachers told to walk to school in bid to halt second wave of coronavirus - Evening Standard Sturgeon on SQA results: 'We did not get this right' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching unions accused of thwarting plans to fully re-open schools in September - Nursery World A fantastic future: Degree apprenticeships - Villiers Park Educational Trust How will I get my A-level, GCSE or BTec exam results this year? - BBC Pupils 'very minor players' in spreading Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson promises to ‘fully’ reopen schools in weeks - Metro How A-level and GCSE students in Wales can appeal exam results - Wales Online Pupils could go back to school 'week on, week off' in headteachers' plan to fight coronavirus - Mirror Teachers need same protection as other employees - Times Educational Supplement | TES What can Scottish Highers tell us about students coming to university this autumn? - Wonkhe Learners around the world expect HE to change after Covid-19 - Wonkhe How are universities confronting risky student behaviours? - Wonkhe A-Levels 2020: what students and parents need to know - HEPI Government should act on the Centre for Social Justice apprenticeships report immediately - AELP Teachers not told of coronavirus safety measures - NASUWT I can’t use technology in the classroom - UKEdChat Gavin Williamson says Covid-19 unlikely to spread in schools as union suggests 'week on-week off' plan - Evening Standard Little evidence Covid spreads in schools, says Gavin Williamson - Guardian What Oak Academy has done well, and how it can do better - Schools Week Teachers did 'an incredible job' in lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level results: University clearing ‘could be busiest yet’ as pandemic ruins gap year plans - Independent Teachers planning ‘week on-week off’ pattern if coronavirus surges amid Boris Johnson’s back-to-school push - PoliticsHome Incentive payments for hiring a new apprentice - Education & Skills Funding Agency 'Kids need contact': nursery staff during lockdown – a photo essay - Guardian Children may need coronavirus tests every week to go back to school in September - Mirror Spare British teenagers like me the agony of GCSE exams - Financial Times Coronavirus: Little evidence of Covid transmission in schools, says Williamson - BBC Widespread calls for PM to boost testing as he prepares for schools reopening - Mail USA: 97,000 children test positive for coronavirus in just two weeks as schools re-open - Mirror Union’s plan for schools to teach pupils on a ‘week on-week off’ basis if coronavirus cases spike - The Sun Thousands of A-level pupils face missing out on university places in race against time to win appeals - Mail Children’s commissioner demands action over SQA results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships 'not focused enough on school leavers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Students 'selling clothes to pay rent' - BBC Pitiful 'can't do' attitude of union that puts teachers firmly before pupils - Mail University clearing set to be the busiest ever, experts warn - Guardian How Cardiff council is supporting schools to reopen in September - Wales Online Thousands of trainee nurses to earn while they learn in £172m cash boost - Express Clearing could be busiest yet as students' gap year plans are disrupted - Ucas - Mail National lockdown could be re-imposed next month after reopening of schools likely to boost the R rate - Express Children more lonely, tired and stressed due to lockdown, study finds - Telegraph Make virus tests routine for teachers and pupils - Times Unions agree to reopen schools but insist teachers must be safe - Times Homeschoolers to be left without grades - Times Scotland: Humiliated Swinney in bid to quell exams row - Times Scotland: Almost half of teachers say it’s still unsafe to reopen schools - Times Harsh lesson: John Swinney must repair an unfair grading system that hurt disadvantaged pupils - Times The Bristol Guide 2020-2021: a handbook for education professionals - UCET