News archive for 23rd August 2020

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Teachers demand plan B from Government on what to do if Covid infections rise when schools reopen - Mail Johnson urges parents to send children back to school - Financial Times Boris Johnson begs parents to send kids back to school as exam chaos 'puts plan at risk' - Mirror We're lumbered with one of the worst Education Secretaries ever - Mirror Why are we so focused on pupils who overcome the odds? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Singing and parents banned as schools reopen in Northern Ireland - Guardian The Guardian view on coronavirus rules: making sense of complexity | Editorial - Guardian Coronavirus: Schools let down by lack of 'plan B', says union - BBC Exam results row deepens as Ofqual hits back at statistics body - Guardian Teaching unions don't want 'useful idiot' Gavin Williamson to be sacked - Metro Labour leader Keir Starmer attacks 'confusion and incompetence' from government over exams fiasco - Mail Coronavirus: Missing school is worse than virus for children - Whitty - BBC Unions against schools reopening don't want Gavin Williamson to be sacked as they think he’s a useful idiot - The Sun Gavin Williamson defends trip to Scarborough a week before A-levels fiasco - Guardian Ofqual hits back at stats society claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid outbreaks in English schools 'uncommon', says PHE - Guardian Covid-19: Pupils aged 12 and over 'should wear masks' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus study finds 67 Covid-19 cases in schools after they returned in June - Mirror Not a single child was hospitalised with coronavirus after schools reopened in June - Telegraph WATCH Sir Ken Robinson 'His voice will be missed' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don't sack Gavin Williamson, he's our secret weapon say teachers - Mail Schools reopening could increase Covid cases but missing lessons worse for children - HuffPost Sir Ken Robinson’s quotes on education and creativity as author dies aged 70 - Metro The cruel exams algorithm has laid bare the unfairness at the heart of our schools | Kenan Malik - Guardian Reopening schools 'risks rise in cases but missing lessons worse for children' - Guardian University to universal credit: How class of 2020 is graduating straight onto the dole - HuffPost NASUWT responds to statement from UK Chief Medical Officers on schools and childcare reopening - NASUWT Employer engagement with schools in Wales - BERA September return to school offers a chance to level the playing field - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Boris Johnson urges parents to prepare for school return as he says coronavirus risk to children is 'very small' - PoliticsHome Gavin Williamson defends going on holiday ahead of exam results chaos - PoliticsHome Schools return next month 'now at risk' thanks to 'chaos, confusion and incompetence' from government, warns Keir Starmer - PoliticsHome Introducing ‘The EEF guide to supporting school planning: a tiered approach to 2020-21’ - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Lesson observation: What problem is it solving? - Teacher Toolkit Return to school: PHE England report on the full return of schools and colleges in September - National Education Union Senior Tories turn on Gavin Williamson over exams fiasco - Guardian Labour ramps up Facebook advertising in wake of exams fiasco - Guardian Universities face more chaos as pensions crisis looms - Times Keir Starmer tells Boris Johnson: your chaos puts schools return at risk - Guardian