News archive for 26th February 2020

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Thirty-five schools in coronavirus lockdown as emergency plans could see all UK classrooms and public transport shut - The Sun Coronavirus terror grips UK as schools send pupils home - Mirror LSAs: underpaid, undervalued and irreplaceable - Times Educational Supplement | TES MATs demand Ofsted framework rewrite - Times Educational Supplement | TES LGBT people must be visible in the curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson: Great teachers back baseline by 'instinct' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student Loans Company commences strategic partner procurement - Student Loans Company ESFA: Business Update - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 26 February 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Is Britain heading for a coronavirus lockdown? - Mail Academy trust closes schools over coronavirus because it has ‘pupils of Italian origin’ - Schools Week Blackstone pays record £4.7bn for student housing firm iQ - Guardian ‘Homophobic’: Academy chain’s sex education policy bans ‘promotion of homosexuality’ - Independent Who’s who? Your guide to the new ministerial line-up at the DfE - FE Week Who's who? Your guide to the new ministerial line-up at the DfE - Schools Week Bowls club is suing a £10,000-a-year girls' prep school after it refused to renew their lease - Mail NEU welcomes improvements to teacher workload and pay - National Education Union Baseline research launched - National Education Union Fundamental changes needed to school transformation plans - NASUWT Investing in the professional development of teachers can improve the outcomes of post-16 maths students - Nuffield Foundation Do girls read better than boys? If so, gender stereotypes may be to blame - UKEdChat Moving past the ‘tyranny of innovation’ - Jisc Pearson BTEC Awards 2020 - AoC | Association of Colleges Only 20% of teachers believe baseline assessment tests are accurate - IOE London Blog Researchers investigating impact of three-year key stage 4 - SecEd Early prevention hit as funding is diverted to support children at immediate risk - SecEd Sharp rise in childcare costs for families - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ACE guidelines ‘not a quick fix’ for treating trauma - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Imagine not being able to touch-type? - Teacher Toolkit Quarter of baseline pilot schools had incomplete tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government 'worryingly relaxed' about school exclusions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swinney hits out at 'overblown' attacks on education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Major investment needed to tackle maths 'failures' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Enrol students without GCSEs on T levels, colleges told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reception baseline provides 'accurate' assessment for children's progress - Nursery World Reception baseline: 'children scared of getting it wrong', say teachers - Nursery World Department for Education ministerial portfolios confirmed - DfE Health Secretary Matt Hancock tells headteachers to keep schools open amid coronavirus chaos - Mail Coronavirus: Schools close amid fears over UK outbreak - CYPN | Children & Young People Now COVID-19: Schools on alert after half-term - SecEd Headteachers say advice on coronavirus has been 'inconsistent' - Guardian John Swinney launches major audit of Curriculum for Excellence - Scotsman ‘Sci-fi’ tech at your fingertips - Jisc Reception baseline assessment: 8 key findings from the DfE's pilot report - Schools Week Teachers criticise 'unnecessary tests' for four-year-olds - Independent My day of two halves – from Bristol City to Balliol College - Guardian Coronavirus advice for parents: symptoms of the virus in children - and the latest on UK school closures - Scotsman Why are some schools closing over coronavirus? - BBC Coronavirus UK: will I get paid if I take sick leave? - Guardian Schools close or send pupils home due to coronavirus fears - Mail Students at LSE vote to ban beef from campus - Mail John Swinney: Support for most vulnerable pupils has 'not been good enough' - Herald Scotland ESFA announce date for full rollout of digital apprenticeship system - FE Week Teachers criticise new assessments for four-year-olds - Mail Another major MAT ends performance pay for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES MAT bosses deserve to be handsomely paid - Times Educational Supplement | TES All heads urged to join anti-Ofsted 'quiet revolution' - Times Educational Supplement | TES LGBT+ students struggle with college transition - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers and heads to play ‘key role’ in OECD review - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE hiring three new regional schools commissioners - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Slight’ drop in attainment across the board - Times Educational Supplement | TES All schools should block employees from working as Ofsted inspectors, say leading heads - Schools Week Don't close over coronavirus, schools told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children with dyslexia are still treated like 'unwanted pariahs' by teachers - Mail DfE claims trial shows baseline IS accurate, and confirms September roll-out - Schools Week 'Abuse of power': should universities ban staff-student relationships? - Guardian Can students learn how to solve mathematics problems by taking maths tests? - IOE London Blog Pupils 'scared' of baseline tests, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why I’m striking: a list of austerity’s devastating impacts - FE Week Schools not being advised to shut over coronavirus, says PHE - Guardian Vulnerable pupils are being excluded from schools and it's not always legal - Telegraph Longest-serving RSC Vicky Beer to retire - Schools Week Learning and Skills Policy Update - February 2020 - Unionlearn Blackstone to buy Goldman’s student flats for £4.7bn - Financial Times 16 to 19 funding allocations supporting documents for 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Marking – getting it right or getting it done? - UKEdChat Proficiency in English is central to understanding the educational attainment of learners using EAL - Bell Foundation The most popular children’s books in 2020 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Weak readers struggle more in maths than in English lit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Childcare costs surge at over double the rate of inflation - Coram Family & Childcare Scottish families face rising childcare costs, with annual bill of almost £5,800 - Coram Family & Childcare London families now face annual childcare bill of £8,600 - Coram Family & Childcare Childcare costs rise above inflation - Nursery World The Wellbeing Award for Schools - SecEd Budget cuts linked to drop in attainment for children getting additional support - Herald Scotland Culture of exploitation? Heavy burden on minority female scholars - Times Higher Education | THE Labour should ‘move forward’ from zero-fees policy, says MP - Times Higher Education | THE Michael Spence: chance to lead UCL post-Brexit ‘worth pay cut’ - Times Higher Education | THE The financial health of our institutions: are we measuring the right things? - Wonkhe Can universities learn anything from the start-up sector? - HEPI Childcare costs: Parents of children under two pay 5% more - BBC Wales' schools told to put new curriculum at top of agenda and ensure standards don't slip - Wales Online Schools face closure in coronavirus action plan - Times Coronavirus: Schools close and tell pupils to self-isolate after Italian ski trips - Times Weak literacy lowers exam results in GCSE maths - Times Parents face soaring nursery fees to cover costs of free childcare policy - Times Scotland: Third of councils show fall in ‘gold standard’ Higher results - Times Scotland makes period products available for all - Times One in four 15-year-olds have a reading age of 12 or below and struggle to understand questions in their GCSE exams - Mail