News archive for 1st June 2020

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School's back! How England's primaries are ready to welcome more children after coronavirus lockdown - Mail Parents accuse unions of using their 'checklist' to sabotage attempts to reopen schools - Telegraph Education Secretary Gavin Williamson calls on Labour-run councils to open every primary school - Mail Back to school nerves as returning pupils sit far apart while half of them stay home - Mirror Plan to cap numbers at UK universities to go ahead - Guardian The Guardian view on nurseries: a case of neglect - Guardian Coronavirus closes prep school attended by Boris Johnson - Guardian Drop plan to reopen English primary schools to all pupils, heads urge - Guardian Seven employees at same school test positive for coronavirus after schools reopen across UK - The Sun Number of schools reopening to more pupils varies across England - Mail Teens facing starting uni online worry they’re not getting what they paid for - Mirror As few as 40% of eligible pupils returned to 'dystopian schools' today - Mirror 'Wash, wash, wash your hands': Adapted nursery rhymes and socially-distant classes as primary schools return - Telegraph Teachers plead to delay reopening all England’s primary schools - Financial Times What do we need to know? Apprenticeship quango surveys employers - FE Week When are teachers back in your part of Scotland? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus closes Boris Johnson's former prep school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half a million children stuck at home as schools stay shut - Telegraph Plans to cap English students attending Scottish universities 'completely unnecessary' - Herald Scotland AELP statement regarding legal advice on Cabinet Office guidance PPN 02/20 - AELP Critical workers who can access schools or educational settings - DfE Early years foundation stage statutory framework (EYFS) - DfE Actions for educational and childcare settings to prepare for wider opening from 1 June 2020 - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19): implementing protective measures in education and childcare settings - DfE 'There’s been a few tears': England's teachers go back to school - Guardian TAs' worry over missing help for poor pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupil absence rate reaches six year high - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 50% oppose back-to-school plans as trust in government slumps - Schools Week Why a ‘right to retrain’ is essential for an inclusive recovery - FE Week Eight in ten parents not sending kids back to school today, union poll claims - The Sun Up to 550,000 kids stuck at home after 54 councils defy Boris Johnson and tell schools to stay shut - The Sun Coronavirus: Primary schools back but mixed picture on turn-out - BBC Have schools reopened in the UK? Latest Government guidelines revealed - Evening Standard Coronavirus England: Teachers urged to run summer schools - Mail Are primary schools really opening for more year groups today? - Teacher Tapp Schools expect almost half of families to keep their children at home - Nuffield Foundation Scotland must act to prevent a youth unemployment crisis - Scotsman ASCL comment on first day of wider opening of schools - ASCL Coronavirus information (updated) - Voice Boris Johnson could take classical lesson in his rush to reopen schools | Larry Elliott - Guardian School reopening day attendance at 40-70%, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of disadvantaged pupils could stay at home as schools reopen, education leaders say - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Low demand for childcare puts sector's future at risk as lockdown lifts - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Induction - Creating Socially Distanced Campuses and Education Project - Advance HE NCFE sponsors major research on enrichment in FE, supporting student resilience in Covid-19 recovery - AoC | Association of Colleges Nursery nurse staff voice concern about safety of reopening to more children - Nursery World Student number controls are back – with deadly penalties for over-recruitment - Wonkhe 2020 Further Education Workforce Data for England report published - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Twitter education and its influence on English politics - Teacher Toolkit From culture shock to culture shift – changing working practice in HE - Wonkhe If we can’t all be the OU by September, what can we become? - Wonkhe A beginner’s guide to… devolution in higher education - Wonkhe Strange times indeed - Advance HE I really wish my son was going back to school today - Metro Boris Johnson’s former prep school to close over ‘coronavirus impact’ - Schools Week Reopening FE: ‘We must not forget autistic learners' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dozens of LAs advise schools not to open to more pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish teachers 'back' today - but not many - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands return to school in England but many parents still wary - Guardian Coronavirus lockdown 'perfect storm' for abused children - Sajid Javid - BBC Coronavirus: Navigating the first morning at school since March - BBC Digital homeschooling: we need to rethink our worries about children’s screen time - The Conversation UK coronavirus live: No 10 rejects claim lockdown being eased too soon as England's schools begin to reopen - Guardian Schools reopen with kids in masks and teachers checking temps – but 1 million kept home - The Sun Summer school camps and extra cash on the cards to help disadvantaged kids catch up - The Sun UK universities seek government guarantee on research funding - Financial Times DfE to tackle ‘fake news’ with its own rapid rebuttal unit - FE Week Half days, staggered drop-offs and zoned playgrounds as kids head back to school - Mirror Mum shares why she's sent daughter back to school despite 'going against instincts' - Mirror Worried parents who keep kids off school in September could be fined - Mirror Parents say sending kids back to school is 'torture' and compare classrooms to 'prison' - Mirror 11 things I’ve learnt from home schooling during 11 weeks of lockdown - Telegraph Teachers in face shields scan pupils' foreheads as they head back to school - Mail DfE to tackle ‘fake news’ with its own rapid rebuttal unit - Schools Week What FE needs in Rishi Sunak's emergency budget - Times Educational Supplement | TES Charlotte Church urges parents to keep their children at home despite schools reopening - Mail DfE survey finds around half of parents sending their child back to childcare today - Nursery World Schools could face staff shortages under new 'blended' teaching plan - Scotsman Can computers ever replace the classroom? (podcast) - Guardian Primary school head warns that a person who attended holiday club has coronavirus - Mail FE workforce data shows college teacher pay down - Times Educational Supplement | TES How has the college workforce changed? - Times Educational Supplement | TES AELP drops Covid-19 supplier relief legal challenge - FE Week In pictures: Back to school in England - BBC EPSRC seeks applicants for Strategic Advisory Teams - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Three mums want to take legal action against Government claiming school closures may breach children’s human rights - The Sun Coronavirus: Schools open for more pupils but parents still wary - BBC Being a teaching assistant in a special school hub during lockdown - Wales Online The scenes at schools in England as children went back to class - Wales Online Parents refuse to send kids back to school and share photos with powerful message - Mirror We can't ignore the rise in drug incidents in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Loose lockdown rules come at worst time for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands asked to come back to teaching next year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents could face fines for keeping kids off school from September, Children’s Commissioner suggests - The Sun Schools poll: As rebellion brews, would you send your children back to classrooms today? - Express Primary school pupils pictured returning to class for first time since lockdown - Mirror Children return to classes in England as lockdown eases - Metro Is it safe for schools to go back? Experts warn no - Express Will parents be fined for refusing to send children back to school? - Mirror Thousands of former teachers asked to help implement ‘blended’ schooling - Herald Scotland How prepared are schools to reopen? 5 NFER survey findings - Schools Week ‘We need to educate our children again’ – inside the battle to re-open England’s schools - PoliticsHome Back to school bust-up as lockdown eased across England - PoliticsHome Return of pupils to school: Schools’ responses to Covid-19 - NFER MATs: Policy must catch up with the need for mergers - Schools Week 'I'm worried I'm not going to get a job': meet the corona class of 2020 - Guardian ‘Many girls have been cut’: how global school closures left children at risk - Guardian 'Parents are clearly anxious': teachers prepare for safe return to school - Guardian Coronavirus: Nearly half of pupils expected to stay at home when schools reopen - Independent Are schools opening today and do children have to attend? - Express What schools are reopening today? Pupils to return for first time since lockdown - Mirror No test is better than a bad test - HEPI Education Sec Gavin Williamson urges parents to send their kids back to school to start fixing lockdown damage - The Sun UK schools reopening: What happens today as kids go back to class? - The Sun Why pupils are more at risk by not returning to schools today - Express Coronavirus: Some primary schools reopen as parents remain wary - BBC Early years sector and parents divided on reopening settings - Nursery World Inside English primary school reopening today with 'bubble' classes of nine pupils - Mirror Ministers tell parents that reopening classrooms is safe amid fears many will keep children away - Mail Coronavirus case confirmed at primary school days before reopening as kids prepare to head back to class - The Sun Tensions continue over lockdown easing as pupils begin returning to school - Mail Three mothers are considering legal battle with Government over school closures - Mail Half of parents in England intend to keep children out of school - Financial Times School staff numbers down by a quarter, survey predicts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years and childcare sector at risk of collapse in England - Guardian At least one million primary school pupils to stay home today despite reopening - Mirror Karol Sikora on why academics should be more positive over Covid-19 - Times Higher Education | THE Students’ union troubles highlight HE furlough scheme problems - Times Higher Education | THE In September provision needs to be different but good – not different but bad - Wonkhe Young people: civil society needs YOU - Wonkhe The shape of the financial crisis to come? - Wonkhe The search for savings in university budgets - Wonkhe Coronavirus: Schools expect half of pupils will stay home as year groups return - Guardian Half of families will keep pupils at home, say heads - Times Cars to be banned outside schools - Times Parents told to check their children for signs of anxiety - Times Scotland: Minister Richard Lochhead wants rethink on university cap - Times Children likely to suffer depression and anxiety after lockdown - Mail Schools expect nearly half of families to keep children at home - Mail Government must recognise the human cost to the crisis facing universities - Wonkhe