News archive for 2nd June 2020

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The £30k rugby tour that went nowhere... and parents lost their cash - Mail Corbyn gushes over Diane Abbott comment as he agrees schools should stay shut 'Well said!' - Express Coronavirus: Repeating the year possible, says DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fresh fears over primary schools after staff test positive for Covid-19 - Guardian Covid-19 and education: How can parents foster whole family wellbeing as some children return to school – especially for youngsters with special needs? - IOE London Blog How different is teaching online from the classroom? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Further and faster: catching up with the Janet access programme - Jisc British Council opens its English language learning online for all ages - British Council UCU response to plans for student number controls - UCU Adult apprentices CAN return for face-to-face contact from 15 June, says DfE - FE Week The skills crisis long pre-dated COVID19 - AoC | Association of Colleges Is there a tension between teaching and assessing critical-thinking skills? - BERA Widening participation: advocacy is as great a challenge as delivery - HEPI Russell Group responds to limits on student numbers - Russell Group How can education systems around the world support more inclusive learning in a (post-)COVID-19 era? - NFER NEU statement on the killing of George Floyd - National Education Union This is why diversity in schools matters so much - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only a third of children are expected to return to nurseries across England - Mail Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus outbreak - DfE Actions for early years and childcare providers during the coronavirus outbreak - DfE Drug gangs on 'recruitment drive' during lockdown - BBC Apprenticeship gateway and resits for end-point assessment (EPA) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted to review students’ and apprentices’ online further education experience - Ofsted Providing apprenticeships during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak - Education & Skills Funding Agency Facilitating leadership development online - Advance HE What the Welsh Government is likely to announce about schools tomorrow - Wales Online Black pupils warn of n-word abuse in UK private schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES School inspections in Scotland suspended next year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tens of thousands want GCSE to include texts on racism - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for dedicated mental health professionals in schools post-lockdown - SecEd Almost a quarter of prospective students fear their university could go bust as a result of Covid-19 crisis - UCU Disabled Students’ Allowance during a pandemic - Wonkhe Is it time to change end of year reports? - Teacher Toolkit Let’s lose the deficit language about online education - Wonkhe Of knights and knaves – can universities be trusted to navigate through Covid-19? - Wonkhe A third of Scottish primary schools have not been inspected in a decade - Scotsman Coronavirus: Effects of loneliness in children could last up to nine years - Nursery World ‘One child was drawing the coronavirus’: Nursery leaders on reopening during a pandemic - Independent I love teaching, but seeing kids back in my classroom makes me feel scared - Metro How a botched government food voucher scheme left English pupils hungry in a pandemic - New Statesman Coronavirus: Unions report academy trust to health and safety watchdog over ‘unsafe’ return of pupils - Schools Week School openings drop to 50% over half term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reopening: MAT put staff and pupils at ‘serious risk' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents accuse teaching unions of 'sabotaging' schools reopening - Mail Plan to get all primary school kids back before summer ‘will be impossible’ - The Sun Parents face challenges accessing childcare as lockdown eases - Nursery World Early years settings divided on readiness to reopen for more children - Nursery World 'A tough day' - teachers' experiences of 1 June return - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reading 'should be top priority' for returning pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES More children return to the classroom as schools begin to unlock - Evening Standard Do teachers need to wear face masks? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Redundancies planned at massive apprenticeships provider to government - FE Week Parents fight in court over whether children should return to school in England - Guardian Free recording: Latest FE policy response and requirements to Covid-19 outbreak - FE Week Schools face DfE demand for twice-daily absence data - Times Educational Supplement | TES Paul Whiteman: We will not shy away from asking difficult questions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Three-quarters of nurseries will operate at a loss over the coming months - Nursery World Ofsted to review online teaching and learning in FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES What a socially distanced school day looks like, through the eyes of a headteacher - Telegraph 'I can hear all the sounds I've missed so much' - Headteacher's view on schools reopening - Mirror Why voluntary education groups are vital in this crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will teachers really decide students' grades this year? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our GCSE-year kids risk being a forgotten generation - Telegraph Anger from devolved administrations over limits on student numbers - Mail New digital platform will help 6,000 disadvantaged young people navigate university applications - Sutton Trust Edge Skills Bulletin shows skills mismatch predated COVID-19 - Edge Foundation Home school in Dagenham: three children, no tablet, no computer - Guardian I should be doing my GCSEs right now. Instead, my whole future is in doubt - HuffPost Boris Johnson's plan to get all primary school pupils back to class before summer is 'under review' - Mail Second primary school forced to close after staff member contracts coronavirus - Mirror Refusing to reopen schools is prolonging ‘biggest disruption to kids’ education since WW2’, says education secretary - The Sun Jubilant scenes as kids reunite with teachers & pals for first time in ten weeks - The Sun Michael Bloomberg donates £1m to fund online UK summer schools - Guardian The six new rules schools must follow to reopen - Mirror Pandemic a ‘major opportunity’ to test ingrained HE theories - Times Higher Education | THE Universities’ Covid planning must take account of age-related risk - Times Higher Education | THE The six new rules schools must follow to reopen - Express Head teacher lifts lid on how government's new 'bubble' system will keep children safe as they return to school - Mirror Plans to have every primary pupil back at school by the end of the June is 'under review', Government says - Telegraph Universities urged to use voice recognition software to stop students cheating in pandemic exams - Telegraph Coronavirus: Safe return of all primary school pupils ‘will be impossible’ - Times Coronavirus: Concerned parents keep up to 60% of eligible pupils at home - Times English universities to take on extra science students - Times School avoids £7m bill after law error - Times Public trust in scientists ‘will decline in wake of Covid-19’ - Times Higher Education | THE