News archive for 5th June 2020

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Podcast: Schools reopening week - how did it go? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school forced to shut within hours of reopening after two pupils test positive for coronavirus - Evening Standard One in 28 teachers think their low attaining pupils are engaging well with home learning - Telegraph Steve Besley's Education Eye: policy update for the week ending 5 June 2020 - EdCentral EIS union warns over support for 'severely traumatised' pupils returning to school in August - Herald Scotland West Midlands colleges lead on regional collaboration - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fresh calls for free school meals in summer as 23% of pupils 'miss out' in Covid-19 crisis - HuffPost Schools 'not buying right books' for BAME pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ex-private school director ‘unable’ to repay £150k loan - Schools Week St Andrews University comes under fire about the lack of diversity - Mail Committee holds session on cancelled exams and the calculated grades system - UK Parliament UCU Scotland comment on commissioner for fair access annual report - UCU Clock is ticking for UK to make clear that visa system changes will support international students - Universities UK Embracing the future of learning and teaching - Universities UK In the news 5 June 2020 - UCU The rise of the flexible and remote teacher: A primary school’s response to the Covid-19 context in London - BERA QAA publishes guidelines for the socially distanced campus - MediaFHE Black Lives Matter - Ambition Institute Labour's plan to make academies LA schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Serious concern’ as supply teachers still not paid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let young people question Prime Minister on Covid-19 response, says Labour - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Transitioning to a more digital future - Advance HE There should be no doubt by now that we are not living in a ‘post-racial’ world. How can school history help bring understanding and hope? - IOE London Blog Space and Place - Creating Socially Distanced Campuses and Education Project - Advance HE Extend free school meal vouchers over summer holiday, says senior Tory MP - Schools Week Racism isn’t just a US problem; to fight it in the UK we need to change how it’s taught in schools - Telegraph University of Exeter's Steve Smith has been named the UK’s new international education champion - PIE News Talks continue for urgent British Council funding - PIE News Actions for early years and childcare providers during the coronavirus outbreak - DfE Outcry over decision to end free school meals voucher scheme in July - Guardian EdDevTrust’s independent schools re-open to more pupils - Education Development Trust | EDT Fund inspired by Black Lives Matter to provide books about race to schools - Mail Destination UK: Supporting international learners through coronavirus - DfE Sally Dicketts to become next AoC President - AoC | Association of Colleges A once in a lifetime opportunity - Early Education National Careers Service Virtual Jobs Fair returns on June 8 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Register of end-point assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Chief Executive David Hughes joins London Recovery Board - AoC | Association of Colleges Significant underlying teacher supply challenges remain but some progress was made in 2019 - Nuffield Foundation Racism in the classroom: Why does this keep happening and what can we do? - Learning Scientists Cost of fees 'may mean more private school closures' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Private school closures will put pressure on state - Schools Week £7m transition fund for pupils leaving alternative provision - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Most deprived children face biggest risk of unemployment - IOE London Blog 40% of support staff say safety hasn't been prioritised - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cancelled exams: school is a journey, not a destination - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sally Dicketts to become next AoC president - Times Educational Supplement | TES Just as safe to re-open schools as August, First Minister insists - Wales Online Sally Dicketts announced as AoC president-elect - FE Week Jacqueline Wilson asks children to join Silly Squad this summer - Guardian Offering exclusively online education is a mistake - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers' imminent return to school sparks concerns - Times Educational Supplement | TES The world we knew is over - let's focus on the future - Times Educational Supplement | TES Short- and long-term challenges beset teacher workforce - Schools Week More private schools could close permanently due to Covid-19 pandemic - Mail We must throw the kitchen sink at youth unemployment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Virtual transition: how we’re welcoming Year 7 remotely - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two children test positive for coronavirus days after primary school reopened - Mirror Five easy steps to pain-free connectivity - Jisc Children must not hug friends or have play dates inside homes, minister urges - Mail Cloud thinking - Jisc Higher education sector comes together to reimagine learning and teaching - Jisc Annual report and accounts 2019-20 - Office for Students Coronavirus: 10 years of closing the gap reversed by school closures - Nursery World TUC calls for emergency bailout of childcare sector - Nursery World DfE faces legal action over FSM voucher scheme - Times Educational Supplement | TES The prime minister’s ‘apprenticeship guarantee’: over-optimistic or visionary? - FE Week A new normal: young people look beyond lockdown (video) - Guardian Oxford students to get anti-bias training after George Floyd ‘joke’ at hustings - Guardian FE’s fight to tackle hate crime - FE Week Pupils not engaging with online learning, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Widening access progress harmed by Covid-19 - Times Educational Supplement | TES What can this radical 1950s education project teach us about homeschooling during lockdown? - Telegraph Crisis management: listen and learn from school leaders - Schools Week Schools and colleges need robust involvement from the HSE - PoliticsHome We put parents' questions about school reopening to the Welsh Government - Wales Online £7 million for new coalition of vulnerable children’s charities - DfE Significant underlying teacher supply challenges remain but some progress was made in 2019 - NFER Lessons from business: three things universities can learn about mergers from the private sector - HEPI Coronavirus: Court action threatened over school meal vouchers - BBC Closing the gap: Lockdown's challenge for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: AQA exam portal is ‘ripe for human error’, schools warn - Schools Week Coronavirus: Heads struggle to keep up with DfE guidance updates - Schools Week Coronavirus: Scottish universities could have to curtail research ambitions amid funding review - Herald Scotland Top universities could lower offers in anticipation of deferrals because of coronavirus - Mail Give teachers autonomy and fix the recruitment crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES 6 worrying signs for our teacher recruitment crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why ethicists are needed to help societies cope with ‘new normal’ - Times Higher Education | THE Science curricula must be decolonised too - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus in Scotland: ‘Ditch exams to narrow poverty gap’ - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: School inspectors to focus on vulnerable pupils as reopening nears - Times