News archive for 8th June 2020

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Sikh academy trust mulls legal fight over rebrokering - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pearson teams up with Harrow to enable students to attend the top public school from their own homes - Mail Government to row back on pledge to have all primary children back to school before the summer - Telegraph Magnificent seven: Junior school girls run around London to raise thousands for charity - Express Secondaries not open 'until September at the earliest' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Concerns over 'delays' to DfE's free laptops scheme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Switching off frameworks before standard ready is ‘right decision’, says IfATE boss - FE Week Parents back call by UK teacher to help end 'white supremacy' - Guardian Calls grow for black history to be taught to all English school pupils - Guardian DfE to measure school staff happiness under new wellbeing charter - Schools Week Tory students face race probe over 'disgusting' Black Lives Matter messages - Mirror Teaching about mental wellbeing - DfE Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted GCSEs: Open-book exams and reduced content for 2021? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why FE collaboration is vital for economic recovery - Times Educational Supplement | TES Renewed calls to remove Cecil Rhodes statue from Oxford University college - Mail Coronavirus: Under-fives' mental health at risk - Nursery World Ofqual consultation on the additional exam series this autumn - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Covid-19 increases risk of mental health issues in under-fives, new research warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Digital culture work should forge new connections - Wonkhe NHS staff are Inspiring the Future - Education and Employers No, the future of higher education is not online - Wonkhe Pirate-themed video game gives prospective students a virtual campus tour - Jisc MP warns of issues that may deter students - PIE News The Sutton Trust responds to the Education Select Committee's Covid-19 inquiry - Sutton Trust Erasmus+ €5.4bn cut is “bad news” says ESN - PIE News Summer free school meals axe ‘lacks compassion’, child watchdog warns - HuffPost Will COVID-19 cause skills training to replace university degrees? - Training Journal Why schools need to put staff first - SecEd The not-so-new world of online learning with the Further Forces programme - Education & Training Foundation | ETF New bursaries and broader eligibility criteria for Advanced Teacher Status applicants - Education & Training Foundation Coronavirus: Concern that children on free school meals are missing out on on healthy food - Nursery World Emerging From lockdown: What the new world looks like - Teacher Tapp Why we need a student panel - Office for Students Covid-19 scientists' outcry at Imperial College's plans to axe vital staff - UCU Lessons for adapting home learning from parents with children with special educational needs - BERA First college to delay reopening after coronavirus R rate rise - FE Week Call to make the youngest a priority in Government response to Covid-19 - Nursery World Scottish councils begin reopening schools to pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Landlords hope Covid won't scare students off university - Telegraph Coronavirus: QTS extension for trainees who haven’t make ‘adequate progress’ - Schools Week Harrow pushes ahead on China expansion despite pandemic as private schools look to shore up finances - Telegraph Tory pressure to provide summer FSM vouchers grows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Advanced Teacher Status offered to more staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers need training in online lessons, says charity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fall of Bristol's Colston statue revives Rhodes campaign in Oxford - Guardian Schools facing 'crisis' unless DfE acts, says Greening - Times Educational Supplement | TES Probationer teacher numbers hit seven-year high - Times Educational Supplement | TES How schools should be helping shielding children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Struggling trainee teachers to aim for QTS by December - Times Educational Supplement | TES ETF discounts cost and reduces eligibility criteria for Advanced Teacher Status qualification - FE Week Tackling racism in society means more black teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Foreign students won't study at British universities without cut in fees if courses are online - Mail Prince Charles issues emotional tribute to teachers as UK schools open - Express DfE seeks 16 senior policy advisers ahead of FE ‘revolution’ - FE Week Unionlearn’s Covid-19 initiatives - Unionlearn Business secretary to chair apprenticeship round table - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly third of students from East Asia ‘likely to delay or cancel’ study plans - Herald Scotland One week back: 'Are smaller classes the new normal? ' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams in 2021 could face disruption too - Telegraph Visits to English schools by Nick Gibb MP - Teacher Toolkit Launch of Edge Post Covid-19 Revival Fund – how to build back better - Edge Foundation Lecturer and student relationships matter even more online than on campus | Kate Roll and Marc Ventresca - Guardian 'We had a bar crawl in the house': students on graduating at home - Guardian Movers and Shakers: Edition 319 - FE Week Teens describe struggle of learning from home with schools shut - Wales Online New parent and pupil panel to aid Covid-19 policymaking - Schools Week Evidence of teaching quality missing from new student recruitment policies - MediaFHE A call to action on widening participation in the era of Covid-19 - HEPI UK faces £463m shortfall due to decline in SE Asian students - PIE News Lockdown observations for 1 in 10 teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Progress on Scottish widening access targets may have stalled, warns Commissioner - MediaFHE Dame Vera Lynn's children's fund faces financial hardship - Telegraph Prince Charles praises teachers for 'going above and beyond of their pupils' in coronavirus lockdown - Mail Online classrooms will expose inequalities, but this is an opportunity for change - Times Higher Education | THE Universities face £460m loss from expected drop in east Asian students - Guardian Foreign students are off if universities go online - Times Students investigated for clips re-enacting George Floyd killing - Times Infection rate keeps schools in northwest shut - Times Scotland: Glasgow School of Art students withhold work in fee row - Times Time to prove that education is still Scotland’s priority - Times Suspending Scottish school inspections ‘will widen the attainment gap’ - Times Universities face £463m funding drop after third of East Asian students plan to cancel or delay offers - Telegraph Tony Blair’s push for half of all young people to go to university slammed by his own son Euan - The Sun Universities must address chronic absence of BAME academics to boost diversity - Mail Prince Charles praises school staff in video message - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: ITT Course Extensions Funding Manual for 2019/2020 - UCET