News archive for 9th June 2020

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Where is Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ plan for poor pupils hit by school closures? - HuffPost Nine million UK children off school for six months will be 'lost generation' - Mirror David Blunkett: The failure to get all children back to school is a betrayal of young lives - Mail Nurseries and childcare in Wales 'can start planning to re-open' alongside schools on June 29 - Wales Online Cecil Rhodes: Protesters demand the removal of imperialist statue in Oxford - HuffPost One in 10 pupils at nursery and primary schools in England attended last week, figures show - Evening Standard Update on wider opening of education and early years settings - UK Parliament Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus outbreak - DfE In prioritising betting shops over schools, the Government shows again that their exit strategy ignores children - Telegraph Protesters rally in Oxford for removal of Cecil Rhodes statue - Guardian Thousands attend Rhodes Must Fall protest calling for removal of statue in Oxford - Mirror All children may not be back in school for September, Gov admits - The Sun Boris Johnson urged to set out recovery plan for schools in England - Guardian UK drops plan to get all young children in school by summer - Mail Oxford council leader backs Cecil Rhodes statue removal - Mail Rhodes must fall: Oxford protesters call for removal of statue – video report - Guardian Parents say pupils should be allowed back to school now amid fears for their children's wellbeing - Mail School's out for the summer - and the economic damage is piling up - Telegraph The Guardian view on schools: ministers have failed England’s children - Guardian When are children set to return to school across the UK? - Mail ‘I need schools to go back as soon as possible’: Parents react after ministers drop plans for all primary pupils to return before summer - Independent Reopening schools: what is happening in England? - Guardian Tens of thousands of people want black history to be taught in Welsh schools - Wales Online Williamson can hardly fiddle the science when he can't count to two - Guardian Secondary school rotas 'likely' in September, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES What new schools reopening plans mean for parents - The Sun Children's fruit and veg intake plummets during lockdown - SecEd Coronavirus: Williamson faces MPs' questions over extending FSM vouchers and free laptops - SecEd Primary schools not required to bring back all pupils before summer break - Mail Battle to save school year after Government delays return - Telegraph The schools shutdown is jeopardising the welfare of millions of children - Telegraph Boris Johnson dumps plan for all primary school pupils to return before summer - HuffPost Some pupils could be in school a third of the time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Online learning will continue – so we must do better - Times Educational Supplement | TES New fund to support research on COVID-19 and education - BERA Commissioner and MPs call for extension of free school meals over summer holidays - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Disadvantaged children 'worst affected' as government drops plan to reopen schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now If COVID-19 is here to stay, how will it affect our mental health and trust in others? - IOE London Blog LSE stays top in London - London School of Economics | LSE Pearson launches new initiatives to enable delivery of flexible learning at scale by UK Higher Education providers - Pearson Primary schools will not reopen to all pupils before summer holidays, Gavin Williamson confirms - PoliticsHome Digital wellbeing during lockdown: the student perspective - Jisc Curiosity, virology and working together when we have to work apart - Jisc Pearson and Harrow School extend launch of Harrow School Online to UK - Pearson Jisc and AoC launch plan to shape digital future of further education and skills - Jisc Imperial Covid-19 researchers criticise plans to cut 75 ICT jobs - Times Higher Education | THE Dear senior university leaders: what will you say you did to address racism in higher education? - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities face at least a £463 million shortfall in coming academic year - British Council Under pressure - caring through the crisis - Learning & Work Institute Coronavirus and summer 2020 exams: general qualifications updates - NAHT Plans for wider reopening of schools are no longer credible - NASUWT ASCL comment on plans being dropped to bring back all primary years - ASCL Coronavirus: Primary schools - National Education Union Voice welcomes news of Government’s primary school plan change - Voice Applicants and students need clarity about next years’ provision - Wonkhe Students need detail about September – but is that possible? - Wonkhe Why encourage complaints when we’ve already decided to ignore them? - Wonkhe LSE plans for the next academic year - London School of Economics | LSE Tackling racism needs more than a status update - Wonkhe Strong and stable: the all new CUG 2021 league table - Wonkhe Just 10 per cent of early years children have returned to settings - Nursery World Coronavirus: Official statistics on wider opening - National Education Union Nurseries encouraged to join in healthy eating week online cook-a-longs - Nursery World Government drops plan for all primary school children to return to school this term - Nursery World Risk to poorest children of missing school is greater than Covid-19, says Tony Blair - Telegraph Coronavirus: All primary pupils no longer going back to school - BBC Free lockdown laptops are not late, government insists - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let's stop talking about renaming universities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary schools won't have to reopen to all year groups before summer, minister confirms - Mirror Williamson insists government is ‘working towards bringing all pupils back in September’ - Schools Week Do secondary pupils want to return to school? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson wants all pupils in school from September - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson ignores calls for summer FSM voucher rethink - Times Educational Supplement | TES School reopening plans in tatters as only 25% of pupils in England return - Guardian Government ditches plan for primary pupils to return by July - City AM Government drops plans to fully reopen English primary schools by summer - Financial Times Williamson ‘asleep on the job’ over coronavirus catch-up plans - Schools Week Coronavirus: Almost half of primary schools defy Government calls to reopen last week - Mirror Could all primary schools still be closed in September? - Express Now more than ever, schools must be an emotional base - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour's anti-academy push is the last thing we need - Times Educational Supplement | TES What about SEND children left out of school? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oak Academy plans curriculum for schools using rotas - Times Educational Supplement | TES School still out for most pupils but what do parents think? - BBC The fact that pubs are reopening, but schools aren't, is a national disaster - Telegraph The education crisis needed a Nightingale-style plan. The Government has failed children and parents - Telegraph Coronavirus: Just 52% of primary schools reopened to more pupils last week, DfE data shows - Schools Week A pupil had coronavirus - the parent sent them in - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of eligible schools opened more widely last week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of eligible schools opened more widely last week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anti-racism and allyship. Privilege and paralysis - Teacherhead Coronavirus: Teachers and pupils to be tested in new ‘surveillance study’ - Schools Week Ministers urged to reconsider ditching plans to get all pupils back to school - Mail Profile: Natasha Ullah, headteacher of Magna Academy, Poole - Schools Week Not all primary schools in England will reopen fully this term, says Williamson - Guardian Careers guidance must be in governments post Covid 19 employment stimulus plan - Montrose42 'Surveillance' plan to track Covid-19 spread in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prioritise schools over theme parks, government told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trust threatens legal action after academies minister terminates school’s funding - Schools Week Ministers to drop ambition to see all primary pupils back before summer – reports - Schools Week Profile: Gerard Garvey, principle of Newcastle Sixth Form College - FE Week 20,000 pupils and staff in England will be given swab tests to see how Covid spreads in classroom - Mail Government's plans for primary schools to open more widely in disarray - Mail UK students offered virtual internships amid coronavirus slowdown - Guardian 'Deeply worrying' that plan for all primary schools to return before summer being dropped, says Children's Commissioner - Evening Standard Government to drop plan to bring back all English primary school years by July - Mirror Secondary schools could stay shut past September as experts fear spreading coronavirus, Matt Hancock admits - The Sun Plans to fully reopen primary schools before end of term 'to be dropped' - HuffPost Secondary schools could stay closed beyond September - Mail New UK teachers' union chief: 'Institutional racism in schools has got to be addressed' - Guardian It's still rich v poor in English schools – exactly as Boris Johnson likes it | Fiona Millar - Guardian Planned summer return for all primary pupils ‘dropped’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES As 30 private schools face closure - why are some thriving and others failing? - Telegraph Primary school plans for full reopening before September dropped in huge u-turn - Express Plan for all primary school kids to return to classes for 4 weeks before summer set to be scrapped - The Sun Possible delays to English schools reopening despite Covid-19 being 'in retreat' - Mail Big businesses including Amazon, BBC and Pearson kickstart Covid-19 small business recovery fund - IPPR Students: What are the polls saying about the next academic year? - HEPI The School Experience: Ofsted Parent View and a different kind of variation - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Coronavirus: Plan dropped for all primary pupils back in school - BBC Coronavirus: Will UK universities open in September? - BBC Parents bottle it on phones, 'strictest' head teacher says - BBC Plans to reopen English primary schools before summer in disarray - Guardian Coronavirus testing for pupils and teachers under surveillance plan - Mail Stuttering restart for crucial English language tests - Times Higher Education | THE Big data struggles to show its value for social sciences - Times Higher Education | THE Up to 20,000 kids and teachers to be swabbed to see if Covid spreads in schools - The Sun Carers of disabled children face lockdown hell | Rachel Sylvester - Times OfSTED: ITE Consultation Engagement 2020: FAQs - UCET Coronavirus: Virtual internships to help 800,000 students - Times Coronavirus: Plan to open primary schools for all year groups is dropped - Times Lucrative foreign students ‘taking Oxbridge places from state pupils’ - Times