News archive for 10th June 2020

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Failure to reopen schools putting welfare and education at risk - Starmer - Mail Gavin Williamson should stop giving a 'Gallic shrug' to ideas to save the school year - Telegraph Cardiff Uni warns of possible job cuts due to £168m income drop - Wales Online Boris Johnson urged to set out robust plan to get more primary pupils back to school - Mirror Ofsted chief says parents are 'more frightened than they need to be' about children returning to school - Telegraph Ofsted chief calls for a more can-do approach to primaries reopening - Guardian Call for UK summer schools as class disruption continues - Financial Times Decision to drop plans for wider return to school before summer 'disappointing' - Mail MPs demand review of national curriculum, led by black leaders - Guardian Starmer: England's back-to-school plans 'lie in tatters' - BBC How schools could go back: Village hall schools and summer lessons among ideas to save a generation - The Sun PM promises a ‘huge summer of catch up' for pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Train new recruits in anti-racism, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman: People are ‘perhaps more frightened than they actually need to be’ about school returns - Schools Week Employers raise alarm over school closures - Telegraph 'Lack of joined-up thinking' by Government impeding social mobility, says watchdog - Telegraph A statement from Executive Director Maria Balinska - Fulbright Commission Covid-19 and EdTech: a chance for HE to rethink quality of provision and equality of access - IOE London Blog Sector wide international consultation maps UK TNE - PIE News It’s time to put tribalism aside – we need a national schools plan to ensure no child is left behind - PoliticsHome UK sector bodies propose national loan scheme to kickstart international recruitment - PIE News PMQs: Keir Starmer claims Boris Johnson ‘flailing around trying to blame others’ as leaders clash over school reopening - PoliticsHome GCSEs: Wilshaw's doubts about 'weak' schools' grading - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sustainable Degree Apprenticeships report launched with recommendations to boost productivity and social mobility - Edge Foundation Our response to the government's statement on the full opening of primary schools - NAHT Guidance on reopening schools fails to offer assurances on safety - NASUWT ASCL Cymru responds to Welsh government guidance on wider opening of schools - ASCL Let's not return to burdening families with homework - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lunch at desks and learning outside in reopening plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Black Lives Matter - National Education Union Public Accounts Committee report on UTCs - National Education Union Coronavirus: Welsh Government guidance on schools' wider opening - National Education Union Making big decisions in an information vacuum - HEPI Researching the world in uncertain times: The role of bricolage - BERA The state of the teaching nation, England - Teacher Toolkit Boris Johnson promises ‘massive catch-up operation’ for pupils will be announced next week - Schools Week ‘Prioritise professional subjects in Covid-19 recovery’, says poll - Times Higher Education | THE BAME people 'woefully underrepresented' in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES National plan 'needed to create more school space' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils will go to school at least three times before summer holiday in Wales - Wales Online Boris Johnson ‘fully intends’ to get ‘all children’ back to school in September despite u-turn on primary reopenings - PoliticsHome 'White guilt on its own won't fix racism': decolonising Britain's schools - Guardian We must teach the worst of British colonial history - Times Educational Supplement | TES Multi-million pound cut to College Collaboration Fund as DfE reopens applications - FE Week New learning network for improving children and babies’ mental health launched for early years practitioners - Nursery World Coronavirus: Child poverty predicted to rise warns social mobility watchdog - Nursery World Ringing endorsement for staff in annual student survey - UCU Lords questions government on education and child safety online - UK Parliament Extra mental health support for pupils and teachers - DfE Advanced learner loans funding rules 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Student academic experience in 2019-20 - Wonkhe Assessing competences could equip graduates for an uncertain post-Covid future - Wonkhe ESFA Update: 10 June 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Back to school: One NQT's hopes and fears ahead of June 15 - SecEd Pupils in Wales face more outside learning and lunch at their desks - Mail Back to school: what lessons can UK learn from rest of Europe? - Guardian Children's harrowing accounts of domestic violence during lockdown - SecEd Fears of autumn spike behind June 29 re-opening in Wales - SecEd Triple whammy: 'Significant' recruitment and retention challenges continue - SecEd No 10 refuse to rule out bringing teachers out of retirement for summer schools - Mirror Fat-shaming teachers won't cure childhood obesity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Retired teachers may be called on to help schools open - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Wales school reopening advice published - BBC Exam cancellations will hit poor and BAME children hardest, experts warn MPs - Evening Standard Boris Johnson accused of 'flailing' over schools reopening - Mail Rishi Sunak 'believes school closures as damaging as credit crunch' - Mail Imperial and University College London make top ten in worldwide university rankings - Evening Standard Take responsibility for your failings over Covid-19, Starmer tells Johnson - Mail Boris Johnson's pledge of £63m for vulnerable families not enough, says Labour - HuffPost Government U-turn shows teachers' voices must be heard - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reopening 15 June: how are colleges doing it? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools tell SQA ‘give us back our money’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual considers appeals helpline for GCSE grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES University rankings: the 84 UK institutes listed in the QS World University Rankings - from Oxford to Manchester and Edinburgh - Scotsman 700,000 disadvantaged kids are not doing home work and don’t have access to computers, top MP warns - The Sun Boris lays into Sir Keir over complaining not enough kids are in school one week on from saying it wasn’t safe - The Sun Minister defends decision to open zoos before schools claiming it will help entertain kids - The Sun Kids under 15 have a one in 3.5 million chance of dying from coronavirus - The Sun Poorer pupils taking exams face ‘tsunami’ of anxiety and inequality, MPs told - HuffPost Ex pupils of a Bristol school named after Edward Colston slam headteacher for 'defending' him - Mail How could schools go back? Calls for 'furlough-style' plan to get children back in the classroom - Mail Oxford University chancellor Chris Patten accuses Cecil Rhodes statue protesters of 'hypocrisy' - Mail Millions of children might not be able to go back to school in September - Mail PM accused of lying over school openings collaboration - Times Educational Supplement | TES Monitoring social mobility 2013 to 2020 - Social Mobility Commission Boris Johnson told he must deliver national plan to help pupils amid calls to build Nightingale schools for summer - Evening Standard Ofqual: Most qualifications will see students progress - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Tragedy' many school pupils won't return until September, Rishi Sunak says - Evening Standard Teachers should run summer classes for children who have missed out, says former head of Ofsted - Telegraph Furious parents lash out as zoos & McDonald’s open but most schools may be shut until September - The Sun Coronavirus: What is happening at my primary school? - BBC Ex chief inspector of schools rages at ministers for failing kids – and says some could have to repeat a year - The Sun This is how parents feel about their kids not going back to school - HuffPost Schools need to know 2021 exam plans before summer, says Ofqual chief - Schools Week 'Astonishing': Ministers condemned over school openings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Relax GCSE grade boundaries this year, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents and teachers: how do you feel about the plan for primary schools in England? - Guardian ESFA ‘considering’ extensions to coronavirus supplier relief schemes - FE Week Government savaged by its own social mobility tsar for failing to act on 7 years of pleas - Mirror Exam grades 'should be relaxed' to stop coronavirus having 'life-long' impact on children - Mirror Pupils are more likely to be hit by lightning than die of coronavirus new figures show as calls to reopen schools grow - The Sun Gavin Williamson is ducking the tough questions about reopening schools - New Statesman Good Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid slams ‘national scandal’ of school closures and fears ‘lost generation’ of education - The Sun Is the government wrong to drop plans for all primary pupils to return to school? (debate) - City AM Ex-Ofsted chief: failure to plan for reopening of schools is ‘astonishing’ - Guardian Children beg to go back to school after being locked down in abusive homes - HuffPost Attainment gap 'not closing despite curriculum changes' - Times Educational Supplement | TES College Collaboration Fund open for applications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Accreditation scheme to regulate growing online schools market gets green light - Schools Week 'Got to go!' GP slams 'ridiculous' 2m distancing rule as key obstacle to schools reopening - Express Piers Morgan lashes out at Education Secretary in scathing school rant: ‘What's going on?’ - Express Hundreds of cleaners are urgently needed to open up schools by June 29 - Wales Online Worth the wait: ‘Outstanding’ grade for Riverside College - FE Week Families ‘desperate’ for live teaching, survey finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly three quarters of British universities fall in global rankings - Independent Schools to be given 'priority lists' of which children to get back first - Mirror School children under 15 have just a 3.5 million-to-one chance of dying from coronavirus - Mail If universities struggle financially, BAME academics will lose their jobs first | Winston Morgan - Guardian Schools angered by holiday firm's failure to refund cancelled trips - Guardian Schoolchildren on lockdown in Leeds – in pictures - Guardian What Covid-19 teaches us about future of school education - Scotsman Scottish pupils could be barred from bringing items from home into school when classes resume - Scotsman Surgisphere: mass audit of research papers linked to firm behind hydroxychloroquine Lancet study scandal - Guardian COVID-19 pandemic hits mental health, especially of the young and of women, and widens inequalities - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Primary school plan abandoned - and they may not fully reopen till 2021 - Express It shames this nation that British children are being denied an education - The Sun £8.6bn skills package needed to boost the post-pandemic economy - AELP Guidance for providers about student and consumer protection during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic - Office for Students UK universities record worst performance to date in international league tables - Express Coronavirus: Pupils tense as teachers submit estimated grades - BBC Government scraps primary school summer target and admits pupils may not be back by September - The Sun More lockdown measures are eased but schools wait goes on - Mail Universities told to be honest with students over how coronavirus will affect classes - Telegraph Robert Halfon: We risk damaging the life chances of disadvantaged children if we don’t re-open schools - The Sun OfS: Colleges need to explain what HE will look like - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning that half-full UTCs cost taxpayer too much - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship wage should be subsidised, says AELP - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only one in four pupils who were allowed to return to school last week showed up for classes - Mail British universities fall in rankings - Mail Why is the UK’s largest pension scheme still investing in fossil fuels? - Times Higher Education | THE AELP calls for one-off £8.6bn post-pandemic skills package - FE Week LSE’s financial woes spotlight wider issues for sector - Times Higher Education | THE Senior MPs question £3m spent on UTC membership body - FE Week Cecil Rhodes: How Black Lives Matter and Bristolian vandalism renewed hope that Oxford’s imperialist benefactor could fall - Independent UK universities suffer worst-ever rankings in world league table - Guardian MPs question £3m spent on UTC membership body - Schools Week AELP: £8.6bn skills package needed to boost the post-pandemic economy - FE News We face coronavirus education crisis, warn critics as pupils’ return delayed - Times UK universities — including Oxford — marked down in global rankings - Times 9:00 a.m. - The Education Committee will hold a session on cancelled exams and the calculated grades system - Accountability Hearings Coronavirus: 700,000 children ‘doing no school work’ - Times Scotland: We can’t ignore the financial crisis in higher education - Times