News archive for 11th June 2020

back to standard EdNews format

Teaching unions accused of celebrating schools remaining closed - Telegraph New classrooms to be built at Bridgend primary school after burst pipe damage - Wales Online Children's lives were 'put on hold' in Covid-19 pandemic to benefit the middle-aged and elderly - Mail Schools to close over summer for frontline UK workers’ children - Financial Times PM's schools plan had 'absolutely no detail whatsoever' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children's lives 'put on hold' by coronavirus lockdown and school closures, Sage adviser says - Telegraph Boris Johnson's old £28,500-a-year prep school Ashdown House will close permanently due to Covid-19 - Mail Pride month: FE must embrace diversity in governance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only a fifth of UK universities say they are 'decolonising' curriculum - Guardian Coronavirus outbreaks in schools remain static in first week of reopening - Schools Week PPE in education settings: how to use it properly - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Teachers' 'can-do' energy can help open schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES What happens at school if a teacher catches Covid-19? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Introduction of T Levels - DfE Secondary and primary school application and offers: 2020 - DfE Providers selected to deliver T Levels and providers planning to deliver the T Level Transition Programme - Education & Skills Funding Agency Education Secretary accelerates T Level roll-out - DfE How Boris Johnson can fix the schools crisis | Philip Collins - Times T Levels: next steps for providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Children arrive for class with temperature checks and social distancing in the playground - Mail Coronavirus updates - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Business as (un)usual: Moving learning online with the Oak National Academy - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth UK Research and Innovation seeks further council members Supplementary content information - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Give teachers automatic pay rise or risk legal action - Times Educational Supplement | TES State and private schools in 'movement' to scrap GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I don't feel I can say no': parents torn on sending children back to school - Guardian Heads fear online learning not reaching all pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES New funded childcare places on hold until September in Wales - Nursery World Government's £63m for local welfare assistance schemes 'not enough', charities warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now NEU issues Boris Johnson with catch-up plan for disadvantaged school pupils - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Schools never shut: the extraordinary lengths teachers have been going to in supporting children during lockdown - IOE London Blog Boris Johnson faces Tory two metre pressure as Keir Starmer demands schools plan - PoliticsHome Eduu.School: Piloting a blended learning and wellbeing model for disadvantaged students during the COVID-19 crisis - Nesta Active policy required to avoid COVID-19 crisis exacerbating existing inequalities - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Coronavirus: Keir Starmer says it is ‘ridiculous’ that betting shops can reopen while schools stay shut - PoliticsHome Digital wellbeing during lockdown: the staff perspective - Jisc Assessment 2020: what happened – and what next? - Jisc Government faces court over plans to scrap free school meal vouchers this summer - Mirror English UK announces anti-racism group - PIE News AoC president Steve Frampton: the future of assessment is now - Jisc UK, US drop in latest QS World University Rankings, Asia gains ground - PIE News Prospective students may consider deferring, but so far few are taking action - Wonkhe Our Future Teaching Scholars secure NQT roles - Education Development Trust | EDT Podcast: Consumers, student experience, China, statues - Wonkhe Why can’t the sector get in tune about September? - Wonkhe Meet the people – a lesson in asking the public the right question about universities - Wonkhe Secondary school admissions system is still a work in progress - Nuffield Foundation International student recruitment – can government alone have the answers we need? - MillionPlus Welsh Government's guidance on operational and learning - NAHT Our response to the summer catch-up scheme - NAHT Pupils should be better educated about Britain's role in slave trade - Starmer - Mail 10 killer facts from today’s HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey - HEPI Coronavirus: National Education Recovery Plan - National Education Union Macclesfield College under fire for forcing staff to come in for virtual open day - UCU Private schools tire of DfE wait and bring pupils back - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will schools go back over the summer and what is the catch up programme? - Metro Summer catch-up plan for England's schools pledged - BBC Covid-19: 'We must invest in our young people's future' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kids ‘might not all go back to school until February’ as scientists fear making changes over winter - The Sun Schools won't open for kids of key workers over the summer holidays, No 10 says - The Sun We need a volunteer army to help children locked out of learning during lockdown - HuffPost First ever black head of Oxford College calls for statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed - Mail Schools will be shut over the summer holidays, Downing Street confirms - Evening Standard Labour boss Keir Starmer blasts ‘ridiculous’ decision for betting shops to open when kids still aren’t going to school - The Sun This bungled schools coronavirus policy hurts children, parents and teachers | Lola Okolosie - Guardian Will exam boards become an irrelevance after Covid-19? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ending 2m rule to boost school space a 'red herring' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary schools won't open for key workers over summer, No 10 confirms - Mirror Black Lives Matter in education - BERA Oxford v-c: ‘hiding your history is not the route to enlightenment’ - Times Higher Education | THE Ofsted chief says teachers need a more 'optimistic approach' to reopen schools - Mail Teachers call on PM to create a recovery plan for education - Nursery World Let's hear it for the heads keeping everything going - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman calls on education bosses to be more 'optimistic' about schools reopening - Evening Standard Successfully challenged GCSE and A-level grades up 152% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why critical literacy skills are vital to Year 6 pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Applicants and students need clarity about next year's provision - Office for Students Letter to the Education Select Committee (29 May 2020) - Office for Students Postgraduate research students - Office for Students What can the UK sector learn from the University of Queensland on China? - Wonkhe Secondary school closes because of suspected coronavirus case - The Sun Nelson Mandela would have opposed removal of British imperialist’s statue, says Oxford Uni head - The Sun Exam appeals rise again as new reforms rolled out to all GCSEs - Schools Week Ofsted 'needs clarity' to inspect schools' remote offer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary school applications fall for first time since 2013 - Schools Week GCSE entries: Stats, citizenship and Spanish up, PE, media and engineering down - Schools Week DfE scraps provider quality criteria in final phase of T-level roll out - FE Week Keir Starmer calls for empty theatres, museums and libraries to be used as classrooms - Mail Draft in ex-staff: Teachers’ 10-point ‘recovery’ plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Language GCSE entries up but a mixed picture at A level - Times Educational Supplement | TES T-levels: The providers selected to run courses in 2022 - FE Week T-level wobble as another four providers cancel September launch plans - Schools Week T-level wobble as another four providers cancel September launch plans - FE Week T levels: Next wave of providers announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES Calls for ‘pop-up’ schools in playgrounds, churches and empty offices to stop ‘disaster of a generation’ - The Sun Boris Johnson 'looking at new one-metre rule' so pubs and schools can reopen - Mirror Ofsted chief feels 'disappointed' that school reopening target dropped - Express Schools catch-up: Boris Johnson unveils huge summer revival for education - Express Better assessment impresses students but COVID-19 impacts their overall perceptions of value for money - Advance HE 'I can't afford my student housing during lockdown, so I'm striking' - Guardian Nelson Mandela 'would not have wanted Cecil Rhodes's Oriel College statue to fall' - Mail Prioritise jobs and training for the young to drive UK-wide recovery - CBI New UCU Scotland report explores impact of automation in universities - UCU The Student Academic Experience Survey 2020 - HEPI Better assessment impresses students, but Covid-19 impacts perceptions of value for money - HEPI For the first time, I am thinking about sending my daughter to private school - Telegraph Boris Johnson vows to get pupils ready for school in September - 'big summer catch up' - Express Parents told to self-isolate after primary school teacher catches coronavirus - Mirror Boris Johnson pledges ‘big summer of catch-up’ to get pupils up to speed before classes restart in September - The Sun Keir Starmer blasts 'ridiculous' situation of betting shops opening as schools stay shut - Mirror Volunteer army of retired teachers could be deployed to help kids catch up on school - The Sun Don't hide history, says Oxford head in statue row - BBC Anne Longfield: Get a grip, Boris... and get pupils back to school - Mail Two-metre restriction could be cut to help schools and pubs reopen - Mail More students say university not value for money - BBC Education 'as important as health and the economy' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Crisis ‘may have impacted’ UK student perceptions of value already - Times Higher Education | THE Two metre social distancing rule ‘to be scrapped by September so schools can reopen fully after summer holidays’ - The Sun Oxford receives £80m donation for new graduate college - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus UK: School closures could 'undo' social mobility - Mail Fewer students say degree is good value for money amid Covid-19 and strikes - Mail Universities are told to lower their A-level offers even further to help the country's poorest students - Mail Inequality will worsen unless ministers act, says thinktank - Guardian Reuben brothers fund new Oxford college with £80m donation - Financial Times Boris Johnson says summer schools will help children to catch up - Times Reuben brothers give £80m to Oxford for new college - Times University student satisfaction down for first time in three years - Times Scotland: Glasgow University student athletes allege racist bias - Times Ireland: Parents believe girls more likely to reach higher education - Times University students finding teaching better since lockdown, survey suggests - Telegraph