News archive for 12th June 2020

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Government owes our pupils a plan – so where is it? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Up to 46,000 fewer home students could start at UK universities this year amid the coronavirus pandemic - Mail PhD student told she’d fail higher exam says teachers need racial bias training - Metro Podcast: DfE ‘gags’ teachers and a summer catch-up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nine out of 10 secondary schools will reopen to more pupils on Monday - Mail University of St Andrews issue apology for ‘letting down’ BAME students and staff - Scotsman Schools ‘cut corners’ with bigger class sizes to meet June 1 reopening deadline - HuffPost School app scraps ads over privacy concerns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 12 June 2020 - Education Eye Case studies: remote education practice for schools during coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Nearly 90% of secondaries and colleges to open to more pupils from Monday - ASCL Making apprenticeship assessment work during Covid-19 - AoC | Association of Colleges NAHT's Ofqual consultation responses on awarding qualifications in summer 2020 - NAHT Teachers expected to clean classrooms amid safety fears - NASUWT Anger as University of Portsmouth restarts process to slash jobs during Covid-19 crisis - UCU UCU launches 'Fund the Future' campaign to secure universities and colleges - UCU First minister urged to join calls for UK government to fund education - UCU Five pupils a classroom, one year a day... how Wales' schools will look - Wales Online In the news 12 June 2020 - UCU Ofsted wins landmark prosecution case of school that breached conditions - Ofsted Supporting Black, Asian and minority ethnic students during the coronavirus pandemic - Office for Students Coronavirus information (updated) - Voice ‘Impossible’ to deliver usual exams in 2021, says union - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education minister writes to teachers and staff to ease fears on reopening - Wales Online The Future Ready Fund and Covid-19: why social and emotional learning matters - Nesta Government urged to clarify future of PE and sport funding for primary schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government still sitting on three quarters of laptops bought to help vulnerable children during lockdown - Public Technology Modelling the future: how the power of data will forge a post-COVID road to recovery - Jisc Black Lives Matter - solidarity statement - AoC | Association of Colleges John Swinney: Businesses must help schools re-open as next year's exams could face axe - Herald Scotland The way forward for degree apprenticeships - Edge Foundation Most deprived children face the biggest risk of unemployment - UKEdChat NHS volunteers inspiring the future - Edge Foundation FE colleges in Wales open on Monday - this is what's happening - Wales Online The reopening of schools so far and lessons learnt - UK Parliament Schools told they can't claim back costs of preventative cleaning - Schools Week ‘Light-touch’ assessment, pupil pods and stripped-back curriculum: DfE on remote learning - Schools Week Boys’ poor reading skills might help explain higher-education gender gap - UKEdChat When will secondary schools reopen, and is it safe to send children back to primary school? - Telegraph Reigniting our inner geographical detective - UKEdChat Closing schools deemed least effective policy to bring coronavirus peak down, Sage documents reveal - The Sun Why we need to spend £5 billon to deliver jobs for all - Times Educational Supplement | TES When will schools in Scotland reopen? Education Secretary says rushing schools back would be ‘playing with public health’ - Scotsman Unavoidable, structural change is coming to colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers are crying out for qualifications advice - Times Educational Supplement | TES 12% of secondaries won’t open to Year 10 from Monday - Times Educational Supplement | TES Blam! Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger to teach British pupils about money - Guardian Headteachers berate non-stop guidance changes for England's schools - Guardian The history of the British Empire is not being taught - New Statesman Heads mount 'military operations' to bring in exam pupils - BBC One in six parents believe school summer holidays should be cancelled - Nursery World Coronavirus: Wales launches further childcare guidance ahead of reopening - Nursery World Schools must embrace the exercise kick lockdown created - Times Educational Supplement | TES Online panel: will coronavirus shift universities online forever? - Guardian Ofsted: Private school fined thousands for breaking new pupil ban - Schools Week Coronavirus: Six things we learned from Ofqual about exams in 2020 and 2021 - Schools Week As they slip in the world rankings, what is the future of British universities? - Telegraph 'We need PPE': schools on what is stopping them reopening - Guardian Why don't schools make more of pick-up time? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils should be in school half the time, says Swinney - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most secondary schools and colleges set to open to more pupils - Mail I redesigned a school playground for my PhD – and the children got better marks learning outside - The Conversation Oxford college officials backed plans to protect Rhodes memorial - Guardian Schools will not return full-time if 2m distancing rules are still in place, say academy leaders - Independent How can we solve the problem of low attainment in maths? - Schools Week Coronavirus covered: Coupland in conversation with FE Week - FE Week Some primaries 'cut corners' in rush to reopen - survey - Times Educational Supplement | TES Report calls for temporary jobs for young people - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fury as teaching unions celebrate 'victory' of keeping schools closed until September - Mail Lockdown teaching assistant urges ministers to get all children back to class - Express The transition to our new normal will not be straightforward - FE Week Union calls on PM to support colleges and universities - Times Educational Supplement | TES As one of Oxford's few black professors, let me tell you why I care about Rhodes | Simukai Chigudu - Guardian Coronavirus: Over 1 in 10 secondary schools set to defy government’s June 15 reopening plan - Schools Week Disillusioned black Oxford students unwilling to help attract others - Guardian Frustration builds as Ofsted refuses to inspect paused providers - FE Week Coronavirus: Safety measures compromised in return to nurseries and schools - Nursery World The cost of keeping schools closed will be dreadful - Financial Times DfE tries to gag teachers on Covid response - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pressure on government grows for September schools plan - Schools Week Patchwork AP provision needs a tailor’s eye - Schools Week Will we ever see a weekly clap for the EIS and the Education Secretary? - Herald Scotland Kids face ‘Ice Age’ in learning if schools fail to open by September, MP warns - The Sun Bring back Brexit! - HEPI UK parents divided over sending kids back to school - 'Russian roulette with our children' - Express Teaching unions accused of celebrating ‘win’ as kids shut out of classrooms until at least September - The Sun Coronavirus: School in September 'part-time if 2m distancing' - BBC Three challenges facing academic research during the Covid-19 crisis - Times Higher Education | THE Psychology ‘can help policymakers tap wisdom of crowds’ during crisis - Times Higher Education | THE Universities can and should do much more to address systemic racism - Times Higher Education | THE Universities ‘should pay overseas student levy to British Council’ - Times Higher Education | THE Primary schools ‘ignoring’ Government coronavirus guidance - Metro YouTube English teacher Holly King-Mand starts new chapter - BBC Three-quarters of teachers expected to clean classrooms - Times Educational Supplement | TES 20% shielding teachers told to attend school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: Mayors back 7-point recovery plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Summer school won’t help children already falling behind, head teachers warn - Times Oxford tells students to forget going on a gap year - Times