News archive for 15th June 2020

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Three quarters of disabled children have had all their support withdrawn during lockdown - The Sun Four in 10 pupils have had little contact with teachers during lockdown - Guardian Schools and the Government must show far more drive to get kids back to school - The Sun Oxford students could get bumped-up grades if their exam performance was affected by George Floyd's death - Telegraph Coronavirus: One in five children have done almost no schoolwork during lockdown - Independent Pupils to be invited back to school before summer break– but just for one day - Telegraph State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Actions for FE colleges and providers during the coronavirus outbreak - DfE Space Rocket Challenges for the engineers of tomorrow - GOV.UK Boris Johnson's racial inequality commission to look at school struggles of white working class boys - Telegraph Academy trust financial management good practice guides - Education & Skills Funding Agency Primary schools to be given flexibility to bring back more pupils - DfE ESFA funding agreements and contracts 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: college financial planning handbook and financial plan - Education & Skills Funding Agency Two million children have done almost no home learning during lockdown, UCL report shows - Telegraph MPs echo England footballer’s call for free school meals extension - Financial Times How our college is leading the way on economic recovery - Times Educational Supplement | TES Review curriculum to reflect UK's black history - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams are fundamentally flawed – so let's try this - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary schools pupils facing GCSE and A-level exams return today - Mail We have a lot of work to do on racial inequality - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can we support social and emotional learning during school closures? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Latest update from your union - NAHT ASCL comment on wider opening of secondary education - ASCL Urgent action to tackle racism - National Education Union Coronavirus - flexibility for primary schools - National Education Union Universities’ Covid-19 response: not perfect, but far from cack-handed - Wonkhe Adjusting to teacher training post-COVID19 - Teacher Toolkit Maintaining trust in university data handling - Wonkhe Free school meals - National Education Union Secondary pupils back - but most only part-time - BBC PM rejects Marcus Rashford's plea to extend free school meals - Mail Boris Johnson will reply to Marcus Rashford’s summer free school meals plea - HuffPost Children doing 2½ hours’ schoolwork a day on average - IOE London Blog Nurseries to keep children in 'cohorts' of eight amid social distancing re-opening plans - Herald Scotland Outrage as 2m kids doing no work at home & millions of teens to get just 1 teacher meeting in 6 months - The Sun Year of blended learning 'absolutely not' the plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rashford refuses to give up after Government reject Man Utd star’s plea to not scrap free school meals during summer - The Sun Four ex-education secretaries join Marcus Rashford’s fight to get free school meals over summer and internet for all - The Sun GCSE and A level maths students are missing out on a key learning period. How can we help them? - IOE London Blog School reopening row deepens as Year 10 and 12 pupils return - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Never stop asking the question, ‘What is my role as a teacher?’ - Advance HE Keir Starmer backs Marcus Rashford's plea for U-turn on free school meals - PoliticsHome PM refuses Marcus Rashford's plea to extend free school meals to summer holidays - Mirror Boris Johnson launches fresh review into racial inequality in wake of Black Lives Matters protests - PoliticsHome How COVID-19 has changed student assessment for good - Jisc As colleges work through COVID-19, let’s make tech an enabler, not a barrier - Jisc The geographic impact of the COVID-19 crisis will be diffuse and hard to manage - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS UK should double duration of PSW visa to recover HE sector – former minister - PIE News GCSE results 2020: Proposed grades and variability in results - FFT Education Datalab GCSE results 2020: The relative severity of proposed grades - FFT Education Datalab GCSE results 2020: A look at the grades proposed by schools - FFT Education Datalab At the chalkface: It’s what teachers do - SecEd Push your own boundaries - UKEdChat The geographic impact of the COVID-19 crisis will be diffuse and hard to manage - Nuffield Foundation The impact of school closures on the attainment of disadvantaged EAL pupils - Bell Foundation Return of the kids: What is happening in primary and secondary schools? - Teacher Tapp Marcus Rashford restates plea to extend meal voucher scheme - Mail NASUWT comments on remarks made by the Isle of Man's DESC Chief Executive - NASUWT ASCL comment on flexibility for primary schools to bring back more pupils - ASCL Black Lives Matter - Independent Schools Council | ISC How many teachers are not able to work in school because they, or a family member, are at higher risk from Covid-19? - NFER Alternative visions for the future of AI - Nesta Two million children have done hardly any schoolwork at home amid lockdown - Mail Rhodes must fall, but who should stand in his place? - Financial Times Primaries can use spare space in local secondaries to get more pupils back, but no village halls - Schools Week Secondaries urged to meet all students in person - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don't use community halls to boost space, schools told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Millions of pupils 'have done hardly any work at home' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Secondaries can invite pupils in all year groups to ‘face-to-face’ meetings, says DfE - Schools Week Fury as secondary school pupils go back for ‘one hour appointments’ only - The Sun Two-metre social distancing for school pupils is an aspiration, not an absolute requirement says Ofsted chief - Mail Families fear being 'left with zero' if school meal scheme ends - BBC Coronavirus: Ofsted to publish paused inspection reports from next week - Schools Week Ofsted to publish paused inspection reports from next week - FE Week Coronavirus: Sturgeon wants 'normal' schooling back 'as quickly as possible' - BBC DfE urged to allow adult education centres to reopen - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should open in summer - but not with teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher-assessed GCSE scores 'higher than 2019 grades' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools will struggle with autumn exams, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grade appeals and reopening could swamp staff, say MSPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES How schools will look and change as secondary kids head back from today - The Sun Up to 300,000 secondary students miss out on return to school as heads say they cannot open fully - Telegraph How Covid-19 has fundamentally changed education, and what the future holds - Telegraph Why I wrote an open letter to my old private school asking them to decolonise their curriculum – and why all private schools should follow - Telegraph Take an educational tour from home with unionlearn - Unionlearn Schools score pupils nearly a full grade higher in some subjects, study suggests - Schools Week Nursery World launches #StandUpForEarlyYears campaign - Nursery World Around a quarter of early years providers still closed, research suggests - Nursery World You haven’t taught us enough black history, girls tell top London head - Evening Standard Fund FSM over summer, urges top footballer Rashford - Times Educational Supplement | TES MSPs warn teachers could face mountain of appeals over scrapped exams week before schools return - Herald Scotland 'Lockdown has a lot to answer for': the mature students going back to university - Guardian Pre-exam years back to meet teachers in secondary school - BBC 700,000 pupils 'miss learning due to lack of internet' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edinburgh reopening plan not good enough, says Swinney - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney: Scottish schools to keep 2m distancing to continue “reducing prevalence” of coronavirus - Scotsman School closures will have 'devastating effects' on pupils, child health experts warn - Mirror Pressure mounts on ministers as study shows fifth of pupils do no schoolwork at home - Schools Week Britain can no longer ignore its darkest chapters - we must teach black history | David Olusoga - Guardian Marcus Rashford calls for government free school meals U-turn - BBC Movers and Shakers: Edition 320 - FE Week Continuity planning must start without delay - Schools Week FE should be at the heart of shielding 19 to 24-year-olds from unemployment - FE Week How can we best use Graduate Teaching Assistants during the Covid-19 pandemic? - HEPI Higher education providers must take action to protect their least advantaged offer holders - HEPI This September, students should be able to try before they buy - Wonkhe Universities struggle to 'keep all the balls in the air' - MediaFHE Jo Johnson calls for four-year post-study UK work visa - Times Higher Education | THE We need to put the bounce back in ‘Global Britain’ - Times Higher Education | THE Call for adult skills boost to stem unemployment crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Summer catch-up' won't fix achievement gap, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools urged to ditch plans to hold GCSE and A-level exams this October - The Sun MPs push to get primary pupils back to school warning poorest are being left behind - Mirror Give lockdown-hit disadvantaged children free internet at home, education secretary told - HuffPost Government should end hostile bureaucracy facing overseas students - Mail Coronavirus: School closures put pupils at obesity risk - Times Coronavirus: Four-year visas needed ‘to lure students’ - Times Jo Johnson: Universities must do more to attract foreign students - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Parents prosecuted if pupils are kept at home - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Pupils disrupted for months when schools reopen - Times NHS got billions in cash but schools are told to ‘be creative’ - Times