News archive for 17th June 2020

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Coronavirus: Government risks ‘failing a generation’ if schools not reopened soon, doctors warn - Independent The school shutdown is wrecking children’s education every day it grinds on - The Sun Cecil Rhodes: Oxford college governors vote to remove statue - HuffPost Private schools offer to open up classrooms to state educated children for 'catch-up' lessons this summer - Telegraph Four vital demands Boris Johnson must meet so children can go back to school - Mirror Top school spent £100,000 of taxpayers’ money trying to gag Ofsted inspectors, it emerges - Telegraph Oriel College votes to take down Cecil Rhodes statue - City AM Oxford college votes to start work on removing Rhodes statue - Financial Times Lords questions government on the Covid-19 track and trace system and online support for pupils on 18 June - UK Parliament Guidance for schools: coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Further and higher education: coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Early years and childcare: coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Keeping children safe in education - DfE FE funding: initial teacher education (ITE), academic year 2020 to 2021 - DfE College corporation financial management good practice guides - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 17 June 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Universities Minister announces mental health support for students - DfE Adult education budget (AEB) funding rules 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Oxford college backs removal of Cecil Rhodes statue - Guardian Government to fund private tutors for English schools - Guardian Going to Primark but not class? MPs' fury at teaching unions 'blocking' schools reopening - Express School forced to close for two weeks after canteen worker catches coronavirus - Metro Coronavirus has made educators think more globally - Times Educational Supplement | TES Back to school: Paediatricians seek clear plans on return - BBC Children in Wales getting less education at home than in other parts of the UK - Wales Online Inside the free school meal food parcels being sent to families during the pandemic - Mirror Nicola Sturgeon told to stop 'dithering' on schools plan as blended learning could be scrapped - Herald Scotland Scotland: Unruly class irks Holyrood’s headmistress | Alex Massie - Times Labour-supporting teacher says kids need ‘Marxist’ teachers to stop ‘far-right parents’ brainwashing them - The Sun Kids losing out on education is one of the biggest outrages of the Covid crisis - The Sun After the summer, we will all want 'real' teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES BAE takes on record number of apprentices despite Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES What opening our campuses to more learners looks like - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private school grounds offered for summer catch-up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nicola Sturgeon accused of school 'chaos' after more mixed messages on reopening - Telegraph Universities minister: removing Rhodes statue would be ‘short-sighted’ - Times Higher Education | THE Health Education England denies cutting pay for student nurses on front line - Mail Holiday club and out-of-school providers in talks with DfE over reopening plans - Nursery World Paediatricians call on PM for urgent plan for all children to return to school - Nursery World Coronavirus: Scotland issues guidance ahead of reopening of nurseries - Nursery World Maternity leave teachers return to a changed world - Times Educational Supplement | TES https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/schools-cant-fully-reopen-september-22206349 - Mirror Row as student nurses are told coronavirus placements due to end in July - Mirror Government laptop scheme a 'national scandal' as 68,000 devices still not delivered - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Study shows big divide between richer and poorer children in access to IT during lockdown - Public Technology Students won’t “miss out” if we focus on helping them grow - Wonkhe Classes set by ability are hitting children’s self-confidence, study finds - IOE London Blog 5 easy tricks for successful online teaching - IOE London Blog Admitting mistakes: should the government take control of university admissions? - Wonkhe A beginner’s guide to… Graduate Outcomes - Wonkhe Private schools are offering their buildings and grounds for summer catch-up lessons for 'disadvantaged' state pupils - Mail Letter signed by 1,500 paediatricians demands Boris Johnson publish a clear plan for getting children back to school - Mail MP brands unions ‘utterly disgraceful’ as they insist schools cannot reopen in September with two-metre rule - PoliticsHome Keir Starmer refuses to say he backs schools re-opening amid row with Boris Johnson on child poverty - PoliticsHome Two million still face holiday hunger risk despite FSM summer extension - SecEd Making the early years workforce more sustainable after COVID-19 - Nuffield Foundation Ensuring fairer access to early years and childcare provision after the COVID-19 lockdown - Nuffield Foundation Classes set by ability are hitting children’s self-confidence - UKEdChat Removal of statues is “censoring the past”, warns universities minister - MediaFHE Leading under covid: time to ease the strain on schools - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Free school meals row as MPs warn Lidl and Co-op still not a part of voucher scheme - The Sun Marcus Rashford's FSM victory must create real change - Times Educational Supplement | TES More grade queries likely on results day, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers are most anxious key workers in Covid crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES New free digital skills qualifications given ESFA green light but Ofqual proving a barrier - FE Week Campaign to remove Rhodes statue from Oxford college short-sighted - Mail Marcus Rashford seeks more change after food voucher win - BBC As we reopen schools, focus on the already disadvantaged  - Financial Times Get children back to school, 1,500 paediatricians tell Boris Johnson - Evening Standard Sir Keir Starmer refuses three times to say it’s safe for kids to go back to school in fiery PMQS - The Sun UK’s top 1,500 kids’ doctors urge PM to reopen schools as a ‘national priority’ - The Sun Minister rejects pulling down Rhodes statue - BBC Schools can't fully reopen in September under current distancing rules, unions warn - Mirror Minister advises kids to practice Welsh on Xbox while schools are shut - Wales Online MPs accuse teachers' unions of blocking school reopening - BBC PM: Teachers must do 'crucial' catch-up plans by summer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Failing to reopen schools is the most catastrophic decision the government has made so far - New Statesman Teaching unions accused of 'breathing fear into parents' that schools are coronavirus 'death traps' - Telegraph Paediatricians call for 'urgent' plan to open schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sturgeon 'will not act recklessly' on opening schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children need back-to-school plan urgently, doctors tell Johnson - Guardian Paediatricians call on PM to prioritise reopening of schools - Mail Stormont could receive funding to extend free school meals over the summer - Mail All teachers must ‘improve racial literacy’ in order to teach children to be anti-racist - Metro Education secretary makes Zoom call to 3,000 parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Significant extra funding needed to reopen schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unions accused of causing damage in disgraceful response to opening schools - Mail Marcus Rashford: a brief history of free school meals in the UK - The Conversation Police presence at school 'criminalises BME students' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads: Low digital access becoming a 'national scandal' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers accused of blocking wider school openings - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Inadequate’ school named after losing £100k legal challenge to gag Ofsted - Schools Week Don't judge people in the past by today's standards - they had different values. Really? - Montrose42 This year, students have a better chance of getting into a top university | Koen Lamberts - Guardian The education divide - New Statesman Can teachers allow students to repeat the year? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges encouraged to join first ever digital prom - Times Educational Supplement | TES More teachers move overseas for higher salaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES British history; Black history: Everyone’s history - Teacherhead Duchess of Cambridge turns teacher as she records school assembly for children in lockdown - Telegraph Nicola Sturgeon: Scottish schools could reopen in 'nearer normal' way if coronavirus kept low enough - Scotsman Duchess of Cambridge to lead UK's largest assembly - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nicola Sturgeon: Schools could open with 'nearer normality' if virus fight continues on track - Herald Scotland Teach First cuts cohort by 120 due to lack of vacancies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Teach First drops 120 trainees as schools halt recruitment - Schools Week Statement on free school meals - Voice Exploring the application of Pierre Bourdieu’s capital(s) in survey research: Student participation in further education in England - BERA Voice Cymru comments on statement by Kirsty Williams (updated with letters) - Voice Private schools plan to ignore Government advice and open at the start of September 'come what may' - Mail Fears of legal action and impact on families following Edinburgh school return announcement - Scotsman 'Students want to confront it': academics on how to decolonise the university - Guardian £100,000 fund to make sure disadvantaged students can access online learning - Sutton Trust Supporting children at risk of hunger over the holidays should not be a one-off intervention - PoliticsHome Most UK unis preparing for in-person teaching in 2020, survey finds - PIE News Boris urges parents it's safe to send children back to school - Express Concern at prospects for school pupils who need extra support - Herald Scotland Inaccurate graduate employment data helps no-one - HEPI Why we should all mourn the disruption to student outcome data - Wonkhe Most universities will teach in-person this autumn - Universities UK Marcus Rashford’s joy after forcing Boris Johnson into U-turn on free summer school meals for struggling families - The Sun Ability setting 'widens students' self-confidence gap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK universities to provide ‘significant’ in-person teaching in autumn - Times Higher Education | THE 9:00 a.m. - The Education Committee will hear oral evidence in its inquiry into the impact of COVID-19 on education and children’s services - Accountability Hearings Most UK universities planning in-person teaching from autumn, poll finds - Guardian Students have more chance of getting accepted at a top university this year, higher education chief says - Telegraph Marcus Rashford wins battle for poorest pupils to keep free school meals - Times Coronavirus: Ofsted accused of absence from education crisis - Times Coronavirus: Younger children ‘struggle with behaviour and focus in lockdown’ - Times Scrap social distancing to reopen our schools | Alice Thomson - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: John Swinney feels wrath of parents over schooling - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Glasgow and Edinburgh fail to use empty buildings for extra classrooms - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon says free school meals will be extended to cover the summer holiday - Times Scotland: Numbers off to university had hit high - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Almost half of parents won’t send children back to nurseries - Times Coronavirus in Northern Ireland: Stormont to pay for school meals over summer - Times