News archive for 18th June 2020

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Schools in Northern Ireland to cut 2m rule down to 1 so all kids can return - The Sun Modern-day witchfinders won't end the hate by pulling down statues — they'll only fuel it - Mail This cowardly surrender by Oxford University is a wilful vandalism of history - Mail Wages for young apprentices to be funded by Tees Valley combined authority - FE Week Gender pay gap begins for students straight after university – report - Guardian Girls are four times less likely to study maths-intensive subjects at university than boys - Mail Two-metre rule may not be reduced for schools in England before September - Mail Suspected covid-19 outbreaks in schools rise by 70% - Schools Week More than 250 former pupils accuse top private school of racism - Mail The Guardian view on tutors for all: easier said than done - Guardian 'Extended household groups' could help provide childcare as blended learning row continues - Herald Scotland Coronavirus: Primary school closes for two weeks after caterer contracts Covid-19 - Independent Sturgeon: Social distancing rules to be re-examined - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils face longer school days to catch up after lockdown - Metro Scottish education can do better for BAME pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Financial auditors conclude former principal’s expenses failed public money test - FE Week Update on school reopening plans - NAHT ASCL Northern Ireland responds to minister’s plans for wider opening of schools - ASCL Highbury College given £1.5m emergency bailout to stay afloat - FE Week Plans for a national tutoring programme to be unveiled - BBC Teacher lockdown phone calls home 'highly appreciated' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Graduate Outcomes in a post Covid-19 world - Wonkhe Podcast: Reassurance, international, admissions, Rhodes will fall - Wonkhe Gradual outcomes from Graduate Outcomes - Wonkhe Gillian Keegan: No funding for PhD apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Time to redirect internationalisation efforts where they are most needed - Wonkhe Regulating anger in the classroom - Teacher Toolkit Black graduates are eight per cent less likely to be in full-time jobs - Mail Schools in Scotland: 'Covid Generation' will pay high price if they stay off school too long - Scotsman 'Extremely disappointing' slump in walking to school as record number take car - Scotsman Graduate students: Getting into employment - Office for Students Higher Education Graduate Outcomes Survey UK: 2017 to 2018 - DfE Student number controls - DfE Childcare and early years providers survey: 2019 - DfE Statutory notice to the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education - DfE Supporting children and young people with SEND as schools and colleges prepare for wider opening - DfE Oxford’s Oriel College votes to remove Rhodes statue - Times Higher Education | THE Getting play right in early years post-Covid: a guide - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boost BAME GCSE grades by up to 10% to counter bias - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government 'to fund private tutors for catch up scheme' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we must scrap GCSEs: 4 ways to form a better system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cecil Rhodes protests will continue until statue is removed - Mail Donation of 26,000 books for one of England's most deprived towns - Mail Campaign doesn't end with Rhodes statue, says Oxford group - Guardian NEU reveals plans for summer catch-up programme for vulnerable children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Teacher supply and Covid-19 - EPI Free access to NAHT Wellness and Protect’s well-being solution - NAHT Digest #144: Talking to kids about race - Learning Scientists City of Bristol college joins Collab Group - Collab Group Coronavirus: Funding for 2020 summer holiday local offer - National Education Union Response to the new Graduate Outcomes statistics published by HESA - HEPI Enhancing online learning in secondary schools - Teacher Toolkit Moving with the times: Educational video games to improve children’s movement skills - BERA UK schools masterplan: ‘Catch-up’ sessions to be held as pupils face longer days - Express Sturgeon urged to sack Scottish education secretary as SNP grilled over COVID-19 response - Express Norwich School hit by racism allegations in letter - BBC Minister forces all employers to drop PhD apprenticeship plans - FE Week School culture must not let anti-gay comments persist - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools consider changing names because of slave links - Times Educational Supplement | TES Increase child benefit to help pay for home learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES When will schools in Scotland reopen? Education Secretary says rushing schools back would be ‘playing with public health’ - Scotsman £100m NHS apprenticeship tender for level 2 administrators despite framework switch off - FE Week Urgent call for local councils to be given funding to support summer holiday provision - Nursery World Gender pay gap opens up quickly after graduation - Times Frustration as DfE free laptops arrive 'locked' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher recruitment rise is great but retention is key - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE 'planning longer school days' for catch-up scheme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lockdown ‘has left pupils withdrawn and disturbed’, says top London head - Evening Standard The ultimate self-study guide: Oxford students pen ebook to help pupils motivate themselves - Telegraph Schools 'to have longer days and hire thousands of private tutors' to help pupils catch up - Mirror Police in schools: Black Lives Matter protests raise urgent concerns - The Conversation Sturgeon left red faced as SNP are accused of 'failing our children' by angry parents - Express BLM protests prompt Edinburgh to reassess fate of golliwog mural in a primary school assembly hall - Guardian If my grades were predicted I would never have studied at Oxford and Yale - HuffPost Primary school shuts after catering worker tests positive for Covid-19 - Mail Epsom Primary School in Surrey shuts for two weeks after catering worker tests positive for coronavirus - Evening Standard How schools in Newport are planning to re-open from June 29 - Wales Online Ashworth shamed over left-wing bullying as unions leave teachers 'in tears' in GMB clash - Express Unions accused of wrongly branding schools as ‘coronavirus death traps’ - The Sun Early council plans for reopening schools revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dr Hilary issues stark warning about school closures: 'We're going to fail a generation' - Express Reopening primary school creates pop up classrooms from unused festival tents to maintain social distancing - The Sun Primary school shut for 2 weeks after catering worker tests positive for coronavirus - Mirror Black Lives Matter and World Refugee Week 2020 - Early Education Admitting mistakes: Creating a new model for university admissions - EDSK Prince Charles urges action to stop coronavirus devastating young people's futures and harming the prospects of a generation - Mail Reduction in two metre rule or £30 million in funding required to get more pupils in school, says Edinburgh Council - Scotsman Parents’ anger at Scotland postcode lottery in online school teaching - Scotsman Toby Perkins: 'Redundancies in FE would be a disaster' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Looming recession will boost teacher recruitment (and retention) - SecEd If Nicola Sturgeon means what she says about not wanting part-time schools it's time for her to act - Telegraph To avoid the mistakes of past recessions, government should focus on skills to get the most at risk 764,000 people back into secure work - AoC | Association of Colleges Have teachers been set up to fail? - HEPI Man Utd star Marcus Rashford says Boris Johnson school meals U-turn is just the start - Mirror Oxford college wants to remove Rhodes statue - BBC When will schools fully reopen, and should children be sent back to school? - Telegraph Coronavirus UK: Children to catch up with more time in class - Mail Kate Middleton issues 'really difficult' message to schoolchildren coming out of lockdown - Express Children's Commissioner fears widening disadvantage gap due to COVID (video) - Mail Children will be asked to spend more hours in school under new plans to catch up on missed lessons due to pandemic - The Sun Memories of being hungry as a child have driven Marcus Rashford to deliver school meals campaign - Mail AoC calls for £3.6bn post-pandemic skills package - FE Week Which nations will weather the storm on international recruitment? - Times Higher Education | THE Anger over Birmingham’s crisis switch to ‘generic mega-modules’ - Times Higher Education | THE The EU’s coronavirus recovery plan must harness frontier science - Times Higher Education | THE Covid-19 'could cut teacher shortages by 40% per year' - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC calls on Treasury to invest £3.6 billion in skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19 recession could reduce teacher shortages by up to 40%, EPI finds - Schools Week Universities should be stripped of admissions control and places should be allocated by lottery, report says - Telegraph Home and school-based learning must be poverty-proofed, says charity - Mail Get all children back to school, doctors tell Boris Johnson - Times Cecil Rhodes statue must fall, Oxford chiefs agree - Times Schools and coronavirus: ‘Head teachers need a clear message from ministers and time to plan’ - Times Cecil Rhodes: Five years of student protests led to the end for Oxford memorial - Times Teachers’ unions accused of pushing view that schools are coronavirus death traps - Times Lady Lumley’s School spent £100k in bid to hide claims of racism - Times Call for reform of ‘biased’ university admissions system - Times Oxford is tying itself in knots over racism | Joanna Williams - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Pupils have no face-to-face teaching for three months - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Put children before pubs and shops, says Sturgeon’s adviser - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Hundreds of teachers recruited - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Poorer families hit hardest by cost of school shutdown - Times