News archive for 23rd June 2020

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Teachers unions say it is 'pure fantasy' that schools will reopen fully in September - Mail Five schools in 'hotspot' UK city closed after coronavirus outbreaks - Mirror Scottish schools to fully reopen on August 11 in 'mother and father' of SNP climbdowns - Telegraph Coronavirus, not political ‘U-turns’, still the serious issue - Scotsman 'Pure fantasy' to say all children will be back at school in September, headteachers warn - Telegraph 40% of secondaries didn't take extra students last week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early career framework reforms - DfE Student Support in England - Student Loans Company Extra support for new teachers amid surge in applications - DfE Academies Financial Handbook 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeships bursary for care leavers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Forty students at single school have lost loved ones to coronavirus - Metro Children’s Commissioner for Wales warns of a 'crisis in education' - Wales Online Top doctors stark warning about schools to Welsh Government - Wales Online Sturgeon humiliated as she's forced to abandon Scotland schools plan after criticism - Express Scottish Government accused of ‘mother and father of all climbdowns’ on schools - Scotsman Skills minister Gillian Keegan: 'This is the age of FE' - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney's statement on reopening: what we learned - Times Educational Supplement | TES What does coronavirus and the increase in unemployment mean for good work? - Learning & Work Institute School exclusion risks after Covid-19: A new report - ASCL UUK response to announcement on changes to home fee status from 2021/22 - Universities UK Wraparound childcare to resume from 4 July - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ASCL comment on relaxation of social distancing rule - ASCL England: EU students lose home fee status from 2021/22 - PIE News ASCL responds to rollout of early career framework - ASCL Scottish Government must continue to be driven by health advice in reopening schools - NASUWT EU students lose home status and loan access in England from 2021 - Times Higher Education | THE Student number controls harm access – in ways you might not realise - Wonkhe Are shared facilities and services the ultimate “toilet paper” issue this September? - Wonkhe Graduate Outcomes: subject and provider - Wonkhe Pay and conditions: Guidance for schools - Teacher Toolkit UCET statement on the Core Content Framework and OfSTED inspection framework (23rd June 2020) - UCET Up to one in 10 graduates unemployed a year after leaving some universities - Mail Coronavirus: Schools restart in Northern Ireland - National Education Union Social distancing reduced to 1 metre - National Education Union Sir Paul McCartney urges government to take meat off school dinner menus - Mail Response to the announcement on fees and loans for EU students in England from 2021 - HEPI Statement on re-opening of schools in Scotland - Voice Voice Cymru campaigns to overturn childcare decision - Voice The future of religious education in England - BERA EPSRC renews Women in Engineering Society partnership on International Women in Engineering Day - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Will scrapping the 2m rule mean more pupils can return? - Times Educational Supplement | TES APPG asks for catch-up funds to be extended to colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Distancing: ‘Does the DfE understand how schools work?’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Holiday and out-of-school clubs to open from 4 July - Nursery World Coronavirus: Option to delay school being explored by UK's largest nursery group - Nursery World CYP Now launches #Chances4Children campaign - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Rethinking Higher Education for a post-pandemic world - Advance HE Quality is in the eye of the beholder - Advance HE Black Lives Matter in narrative too: we should look to English not just history in schools - IOE London Blog The future of FE starts with three Rs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Home-schooling technology demands hits poorer families hardest, study finds - Public Technology Covid-19: school leaders on the frontline - NAHT 3,000 more teachers to be supported through the Early Career Framework - Ambition Institute Secretary of State thanks AoC President for contributions to FE - AoC | Association of Colleges EU students to be barred from FE loans next year - FE Week Unions still refuse to support kids going back to school and slam 1m rule as ‘pure fantasy’ - The Sun Nigerian ex-Eton pupil says he will return to accept racism apology - Guardian John Swinney's statement on Scottish schools reopening - Scotsman More BAME undergraduates win places at Oxford University - BBC Extra funds for 3,000 new teachers due to Covid crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES No home fee status for EU students from next year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cross-party group of MPs urge education secretary to include 16-19s in £1bn Covid catch-up plan - FE Week Coronavirus: Scottish schools aim to reopen full-time in August - BBC Coronavirus: 3,000 more teachers to get early career framework support - Schools Week Catholic schools call for changes to RE in Wales to be scrapped - Wales Online FE colleges to fully reopen in September is the ‘intention’, says PM - FE Week Year 10 attendance reaches just 16% in first week of phased return - Schools Week How the new one-metre distancing rule will affect schools - Telegraph Scottish schools reopening: John Swinney confirms plan for all children to return to class full time in August - Scotsman 'Full time' Scottish schools return planned for August - Times Educational Supplement | TES Johnson: Schools will return in September ‘with full attendance’ - Schools Week 'A fantasy' to see 1m rule as key to full school return - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Full attendance' in schools next term as 2m rule eased - Times Educational Supplement | TES School leavers' 'resilience' praised by first minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Treasury excluded colleges from £1bn catch-up fund just hours before DfE announcement - FE Week Williamson: DfE will not scrap baseline assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reopenings: 40,000 more teachers return to classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES Metacognition and self-regulated learning: what works and what does not - Best Evidence in Brief High-dosage reading tutoring in public schools as an alternative to charter schools - Best Evidence in Brief Social perspective - taking for change - Best Evidence in Brief The relationship between student motivation and reading performance - Best Evidence in Brief Not all effect sizes are created equal - Best Evidence in Brief GCSE and A-level exams could be later next summer, says education secretary - Independent After Durand: The school stepping out of the shadow of scandal - Schools Week Three Leeds schools confirm coronavirus cases as one primary shuts for deep clean - Mirror Trusts must publish £100k-plus salaries on their websites from September - Schools Week Twelve Oxford colleges accepted five or fewer black students in past three years - Metro 'I've seen the power of tutoring - it can work wonders - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney to make emergency statement on Scottish schools - Scotsman We helped create the NTP - here's why it's so vital - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tackle Stem teacher shortage in poor areas, urge MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools close over coronavirus cases in England - Independent Profile: Matt O'Leary, Professor of Education, Birmingham City University - FE Week Eton apologises to Nigerian author banned from going back after his book detailed appalling racism - Mail The 22 areas sharing £2m in careers hubs funding revealed - Schools Week Oxford University: 12 colleges take in five or fewer black undergraduates in three years - HuffPost Three ways for UK schools to improve their race relations now - Guardian How FE choices affect earnings and academic achievement - Times Educational Supplement | TES BAME students make up one-fifth of new Oxford undergraduates - Guardian Steiner schools chief: what my time in prisons taught me about the UK's education mistakes - Guardian We must embrace diversity in the post Covid-19 world - FE Week E-assessment: a new dawn or a dead end? - HEPI Edinburgh schools: Council update parents on when pupils will return to class - Scotsman Twelve Oxford Colleges have taken on just five or fewer black undergraduates in the past three years - Mail FE outcomes more affected by subject than college - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 22 areas sharing £2m in careers hubs funding revealed - FE Week Oak National Academy to start paying its teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oak National Academy gets £4.3m to stay open next year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministerial role needed to fix unequal education system, say MPs - Guardian Eton apologises to Nigerian ex-student Onyeama for racism - BBC Oak academy will create 10,000 lessons for next year with £4.3m DfE funding - Schools Week James Furlong: Silent vigil for inspirational teacher killed in Reading attack - Times Coronavirus: GCSEs and A levels to ‘start a month late in 2021’ - Times ‘Direct intervention’ needed to up BAME postgrad representation - 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