News archive for 24th June 2020

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Five schools forced to close in Leicester after coronavirus outbreak as staff and pupils test positive - The Sun Schools may ditch social distancing in September, reports say - Independent Coronavirus UK: 5 Leicester schools close after positive tests - Mail Teaching unions say fourth week of school was never agreed - Wales Online Universities face student revolt as watchdog attacks 'blanket refusal' to consider tuition fee refunds - Telegraph We must not return to pre-Covid education - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE ‘rewriting history’ over claims schools have never had to keep pupils 2-metres apart - Schools Week Coronavirus UK: NUS urges students to demand compensation - Mail EIS boss highlights 'anger' over schools U-turn as Nicola Sturgeon says teachers could be tested - Herald Scotland Scottish schools returning in August will not be 'business as usual' - Scotsman International schools face double hit from Covid-19 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can modern lessons work in socially distant classrooms? - Times Educational Supplement | TES This is how other countries are gradually reopening schools - Telegraph Axed Y7 cash not bring replaced, DfE admits - Times Educational Supplement | TES New teacher training inspections to focus on the ITE curriculum - Ofsted Claiming exceptional costs associated with coronavirus (COVID-19) - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 24 June 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Pupil premium: allocations and conditions of grant 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency What is the PhD experience? - Wonkhe The avalanche came – but what of it? - Wonkhe Alternative provision: year 11 transition funding - DfE Online education resources for home learning - DfE £650m catch-up cash not targeted at poor - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools reopening announcement was 'political' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid trauma: Flexible and agile approach needed to avoid exclusions - SecEd Full school re-opening? One-metre rule change makes little difference, DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES The way forward post-lockdown: Some simple suggestions - SecEd Funded support for NQTs hit by coronavirus lockdown - SecEd Apprenticeship system 'failing disadvantaged young people' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Earnings of students in further education affected more by what they study than where they study - London School of Economics | LSE The Government is failing to support pupils disadvantaged by school closures - PoliticsHome Help us to protect, support and grow public service provision at UK universities - PoliticsHome NUS launches mass action for debt-relief - PIE News The many roads to teaching with Further Forces - Education & Training Foundation Supporting ESOL learners to progress to functional skills - Learning & Work Institute ESFA publishes revised academies financial handbook for 2020/21 - NAHT How universities can support LGBTQ+ students beyond Pride month - Universities UK Update on return to school plans/October half-term - NAHT UCU and student activists launch green agenda for colleges and universities - UCU ASCL comment on wider opening of schools in Wales from Monday - ASCL Liz Truss and the Gender Recognition Act - National Education Union Ethics-in-practice in fragile contexts: The value of the CERD ethical appraisal framework - BERA The Class of 2020 deserve a party, so we’re going to throw them one - AoC | Association of Colleges Sir Michael Barber to step down as Office for Students chair - Times Higher Education | THE Reopening schools fully in September could spread Covid-19 from Devon to Cumbria and infect hundreds of families - Mail Sturgeon: 'Teachers will get a summer break' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools can afford Covid reopening costs from existing budgets, DfE insists - Schools Week AoC: Year 11s need support after months of 'neglect' - Times Educational Supplement | TES More questions over Plasdwr school that will be half-English and half-Welsh - Wales Online Furloughed Eurostar staff become French teachers - BBC Top private school asks teachers to exaggerate exam predictions - Guardian Scottish university one of the top ‘Golden Age’ institutions in world rankings - Herald Scotland Childminder numbers continue to fall in Ofsted pre-lockdown latest figures - Nursery World Comfort vs strategy (don't project anxieties; make things possible) - Headguruteacher DfE 'must support colleges at risk of losing £2bn' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I could have wept' - staff respond to new return plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Mass redundancies' looming in apprenticeships system - Times Educational Supplement | TES T level placements 'almost impossible' due to Covid-19 - Times Educational Supplement | TES National tutoring programme: how to make it work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why kids must return to school, diversity in the newsroom, and saving the nation’s barnets - New Statesman Coronavirus: DfE’s £10m behaviour hubs delayed until next year - Schools Week Schools reopening UK: Boris Johnson's hopes 'pure fantasy' – teachers union bashes plans - Express College sector could lose £2bn out of £7bn next year, claims AoC boss - FE Week ITE inspection framework 2020: Everything you need to know about the changes - Schools Week Ofsted doubles down on phonics requirement for ITT - Times Educational Supplement | TES Not all parents want children rushed back to school - Times Educational Supplement | TES The reformed apprenticeship system need not fail the young and disadvantaged - FE Week Disadvantaged workers being ‘failed’ by apprenticeships system, government advisers warn - PoliticsHome The Impact of COVID-19 on Education - the early impacts of lockdown - Edge Foundation An earthquake is coming for universities - HEPI Apprenticeships and social mobility - Social Mobility Commission Apprenticeships and social mobility: fulfilling potential - Social Mobility Commission Boris Johnson promises schools will reopen in September with ‘full attendance’ - The Sun Why lockdown could increase cases of children suffering from PTSD - Express Surge in online Gaelic learners during coronavirus lockdown - Herald Scotland Apprenticeships 'are not delivering social mobility' - BBC Teacher confesses 'biggest fear' staff have about children coming back to school - Mirror Psychologist explains devastating unseen impact of children not being in school - Mirror Eton's first black student said he never wanted an apology over racism he faced as a student - Telegraph Unemployment rates of new graduates are highest among law and computer science students, data shows - Telegraph Over a fifth of Oxford students are from black and ethnic minority backgrounds, new figures show - Telegraph Social Mobility Commission finds apprenticeship system ‘failing’ young disadvantaged people - FE Week Coronavirus: NUS launches 'mass action' for lockdown students - BBC Learners to share lockdown learning complaints - Times Educational Supplement | TES Report: Apprenticeship levy 'fails the disadvantaged' - Times Educational Supplement | TES NUS mass action demands Covid-19 student debt relief - Times Higher Education | THE Failed for-profit tops league for graduate unemployment - Times Higher Education | THE 9:20 a.m. - The Education Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into the impact of COVID-19 on apprenticeships and skills education and measures needed to support the sector - Accountability Hearings Coronavirus: 1.1m pupils have returned to school - Times Gavin Williamson’s university, Bradford, offers poor job prospects - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Union demands screens to protect teachers in class - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: School plan to go Dutch - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: When are schools reopening? - Times