News archive for 28th June 2020

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School building projects to get £1bn - but not all will break ground next year - Mirror Boris Johnson plans massive 10-year school rebuilding programme to help Britain recover from coronavirus pandemic - The Sun Chancellor Rishi Sunak could give firms £3,000 for each apprentice they hire to help fight growing youth unemployment - The Sun What can Graduate Outcomes tell us about structural inequality? - Wonkhe Colleges to receive £200 million in capital funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Decade of school rebuilding starts with £1bn for 20/21 - Times Educational Supplement | TES PM promising £1bn to rebuild crumbling schools - BBC £1bn for school rebuilding projects in 2021, but details on new 10-year plan scarce - Schools Week Johnson pledges £1bn school rebuilding programme for England - Guardian Boris Johnson announces ten-year schools rebuilding plan with £1bn investment - HuffPost Boris Johnson to launch £1bn schools building programme - City AM Government to ‘fast track’ £200m of £1.5bn capital budget to refurbish colleges - FE Week Schools reopening: Esther McVey says damaging decision will hurt a generation of young - Express Headteachers may refuse to fine parents who keep children at home in September - Telegraph Free school meals scheme 'hard to use', say parents and heads - Guardian The Guardian view on the treatment of shielders: first, not last - Guardian Universities can’t afford to be bystanders to building the post-pandemic world - Wonkhe Changing course? Seeking consent isn’t as simple as it looks - Wonkhe Sir Michael Wilshaw: Social unrest and violence will occur if kids not back in school - The Sun Who is Kate Green? 8 facts about the shadow education secretary - Schools Week The bombshells, rows and confusion over opening Welsh schools - Wales Online There's a plot to end school uniforms - this is why that's wrong - Express Could coronavirus solve the teacher recruitment crisis? - Times Educational Supplement | TES School closures force parents to choose between family and work - Financial Times When will we stop selling the lie of social mobility? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers to film 10,000 lessons in case schools can't fully open in September - Guardian Labour Party appoints Kate Green as Shadow Education Secretary - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Government fast tracks college rebuild programme funding - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges World events highlight stark inequalities in HE - MediaFHE Black Lives Matter points towards frameworks for ethical practice in HR - Wonkhe Universities must be held accountable for their action on racism - Wonkhe This is what being furloughed is like for a teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only 13% of UK working parents want to go back to ‘the old normal’ - Guardian Gavin Williamson is right – pupils should sit in rows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dame Alison Peacock: Don't guilt trip teachers into working over summer - Schools Week GCSEs: How will 2021 look for Year 11s? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should carry out mass testing to hasten return of all pupils, says Institute for Global Change - Telegraph Regular coronavirus testing of staff and pupils needed when schools go back - Scotsman Private schools accuse ministers of ignoring their offers to provide summer catch-up courses for local children - Mail My daughter wants to quit college, but still have us pay her rent - Guardian Let schools hire NQTs on short-term deals to solve recruitment blockage - Schools Week This is what schools in Wales will look like when they re-open on Monday - Wales Online Johnson to ‘build’ way out of economic slump - Financial Times Parents back head who called teachers lazy - Times University students start to win tuition fee refunds - Times Catch-up clubs needed to make up for ‘learning loss’ in Scots education - Times