News archive for 29th June 2020

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Schools could be told to put year groups in ‘bubbles’ to allow full return in September - Evening Standard Entire year groups of up to 240 pupils could be placed in school ‘bubbles’ - Metro Threatening families with fines over school not the way to go - Mirror Life in a Cardiff primary school on the first day back after lockdown - Wales Online Entire year groups of up to 240 secondary students could be isolated in 'bubbles' when classrooms reopen in September - Mail Leicester schools to close in first localised lockdown - Schools Week School is forced to shut after travellers in six caravans set up camp in car park outside - Mail Schools in England could drop some non-core subjects next year - Financial Times Narrow curriculum with maths and English the priority when schools return in September, Government to suggest - Telegraph The catastrophic impact of UK schools lockdown on kids’ mental health - The Sun Wales welcomes tens of thousands of pupils back to classrooms - Guardian Back-to-school safety plans for autumn leaked - BBC Children in England fully back at school in September, leaked plans say - Guardian Leaked DfE school opening plan is 'undoable' ‘fantasy’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: £1bn to rebuild schools and Kate Green - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rwandan refugees' son nears £60,000 target to go to Cambridge - Guardian The arts will fuel education's Covid recovery - Times Educational Supplement | TES Entire school year must isolate if one pupil tests positive for coronavirus - Times DfE's 16-point September school opening plan revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sir Keir Starmer claims ministers have been 'asleep at the wheel' over reopening of schools - Mail Star primary school head teacher says she has been backed 100% by parents - Mail Schools in Wales reopen for first time since March - Mail Supporting parents through online programmes: now and into the future - IOE London Blog Assessing learning in the new academic year (Part 1 of 2) – three key questions for school leaders to consider - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Starting early – article published in the latest edition of the Career Development Institute Magazine - Education and Employers Gavin Williamson says parents will be fined if they fail to send children back to school - PoliticsHome Government has been ‘asleep at the wheel’ on re-opening schools, claims Keir Starmer - PoliticsHome How I made careers education a priority at my school - Teach First Understanding evidence use in the learning and skills sector - Learning & Work Institute Write to your MP: maintained nursery school funding - NAHT Lessons must be learnt from COVID-19 crisis in rebuilding schools plan - NASUWT Covid-19 and schooling for uncertainty - BERA Coronavirus information (updated) - Voice Voice welcomes school and college investment - Voice Voice welcomes appointment of new Shadow Education Secretary - Voice NEU welcomes the Government’s commitment to maintaining school buildings - National Education Union The importance of keyboard skills - UKEdChat Schools in England told to put entire year groups in ‘bubbles’ from September - The Sun DfE 'puts full attendance above teacher safety rotas' - Times Educational Supplement | TES £200m for buildings is the tip of the iceberg for FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES CfEY calls on Minister for Women and Equalities to respect and protect the right of trans young people - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Whole-year-group bubbles, dropped GCSEs and Ofsted inspections still suspended in draft DfE guidance – reports - Schools Week Condition Improvement Fund: 2020 to 2021 outcome - DfE Innovative team scoops prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Award - GOV.UK Changes to the law on education, health and care needs assessments and plans due to coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Vulnerable children could get better support when moving school under DfE plans - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The university leadership challenge – from herding cats to lining up lions - Wonkhe Supporting early career teachers - Teacher Toolkit Here’s what we should do about the lockdown on work placements - Wonkhe Higher education needs to rethink knowledge transfer - Wonkhe Parents face fines if their children don't go back to school in September - Mirror Headteachers 'may refuse' to fine parents who keep children at home in September - Mirror Five schools remain shut due to contaminated water supplies - Wales Online Fears parents will be driven to use unregulated childcare - Nursery World Parents could be fined for not sending children back to school - Metro Ofsted school inspections cancelled for another month - Times Educational Supplement | TES Online learning is here to stay - but barriers remain - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: how will mocks work for Year 11s? - Times Educational Supplement | TES What schools will be told to do in September so all pupils can return - HuffPost Penalty fines for missing school next term - BBC Boris Johnson’s pledge to rebuild crumbling schools is not what it appears - New Statesman PM Boris Johnson promising £1bn to rebuild crumbling schools - BBC Parents will face fines if they refuse to send their kids back to school in September - The Sun Scotland: It won’t be straight back to full-time school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents who do not send children back to school in September could be fined - Mail Prime Minister pledges £1bn to rebuild schools but early years miss out again - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Coronavirus: Parents want fewer days in the office but struggle without childcare in pandemic - Nursery World Students' union's first black president reveals devastating experiences of everyday racism - HuffPost Official figures reveal 85% fall in apprenticeship vacancies - FE Week Help springs up for UK graduates facing bleak job market - Guardian £1bn school buildings pot spread over 'number of years' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers 'asleep at the wheel' on school openings - Times Educational Supplement | TES We must finally confront and defeat childhood poverty - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lord Baker: Here's how we fix youth unemployment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Supply teachers face an especially uncertain future - Times Educational Supplement | TES East End students inspired by NHS heroes win places to study at Oxbridge - Evening Standard Hey, Boris! Leave them schools alone - Mirror IFS: School buildings cash won't reverse decade of cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kate Green named shadow education secretary - Nursery World Fines for school non-attendance in England to resume from autumn - Guardian Labour appoints Kate Green as shadow education secretary - CYPN | Children & Young People Now PM: We will support small businesses with apprentices - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Pupils in Wales return to school after three months - BBC Parents to be fined for pupil absences from September - Times Educational Supplement | TES School absence fines will resume in September, says Williamson - Schools Week Gavin Williamson: Parents fined if they don't send kids to school (video) - Mail Exams regulator to lose their FE lead - FE Week Boris Johnson gets tough on children going to school in September – ‘It’s the law!’ - Express Schools reopening: Parents face fines if children do not return to school - Express English schools will have full class sizes from September - Wales Online Gavin Williamson promises ‘detailed’ plan to get all pupils back in September ‘by end of week’ - Schools Week Gavin Williamson to announce masterplan for school return this week - Express Boris Johnson school boost: £1.7BN pledged for rebuilding in major construction boom - Express Boris Johnson vows £1bn investment in ‘world-class’ school buildings as he begins coronavirus ‘bounce back’ plan - PoliticsHome PM announces transformative school rebuilding programme - DfE College collaboration fund (CCF) - DfE Movers and Shakers: Edition 322 - FE Week The regional way forward for R&D - HEPI How one adult education provider went above and beyond the conventional - FE Week New NLEs have to show high standards with ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’ - Schools Week DfE struggling to take the lead on digital literacy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson pledges £2billion to rebuild Britain's crumbling schools and make them fit for the future - Mail When will schools fully reopen, and should children be sent back to school? - Telegraph Boris Johnson unveils major school-rebuilding plan to help shattered economy bounce-back - Express Coronavirus: Heads caution against fines for parents who keep children at home - Times Boris Johnson pledges a decade of spending on schools - Times Don’t casualise academics, says OECD - Times Higher Education | THE How should journal editors address accusations of racism? - Times Higher Education | THE Westerners sceptical of value of higher education – global poll - Times Higher Education | THE