News archive for 30th June 2020

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Children will be told to walk or cycle to school rather than take public transport - Telegraph Focus on English and maths risks creating 'cultural apartheid', warns social mobility expert - Telegraph Virus could be catastrophic for mental health of generation lockdown - Mail Investing in schools is well and good, but shouldn’t we prioritise reopening them first? - Telegraph Primary school forced to close after child tests positive for coronavirus - Mirror Oxbridge candidates will not have face-to-face interviews this year, as universities move them online - Telegraph Nearly nine in 10 primary schools in England have reopened to more children since lockdown - Mail GCSE and A-level exams in all subjects to be available in autumn - Guardian Dropping GCSEs only for ‘exceptional circumstances’, leaked DfE guidance states - Schools Week Students can appeal GCSE and A-levels if they believe they were victims of discrimination, under Ofqual plans - Telegraph Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak - DfE COVID Summer Food Fund - DfE ESFA to require reduction in subcontracted activity and introduce a new subcontracting standard, following sector consultation - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofqual publishes more details on appeals and confirms autumn exam arrangements - Ofqual Secondary school's ex-pupils slam 'culture of casual racism and homophobia' in open letter after damning Ofsted report - Mail Education declines in Attainment Challenge council - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE school building funding is cut - again - Times Educational Supplement | TES High Court judge slams pricey legal rows as RSC’s academy conversion ruled unlawful - Schools Week Oxford University to interview candidates online - Times Migrant children wrongly denied free school meals in government blunder - HuffPost PM issues warning on degree value as FE takes precedence - Times Higher Education | THE Microsoft to offer digital skills training for 25m people worldwide - Financial Times The 10 Scottish council areas with the highest number of schools that haven't been inspected in a decade - Scotsman SQA will not talk to schools before changing grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to teach creatively - Teacher Toolkit The big changes being considered for summer 2021 exams in Wales - Wales Online Coronavirus: FAQs on NEU NI school restart programme - National Education Union Coronavirus: Summer holidays letter - National Education Union Voice's commitment to racial equality at work for our staff and members - Voice Britain’s economic recovery relies on securing better support for mature learners - Wonkhe Regional WP is no longer enough – we need national collaboration - Wonkhe The untold story of university libraries in lockdown - Wonkhe The 15 questions the FE White Paper must answer - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA cracks down on subcontracting activity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disadvantaged students could lose out under latest exam guidance - UCU ASCL comment on autumn exam series - ASCL Robert Halfon MP: Guaranteeing an apprenticeship guarantee (full speech) - Edge Foundation Report examines how international education systems make their schools more inclusive for multilingual learners - Bell Foundation Does a 3-year GCSE course make it easier for schools to catch-up? - Teacher Tapp Analysis: Is the recruitment and retention strategy starting to pay off? - EPI Pearson and Amazon Web Services develop first Cloud Computing BTEC Higher National qualifications to help address the cloud computing skills gap - Pearson Call for 'urgent' funding for maintained nursery schools - Nursery World IPPR North responds to PM’s ‘Build Build Build’ speech - IPPR PM pledges apprenticeships and training for every young person - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ESFA to force ‘significant’ reductions to FE subcontracting by 2022/23 - FE Week Emergency changes to EHC plans extended for second time - CYPN | Children & Young People Now What to expect when schools reopen (video) - HuffPost GCSE choices will narrow next year, says academy chain - BBC 'Put children at the heart of recovery' say charities, as PM unveils 'new deal 'for economy - Nursery World Only teach maths and English? That's not an education - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE and A-level autumn exams offered in all subjects - BBC Investment and reform should level up our co-curricular offer - Schools Week GCSE and A level pupils can sit exams in autumn to improve their grades - Metro Ant and Dec to deliver an assembly message to UK pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES £1bn school building fund must expel asbestos forever - Times Educational Supplement | TES All GCSEs and A levels to be offered this autumn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam timetables and key dates for the 2020 GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Google: England behind on edtech from start of crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Skills, skills, skills' for recovery, says Halfon - BBC Coronavirus: Autumn series grades to be based only on exams, Ofqual confirms - Schools Week Calls to restart fruit and vegetable scheme in English schools - Guardian GCSE and A-level autumn series grades to be based only on exams, Ofqual confirms - FE Week Leicester lockdown: Parents and pupils upset at school closures - BBC Exam boards to investigate claims of ‘bias’ in teacher-assessed grades - FE Week Exam boards to investigate claims of ‘bias’ in teacher-assessed grades - Schools Week Grade inflation tragedy if teacher judgement undermined - Times Educational Supplement | TES All subjects must embrace diversity - and at all ages - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Our generation’s world war’: what the first day back at a Birmingham school looks like (video) - Guardian Three in four secondary schools reopen to more pupils - Schools Week State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 March 2020 - Ofsted Industrial Strategy Council report highlights union contribution to skills - Unionlearn Dr Jo Casebourne, Early Intervention Foundation: recovery from Covid-19 will have a knock-on effect for early help services - Nursery World Coronavirus: Nurseries use hi-tech systems to reassure parents sending children to settings is safe - Nursery World Profile: Dan Morrow, CEO, Woodland Academy Trust - Schools Week HEi-know Good Practice Briefing: UK universities describe "amazing" shift to online delivery - MediaFHE 3/4 secondary schools open to Years 10 and 12 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oak National Academy could collect ‘basic data’ on users, says chair - Schools Week EYFS: how we tackled the 5 key Covid-19 challenges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early Education’s commitment to diversity and anti-racism - Early Education Johnson: Young people to get 'opportunity guarantee' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer 'good' schools keep or boost their Ofsted rating - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leicester lockdown ‘proves schools transmit virus’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Huge interest' in Oak Academy collecting pupil data - Times Educational Supplement | TES PM promises ‘every young person’ the ‘chance of an apprenticeship or an in-work placement’ - FE Week Hancock insists schools safe despite 'unusual' number of children with virus in Leicester - Mirror 'Impressive' that 3 in 5 Oak National Academy lessons are completed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents will be fined! Williamson says children must go to school in September - Express Profile: Sarah Stannard, Principal, City College Southampton - FE Week Pupils' British Sign Language send-off goes viral - Times Educational Supplement | TES Halfon: Schools should be given apprenticeship targets - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reopening Scottish schools: 5 key questions to answer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers out of pocket and children hungry in England's school meals chaos - Guardian If more students choose home over halls, it's time to celebrate | Steven Jones - Guardian Students’ views on the impact of Coronavirus on their higher education experience - HEPI New poll finds students want better communication about the next academic year, but have realistic expectations of what is to come - HEPI Johnson's new front in the culture war: blame teaching unions for closed schools | Zoe Williams - Guardian Schools could teach a slimmed-down curriculum focusing on Maths and English - Mail 100 days in lockdown: Calls for more support ahead of schools re-opening - Herald Scotland Larry Flanagan: Schools return cannot be business as usual as more ambition needed - Herald Scotland Coronavirus: Stop childhood being disrupted - charities - BBC It is time to be braver and bolder with careers education - SecEd Hepi poll: UK students’ satisfaction with online learning slips - Times Higher Education | THE Covid-19 is no longer a short-term crisis for higher education - Times Higher Education | THE Ethnic minority academics less likely to win UK research grants - Times Higher Education | THE Only two in five students satisfied with online learning amid Covid-19 - Mail Education and Training Foundation newsletter (June-July) - UCET