News archive for 11th March 2020

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Budget 2020: £100m less to repair crumbling schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10 steps to prepare for coronavirus - Schools Week Government UK commits £4bn to post-16 education to tackle skills gap - Financial Times Chancellor pledges specialist maths school in every English region - Guardian Coronavirus Scotland: Scottish primary school forced to shut after visitor told to self-isolate - Scotsman The latest coronavirus advice for parents, pupils and teachers on schools and exams - Wales Online Schools want to issue coronavirus closure food vouchers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Your complete planning guide for closures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools campaign to scrap GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA Update: 11 March 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency What’s in the Budget for universities and research? - Wonkhe Students should not be penalised for doing the right thing on Covid-19 - Wonkhe Coronavirus information - Voice Russell Group response to the 2020 Budget - Russell Group Treasury pours cold water on hopes for extra SME apprenticeship funding - FE Week Budget 2020 - National Education Union Independent advisors announced to support Universities UK’s work dealing with racial harassment - Universities UK Statement on COVID-19 - UK Parliament Created At College campaign - Collab Group The effect of education agents on prospective Chinese students - HEPI Teaching professionalism in Norway and Brazil: Why combine concepts and compare countries? - BERA Spring Budget 2020 – our response - Learning & Work Institute Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell hails abolition of 'reading tax' - Mail 'Levelling up' requires investment in skills: AoC response to the Budget - AoC | Association of Colleges Redraw the Balance film recreated after original gets over 100 million views - Education and Employers Why we should scrap GCSEs…and literacy and numeracy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Budget: Five key priorities to be addressed - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs call for investment in youth workers to prevent knife crime - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Budget: Government ‘failing a generation’ over early years - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Childhood infections can impact future careers - IOE London Blog Project examining autistic people’s superior perceptual capacity awarded funding - IOE London Blog Phenomenal Women: Portraits of Black Female Professors at UCL - IOE London Blog Coronavirus: ‘Teachers asked to set extra exams’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Schools collect mock GCSEs as contingency - Times Educational Supplement | TES Supply teaching is changing out of all recognition - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers are drowning in our pernicious Ofsted system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Budget 2020: UK research spending to hit £22 billion by 2024-25 - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus: UK Chinese teacher victim of pupil 'hate' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Budget 2020: No extra funding for early years - Nursery World Early childhood experts oppose removal of teachers from Edinburgh nursery schools - Early Education Budget: capital and National Skills funding confirmed - Times Educational Supplement | TES MAT CEO and Rayner 'fan' becomes Williamson's adviser - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Horror schools prediction revealed – ‘Generation to be affected!’ - Express Budget pledges specialist maths school for every region - Times Educational Supplement | TES Learn from our example, says British headteacher at locked-down Italian school - Mail Budget 2020: What do schools need to know? - Schools Week Budget does include manifesto promise of extra £4bn of FE funding in England - FE Week Complete shutdown of UK universities due to Covid-19 'impossible' - Guardian Coronavirus in the playground: rumours and ingenuity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stick to your guns, Amanda Spielman - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus in schools – what should teachers do? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Whatever happened to fairness in education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: chancellor must commit to supporting FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Removing nursery teachers will hit pupil outcomes - Times Educational Supplement | TES I found racist graffiti in my own classroom. And yet my first reaction was denial | Peter Olusoga - Guardian Coronavirus-fearing mum pulls kids out of school so she doesn't catch bug - Mirror Help us nationalise more private schools, head tells DfE - Schools Week Academy boss Jo Saxton appointed policy adviser to Gavin Williamson - Schools Week My notes ahead of select committee session on the apprenticeship levy - FE Week MAT chief criticises Harris over Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who sent pupil intimate messages - Times Educational Supplement | TES A life and a legacy: Stephen Lawrence Day - SecEd Zero tolerance dictatorships - SecEd Technical education: More to do on funding and curriculum breadth - SecEd Doctoral loans have not radically changed PhD recruitment - Wonkhe On the “level playing field”, alternative providers have been backed into a corner - Wonkhe Conference cancellations could have ‘big impact’ on research - Times Higher Education | THE Departing professor hits out at ‘heavy-handed’ email termination - Times Higher Education | THE Brexit puts greater spotlight on EU funding efficiency drive - Times Higher Education | THE DfE keeps EU student paper secret ‘to avoid affecting’ trade talks - Times Higher Education | THE GCSEs blight pupils’ lives so let’s be brave and abandon them, head says - Times Race to save Oxford’s tiny Mogul masterpiece - Times Let’s use this crisis to shake up tired exams | Alice Thomson - Times