News archive for 13th March 2020

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Coronavirus: More universities halt teaching and exams - BBC Virus petition calling for PM to close schools tops 440,000 - Mail Coronavirus: Ofsted says inspections may be deferred - Schools Week Deferring Ofsted inspections - Ofsted Coronavirus UK: Will universities close to delay Covid-19 outbreak? - Metro Ensure children do not go hungry if schools close, charities urge Government - Mail Tes podcast: Coronavirus special - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: School inspections suspended in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES School closures could wipe 3% from UK GDP, ministers warned - Guardian Early adopters of relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education - DfE ESFA: current notices of concern - Education & Skills Funding Agency Disadvantaged families least likely to take up free childcare - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Low-income parents 'struggling to cope' with rising school uniform costs - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Nursery group offers free plant-based meals to staff - Nursery World Which universities are moving to remote teaching? - Wonkhe Student doctors being fast-tracked into NHS without sitting final exams as coronavirus crisis escalates - The Sun Coronavirus: More than a million poor kids could go hungry if COVID-19 shuts schools - Mirror Coronavirus information - Voice Actions being taken by universities in response to coronavirus - Universities UK In the news 13 March 2020 - UCU Coronavirus - school closure policy - National Education Union Ofsted should cease inspections - National Education Union Coronavirus: what happens when teachers self-isolate? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Information regarding ETF's current coronavirus (COVID-19) position - Education & Training Foundation | ETF COVID-19: Ireland closes schools and colleges - PIE News Tes FE Awards 2020 postponed due to coronavirus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: NEU conference is cancelled - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA warns college over finances after bank covenant breach - FE Week Engaging with hard to reach, hard to teach students in HE - Advance HE Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice - Leeds Beckett University Edge response to Budget 2020 - Edge Foundation School closed? 10 things that teachers can do when forced to work from home - UKEdChat St Andrews University confirms case of Covid-19 - BBC Letters to academy trusts about poor performance - DfE Colleges and higher education institutions notices to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency Coronavirus: Minister urges universities to stay open as classes shut down and exams cancelled - Independent Annual conference 2020 cancelled - National Education Union Williamson unveils discipline drive qualification - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: How to talk about it with children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Six Oxford University students diagnosed - BBC Coronavirus: Delaying GCSEs and A-levels would be 'unthinkable' warns schools chief - Mirror Coronavirus: Call for early years inspections to be put on hold - Nursery World Using smartphones and tablets helps to develop early literacy - Nursery World New school uniform law to stop rip-off prices passes major hurdle in Parliament - Mirror Minister reassures headteachers after fears over impact of coronavirus on exam season - Evening Standard Ofsted watch: Radio company that runs Kiss FM among 7 ‘good’ reports - FE Week Schools and universities shouldn't be closing, says Education Secretary - Mail BESA pulls 'crass' China coronavirus edtech seminar - Times Educational Supplement | TES New uniform law will increase inequality - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus and schools: LIVE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the Budget was starting point, not a destination - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Schools won’t be penalised for absences, says Williamson - Schools Week Universities switch to online lectures due to coronavirus fears - Mail Senior MPs to grill DfE on £792m spent on troubled UTCs - FE Week DfE launches last-minute T-level placements research - FE Week Coronavirus: Government insists schools should stay open - BBC Struggling Gateshead delays annual accounts as auditors conclude investigation - FE Week Tes podcast: learning coronavirus lessons from SE Asia - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 'No plan' to close schools next week - Times Educational Supplement | TES How will teachers still teach students if UK schools are forced to close due to coronavirus? - Metro New specialist NPQ to focus on pupil wellbeing - Schools Week Education Secretary speech at ASCL's Annual Conference - DfE Williamson: Coronavirus school closures 'will hit NHS' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Heads say Ofsted visits could be halted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Williamson pledges exams will be ‘fair’ for pupils - Schools Week DfE stats lay bare drastic SME shift following levy launch - FE Week Coronavirus: Parents pull children out of class over fears despite official advice, heads warn - Independent Shrewsbury college loses grade 4 battle with Ofsted - FE Week Coronavirus: Heads call for clarity on exam disruption - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Heads called to DfE emergency summit - Times Educational Supplement | TES The judges’ decision: finalists for the Guardian University Awards 2020 - Guardian Lecturers need to stop trying to micromanage their students’ lives - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus: Heads summoned to DfE meeting to discuss potential school closures - Schools Week Labour leadership Q&A: Lisa Nandy - Schools Week Labour leadership Q&A: Rebecca Long-Bailey - Schools Week School leaders lap up controversial MBA apprenticeship - Schools Week Labour leadership Q&A: Sir Keir Starmer - Schools Week Coronavirus case closes school in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES BMet sells Stourbridge campus for just £3.55m - FE Week Coronavirus poll: Should Boris Johnson have closed schools to protect children? - Express Key Stage 2 and GCSE reforms have led to increased attainment for EAL pupils - FFT Education Datalab Entrepreneur tops MBA apprenticeship table with £3m starts in September - FE Week Universities traumatise student student sexual misconduct survivors by mishandling cases | Anna Bull and Tiffany Page - Guardian Scotland: School closed due to coronavirus case - Mail Scottish school closes due to coronavirus case - Scotsman Are UK schools closing due to coronavirus? - The Sun Michelle Donelan: harbinger of Augar? Or Michelle Donelan: something more? - HEPI Coronavirus school warning: Could GCSE and A-Levels be delayed over risk? - Express School closures checker - Express Free childcare entitlement 'not levelling the playing field' for disadvantaged children - Nursery World Broker offering subcontracting deal for ‘completed’ 16-18 sport trainees - FE Week Ofsted amends report of Harris school at centre of framework row after admitting inspection error - Schools Week What does 'world-class education' actually mean? - Times Educational Supplement | TES CEO pay 2019: Fewer than 1 in 5 reduce salaries despite government warning - Schools Week Using technology to cope with Covid-19 on (or off) campus - Wonkhe Five Oxford students diagnosed with coronavirus, as universities take drastic action to prevent outbreaks - Telegraph Coronavirus ‘shows need for UK and EU to be together’ on research - Times Higher Education | THE Teaching intelligence: how to take your classes online - Times Higher Education | THE If the UCU strike achieves its aims, we’ll be worse off - Times Higher Education | THE Should school uniforms be less expensive? - BBC Six ways our school system is unfair - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Schools need clear advice on closures, heads say - BBC University strikes: Students handed nearly £3m in payments for lost teaching hours during walkouts - Independent Reform or scrap GCSEs, say 86 per cent of heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools stay open (for now) but coronavirus forces some universities to shut early - Times Abolish or reform GCSEs, say 4 in 5 state school heads - Times Scotland: Warning of economic impact if schools have to close for weeks due to coronavirus - Times 27 new coronavirus cases in Ireland as schools and public buildings shut - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Lack of teaching software ‘could impact pupils studying at home’ - Times