News archive for 14th March 2020

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Coronavirus is making us rethink school exams? Good - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast 75 – Leadership in an international school - Teacher Toolkit Time to stop supporting a broken system? - Headteachers' Roundtable Coronavirus: Spielman to preside over inspection deferral decisions - Schools Week Face-to-face lessons cancelled at Scottish university after three test positive for COVID-19 - Scotsman Coronavirus: teaching union asks PM why schools are not being closed - Guardian Coronavirus mustn't mean larger class sizes by stealth - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tone deaf. Ofsted apologises for coronavirus guidance referring to headteachers dying - Independent Coronavirus in Scotland: All Scottish schools could close from end of Easter break - Herald Scotland How colleges can prepare for coronavirus closure - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 'Halt' Ofsted inspections, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why I study maths alongside my students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Homework: is the outcome worth the stress? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Suspend Ofsted inspections now, says Barton - Schools Week Counterproductive. Majority of school leaders want Ofsted inspection grades overhauled - Independent Grades, graduation and germs: here's what students are worried about as Coronavirus changescCampus life - HuffPost Cambridge may drop BAME mentoring of white academics - Guardian ASCL annual conference - Ofsted Another UTC to lower 14-19 age range from September - FE Week ASCL survey: 9 in 10 leaders believe inspection isn't consistent, fair or accurate - Schools Week Coronavirus: Teachers ready to put lessons online if schools shut doors - Times Private schools’ £100m rates relief at risk - Times Number of pupils receiving free school meals triples - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most heads don't trust Ofsted inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free school meals more than triple in Scotland in decade - Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gcse-maths-is-no-more-use-to-teenagers-than-ancient-greek-xtrnx0vfp - Times