News archive for 18th March 2020

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What do school closures mean for parents and students? - Independent Grandparents warned not to look after kids as schools shut over coronavirus - The Sun Coronavirus: Parents and teachers demand answers over 'chaotic' school shutdown plans - Mirror Scotland: Call for cash payments for families in receipt of free school meals - Mail Exams have been cancelled – so what happens now? - Schools Week Nurseries and schools to close from Monday due to Coronavirus - Nursery World UK schools to be closed indefinitely and exams cancelled - Guardian Coronavirus-enforced closures could devastate nurseries across the UK - Mirror Scottish parents facing keeping their children at home for five months after schools close on Friday - Telegraph Coronavirus: why are UK schools closing and what does it mean for parents? - Guardian Schools to shut from Friday as virus crisis grows - Financial Times Coronavirus: Schools, nurseries and colleges close across the UK - Mail Government announces schools to close: Key points - Mail Education Department threatened with legal action over coronavirus - Mail Government launches voucher scheme to cover free school meals during closures - Mail Nursery industry body: Closures amid Covid-19 outbreak absolutely devastating news - Mail What happens now GCSE and A-Level exams are cancelled due to coronavirus? - The Sun FE Commissioner reveals how £80m rebuild and ‘significant failures’ put college’s future at risk - FE Week School exams cancelled: Coronavirus chaos as Boris shuts schools indefinitely - Express Coronavirus school closures explained - and which children should still go in - Mirror The Guardian view on closing schools: yet another least-bad option - Guardian Coronavirus: Schools identify children of key workers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools, colleges and early years settings to close - DfE Parental warning: the summer holidays just got a whole lot longer | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian UCAS update on coronavirus - UCAS Nicola Sturgeon announces schools in Scotland will close at the end of the week - Scotsman Government announces UK schools to close over coronavirus from Friday - HuffPost When will schools close in England and how long will they shut for? - The Sun UK schools close indefinitely as coronavirus crisis forces bombshell decision on PM - Express What school closures means for children on Free School Meals - Mirror Coronavirus: UK schools to close indefinitely, says Boris Johnson (video) - Guardian Schools ordered to close as coronavirus crisis deepens - Telegraph Statement from Education Secretary on Education Settings update - UK Parliament UK coronavirus live: all schools to close from Friday; GCSE and A-level exams cancelled - Guardian Coronavirus: Exam pupils 'will get recognition' despite virus - BBC School closures: What will happen now? - BBC Coronavirus: Schools will remain open for children of key workers to keep NHS going - Mirror Coronavirus: ‘Home-deliver free school meals’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: All schools in England closing from Friday - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: GCSEs and A levels cancelled, says PM - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson confirms all colleges will close from Friday - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Schools to close until further notice from Friday - BBC Coronavirus: UK schools will shut from Friday 'until further notice' - City AM Coronavirus: Colleges ‘expected’ to close from Friday - FE Week Struggling families should be given cash to buy food while schools are shut - Scotsman Coronavirus: Schools to close from Friday and exams cancelled in England - Schools Week All UK schools to close until further notice from Friday due to coronavirus - Metro Primary teacher banned from schools after he described Islam as ‘cancer of the world’ - Independent Department of Education officials questioned on University Technical Colleges - UK Parliament Coronavirus - a further statement - Ofqual Coronavirus: Scammers trying to dupe free school meals families - Schools Week Coronavirus UK: schools, colleges and nurseries to close - Guardian Coronavirus: UK schools closed indefinitely from Friday and exams cancelled, government says - Independent Schools to stay open for ‘key workers’ and vulnerable children only - FE Week Clarity and protection needed for Isle of Man teachers over COVID-19 - NASUWT Our response to UK schools closure announcement - CBI Coronavirus: Free childcare funding to continue - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Coronavirus: School praised over safeguarding plans for closure - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Coronavirus: Schools in England to close - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Coronavirus: Calls for clarity over free school meals in event of closures - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sutton Trust US programme – update on April residential - Fulbright Commission Statement from Coram Family and Childcare: Nursery closures - Coram Family & Childcare Getting through getting your learning online - Advance HE Twelve links for supporting home learning: early years and primary - Early Education Coronavirus: DfE extends helpline operation to weekends and will increase number of handlers - Schools Week Coronavirus: Sick cleaners and caretakers force closure - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keeping schools open is a critically vital civic duty - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus 'is a wake-up call about lack of edtech' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted bids to address 'significant disquiet' over key stage 3 and 4 - SecEd Schools urged to be 'critical consumers' of education research - SecEd Childcare sector slams Government for 'ignoring' them in coronavirus crisis - Nursery World Coronavirus: English regulator to ‘support financial sustainability’ - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus: updates on programme delivery - Ambition Institute Secondary CPD spend surges... and 5 other things you need to know - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Statement on education and early years closures in England - Voice Letters to academy trusts about poor performance - DfE Latest government measures to control the Coronavirus outbreak - Universities UK Russell Group writes to UKRI - Russell Group Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - DfE Sutton Trust programmes and COVID-19 - Sutton Trust SFCA response to school and college closures - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Closure of schools - National Education Union NEU Cymru welcomes school closures in Wales - National Education Union In a practitioner enquiry approach, is reflexivity the same as researcher metacognition? - BERA The Sutton Trust responds to school closures announcement - Sutton Trust Boris Johnson confirms all schools in the UK will close 'until further notice' as coronavirus crisis deepens - PoliticsHome EEF statement on school closures - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Inspiring the Future and Primary Futures events suspended - Education and Employers Partial college closures announced by Government - AoC | Association of Colleges International recruitment staff know about the challenges of student recruitment during difficult times - HEPI Coronavirus: Should GCSEs and A levels exams be cancelled? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge students urge university to let them retake the final year - Guardian Coronavirus: BBC works with schools to offer TV lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES 4 safeguarding concerns as schools prepare to close - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: IB coursework deadline extended - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs and A-levels will not happen this summer because of coronavirus, says Wales' education minister - Wales Online Coronavirus: Cambridge University urges students to 'return home' - BBC Coronavirus: Schools across UK to shut down from as early as Friday - Independent I'm a PhD student and I'm worried by my university's coronavirus approach | Jafia Naftali Camara - Guardian Coronavirus: Older teachers ‘need more protection’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland and Wales to close schools by Friday due to coronavirus - Guardian Coronavirus in Scotland: SQA statement on exams - Scotsman Coronavirus: Which college campuses are being closed? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: ‘Home school is hard - even for teachers’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Supply teachers facing poverty - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Are vulnerable students safer in college? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: ‘One big unconditional offer’ for students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Running exams and SATs this summer ‘not credible’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus in Scotland: 'No promise schools will be open before summer holidays' - Scotsman Coronavirus: Thousands call for cancellation of exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Prince George and Princess Charlotte to have school lessons at home - Mirror Government set to announce closure of schools in England amid coronavirus crisis - Telegraph Keep schools open for now, heads are urged as they face falling staff numbers due to coronavirus - Evening Standard Free student e-textbook programme to give university students and staff access to learning resources - Jisc Boris Johnson details raft of new coronavirus measures at PMQs - Guardian Pupils are joking that they're 'dying to learn'. Why aren't England's schools closing? | Lola Okolosie - Guardian Scotland school closures: this is when Scottish schools and nurseries will close due to coronavirus outbreak - Scotsman Coronavirus: Scotland's schools to close this week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Charity calls for more help for families during the coronavirus pandemic - Nursery World Coronavirus: Johnson says decisions imminent on schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus in Scotland: Schools to close by the end of the week and may not reopen before summer holidays - Herald Scotland Schools in Scotland and Wales set to shut this week over coronavirus - Independent Coronavirus: Vulnerable staff urged to stay away as schools remain open under 'intolerable pressure' - SecEd John Swinney: ‘Tell us your lived experience of CfE’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Teacher training facing severe disruption - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Emergency Bill includes powers to force schools to stay open - SecEd Free resources to support the education sector during coronavirus; from ebooks to online communities - Jisc Education Sector Advisory Group minutes - DfE Coronavirus: Law set to force schools to stay open - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: FE commissioner pauses college work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Schools struggle to stay open with one seeing 17 staff members off sick - Mirror Coronavirus: Closures assessed 'several times a day' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: School helpline beset by lengthy waits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Government sets out plans for emergency powers over schools - Schools Week Coronavirus: DfE tells heads to ‘be pragmatic’ on non-isolation absences - Schools Week Coronavirus in Scotland: Top doctor warns closing schools puts health of elderly in 'jeopardy' - Herald Scotland Cambridge colleges criticised for asking students to leave over coronavirus - Guardian Muslim students less likely to be awarded top class degrees - Guardian While the UK works from home, teachers like me are being left in coronavirus limbo - HuffPost The National Skills Fund – no older adults left behind - FE News Sudden shift to teaching-only contracts ahead of REF census - Times Higher Education | THE Flexible admissions could mitigate Covid-19 impact - Times Higher Education | THE Positive discrimination is a net negative - Times Higher Education | THE Research should be at the heart of government - Wonkhe We are all precarious now. Can technology help us? - Wonkhe Coronavirus set to shut down UK schools ‘in days’ despite government advice - Express Coronavirus: School inspections halted by government after growing pressure from teachers - Independent Coronavirus: Schools forced to close after pupils and staff stay home - Times