News archive for 20th March 2020

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Minister confirms funding support for colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Video: Covid-19: What's happening with schools? - BBC FE minister writes to colleges about COVID-19 response - FE Week Do both parents need to be key workers for children to remain in school? - The Sun This much I know about… ending a school year in March - Schools Week Arlene Foster: Education at schools at an end due to coronavirus - Mail The Guardian view on life without school: not a level playing field - Guardian Coronavirus: Head teachers warn parents against 'lying' over key worker status - Mail Cancelled exams to be replaced by teacher assessments - Financial Times Some UK schools looking at unregulated exams to replace GCSEs and A-Levels - Guardian 'Last day of school' celebrated across Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Teachers hit by loss of marking income - Times Educational Supplement | TES Much Agnew about nothing? No savings possible at one in 10 schools - Schools Week Coronavirus: Teachers to estimate grades after exams cancelled - BBC How will grades be awarded to GCSE and A-level students after exams cancelled? - Mail Update following announcement on exams and grades - Ofqual SLC Coronavirus (Covid-19) update - Student Loans Company Further details on exams and grades announced - DfE Navigating the coronavirus crisis as a freelancer - Teacher Toolkit Coronavirus: Are teachers 'key workers' in Scotland? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kirsty Williams – response to coronavirus - Education matters Banned: Teacher in secret sex affair with 16-year-old - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 'Majority' of schools to stay open - Times Educational Supplement | TES Joint statement on university admissions - Russell Group Coronavirus updates - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Working from home: The ADHD experience - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Supporting vulnerable young people through Covid: How can we work together to take on the challenge? - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth COVID-19: Latest advice for colleges - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Online teaching: five things to consider before you start - Ambition Institute Testing of education staff - National Education Union Covid-19 and skills training: The three big things that need to happen now - AELP Update from UCAS and Universities UK - Universities UK Coronavirus: 'Every child who can be safely cared for at home should be' - SecEd Universities UK response on health students' support for NHS frontline - Universities UK NEU Cymru welcomes sensible approach on exams - National Education Union Exams - National Education Union Parents asked to follow Government advice - National Education Union Key workers - National Education Union Key workers: key facts and questions - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS GCSE and A-Level exams cancelled: How will UK grades be calculated? - Telegraph Joint statement on the implications for teaching and research during the COVID-19 outbreak - AoC | Association of Colleges The Sutton Trust responds to grade calculation announcement - Sutton Trust Statement on access to content in response to COVID-19 - Jisc Ministers unveil list of 'key workers' whose children can attend school during coronavirus pandemic - PoliticsHome Teaching unions question the size of government's 'key workers' list and warn schools may not cope - PoliticsHome Implications of cancelled 2020 assessments - AoC statement - AoC | Association of Colleges GCSE and A-level grades to be awarded based on teacher assessments - Mail Teachers call for clarification on UK list of ‘key workers’ - Financial Times COVID-19: free school meals guidance - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19): cancellation of GCSEs, AS and A levels in 2020 - DfE Chancellor pledges 'unprecedented' economy support plan - Nursery World Nursery group pledges to stay open for NHS staff - Nursery World DfE confirms guidance on closures applies to all registered providers - Nursery World Coronavirus: Five key resources for professionals - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Coronavirus: Schools in England close to most pupils - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UCU responds to government plans to provide grades for cancelled exams - UCU Mental health and Covid-19 (podcast) - Wonkhe Heads: Exam cancellation points to 'less brutal' system - Times Educational Supplement | TES How GCSE and A-levels grades will be worked out in Wales - Wales Online Coronavirus: Headteachers warn they will struggle to cope if all key workers’ children kept in school - Independent Exams results: What is new exams guidance? What will happen to A-level and GCSE grades? - Express Exam fever: more coursework and less reliance on final tests would make it easier to award accurate grades - IOE London Blog Coronavirus: Teacher assessments will be used for exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES For the poorest, school closures are devastating - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits: students to receive 'calculated' grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES School raids science cupboards to send goggles and rubber gloves to in-need hospital - Schools Week Coronavirus: Pupils’ exam results to be graded on work so far - Independent DfE reveals how it will provide grades for pupils this summer - Schools Week After just half a day of home-schooling, I am officially in awe of all teachers | Emma Brockes - Guardian This is the list of key workers who can still send their children to school - HuffPost Who qualifies as a key worker? Coronavirus school closures explained - Telegraph Schools say they will be 'overwhelmed' if faced with caring for all children of key workers - Telegraph The key worker list: what should colleges do? - Times Educational Supplement | TES In our time of crisis, schools are showing leadership - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: School leaders warn of struggle to care for key workers' children - Mail Who are the workers whose children can go to school? - BBC Pupils across Scotland say goodbye as schools begin coronavirus shut-down - Scotsman Nurseries expected to stay open for key workers from Monday - Nursery World Early years settings face 'unprecedented threat' - Nursery World Schools are ready for this challenge – if we have clarity | Ed Vainker and Oli de Botton - Guardian Local decision-making must include AP to deliver for vulnerable pupils - Schools Week Coronavirus information - Voice What should UK students do during the coronavirus outbreak? - Guardian UK school closures – Kids in last school day as coronavirus forces end to lessons - The Sun Third of uni student drop-outs ‘suffered with poor mental health’ - Mirror Apprenticeship providers call for urgent support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Key workers revealed ahead of school shutdown - BBC Isolation guidance for residential educational settings - DfE Scotland school closures: when Scottish schools and nurseries will close due to coronavirus crisis - and when they could reopen - Scotsman Childcare and coronavirus: are childminders and nurseries closed - Scotsman University applications: What is happening with uni applicants as A levels are cancelled? - Express Coronavirus: Government will move staff to keep ‘majority’ of special schools open - Schools Week AoC: 'Guarantee every GCSE student a place at college' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Closure guidance to schools has caused confusion - O'Neill - Mail Coronavirus: Exams are cancelled - so what next? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus school closures: Final year Glasgow primary pupils' upset at 'not being able to say a proper goodbye' - Scotsman Large nursery groups join forces to meet coronavirus challenges - Nursery World Coronavirus: Providers back petition for emergency funding to save parents paying fees - Nursery World Coronavirus: DfE will bus vulnerable and key worker pupils to other schools if theirs can’t stay open - Schools Week How will GCSE and A-Level grades be allocated? - The Sun Coronavirus: Teacher's heartbreaking fear for some pupils after schools shut down - Mirror Coronavirus: Schools 'will not cope' with pupil demand - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Could Covid-19 end GCSEs forever? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: FAQs as schools face 'closure' confusion - Times Educational Supplement | TES School closures: Headteacher reveals 'emotional' response from children to coronavirus - Express This is the list of key workers who can still send their children to school - HuffPost Key worker job list revealed: Heroes at frontline of UK coronavirus battle whose children can stay in school - The Sun Axing GCSE and A-Level deprives children like my son of a true rite of passage - Metro Britons are left confused by government's list of key workers - Mail Coronavirus: Key workers finally revealed for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES How is it fair that dreaded mocks may be crucial? - Mail Coronavirus UK: Government specifies who 'key workers' are - Mail Nurseries will close without more support during coronavirus - Guardian Meet Gillian Keegan, apprentice turned skills minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus list of 'key workers' whose kids should stay in school finally published - Mirror Even when the world stops, we have to keep on going - Schools Week How do educational technology developers ensure that their products have positive impact, and don’t cause harm? - BERA Governors: New Ofsted inspections ‘rushed’ and reports ‘patronising’ - Schools Week Coronavirus: How schools are stepping up to keep disadvantaged pupils fed - Schools Week College group launches Food Bank Friday - FE Week Working parents braced for home schooling their children - Financial Times An extra year of LEO data shows the impact of graduate background on earnings - Wonkhe Delivering teaching using live streaming and lecture capture - Wonkhe Exam cancellations to spark ‘almighty scramble’ in UK admissions - Times Higher Education | THE Licence to ‘remix’ research alarms humanities scholars - Times Higher Education | THE Children can attend school if one parent classed as key worker - Guardian Coronavirus: How to help kids cope with life without school - BBC Coronavirus: Government publishes list of 'critical workers' whose children will still go to school - Independent Health, social care and food staff among essential workers on Covid-19 list - Mail List of ‘key workers’ and vulnerable children revealed - FE Week Coronavirus kindness: Pupils email care home residents - BBC Closing schools threatens the life chances of poorer children - Times Coronavirus case studies: ‘Are they going to have to defer all the children for a year?’ - Times Coronavirus: Heads call for tests so pupils carry on studying after school shutdown - Times All Irish students to get top marks in cancelled exams - Times Coronavirus: Government finally defines ‘key workers’ and vulnerable pupils - Schools Week