News archive for 27th March 2020

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Coronavirus: Now is the time for FE to stay connected - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Education Secretary asked to provide urgent clarity on college funding - Mail Coronavirus: Outdated IT systems pushed to the limit by large-scale remote working, say schools - Independent Scotland coronavirus: Frontline police struggle to secure childcare - Times Coronavirus: Scottish colleges call for more support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes podcast: ‘Let’s clap for teachers as well’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus - the end of an unimaginable week - NAHT Sutton Trust programmes and Covid-19 - Sutton Trust Examination cancellation: the impact of Covid-19 on students - Sutton Trust Emotionally intelligent leadership in a time of crisis: fear and reassurance - Advance HE Maintaining progress for children with learning, language disorders - UKEdChat Stepping up and stepping in: colleges supporting students, staff and communities through coronavirus - AoC | Association of Colleges Coronavirus crisis - joint union advice on COVID-19 - National Education Union Coronavirus: How one training provider is coping - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus guidance: a handy summary - Nursery World Our response to the Covid-19 pandemic - Education Development Trust | EDT Arrangements made for students missing exams in Wales - Mail So what is the Further Education system? - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Independent primary school managers found guilty of running additional illegal school - Ofsted Formula capital funding for 2020-21 - Office for Students Business as (un)usual: Supporting vulnerable learners through Covid - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Agencies must support supply staff in education sector - National Education Union Russell Group backs Civic University Network - Russell Group NEU issues guidance on distance learning - National Education Union AELP advice: Can providers accessing public funding furlough staff? - AELP 'I'm very nervous': student nurses on the frontline against Covid-19 - Guardian Coronavirus: 'Lower expectations on distance learning' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Nearly half of childminders could stay closed for up to a year - Nursery World Coronavirus: Fears lockdown will lead to a widening inequality gap - Schools Week Teachers have risen to this challenge with assuredness - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Schools donating science equipment to NHS - Times Educational Supplement | TES The programme making all the difference to behaviour and exclusions - Schools Week More details released about how GCSEs and A-levels will be assessed - Wales Online How the FE sector is adapting to the coronavirus crisis - FE Week Do you have questions about the Janet Network and coronavirus? We may have the answer - Jisc UKSA praises DfE’s new school funding stats – but says more context is needed - Schools Week Pupils at £37,500-a-year private school told not to contact 'Britain's strictest headteacher' - Mail Colleges are not buildings, they are communities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scientists urge ‘minimal’ classes in open schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Childminders will be covered under the scheme to support self-employed - Nursery World Learning from video - Learning Scientists Facing the coronavirus challenges to EPA together - FE Week Route review update - IfATE Students try to flee UK by chartered plane for 'safer' China - Guardian Coronavirus repercussions will lead to mental health pandemic for the young, experts warn - Express Coronavirus: MPs to probe impact of pandemic on children’s services - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The amount of home-schooling a child really needs - according to the professionals - Telegraph Coronavirus: Shadow education secretary self-isolating - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Teachers should not live stream lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK school closures prompt boom in private tuition - Guardian Couple raked in £347,000 in fees by running secret Muslim faith school - Mail Supporting children through the coronavirus pandemic – lessons from the autistic community - The Conversation Everyone must calm down and focus on what is possible - Times Educational Supplement | TES AELP not convinced with subcontracting overhaul - FE Week Labour deputy leadership favourite Angela Rayner self-isolating - Mail Stay where you are, university students living in halls are told during coronavirus pandemic - Evening Standard Coronavirus: 'Most' supply teachers can get 80% income - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Pupils only need 2 to 3 hours' work a day - Times Educational Supplement | TES British Medical Association tells students to not volunteer on NHS wards to fight coronavirus - Mail Teacher begs parents to scrap homeschooling schedule and take different approach - Mirror IfATE: 'Training providers going bust a real concern' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Stop staff performance checks say unions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Children's fears over mental health impact - Times Educational Supplement | TES If GCSE set authors lived in the time of coronavirus… - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Fresh food parcels replace free meals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers share pictures of 'shameful' free school meal hampers provided to children - Mirror Home schooling is hard even for the best of us - Financial Times Coronavirus: New text messaging service launched to help teacher wellbeing - Schools Week Cash-strapped college set to sell campus for up to £10m - FE Week GCSE results in English and maths: whatever approach is taken, here is how it should be validated - IOE London Blog 'Is this all a dream?': my cramped week self-isolating in student halls - Guardian ESFA’s supposed solution to NHS business admin conundrum - FE Week Coronavirus: Children could face more mental health problems amid lengthy school closures, experts warn - Independent Challenging the status quo – who governs the governors? - HEPI Schools halt redundancy plans amid coronavirus outbreak - Schools Week Schools urgently need more guidance around key worker status - Schools Week Troubled HS2 college spent £73K on failed Ofsted legal challenge - FE Week Digital competence is not enough – we need to instil the values of digital citizenship - Wonkhe Going fully remote taught me about leading remote organisations - Wonkhe Coronavirus could mean UK universities 'take massive hit' with students unwilling to pay - Express Parent fines for taking children on holiday during school time shot up by almost 30% last year - Mail Universities could face having to slash tuition fees because they 'won't return to normal even by autumn' - Mail Sharp rise in number of calls to ChildLine over coronavirus - Guardian Students need maximum flexibility for assessments from home - Times Higher Education | THE Fines failing to stop term-time holidays - Times Ireland coronavirus: Universities step up to provide research, volunteers and hospitals - Times UK researchers redeploy to fight coronavirus - Times Higher Education | THE