News archive for 30th March 2020

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Met to face judicial review over role of school police officers - Guardian Coronavirus: Teachers' rights 'being trampled over’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Trust launches redundancy consultations amid national crisis - Schools Week How to… reinstate number controls in English HE - Wonkhe Concern for A-level students over cap on university admissions - Guardian Coronavirus: Thanks to the teachers risking their lives - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: UK schools may stay open for Easter holidays - Mail £42k-a-year Eton College offers free online study courses to UK teenagers - Mail Changes to Ofsted’s post-inspection processes and complaints handling: proposed improvements - Ofsted Subject knowledge enhancement: an introduction - DfE College collaboration fund (CCF) - DfE Ofsted seeks views on proposals to revise post-inspection arrangements - Ofsted Drug gangs spread coronavirus crimewave | Rachel Sylvester - Times Lack of childcare 'forcing key workers to stay home' - BBC Why this is not the time to dwell on HE student numbers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Prep schools expected to cut fees - Times Educational Supplement | TES College leaders to benefit from 'leadership exhange' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: School work 'must stop over spring break’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Thousands of children 'have not received substitute free school meals' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Coronavirus: Schools told to update child protection policies - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Learning (or not) from afar: the first week of school closures - Teacher Tapp Childline sees surge in calls over coronavirus - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The Engineer's Collaborate to Innovate awards returns for 2020 - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Callous decisions made at a time of national crisis - NASUWT Coronavirus: Don’t monitor staff performance, and 6 other points from joint union guidance - Schools Week Bring back student number controls, VC says - Times Higher Education | THE Home schooling - Early Education Coronavirus: joint union advice - NAHT My SEND journey - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Creative GCSE geography & literacy - UKEdChat Coronavirus: DfE suspends £9m College Collaboration Fund - FE Week Using teacher assessment for GCSE grades will show that an alternative universe is possible - SecEd Home-schooling: Union advice urges no more than three hours' work a day for pupils - SecEd 'Nothing stops spring': A path from crisis to recovery - Times Educational Supplement | TES To navigate a crisis, co-ordination is key - Jisc Coronavirus GCSEs: Don't inflate grades, teachers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: It's liberating to let go of the national curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Awarding bodies call for T-level delay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Ofsted extends complaints procedure consultation - Schools Week Ofsted extends post-inspection and complaints consultation - FE Week Coronavirus: Don’t seek further work to support GCSE and A-level grades, union tells leaders - Schools Week Coronavirus lockdown: Live-streaming sites branded 'toxic cocktail of risks' to children - Express Coronavirus: How to recruit and retain staff during a crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ask Gillian Keegan: What do you want to know? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Principals urged to look sympathetically on students over accommodation - Mail Free resources to support learning in the home environment - NAHT Covid-19 pandemic guidance – Burgundy Book notice periods for teachers and school leaders - NAHT Curriculum planning - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Frequently asked questions about coronavirus - NAHT Further Forces recruitment deadline extended to end of August 2020 - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Ofqual seeks apprenticeship director to lead new ‘field team’ - FE Week Coronavirus: AET to spend £2m on laptops as others call for tech donations - Schools Week Government will place strict limit on student numbers at universities - Mail Coronavirus: Cap on university admissions mooted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Supply teachers suffering 'huge anxiety' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Schools told to review child protection policies - Schools Week 'Virtual classes' over video apps could place children at risk, school warns - Telegraph Coronavirus in Scotland: Top Edinburgh school offers free parking for NHS staff - Herald Scotland Boy, 5, denied school place despite both parents being coronavirus key workers - Mirror Movers and Shakers: Edition 312 - FE Week Students demand refund on tuition fees and rent - Telegraph Coronavirus: Schools step up to support their suppliers - Schools Week Eight interventions for mitigating the impact of Covid-19 on higher education - HEPI A golden thread or hanging by a thread? - HEPI Assessing student rights and provider conditions after Covid-19 - Wonkhe Building a truly civic response to the pandemic - Wonkhe Coronavirus: Government 'to cap university admissions' for first time in five years - Mirror Domestic abuse in the Covid-19 lockdown - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth To give our youth a post-coronavirus future, we must cancel student debt - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Grim situation’ for UK’s fixed-term staff in virus crisis - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus: MAT invests £2m in tech for poorer pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES University admissions could face emergency controls - BBC DfE coronavirus: Advice for ITE providers - UCET TEAN 2020 conference postponed until 2021 - UCET