News archive for 6th May 2020

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PPE not necessary for teachers on school return, minister says - Mail ESFA delays full rollout of digital apprenticeship system to April 2021 - FE Week PPE not needed in schools, government insists - Times Educational Supplement | TES When will schools reopen in the UK, and is it safe to send children back? - Telegraph Send Years 10 and 12 back to school first - exam group - Times Educational Supplement | TES Transformation plan for Athena SWAN in the UK - Advance HE Colleges will lose £150 million this term alone, AoC research reveals - AoC | Association of Colleges COVID-19 pandemic could increase youth unemployment by 600,000 this year - Nuffield Foundation Leading through coronavirus – choices and the stuff that doesn’t change - Advance HE What makes effective CPD? (podcast) - Teacher Development Trust | TDT 20 things we’ve spotted in the March OfS Board papers - Wonkhe Scottish funding boost for universities highlights need for urgent support from Westminster - UCU OfS cuts teaching funding - Wonkhe £6.5m fund launches to boost support for those at risk of youth violence - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs scathing in their assessment of DfE's grip on SEND system pressures - SecEd Schools may not reopen until September, Health Secretary warns - Telegraph One million children missing out on SEND support, MPs warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Hosting a hospital – how an NHS Nightingale hospital was created in three weeks at UWE Bristol - Universities UK Controversial closure plans to go ahead for college campus - FE Week Williamson: Children's services leaders asked for changes to statutory duties - CYPN | Children & Young People Now NEU and Parentkind write to Gavin Williamson - National Education Union Introducing staff back to the ‘new norm’ workplace - AELP Closing dates approaching for EQA and funding consultations - IfATE SQA needs to take the teaching profession into its confidence - NASUWT May Digital Route Review update - IfATE Should we really call this home schooling? Reflections from the research field - BERA Desperate parents scramble for “golden ticket” for children with SEND - UK Parliament Teachers warn Williamson not to rush to reopen schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Communication with students means listening as well as talking - Wonkhe Education Committee holds session on health and wellbeing of young people - UK Parliament Business Update - Issue 55 (May 2020) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Coronavirus (COVID 19): online education resources - DfE Partnerships for Skills - Nesta CfEY welcomes two new Directors to our board - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Can we plan for a socially distanced campus? - Wonkhe Scottish Government announcement on additional support for research - Russell Group Research will be vital to Britain's recovery - Russell Group ESFA Update: 6 May 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Adult education budget (AEB) funding rules 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Adult education budget (AEB): funding rates and formula 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency SOAS faces ‘viability problems’ amid pandemic crisis, director warns - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus: Alliance letter highlights gaps in financial support for childcare sector - Nursery World When are GCSE 2020 results out and how will they be graded? - The Sun What happens now GCSE and A-Level exams are cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic? - The Sun Which countries have reopened schools? - Express What does effective CPD look like during lockdown? - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney at education committee: what we learned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Screen time negatively impacts children's ability to conjure up images - Nursery World When will nurseries reopen in the UK? - The Sun DfE sets out best practice for remote learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are ‘stuck’ schools and what sort of fresh thinking can help them move on? - IOE London Blog How remote learning can improve team performance, morale and confidence - Unionlearn Back to the drawing board for apprenticeship funding rate reform - FE Week When will schools in Scotland reopen? - Scotsman Coronavirus: DfE seeks more online education resources to promote - Schools Week Three ways government must help schools to close the gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prime minister says colleges remain government priority - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE keeping Reception Baseline for September under review - Nursery World Jisc backs AoC call for extra study and training places this autumn - Jisc Medical equipment sent to address NHS supply shortage - Leeds Beckett University Matt Hancock warns schools in UK may not return until September - Evening Standard SNCT Teachers' Side letter to COSLA - Voice Maybe the key to exams reform is in the distant past - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers' skills 'improve in lockdown' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding for 2019-20 and 2020-21: OfS board decisions and outcomes of consultation - Office for Students Updates to information supporting access and participation plans - Office for Students Implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic for OfS funding - Office for Students Terms and conditions of funding for 2020-21 - Office for Students Student nurses take a step forward - Leeds Beckett University Fashion students design masks and scrubs for front-line workers - Leeds Beckett University AEB funding rules published in draft – but without threatened subcontracting limits - FE Week Student housing: do I still need to pay if I've left? - Guardian Headteacher puts £5,000 on his credit card to get free meal vouchers to kids in lockdown - Mirror Education secretary wants to see more pupils in hubs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary school league table: Search for the top schools for GCSE results - Telegraph Colleges aren’t expecting a bailout – they want to help with a ‘September promise’ - FE Week Teachers told they may be able to refuse work if schools remain unsafe after June 1 - Mirror Preventing the disadvantage gap from increasing during and after the Covid-19 pandemic - EPI Even before coronavirus, university finances were on the brink | Catherine Fletcher - Guardian Exams cancellations raise questions of what they are for - Financial Times Public accounts committee on support for SEND pupils - National Education Union EPI on disadvantaged pupils - National Education Union ASCL responds to PAC report on SEND system - ASCL ASCL responds to EPI school catch-up plan - ASCL Will private schools reopen before state schools? - Express Why pre-school reading experiences are important - Teacher Toolkit Exclusion warning as schools braced for 'fresh behavioural challenges' after lockdown - SecEd Adapting to digital delivery: what we’ve learned so far - Sutton Trust The children left behind as schools go digital - Telegraph Meet the teens who want to work in finance - Financial Times Educators and the real world - HEPI Schools can't all go back at once or UK risks huge second coronavirus spike, Dominic Raab warns - The Sun Coronavirus schools return: Can you really keep children 2m apart? - BBC System for children with special needs in England 'riddled with inequalities' - Guardian Many children with special educational needs failed by system - Mail EPI: Suspend Ofsted inspections until 2021 and launch retired teacher volunteer scheme - Schools Week Revealed: how much online learning FE is delivering - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE 'lacks sufficient grip' on SEND provision - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three-quarters of colleges 'have furloughed staff' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 13% of colleges fear their solvency is at risk - Times Educational Supplement | TES New call for retired teachers to go into schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands sign up for Birmingham teen's BSL lessons - BBC DfE’s SEND review must address ‘significant failings’, says Public Accounts Committee - Schools Week Public accounts committee SEND inquiry report: Six things the DfE should do - Schools Week Coronavirus puts £20m black hole in youth work sector - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC: give every young person an FE place in September - Times Educational Supplement | TES Youth unemployment could rise by 600,000 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Raab warns of new coronavirus wave if schools return too quickly - Times Charging students rent for unusable rooms is shameful - Times Scottish school league tables 2020: Homes near top schools cost more - Times Scottish school league tables 2020: Commuter belt pupils set the standard - Times Scottish school league tables 2020: Experts call for education revamp - Times Scottish school league tables 2020: Curriculum expert calls for greater transparency - Times Scottish school league tables 2020: Rankings matter even more after cancelled exams | Lindsay Paterson - Times Scottish school league tables 2020: Parents’ fury over plans to give new homes first access to leading school - Times Doing the maths: School league tables matter now more than ever - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: School’s out for summer to prevent surge of new cases - Times Youth unemployment could hit one million this year - Mail Schools will not go back all at once as this would lead to 'very real risk' of second spike in infections - Telegraph Coronavirus could send youth unemployment up by 600,000 in 'corona class of 2020' - Mirror