News archive for 12th May 2020

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Boss of UK’s biggest teaching union tells 460k members to refuse to even talk about going back to class - The Sun Can childminders reopen? DfE clears up confusion - Express Universities are treating young people scandalously - Telegraph Manchester University is first to confirm that all lectures next term will be delivered online - Telegraph Children in care are 'thriving' during lockdown because they do not have the pressure of school, children’s services boss says - Telegraph Teachers should not go to work on June 1 if they feel unsafe, unions say - Telegraph Unions tell staff 'not to engage' with plan for 1 June school openings - Guardian DfE confirms that childminders can now open from tomorrow for children from one household - Nursery World Teaching unions attack ‘reckless’ plans to reopen schools - Financial Times Phased reopening: the college sector reacts - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Give parents the option': Will you be fined for keeping your kids off school? - HuffPost 'The chair was covered in snot': Why teachers fear social distancing nightmare - Metro Labour Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds will refuse send son back to school in June - Express Children probably can't go back to primary schools on June 1, head teachers warn - Mirror Coronavirus: ‘Safe travel’ guidance includes little new information for schools - Schools Week Schools will struggle to operate smaller classes and social distancing - Mail ESFA back-tracks after threat to challenge low apprenticeship achievement rates - FE Week Schools should not plan for 1 June opening, say unions - Times Educational Supplement | TES At least 26 teachers have died from Covid-19 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus shows us it’s time to rethink everything. Let's start with education | George Monbiot - Guardian Early years teachers and practitioners working in a time of lockdown: accounts from the frontline - Early Education Launch of Internationalising Higher Education Framework Guide - Advance HE Halesowen College becomes Society for Education and Training Corporate Partner - Education & Training Foundation Class sizes capped at 15 as government eyes June return of primary schools amid union fury - PoliticsHome NASUWT responds to DfE guidance on schools, colleges and nurseries - NASUWT The new core maths qualifications: A welcome opportunity, but what is their place in the curriculum? - BERA Voice comments on Government guidance on wider opening of education and childcare settings - Voice Communicating research during Covid-19 - Wonkhe Does competition law prevent sector collaboration? - Wonkhe SAGE shows that public trust in science is as live a question as ever - Wonkhe Light at the end of the Path(way)? - HEPI Parents’ views on lockdown and school safety - National Education Union One way to avoid unnecessary delays with End Point Assessment - AELP We took your feedback to the Parliamentary Education Select Committee - NAHT School returners would have been most likely to miss out - Mail We can't send them back and have another lockdown - views on how and when to reopen Scotland's schools - Scotsman Coronavirus (COVID-19): implementing protective measures in education and childcare settings - DfE Coronavirus (COVID-19): attendance in education and early years settings - DfE Actions for educational and childcare settings to prepare for wider opening from 1 June 2020 - DfE Explain to us why teachers don't need PPE, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academies accounts return - Education & Skills Funding Agency Payment of annual OfS registration fees 2020-21: Technical guidance for providers - Office for Students Covid-19 recovery plan: What does it mean for schools and childcare settings? - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Headteachers warn June 1 return for schools may be ‘impossible’ - HuffPost Government promised transparency, but school leaders have been left in the dark - Schools Week Three million kids at risk of mental health problems due to Covid crisis - The Sun Coronavirus: DfE guidance - key points for opening for more children from 1 June - Nursery World DfE releases new guidance for early years settings and schools ahead of wider opening - Nursery World Could maximum class sizes of 15 pupils significantly improve our children's school life? - Telegraph Reopening schools may be unsafe, disease expert warns - Evening Standard How to close the Covid-19 learning gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Give internet access to all, say teacher prizewinners - Times Educational Supplement | TES How will schools enforce social distancing? - Express Can parents refuse to send children to school when they reopen? - Express Outstanding!: College group given top Ofsted marks across the board - FE Week Now is the time to improve adult English and maths - Times Educational Supplement | TES We cannot forget Year 11s: they deserve better - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads say 1 June school reopening plan 'not feasible' - BBC Childminders left confused by mixed messaging from Government over work return - Nursery World Lockdown has boosted parents' respect for early years staff, says Montessori poll - Nursery World How reopened schools in Denmark keep children safely apart - BBC Educating Yorkshire headteacher says his own homeschooling is a 'disaster' - Mail Coronavirus: School attendance rate climbs to 2.4% - Schools Week Reopening primaries to all years is asking far too much - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers fear social distancing rules won't work with children - Express Free recording: Latest FE policy response to Covid-19 outbreak - FE Week Supporting learners through lockdown and beyond - Unionlearn DfE clarifies which college students ‘should’ receive face to face delivery from 1 June - FE Week DfE won't fund school meal vouchers over half-term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sending children back to school so soon is a mistake - Metro Third of parents 'would delay pupils' return to school' - Times Educational Supplement | TES AP schools do not need 'saving' by mainstream teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus lockdown: 15 ways primary schools will look very different from June 1 - Mirror Coronavirus: Largest heads’ union says it wasn’t consulted over June 1 return plan - Schools Week 'Mixed evidence' from Europe on school reopening safety - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sturgeon: Schools need clarity and confidence to return - Times Educational Supplement | TES Decisions about reopening Scottish schools are a matter of life and death - Scotsman Coronavirus: Classes should have only 15 pupils and drop off times staggered, new government guidance says - Independent Will schools open in June and will nurseries open before schools? - Express Children face being sent to different schools with staggered start times - Mail Women's research plummets during lockdown - but articles from men increase - Guardian 'It's OK for teachers to cry': how to handle bereavement in school - Guardian Government plans to reopen schools in June branded 'reckless' and 'wildly optimistic' after possible class sizes of 15 revealed - Evening Standard Can summer schools help disadvantaged pupils bounce back from Covid? - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Like the Open University, we now need an Open School for the whole country | Tim Brighouse and Bob Moon - Guardian Kids could be sent to different schools and class sizes cut in half under plan to exit lockdown - The Sun New guidance for schools opening in June despite backlash - Express Children are paying the price for this idiocy by a teachers' union - Mail Summer schools could be seen as ‘punishment’ for disadvantaged pupils, heads warn - Schools Week RE popularity boost with 30% rise in trainee teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can summer schools close a coronavirus attainment gap? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Careers intelligence: will the virus crisis change academic careers? - Times Higher Education | THE Pandemic response needs ‘wisdom’ of social sciences, scholars say - Times Higher Education | THE Covid crisis ‘could give economics chance to improve its reputation’ - Times Higher Education | THE 9:00 a.m. - The Education Committee will hear oral evidence about the impact of COVID-19 on education and children’s services - Accountability Hearings All primary pupils ‘back to school by end of June’ - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: One in ten intellectually disabled students don’t have access to technology - Times