News archive for 16th May 2020

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Low teacher Covid-19 deaths a signal schools are safe - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Secretary's statement on coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Schools must reopen for sake of children, says Gavin Williamson - Telegraph Wider opening of schools: update - National Education Union How teaching unions could derail Boris Johnson's plans to end lockdown - Telegraph Union calls for staff to shun reopening plans are ‘counter-productive’, says largest trust CEO - Schools Week Gavin Williamson warns schools must reopen or children will suffer - Times Education secretary announces coronavirus tests for schoolchildren - Guardian Williamson: Delay school openings and pupils ‘miss out’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools should spread the word that it’s time to send children back to class - Telegraph Coronarivus: Schools won’t be ‘swarming with cases’, says medical chief - Schools Week Gavin Williamson says school reopening based on best scientific advice - Guardian Government must provide assurances to teachers over reopening - NASUWT Gavin Williamson seeks to reassure parents over school plan - BBC Warning that ‘disadvantaged children will be hit hardest’ if schools stay shut - Metro Another council says schools will stay shut on June 1 as teachers' coronavirus row deepens - Evening Standard Now is the time to be bold on educational inequality in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson in plea to unions for 'practical solutions' to schools re-opening - Mail Making post-GCSE decisions during the Covid-19 crisis: the need for action - IOE London Blog Gavin Williamson insists pupils should return to school in June despite growing row over safety - Evening Standard Teaching unions vow to work towards reopening English schools - Guardian University World News - UK and Global edition - 16/05/2020 - University World News My CPD priority? Forget pedagogy, it’s mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10 ways a Danish school made social distancing work - Times Educational Supplement | TES England plans to send the wrong children back to school at the wrong time - Guardian Health chief explains how young children could socially distance at school - Evening Standard Thousands of UK students caught in rent trap by private landlords - Guardian Coronavirus: Attainment gap could widen by 75%, DfE official warns - Schools Week Cumbrian campus welcomes some new four-legged students - FE Week How students feel about paying £9,250 for 'virtual' university - HuffPost Government faces legal challenge over emergency SEND powers - Schools Week Special educational needs children have rights cut in pandemic - Times Stop squabbling and open school', unions and DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES