News archive for 17th May 2020

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What school after lockdown will look like from scheduled toilet breaks to lunch at desks - Mirror Michael Gove can you answer this straight question: "Are our kids safe or not?" - Mirror End free tuition for EU students to help ease financial crisis, former SNP minister urges - Telegraph Parents' fury at school's 'crazy' reopening measures - including standing in hoops - Mirror Ben Jennings on the class of Covid '19 - Guardian Girl, 5, fighting Kawasaki in intensive care after ‘recovering from coronavirus’ - reopening schools would turn them into ‘death camps’ for other children - Metro Michael Gove tells teaching unions and councils to remember their ‘responsibilities’ amid row over school reopening plans - PoliticsHome Getting students’ hands dirty - UKEdChat Merging universities forcibly: a Cooke and Bull story - Wonkhe Widening participation matters too much for Covid-19 to shut it down - Wonkhe International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia: Our ambassador stories - Teach First ASCL position on reopening of schools - ASCL Working in an online world - Teacher Toolkit Podcast 84: Perceptions of stay-at-home fathers - Teacher Toolkit The problem of ageism in the teaching profession - The Educator Government supports bill to cut school uniform costs for parents - The Educator Children 'failed' by decline in specialist teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK's old university towns hit by Covid-19 'double whammy' - Guardian Scottish Government issues new advice for schools providing care to children during Covid-19 pandemic - Scotsman Should I return to work at school? - New Statesman Michael Gove guarantees teachers will be safe when schools return before backtracking - Mail Michael Gove accepts he can't guarantee all teachers will be safe as schools row mounts - Mirror Gove: Teachers will be safe in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gove to teachers: If you really care about children, you'll want them in school - HuffPost Coronavirus: Schools safe to reopen, Michael Gove insists - BBC Gavin Williamson says plan to reopen schools based on 'best scientific advice' - HuffPost Gove 'confident' pupils and teachers will be safe at school (video) - Guardian Gove squirms as he's forced to admit teachers are at risk of catching coronavirus - Express Head teachers insist primary schools should reopen in June breaking ranks with teachings unions - The Sun Fresh defiance over schools reopening on 1 June - Times Educational Supplement | TES We owe it to the children to get them back to school, says minister - Express Schools will open during the holidays under secret Government plans for summer camps - The Sun Schools 'could open their doors during summer holidays' for catch up initiatives - Mirror Reopening schools: how are other countries doing it? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reopen the schools or a generation will bear the mental health scars - Guardian School loses appeal to gag Ofsted from publishing critical report - Schools Week Schools reopening: Teacher petrified to send child back if one dies, it could be mine - Express Split classes, outdoor lessons: what Denmark can teach England about reopening schools after Covid-19 - Guardian How the debate on schools has been dangerously mishandled - Guardian Head teachers' union breaks ranks and tells members getting back in the classroom is no more dangerous than any other profession - Mail 7 tips for running outdoor lessons when schools reopen - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fears of lost generation as pupil support in schools falls - Herald Scotland Another exam board offers payments instead of furlough - Schools Week Militant teachers are shamefully betraying Britain’s poorest kids - The Sun Gove tells teachers it is absolutely safe to return to school - Times Former Tory and Labour Education Secretaries join forces to warn union opposition to re-opening schools - Mail How private school pupils still have full timetables while 700,000 state pupils get no home lessons at all - Mail Universities' move online 'must be done the right way' - BBC Air hugs on the new curriculum as schools prepare to reopen - Times