News archive for 25th May 2020

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Schools must open in June or risk closure for 'months and months' as coronavirus could 'last years', Gavin Williamson says - Evening Standard Ex-Ofsted boss says school summer holidays should be scrapped - Mail Dr Miriam Stoppard: 'No evidence' of children infecting teachers with coronavirus - Mirror Councils tell secondary schools to decide for themselves on Boris Johnson's June 15 restart date - Telegraph Summer holidays should be cancelled to help vulnerable kids catch up, former Ofsted boss says - The Sun 'Virus could be here for year' so schools must open, says education secretary - BBC Gavin Williamson says it will be 'a long journey' to get schools back to normal - Mail We must build on lockdown enthusiasm for soft skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Movers and Shakers: Edition 318 - FE Week David Hughes: We need urgent action to be ready in the autumn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Phased reopening of schools on June 1 will go ahead as planned in England - Evening Standard Covid-19 shines a light on 'searing inequality' - SecEd Preparing for the wider opening of schools from 1 June - DfE Why UK universities must win a better funding settlement - HEPI Providers are taking the blame for a broken apprenticeships system - FE Week Stand and deliver: It’s 1981 all over again - Wonkhe Coronavirus: Education staff in Scotland fear return to school, survey finds - Independent Reopening decision will give primaries 4 days' notice - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students doing exams on videolink say invigilators and tutors shouldn't be allowed to see their ‘private space’ - Mail Coronavirus: Reform Scotland says graduates should pay towards tuition - BBC Andrew Pierce: Schools union rewrites the rules on impartiality - Mail Almost all staff believe school return is unsafe - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Times view on schools reopening as the coronavirus lockdown eases: teach first - Times Coronavirus: Primary schools to reopen next week, Johnson confirms - Times