News archive for 31st March 2020

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Coronavirus: Hubs must ensure social distancing – DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Government accused of axing universal free school meals for infants - Mirror Teachers warned not to give students 'benefit of the doubt' when awarding predicted grades - Telegraph Cambridge finalists will be given 'safety net' in exams as university insists it is not 'dumbing down' degrees - Telegraph Supplier relief: London deputy mayor reveals Covid-19 provider support - FE Week Universities must learn to put students first | Alice Thomson - Times Covid-19: Union protests against college plans via Zoom - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus (COVID-19): school closures - DfE Young people have paid enough – spare them from footing the coronavirus bill | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Our poorest children need help now #FSM4Easter - Headteachers' Roundtable Coronavirus: 'Delay new ITT inspections', Ofsted told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 'School support staff need thanks too' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What we can learn from degree apprenticeships and work-integrated learning - BERA Ethical debt and the great online pivot - Wonkhe If the risks have changed, then so should the protections - Wonkhe The challenges of home schooling - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Coronavirus updates - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Unprecedented times: Taking action during COVID-19 - Nesta Tackling religion and belief-related harassment in universities - Advance HE Coronavirus: Inquiry into the impact of coronavirus on the education sector - Nursery World England's children commissioner calls for volunteer social workers - Guardian Social policy academics say raise child benefit to help families in crisis - London School of Economics | LSE Subject-specialist mentors sought for Further Forces programme - Education & Training Foundation | ETF National voucher scheme for free school meals - National Education Union Coronavirus: National free school meal voucher scheme launches - SecEd Coronavirus: DfE launches free school meals voucher system - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofsted complaints process lacks 'natural justice' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE won’t force colleges to stay open during Easter to support the vulnerable - FE Week What it’s like to run a school in lockdown - Wales Online What happens when a hotel run by SEND students shuts? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Give parents paid leave for looking after children - Nursery World Advice for Welsh families who need free school meals - Wales Online Pupils face being denied places at chosen universities as coronavirus triggers £7bn funding black hole - Mail Why we need clarity on the adult education budget - Times Educational Supplement | TES A meta-analysis of writing in social studies, science and maths - Best Evidence in Brief Do teacher pay incentives improve pupil test scores? - Best Evidence in Brief Parents as Teachers in Switzerland - Best Evidence in Brief Maths homework effort: Increasing autonomous motivation through support from family and school - Best Evidence in Brief Former superhead suing for £200k over claims ‘excessive workload’ damaged his health - Schools Week Scotland: Are children still entitled to free school dinners while schools are closed? - Scotsman Coronavirus: Union to move annual conference online - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 'Most parents' fear education will suffer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free school meal vouchers to launch this week - The Sun Coronavirus: Concern over 'termtime only' FSM vouchers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Parents won't get school meal supermarket vouchers for two weeks in April - Mirror Coronavirus UK: Free school meals children to get food vouchers - Express UK students' union calls on universities to cancel summer exams - Guardian Supplier relief: Deal to pay private training providers with no course delivery for next three months - FE Week When TOWIE came to school. OMG!!!! - Headguruteacher Coronavirus: Pupils won’t get free school meal vouchers during Easter holidays - Schools Week Coronavirus: Nursery hours expansion plans put on hold - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Children on free school meals to receive food vouchers - Independent Neuroscience course to fill 'gap' in teacher training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unionlearn site to help apprentices impacted by coronavirus - Unionlearn Councillor's 'oven-ready' scheme to force private schools to pay their bit - Guardian Covid-19 is our best chance to change universities for good I Steven Jones - Guardian Children of the pandemic - IPPR Covid-19: Emergency support package needed to save ‘children of the pandemic’ from becoming its unseen victims - IPPR Coronavirus: Kids eligible for free school meals to get £15 shop vouchers in bid to help struggling parents - PoliticsHome Coronavirus (COVID-19): free school meals guidance - DfE David Willetts: We must stop young people losing out from the Covid-19 crisis - HEPI Supermarket vouchers for families who have children who get free school meals - Mail Voucher scheme launches for schools providing free school meals - DfE Coronavirus information - Voice Free school meal supermarket vouchers handed out this week to help struggling parents - Mirror Who qualifies as a ‘real expert’ when it comes to coronavirus? - Times Higher Education | THE Coronavirus: 'School closures increase pupil anxiety' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Free school meals vouchers available today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Panic and anxiety after education is plunged into limbo - Times Coronavirus: Pupils may be denied choice as universities face £7bn black hole - Times Coronavirus: Free school meals children to get food vouchers - BBC AoC: ‘It might help’ if colleges given access to DfE free meal vouchers - FE Week Coronavirus: DfE confirms plans for £15-a-week free school meal vouchers - Schools Week How will the 2020 coronavirus pandemic affect apprenticeships? - FE News Research intelligence: how to run a research team remotely - Times Higher Education | THE