News archive for 9th October 2020

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Queen's Birthday Honours: FE principals recognised - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three Scottish heads on Queen's Birthday Honours List - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kids are being banned from singing Happy Birthday in schools over fears it will spread Covid - The Sun Universities must adopt internationally recognised definition of anti-Semitism by Christmas or face funding cuts - Mail Queen honours teachers, social workers and more - DfE Marcus Rashford given MBE in birthday honours for school meals campaign - Guardian 11 special Covid-19 gongs for schools sector in Queen’s birthday honours - Schools Week Queen’s Birthday Honours: Who received what in FE? - FE Week Why it's vital that the first BAME heads are recognised - Times Educational Supplement | TES Queen's Birthday Honours: 'Strictest' head recognised - Times Educational Supplement | TES Committee to hold session on the educational outcomes for white working-class pupils - UK Parliament Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 09 October 2020 - Education Eye Coronavirus: Union bosses warn students are still at risk - Herald Scotland Rio Ferdinand swaps changing room for classroom to help kids improve their maths skills - Express Gavin Williamson 'seeking revenge’ on teaching unions by axeing £11m TUC fund - HuffPost Williamson accuses English universities of ignoring antisemitism - Guardian The Guardian view on next year's exams: low marks for ministers - Guardian Thousands of pupils missing out on school in areas worst-hit by Covid-19 - Evening Standard Uni students targeted by drug dealers using social media to hunt 'fresh prey' - Mirror Only half of teachers say their school can offer pupils on-site mental-health counselling in wake of pandemic, finds IPPR - IPPR Primary school testing and inspections will do more harm than good - IOE London Blog How the COVID-19 home-schooling experience can boost creativity and enhance teacher feedback - IOE London Blog More than 7,000 university students across the UK now have coronavirus - HuffPost £96m laptop contracts went to Tory donor’s firm - Schools Week Poor policy decisions by UK nations during schools crisis affected disadvantaged pupils the most - Nuffield Foundation UK early years sector needs new strategy to recruit and support male staff - UKEdChat Change RSE policy or prejudices will take root - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL responds to IPPR report on support services for vulnerable pupils - ASCL ASCL responds to EPI report on Covid education policies - ASCL Careers guidance in the Covid era - AoC | Association of Colleges ASCL NI comment on changes to 2021 exams - ASCL "This is not the time to worry about being measured", says Professor Dame Alison Peacock - NAHT ASCL responds to UCL warning on primary school testing and inspections - ASCL UCU response to University of Liverpool moving online - UCU New inclusive digital safety advice hub to help adults supporting vulnerable children to stay safe online - NAHT Covid-19 impact on primary schools - National Education Union IPPR report on the future of education - National Education Union NAHT: Cancellation of SATs 2021 - National Education Union Education policy responses to pandemic - National Education Union New grants to boost early-stage maths idea generation and research - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Action on testing and exams for 2020/21 is critical - Schools NorthEast University watchdog warns over online learning saying it will fine institutions which fail to deliver - Telegraph Universities accused of displaying 'disturbing' reluctance to back anti-Semitism definition - Telegraph Student, 19, found dead at University of Manchester halls of residence - Mirror The 'new normal': The future of education after Covid–19 - IPPR Home Office proposals could make stop and search of children easier - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Headteachers divided over whether summer exams should be cancelled - Wales Online Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Ofsted’s directed surveillance policy - Ofsted Heads condemn one-trick Ofsted and fumbling government - Times Educational Supplement | TES Men in childcare: now is a ‘crucial’ time to act - Nursery World Queen’s Birthday Honours: knighthood for outgoing King’s principal - Times Higher Education | THE Going online shouldn’t mean cutting teaching hours, says minister - Times Higher Education | THE Children of same-sex parents do better at school, study claims - Telegraph Next year's exams to start later in Northern Ireland - BBC Universities may face cuts if they reject definition of antisemitism, says education minister - Independent Have lessons been learned from the exams fiasco? Well? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trust embroiled in £2m contract legal row amid move to the cloud - Schools Week Pseudonyms and fake social media profiles: scale of Ofsted’s surveillance powers revealed - Schools Week Heads vote to scrap 'nonsensical' 2021 Sats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Environmental organisations call for inquiry into ‘vital role of outdoor learning’ - Independent 'It can be life or death': the parents in England refusing to send their children back to school - Guardian SQA was far more likely to downgrade state students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus outbreak hits Bristol University with 300 students forced into lockdown - Mirror Funding crisis wasn't our invention, say school leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers save the government's bacon, over and over - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Irrelevant' Ofsted facing its 'demise' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet Kevin Gilmartin, ASCL's post-16 specialist - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Nursery schools warn survival on a 'cliff edge' - Nursery World Self-isolating Durham University students 'left without hot meal for six days' - Telegraph Coronavirus Scotland: John Swinney told to clarify 2021 exams - Herald Scotland Colleges set to repeat foodbank partnership - FE Week Halt 'wrong' inspections, say private heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Dithering’ ministers urged to reveal 2021 exam plans - Schools Week 'Like baby food': UK students' lockdown complaints grow - Guardian Call to put DfE in 'special measures' over Covid crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fact check: Capital funding for FE in the past 20 years - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE publishes 8 college intervention reports on a Friday after lengthy delay - FE Week Labour Party calls out ‘pitiful’ underinvestment in college estates - FE Week Education policy responses across the UK to the pandemic - EPI Use sugar tax cash to expand free school meals, ministers urged - HuffPost Oak National Academy lessons will ‘never be sold’ - Schools Week Covid blamed as targets revised at flagship Institutes of Technology - FE Week 69% of teachers see Covid behaviour slump - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers' worst Covid gap fears confirmed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson ally Nick Timothy handed DfE board role without competition - Schools Week Prioritising well-being doesn’t make you a ‘snowflake’ - Schools Week Why we need to come together to support a ‘whole university’ approach to the return to campus - HEPI Maintained nurseries face 'perfect storm' due to Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid costs are pushing schools over edge, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid SEND change had 'potentially severe' pupil impact - Times Educational Supplement | TES No on-site counselling in half of schools, research says - BBC Lockdown FSM voucher system 'beset by flaws', DfE told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: Disabled students, new providers, diverse governors, Conservative conference - Wonkhe Covid-19 has amplified student loneliness and distress - Wonkhe If this is a free speech culture war, we’re calling a ceasefire - Wonkhe Schools take £900m Covid hit, but few get cash help - Schools Week Violinist Nicola Benedetti tells schools to put away musical instruments - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Academic sorry for Covid-sceptic misinformation - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Outbreaks are unavoidable, says universities group head Alastair Sim - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Students hit by grades error offered places - Times