News archive for 15th October 2020

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Rashford up for the fight as Johnson rejects Man United star's poverty plea for a second time - Mail Flagship retraining service scrapped after pilot flopped - FE Week Marcus Rashford to fight on after new school meals plea rejected - BBC 550 pupils and five staff sent home to self-isolate in Cardiff - Wales Online Shadow schools minister Greenwood resigns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly 800 more students and staff test positive for Covid-19 at Newcastle University - Mirror Shadow schools minister Margaret Greenwood resigns - Schools Week Students retaking GSCE exams in November 'may pose public health risk' - Guardian Holding GCSE resits next month could pose 'public health risk' with entire campuses forced to shut down - Mail Leading AP academy trust to close - Schools Week Ministers 'out of touch’ over child hunger - Times Educational Supplement | TES Guidance for schools during the transition period and after 1 January 2021 - DfE The persistent problems of school leadership - Ambition Institute ASCL Cymru comment on school funding report - ASCL UCU response to pre-Christmas student lockdown - UCU BibliU - Jisc agreement brings sustainable e-textbooks to UK libraries - Jisc Security is not a bolt-on to the IT function - Jisc AoC Chief Executive raises college concerns over assessment and public exams with Nick Gibb MP - AoC | Association of Colleges UUK publishes guidance on security risks - PIE News Ambitious about Autism announce pioneering partnership with Santander Universities UK and 17 high profile higher education institutions - ERSA Boris Johnson rejects Marcus Rashford's call for free school meals over Christmas - HuffPost Union Learning Fund: 'A valuable way to engage adults' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Guidance for providers of further education and apprenticeships during the transition period and after 1 January 2021 - DfE Guidance for higher education providers during the transition period and after 1 January 2021 - DfE T levels: Allow virtual work placement, say FE leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Improving writing through improving reading - Research Schools Network Anonymise online courses ‘to protect students from foreign laws’ - Times Higher Education | THE England’s pre-Christmas lockdown plan ‘unworkable’ - Times Higher Education | THE ‘You’re a history teacher? You don’t look like one’: changing perceptions and actions during Black History Month - IOE London Blog End point assessment to be aligned in statutorily regulated professions - IfATE New appointments made to the Institute board - IfATE Marcus Rashford launches petition to end child food poverty - Nursery World Local authorities across Scotland commit to life-enhancing outdoor play for children - Nursery World British Council announces ELTons 2020 winners - British Council Nearly 1,000 Durham University students and six staff have tested positive for Covid in last week - Mail Four in 10 CAMHS failed to adapt support services during lockdown, research shows - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Marcus Rashford’s free school meal plea rejected by government - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Health visitors and school nurses 'should not be redeployed to fight Covid-19' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Campaigners call for end to use of children as ‘police spies’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Poorer schools hit twice as hard by lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Masks mandatory in hundreds more secondaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adult education: Breaking down barriers to retraining - Times Educational Supplement | TES Marcus Rashford vows to keep up free meals fight after No 10 refusal - Guardian How to ensure trainee teachers don’t miss out due to Covid - Schools Week Coronavirus outbreak at Durham University as almost 1,000 infected in one week - Mirror Kids won't get free school meals over half-term & Christmas despite Marcus Rashford’s plea to extend scheme - The Sun Liverpool considers longer half term to fight virus - BBC Marcus Rashford hits out at Government after his call to extend free school meals is rejected - Mirror Remote teaching 'has to beat a cat dancing on TikTok’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers are not being heard on Covid, warn heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government plans to force universities into two week lockdown will increase infections, experts warn - Mail Woke teaching has been a disaster for working class kids - Telegraph Boris Johnson rejects Marcus Rashford's call for free school meals to be extended - Mirror Schools and colleges in Wales need to review support for LGBT students - Wales Online GCSE resits: November exams 'pose public health risk' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Entire campuses will close for November GCSE resits, AoC warns - FE Week Pre-Christmas Covid lockdown for students 'may come too late' - Guardian End-point assessments could be scrapped for up to 30 apprenticeships - FE Week Oak academy chief urges teachers to go ‘super Blue Peter’ to stop pupils turning to TikTok - Schools Week Schools will 'have difficulty' if Covid rise continues - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we need more science teachers, now more than ever - Telegraph Maths 'will suffer the widest Covid attainment gap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hungry pupils can’t concentrate: Rashford plea to DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 11 Plus can be accurate or fair, but not both - Schools Week Marcus Rashford campaign: how to sign the footballer's petition to end child food poverty - Scotsman Revealed: Government appoints two new board members at apprenticeships quango - FE Week Scots teen wins global poetry competition with poem about exam stress - Herald Scotland New guidance can ensure universities protect and develop international partnerships - Universities UK Beyond Britishness: Learning to become agents of change - BERA Why Britain should become the first country in the world to institute higher education for all - HEPI Students to be ‘put into two-week lockdown’ so they can go home for Christmas - Metro Rashford: Hungry children still worrying about next meal - BBC Coronavirus will have extreme effect on school resources and spending - Wales Online Man Utd ace Marcus Rashford makes new food poverty plea in bid to force Government to take action - Mail Scottish pupil's exam stress poem wins worldwide competition - Scotsman Marcus Rashford praises extension of free school meals scheme in Wales - Wales Online Never mind the quality, feel the exhaustion - Wonkhe Bringing academic insight into Parliament - Wonkhe Universities expose uneven playing field on Covid testing - Financial Times Students face 2-week December isolation but universities fear lockdown Christmas parties - Mirror Students could be locked down for two weeks in December so they can go home for Christmas - The Sun Students may have to self-isolate for 14 days before returning home for Christmas - Mail The pernicious doctrine of 'white privilege' holds back children of all colours - Mail Covid: Decision on pausing in-person university lectures due 'shortly' - DfE - BBC Are corporate overreach and political correctness really undermining academic freedom? - Times Higher Education | THE Support staff complain of abuse from locked-down students - Times Higher Education | THE Home Office ‘wants to work with UK sector on welcoming message’ - Times Higher Education | THE Covid-19 surge on campuses ‘risks poisoning town-gown relations’ - Times Higher Education | THE Universities plan secret seminars to tackle spies - Times ‘Too late’ for half-term coronavirus circuit breaker to work - Times Isolation may save coronavirus students’ Christmas - Times Talk of ‘white privilege’ is divisive drivel | Iain Martin - Times Scotland: Teachers call for parents evenings to be cancelled - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Schools are safe and can stay open, Norma Foley confirms - Times