News archive for 20th October 2020

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Teaching white privilege as uncontested fact is illegal, minister says - Guardian Hundreds of furious students stage rent strike over 'heartbreaking' isolation conditions - Mirror First all-online global school launches, offering private education at fraction of the cost - Telegraph Cambridge's largest college accused of wrecking university testing programme - Telegraph Tory MPs attack celebrity free school meal campaigners - BBC Teaching children that white privilege is a fact is breaking the law, says minister - Telegraph Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March to 15 October 2020 - DfE Charity calls for prison education to be reinstated - Times Educational Supplement | TES SAGE scientists warn children risk becoming a 'lost generation' because of Number 10's pandemic policies - Mail Hundreds of thousands of English schoolchildren self-isolating - Financial Times Teachers set 'impossible' remote learning task - Times Educational Supplement | TES Employer Skills Survey: What you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 400,000 children in England off school in one week - Guardian DfE scraps data showing rise in partly closed schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our voices must be heard on Covid-19, students plea - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heriot-Watt University staff back strike action in row over 130 job cuts - Scotsman Pupils may find it easier to get top grades in 2021 exams, minister suggests - Telegraph UK research spending promise ‘not a done deal’ - Times Higher Education | THE Immigration Bill: MPs vote to scrap child refugee rights after Brexit - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Labour calls for Tory revolt in free school meals row - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Apprenticeship funding rules - Education & Skills Funding Agency UK university students share mixed responses to Covid-19 measures - PIE News Covid-19: Increasing problems of poor pupil behaviour - SecEd Is it much worse? A look at marking, planning, behaviour and open evenings - Teacher Tapp Why school bullying prevention programmes that involve peers may be harmful to victims - UKEdChat Why do we have to repeat ‘and colleges’ to the DfE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL comment on Week 42 school attendance figures - ASCL Scottish Government pledges more than £10m to cover free school meals during holidays - Herald Scotland Sopra Steria announces the launch of its online Competency Training Marketplace - Collab Group Providing and maintaining confidence in UK Transnational Higher Education into the 2020s - HEPI Latest school attendance figures - National Education Union Rise in young people wanting to work in childcare - EYE | Early Years Educator Have your say on guidance for the revised EYFS - FE Week New fund launched to revolutionise asthma technology - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) DfE updates guidance on shielding for early years settings - Nursery World Heriot-Watt University staff vote for strike action - Herald Scotland Early years sector coalition launches survey to develop alternative EYFS guidance - Nursery World Government announces extra funding for free school meals in Scotland - Scotsman Millionaire minister says parents don't want the 'label' of free school meals in Rashford snub - Mail Autistic girls 'dodging diagnosis', academics warn - SecEd UCU comment on the SFC review of coherent provision and sustainability of further and higher education - UCU Heriot-Watt University staff overwhelmingly back industrial action in row over job losses - UCU Nearly half of secondary schools in England have pupils at home self-isolating because of Covid - Mail Are Covid-19 outbreaks slowing down in university towns? - Mail Scottish government to fund free meals over holidays - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus Scotland: Emails reveal SQA rejection of 'fallback' grade - Herald Scotland Nick Gibb at education committee: 7 things we learned - Schools Week Pupils sent home in half of England's secondary schools - BBC DfE’s revamped attendance stats reveal nearly half of secondary schools have pupils self-isolating - Schools Week Marcus Rashford’s free school meals plan set for crunch Commons vote tomorrow - The Sun School face masks confusion as minister contradicts DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly half of secondaries have self-isolating pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE exam dates and timetables 2021 revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES What teachers really think about teaching during Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Management clear-out planned for college running on emergency cash - FE Week GCSE 2021: Grading to reflect lost learning, says Gibb - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Minister Nick Gibb rules out cancelling school holidays to help children catch up on learning - Mail 'Scarred for life': Sage experts warn of impact of Covid policies on the young - Guardian SFC: Governance in multi-college regions 'not tenable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we should talk about sex in school earlier - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools in Edinburgh's poorest areas had qualifications downgraded more than private schools - Scotsman How can schools educate isolating children if families can't afford wifi? | Laura McInerney - Guardian Why men are quitting teaching at an alarming rate - Telegraph Pressure mounts on No 10 to extend free school meals holiday scheme - Guardian Labour to trigger vote on free school meals - Mail Will teacher-parents be paid if forced to stay home? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Profile: Kate Green, Shadow education secretary - FE Week Profile: Kate Green, Shadow education secretary - Schools Week Advancing posthumanist perspectives on technology-rich learning - BERA Students shouldn’t have to care what is happening behind the scenes - Wonkhe 1,000 people including 700 students told to leave homes in London tower blocks immediately over cladding & safety fears - The Sun Nature to publish open-access papers from January 2021 - Times Higher Education | THE REF reforms to seek ‘accountability without complex bureaucracy’ - Times Higher Education | THE 9:30 a.m. - Education Committee to hold accountability hearing with School Standards Minister Nick Gibb MP - Accountability Hearings Students and families told to flee 1,000 flats at Paragon complex over fire danger - Times Refund student rent, Irish universities urged - Times Covid in Ireland: crèches feel the pinch from home-working parents - Times Launch of Teacher wellbeing and resilience building research project - UCET