News archive for 21st October 2020

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More than 700 students and staff at Cardiff University test positive for coronavirus - Mirror Anne Longfield: Children’s education shouldn’t be sacrificed on the altar of Covid - Telegraph Overcautious teachers are sending entire year groups home unnecessarily, Children's tsar warns - Telegraph Commons setback fails to deter Marcus Rashford in free school meals campaign - Mail University of Edinburgh: ‘Game-changer’ new method could make coronavirus testing 20 times cheaper - Herald Scotland Marcus Rashford has issued a powerful statement after the Tories voted down free school meals during the holidays - PoliticsHome Marcus Rashford's furious response after Tory MPs reject free school meals plan - Mirror Marcus Rashford in 'despair' as MPs reject free school meal plan - Guardian Parents demand answers from school after kids say new classmate ‘looks like 40-year-old man’ - Metro Lockdown could lead to more children reading books, the National Literacy Trust claims - Telegraph Covid: Keep classrooms 'well ventilated' schools told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Federation of Awarding Bodies appoints a pair of chairs - FE Week Universities accused of pressuring staff to work on campus - Guardian We can only achieve equality if we educate our youngsters - Mirror Coronavirus Scotland: Long Covid sufferer, 28, warns students ‘you are not immune’ - Herald Scotland Keeping children safe in out-of-school settings: code of practice - DfE Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers announced - Education & Skills Funding Agency PE and sport premium: conditions of grant 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 21 October 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Adult education budget (AEB) funding rules 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency What will a one-year spending review mean for FE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE cuts 'schools aren't high risk' line from guidance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top 100 apprenticeship employers: Who makes the list? - Times Educational Supplement | TES What do apprentices need? Association launches survey - Times Educational Supplement | TES How a Gaelic education brings bilingual benefits - Times Educational Supplement | TES The top 100 apprenticeship employers revealed - FE Week Decisions of the Petitions committee relating to education, 20 October - UK Parliament Consider allowing pupils to wear additional clothing indoors, DfE tells schools - Schools Week Nottingham Trent students fined £10,000 each for breaking Covid rules with house party - HuffPost Covid remote lessons law 'draconian' and 'demoralising' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to keep students motivated and confident about their exams - The Educator ASCL response to Commons vote on free school meals - ASCL Rashford accuses ministers of 'turning a blind eye' to plight of vulnerable kids over free meals - Mail Pandemic propels online education into ‘next phase’ - Times Higher Education | THE More than 800 pupils in Cardiff schools sent to self isolate in the last week - Wales Online DfE seeks Parliamentary Bill team ahead of ‘ambitious’ FE white paper - FE Week What does Wales 'firebreak' mean for childcare? - Nursery World Mounting pressure on Government to extend free school meals for October half term - Nursery World GCSEs 2021: Plea for new approach in lockdown areas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Treasury announces one-year spending review ‘focussed entirely’ on Covid-19 - CYPN | Children & Young People Now LSE launches ambitious plan to embed environmental sustainability across its operations - London School of Economics | LSE Teachers ‘sick and tired’ of the DfE’s Covid response - Times Educational Supplement | TES Practical, evidence-based tips to embed metacognitive strategies into your classroom practice - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Tension has escalated between Tory MPs and Marcus Rashford ahead of a vote on free school meals - PoliticsHome Online tutoring helps disadvantaged pupils during lockdown, study finds - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF UUKi focuses on research potential post-Brexit - PIE News Free period products: Six in 10 schools yet to sign up - SecEd Pressure builds as free school meals petition passes 300,000 signatures - SecEd Teaching in 2020/21 - 5 dos and don'ts - Research Schools Network Misconception mayhem… - Research Schools Network How ‘light’ leadership adds weight to your teaching - Research Schools Network Cardiff University’s National Software Academy graduates leave ‘work-ready’ - Edge Foundation Colleges and further education are central to the nation's recovery - AoC | Association of Colleges Majority of adult learners would upskill at university if given the chance - Universities UK 2021 BJET Fellowship Award - BERA Voice backs free school meals campaign - Voice Applying behavioural insights in EdTech - Nesta The hidden knowledge of experts - Ambition Institute UKRI funds COVID-19 project on spread and control on public transport - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Gibb ‘misspoke’ when he said all schools were in ‘tier 1’ - Schools Week Williamson: White Paper will be 'exciting and bold' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish Government's ASL action plan 'needs extra funding' - Herald Scotland Special needs plan launched but no new money announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE revision: Why relationships matter for motivation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Marcus Rashford clashes with Tory MPs over free school meals - Guardian Tory MPs vote down Labour motion to implement Marcus Rashford free school meals plan - HuffPost Teaching about white privilege? You're breaking the law - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union calls to scrap non-essential face-to-face teaching at Edinburgh University - Scotsman St Andrews University: Three students thrown out and 20 others disciplined for alleged sexual misconduct - Scotsman I know anti-Northern discrimination at British universities is real because I've experienced it - Telegraph Figures lay bare toll of pandemic on UK children's mental health - Guardian Warning over safety of previously shielding teachers - Herald Scotland American Physiological Society and Jisc announce new Read, Publish and Join partnership - Jisc Don’t teach pupils about white privilege, says minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted’s Interim visits: What the first reports say - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted publishes first 10 ‘interim visit’ letters for FE providers - FE Week Almost half of all secondary schools in England have pupils self-isolating - Metro Covid-19: Calls for a two-week half-term circuit-breaker - SecEd How classroom indoor environmental quality affect teaching and learning - UKEdChat Rallies and rent strikes: how students and staff are uniting against Covid chaos - Guardian Schools play limited role in spread of Covid-19, studies signal - Financial Times Call for regional body to be axed in shake-up of Scots colleges management - Herald Scotland Will the future ever come? - HEPI Coherence and sustainability: three-phase Scottish power - Wonkhe Is placing beginning teachers into challenging schools actually supporting school improvement, or is it jeopardising our future teachers? - BERA Teaching children that 'white privilege' is a fact is illegal warns equalities minister - Mail Lockdown confusion keeping youth workers out of schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils 'need more access to BAME authors in class' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Feed 900,000 Covid hotspot children at half term, says Labour - BBC Widespread interest in bite-sized study among UK job-seekers - Times Higher Education | THE Distance learning is not the best model for pandemic teaching - Times Higher Education | THE Citation gaming ‘increasingly sophisticated’ - Times Higher Education | THE 1:30 p.m. - Scottish students and staff focus of Scottish Affairs session - UK Parliament Open University launches free children’s mental health course - Nursery World Teachers presenting white privilege as fact are breaking the law, minister warns - Independent Bitesized study and flexible loans could help more people earn degrees - Times Covid cases reported at nearly half of England’s secondary schools - Times Scotland: Universities can secure their future by working together - Times