News archive for 26th October 2020

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Campaign launched to recruit 10,000 black interns in British companies - Financial Times SNP crisis: Documents expose fury over exam fiasco - 'Hang your heads in shame' - Express Survey of childcare and early years providers and COVID-19 (coronavirus) - DfE Occupancy and staff ratios at early years providers - DfE Providers’ finances: survey of childcare and EY providers 2019 - DfE Example lessons for remote teaching - DfE How early years providers support children - DfE Protections for working parents eligible for childcare support - DfE North East talent awarded prizes for education contributions - DfE Treasury rejects claims it refused extra £150m for free school meals - Guardian Sunak spars with education secretary in free school meals row - City AM Covid-19: Schools not 'high-risk' workplaces after all - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges have to put themselves at heart of the economy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sunak clashes with Williamson over blame for food voucher row - Financial Times Give all pupils a laptop, top private schools tell DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mother-of-two is threatened with prison and a £2,500 fine for refusing to send her children to school - Mail HAF: the hit pilot scheme that could offer way out of school meals row - Guardian 'Where's Boris?': anger among volunteers at food bank on PM's patch - Guardian Could the next few weeks provide some certainty? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads' 'dismay' at government refusal on free meals - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE ‘detached from reality’ if it goes ahead with Sats - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE probing ’unintended impact’ of teacher pay deal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland's Education Secretary has warned University students may not be allowed to return home over Christmas if coronavirus is not under control - Scotsman Schoolgirl reveals she was left with 'virtually no food' during lockdown before meal vouchers were introduced - Mail Single mum threatened with £2,500 fine and prison for keeping kids off school as she fears she’ll die if she gets Covid - The Sun One in 10 young people lost their job during covid-19 pandemic - London School of Economics | LSE Free school meals: Thousands of doctors call for government U-turn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Needs of children and families have been forgotten in crisis response to pandemic, say IPPR and TUC - IPPR Marcus Rashford has denied being contacted by Boris Johnson after the latest school meals row - PoliticsHome Pearson and Coventry University collaborate to create integrated BTEC Higher National Degree proposition - Pearson Vocational qualifications: Adaptation proposals and quality assurance activities for 2020/21 - Pearson Skilled Education partners with London School of Economics - PIE News Colleges struggle with ‘old equipment, poor connectivity, and lack of skilled IT staff’, report reveals - Jisc Podcast 95: Oral rehearsal, even on television! - Teacher Toolkit What costs the pursuit of personal statement experiences? - SecEd Project-based learning in primary - UKEdChat Celebrating apprentice survey results - AoC | Association of Colleges ASCL responds to government refusal to move on free school meals - ASCL The ‘engagement monitoring’ of university students in the context of blended learning - HEPI Reflections of a SENCo – the importance of a whole school approach to supporting pupils with SEND - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF How Marcus Rashford exposed the fault lines in Boris Johnson’s government - HuffPost School meals: Boris Johnson refuses to move on school meal vouchers - BBC Colleges applying for bailouts will not be automatically placed in formal intervention, DfE says - FE Week Government's own advisory committee urges it to extend free school meals - Guardian Why is the government being so pig-headed about free school meals? | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian New private school will offer live-streamed lessons for 15-pupil classes and one-to-one parental support - Mail Mum threatened with prison for refusing to send kids to school amid coronavirus fears - Mirror Boris Johnson rejects Marcus Rashford's school meals plea - despite hinting at U-turn - Mirror All the places that have banned Tory MPs for voting against free school meals - HuffPost Refusal to commit to free school meals over holidays - National Education Union Assessment & well-being - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Government's own social mobility office tells Boris Johnson to extend free school meals - HuffPost Students in Scotland may not be home for Christmas - BBC Call to action over Brexit 'threat to teacher quality' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 1 in 10 young people has lost their job - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why all pupils wear face coverings in my primary school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson claims no child will go hungry as he 'salutes' Marcus Rashford – video - Guardian Coronavirus: Students in Scotland told ‘realistic possibility’ they may not be allowed home for Christmas - Independent Free school meals: Johnson under renewed pressure from council leaders - Guardian Boris Johnson says free school meals are not the 'best way' to feed hungry children - HuffPost School laptop cuts 'will hit northern children hardest' - HuffPost Reflecting on the importance of leadership at City College Norwich - Education & Training Foundation Exploring leading and change in our SEND offer - Derby College - Education & Training Foundation Putting SEND at the heart of Weston College to ensure no learners are left behind - Education & Training Foundation Banned: Teacher who took drug dealer on school trip - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why schools must focus on wellbeing in this pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE changes rules on formal intervention for colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: 41% pupils still not getting ‘full schooling’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Learning in Gaelic helps improve English - Herald Scotland Autonomy with accountability. Implementing change from the ground up - Headguruteacher Parents back headmistress of £40,000-a-year Kent girls' boarding school in racism row - Mail Coronavirus: Will schools close again? - Express Free school meals vote: Which MPs voted against free school meals? - Express Movers and Shakers: Edition 331 - FE Week Private school pupils were twice as likely to receive full days of online lessons during lockdown - Mail Ethnic minorities form a growing proportion of UK academic economists, though some remain heavily under-represented in the most prestigious institutions - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Does breaking up a video into parts improve learning? - BERA Here’s what we learnt from running digital bootcamps - FE Week Durand wants £3m to hand back buildings (and they are ‘confident’ of winning legal fight) - Schools Week Scottish Labour accuses SNP of defunding universities - Herald Scotland Coronavirus Scotland: John Swinney 'let exams fiasco fester' - Herald Scotland The hidden skills gaps employers must learn to bridge - Financial Times “This is the time to look out for each other” – averting a Covid retention crisis - Wonkhe Wonkhe surveys a survey about a student survey - Wonkhe Allies say Boris Johnson 'will u-turn and provide more cash to feed poor children' - Mail 'Generation Covid' hit hard by the pandemic, research reveals - BBC Ethnic minority groups underrepresented on economics courses at top universities - Mail Only six in ten pupils are getting full education despite schools reopening, report finds - Telegraph Lack of black economists leading to absence of 'passion' in solving society's inequalities, Royal Society chief says - Telegraph REF review ‘will focus on diverse outputs and research culture’ - Times Higher Education | THE Minority ethnic economists under-represented at top UK universities - Guardian Parents back head over ‘offensive word’ at black history assembly - Times Crisis should push universities towards necessary reform - Times Scotland: Students face staggered return after Christmas - Times Would-be international students ‘prefer to study in-person at home’ - Times Higher Education | THE