News archive for 27th October 2020

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Kids aren’t daft! If a ‘pupil’ is bald and 40, he’s not a child - The Sun Terrorist and plane hijacker addressed Leeds University students and advocated 'armed struggle' - Telegraph GCSE resits: How can you run a Covid-safe exam for 500? - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than half of secondary schools sent pupils home last week to self-isolate, data shows - Telegraph Christ Church Dean wins legal victory as he launches a counter-attack against College - Telegraph GCSE resits: 20 colleges will see cohorts of over 500 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March to 22 October 2020 - DfE Remote education good practice - DfE Why Boris Johnson’s excuses about free school meals don’t add up - HuffPost Feed the children but help their parents too | James Kirkup - Times Doncaster private school apologises for TikTok showing sixth form students rapping about being posh - Mail UK Government blasts teaching chief's 'incorrect' trade bill comments - Herald Scotland Government food tsar says PM must do more to tackle food poverty as George Osborne claims a U-turn on free school meals is now 'inevitable' - Mail King’s College London appoints Melbourne medical dean as next head - Times Higher Education | THE UCU response to announcement that Kirsty Williams MS, Minister of Education, will stand down at next year's Senedd election - UCU NEU calls for an end to holiday hunger - National Education Union 10,000 Black Interns Campaign aims to transform prospects for young Black people - Russell Group Coronavirus: Eligibility extended for 30 hours and Tax-Free Childcare for the second time - Nursery World A fifth of state schools have 30 or more pupils self-isolating due to coronavirus - Mail Douglas Ross branded ‘rank hypocrite’ after claiming to support Marcus Rashford’s free school meals campaign - Scotsman Mental health problems likely in one in six children, NHS says - SecEd IOE academics conduct government reviews on helping learners with Specific Learning Difficulties - IOE London Blog IOE academics named finalists for ESRC’s prestigious Celebrating Impact Prize - IOE London Blog 30,000 'myth-busting' Holocaust textbooks, written by IOE academics, sent for free to 1,000 schools - IOE London Blog Indian child poverty charity offers free school meals in England - Guardian All Universal Credit kids could get free school meals in future in win for Marcus Rashford’s campaign - The Sun Rishi Sunak and Gavin Williamson in furious free school meals row amid claims ‘no funding requested’ for winter aid - The Sun University leaders come together for new digital strategy framework - Jisc How to use reading as a starting point for learning this year - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Thoughts on action research at New College Stamford - Education & Training Foundation An evaluation of Descubriendo la Lectura tutoring - Best Evidence in Brief Evaluation of The Pathway to Academic Success Project - Best Evidence in Brief Predictors of teacher turnover - Best Evidence in Brief Longitudinal effects of a first-grade mathematics intervention - Best Evidence in Brief Windy weather and the long half-term! - Teacher Tapp No requirement for written marking - Research Schools Network The DfE sets out new guidance on the provision of laptops and tablets for certain pupils from autumn 2020 - NAHT ASCL comment on Week 43 school attendance statistics - ASCL NASUWT comments on Lawrence report into impact of Covid pandemic on BAME communities - NASUWT Prioritising micro-level experiences of schooling: A policy prospect for addressing inequality in basic education access? - BERA How COVID has created a new imperative for universities to work with edtech - HEPI Secondary school attendance plunges to 82% as more than half have kids in isolation - Mirror Coronavirus lockdowns widen the 'disadvantage gap' between rich and poor children - Mail Schools plan for remote learning rotas as Covid disruption spreads - Financial Times More children in England missing school over Covid-19 - BBC Attendance plummets as more pupils forced to self-isolate - Schools Week Staff at Forth Valley College vote for industrial action - Herald Scotland 'Grim’ Covid stats prompt laptops plea to 'failing' DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: TUC and IPPR call for emergency funding for childcare - Nursery World Government survey reveals half of nurseries and childminders fear closure - Nursery World Councils ignoring guidance to fund at pre-Covid levels - Nursery World The spending review: 5 priorities for FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES New drive to bring Arabic into Scottish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Majority of secondary schools now have Covid cases - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid Christmas: Rapid tests could get students home - BBC Scottish Conservatives break ranks to back Marcus Rashford’s free school meals campaign - Scotsman Teacher fury over 'horrific' sexual violence guidance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Has Boris Johnson ever experienced hunger? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Marcus Rashford's school meals campaign 'nothing short of extraordinary' - Herald Scotland GCSEs: Scrap exams or risk a fiasco, North warns DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers 'regarded as expendable' in new Covid system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government needs a rethink on free school meals - Financial Times Curriculum related expectations: using the curriculum as a progression model - The Learning Spy Schools to deliver Christmas day meals to hungry pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES High concentration of teacher Covid infections revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Even Victorians felt sympathy for hungry children. Why doesn't this government? | Angelique Richardson - Guardian Profile: Mark Dawe, CEO, The Skills Network - FE Week Boris Johnson pledges ‘no kid will go hungry’ but resists calls for aid - Express Dear Gavin Williamson, claw back some respect by pausing Sats, league tables and Ofsted | Michael Rosen - Guardian Coronavirus in schools: Union fears teachers 'expendable' - Scotsman Can the COVID recovery tackle intergenerational injustice? - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Archive, 27 October 1979: nearly 500,000 children may lose right to free school meals - Guardian Profile: Vicky Ford, Children and families minister - Schools Week Missing Covid cash forces teachers to clean - Times Educational Supplement | TES We need leaders that can link local citizens with our universities - Wonkhe The Knowledge Exchange Concordat commits the sector to service - Wonkhe Chancellor is locked in a blame game with Education Secretary over free school meals fiasco - Mail Northern England schools 'most disrupted by Covid' - BBC Student, 22, fined £6k for breaking covid quarantine rules after she was caught eating at restaurant in Insta snap - The Sun Coronavirus Scotland: Students could be stuck in halls at Christmas - Mail Marcus Rashford hails 'superstar' Britons for supporting his free school meals campaign - Mail Pulling strings to get your research students a job is not good mentoring - Times Higher Education | THE Falling Covid-19 cases ‘may not halt UK campus shutdowns’ - Times Higher Education | THE Row after ‘school meals cash’ spent on mortuaries and PPE - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Students can work from home after teaching U-turn - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Students may face Christmas away from families - Times Scotland: University raises the bar for Highlands and Islands - Times Letter from Rt. Hon Nick Gibb, MP to JNR: overseas student fees & Student Finance England - UCET