News archive for 28th October 2020

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Thousands of children on a long-term absence from school - Scotsman Marcus Rashford petition to end child food poverty signed by over 1m people - Guardian Covid Ofsted inspector visit closes school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads call on Ofsted to move visits online - Times Educational Supplement | TES Marcus Rashford's petition to end child food poverty signed by more than 1,000,000 people - Metro One million people back Marcus Rashford's petition to extend free school meals - HuffPost NEU comment on latest school attendance figures - National Education Union Young people ‘worst affected by post-furlough unemployment’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK: OfS considers regulations around international student experience - PIE News The Schools Partnership Programme: offering support and guidance in the world of Covid-19 - Education Development Trust | EDT Impact of place on white working-class pupils and the importance of early years provision examined - UK Parliament Background to adult education budget devolution - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 28 October 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency British Council announces Digital Collaboration Fund to support virtual international Arts partnerships - British Council New research to boost digital revolution and keep us safe online - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Anger as campaigners argue pupils should not be excluded for sexual assaults - Independent Collegiality enhances university leadership in a post-Covid world - MediaFHE Cambridge Spark signs up more than 100 data science and machine learning apprenticeships - Cambridge Network UCU response to 'College of the Future' report - UCU First wave of EQA transitions announced - IfATE The Nursery World Awards 2020 shortlist revealed! - Nursery World New apprenticeship standard approved at Level 5 - Nursery World How colleges can support the jobs of the future - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Toddlers from poorest families 'missing out' on outdoor space and books in lockdown - Nursery World What can generative learning look like? - Research Schools Network Learning the lessons of lockdown is everyone’s responsibility - Edge Foundation Teachers in England are among the happiest professionals - Nuffield Foundation Teaching online: Using ‘lecture pauses’ helps retention - Teacher Toolkit Covid-19: Anger at DfE rising as attendance continues to fall - SecEd PM urged to 'swallow his pride' over FSM holiday refusal - SecEd 22 things we spotted in the September OfS board papers - Wonkhe Adult education budget devolution operational guidance 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency No free lunch? Some pros and cons of holiday free school meals - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS UUK poll shows demand for bitesize learning - PIE News College of the Future report is a catalyst for change - Jisc Covid-19 widening disadvantage gap among babies and toddlers, research warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Indian child poverty charity serves free school meals in England - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Teachers among happiest professionals - IOE London Blog Action research: how can we turn around our students’ experiences in the classroom so they reflect the humanistic values we believe in? - IOE London Blog Black activism can't be effective if we aren't taught black history| Olivette Otele - Guardian Tory MP under fire after blaming 'chaotic parents' for hungry children - Mail Primary head 'guilty of serious dishonesty' escapes ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES Over half of boys born in February defer P1 entry - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are free school meals about wellbeing...or attainment? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools have become 'play-starved stress factories'. We need to let children play, especially now - Telegraph Anna Craft Creativities in Education Prize 2020 - BERA The latest pay rise, which prioritised new teachers, is a kick in the teeth for experienced teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson's food advisor demands £1bn plan to stop children going hungry - Mirror How cutting university languages courses hits schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 68 apprenticeship standards to be overseen by Ofqual from November revealed - FE Week MPs removed from food poverty charity’s board following free school meals vote row - Schools Week It's official: Teachers are happy, thanks to self-worth - Times Educational Supplement | TES New holiday hunger super-kitchen wants to serve schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is teaching bad for your wellbeing? - FFT Education Datalab 'I was just sat in my room all day': lonely students seek mental health support - Guardian 'Lifelong learning central to helping people and businesses rebound from the pandemic' says College of the Future report - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges What are university careers services doing to bridge the outcomes gap between white and BAME graduates? - HEPI How prolonged hunger impacts a child - HuffPost Confronting the elitist stranglehold of everyday reality - BERA Colleges of the Future: The beginning of serious pride in the UK's FE sector - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are we heading for another GCSE and A-level disaster? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Doing the right things? Universities under Covid - Wonkhe Reporting from the front of the war on bureaucracy - Wonkhe Start to success? The OfS may have a new metric - Wonkhe Leaving care: ‘I made it to university, but then I fell through the cracks' - BBC Private school slammed over TikTok vid showing students rapping about ‘fat trust funds’ & living off ‘daddy’s cash’ - The Sun How darkly ironic that free school meals were a Tory idea... shot down by the Left - Mail The government has a 'moral obligation' to feed vulnerable children says Boris Johnson's food tsar - Mail Boris Johnson’s food tsar says Government must do more to feed needy kids this Christmas - The Sun School scandal as 600k pupils are sent home due to coronavirus - Mail Need to know: 'College of the future' report revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Lack of support' for apprentices with disabilities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academic mobbing is even more damaging than you think - Times Higher Education | THE Independent Commission on the College of the Future releases final UK-wide report - FE Week Food tsar Henry Dimbleby serves up £1bn meal plan to Boris Johnson - Times Academic warns of Chinese loyalists teaching and studying at UK universities - Times Proper laws on AI could prevent more algorithm fiascos | David Davis - Times Biggest student landlord raises boss’ pay packet to £2.7 million - Times Higher Education | THE