News archive for 12th January 2021

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Ministers urged to change ‘food parcel first' policy by parents in England - Guardian ‘Unacceptable’ lockdown food parcels axed by UK school chain - Financial Times Ofsted U-turns on in-person school visits after facing revolt from inspectors - Telegraph Nurseries forced to operate at high capacity during lockdown or risk going bust - Mirror Teachers ‘at occupational risk’ of Covid, says minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free school meals provider Chartwells apologises following backlash over food parcel - HuffPost 'What am I supposed to make with this!' Parents on schools' meagre food parcels - Guardian No10 brands meagre school meal parcel images 'completely unacceptable' and launches probe - Mirror Free school meals firm Chartwells apologises after parents slam 'disgraceful' parcels - Mirror Government buys 300,000 more laptops for disadvantaged pupils after pressure from campaigners - Mirror Teachers could get more time to submit estimates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Less than three quarters of state secondary pupils stayed in lessons in week before Christmas as attendances plummeted - Mail Disadvantaged children will get a further 300,000 laptops and tablets so they can study at home during Covid lockdown - Mail Ofsted visits to be conducted remotely until Feb half term - FE Week Stark contrast between free school meals in Wales and 'shocking' parcels in England - Mirror The answer to FE's exams problem? Vaccinate teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted U-turn moves inspections online until half-term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: Education and training places drop - Times Educational Supplement | TES Remote learning: Teachers asked to invigilate pupils online - Herald Scotland Catering company challenges mother over '£5.22' free school meals box - Mail Ofsted inspections to be done remotely after U-turn - Schools Week Hundreds of thousands more laptops to support disadvantaged pupils learn at home - DfE Creating a new opportunity for customers to have their say - Student Loans Company SLC recruits members for new Student Finance Customer Panel - Student Loans Company Applying for Ofqual recognition - Ofqual Ofsted inspections to be done remotely until half term - Ofsted Review your remote education provision - DfE Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: 23 March 2020 to 4 January 2021 - DfE Funding for popular apprenticeship cut by £4k as MBA is axed - FE Week A free school meal provider has agreed to 'enhance' food parcels after parents received stale bread - PoliticsHome Safeguarding in the digital age: Protection of children from online harms ‘an unmitigated disaster’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Students demand grade “safety nets” and rent rebates as universities face more coronavirus disruption - PoliticsHome Response to DfE’s post 16-qualification L3 review - Edge Foundation 'We feel forgotten': special needs teachers on helping England's vulnerable children - Guardian Why nobody reads your school newsletter - Teacher Toolkit Response to letter from Russell Group Student Unions, Associations and Guilds on ensuring fair assessment and protecting the integrity of degrees - Russell Group Update on some of the most crucial issues - NAHT Survey: quarter of UK students unable to pay rent during pandemic - Times Higher Education | THE Birmingham v-c Sir David Eastwood announces retirement - Times Higher Education | THE Government and laptops - National Education Union Keep early years safe and funded - National Education Union School voucher fury as more ‘£30’ food parcels found to contain just £8.69 worth of groceries - The Sun Rashford: something 'going wrong' with free school meal deliveries - Guardian Number of pupils in English state schools plummeted before Christmas - Guardian More than a third of primary pupils off as term started - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the chances of our students are doubly hampered - Times Educational Supplement | TES Letters call for priority access to vaccine - Voice Keeping Jersey schools open is untenable - NASUWT ASCL comment on extra laptops - ASCL Supply teachers must not be denied financial support - NASUWT Lockdown 2.0: What do we know so far? - Teacher Tapp Extra costs of food, energy and remote learning piled financial pressure on low-income families during lockdown - Nuffield Foundation Government to issue warning to caterers as emergency meetings held over “unacceptable” free school meal boxes - PoliticsHome Will Covid-19 vaccines be enough to get the economy back on track, curb youth unemployment, and mitigate mental health effects? - IOE London Blog FE experts give top tips for teaching in lockdown 2021 - Jisc Government spends £87m on extra 460,000 laptops to support remote learning - Public Technology Largest UK student accommodation provider gives 50% off rent for lockdown - Independent DfE launches investigation over ‘woefully inadequate’ free school meals parcels - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government publishes guide to home learning - FE Week Pupil absence due to school closures almost trebled in last week of term - Schools Week Children’s minister vows ‘urgent’ action on pitiful food parcels - Schools Week Exams cancelled? Think like a university student to get ahead - The Conversation For GCSE resit students, it is a bad case of déjà vu - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted inundated with praise for remote learning after Gavin Williamson urged parents to complain - Independent Pupils told they can use Playstation to log into school, as government criticised for ‘sluggish’ rollout of laptops - Independent Covid-19: Williamson promises 300,000 extra laptops - BBC DfE pledges 300,000 more laptops – but unclear when they’ll be delivered - Schools Week Teacher-assessed grades are the way forward for exams - Telegraph Food hampers in Wales as English mum posts picture of £30 package - Wales Online Schools are facing more students this lockdown compared to last spring – here’s why - Independent Do teachers have any rights over online lessons? - Times Educational Supplement | TES School threatens legal action after Muslim girl told skirt is ‘too long’ - Guardian In conversation with... virtual school heads - Schools Week AoC Sport challenges colleges to go to the moon during lockdown - FE Week Children in school for lessons ‘have advantage over those left at home’ in lockdown - Evening Standard Remote learning: Microsoft fault won't be fixed for weeks - Herald Scotland Investigation after families receive 'woefully inadequate' free school meal parcels - Telegraph Unions call for nurseries to close to keep staff safe, and for emergency funding - Nursery World Ofsted monitoring inspections to take place online from January 25 - SecEd Marcus Rashford condemns ‘unacceptable’ free school meal boxes - Times - New Government to investigate as Sir Keir Starmer and Marcus Rashford slam ‘woefully inadequate’ free school meal parcels - Scotsman Food parcels row shows how teachers ‘pick up pieces’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Online learning: DfE to show how teachers can 'improve' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary attendance as low as 14% in DfE threats week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Supply teachers face being ‘thrown to the wolves' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Marcus Rashford condemns free school meal parcels as 'unacceptable' - Telegraph Keir Starmer slams 'woeful' school meal parcels and asks 'where is the money going?' - Mirror When should UK schools reopen for all pupils? There's no simple answer | Devi Sridhar - Guardian Nurseries must stay open: they teach children how to be human - Telegraph Home school pressure ‘puts working mothers at risk of losing jobs’ - Evening Standard Firm to be investigated over £30 school meals hamper that can be bought for £5 - Metro Cardiff lecturer calls students ‘idiots’ for wanting safety net - Wales Online Lack of food makes home schooling harder, say one in five struggling families - Independent On-site Ofsted visits ‘simply unacceptable’, say inspectors - Schools Week 'Not good enough': Marcus Rashford condemns free school meal packages - Guardian Call for government to rethink exam replacement plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inspectors fight Ofsted plan to send them into schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES How should the Education Select Committee grill Lord (James) Wharton of Yarm, the designated new Chair of the Office for Students? - HEPI Advance HE and QAA Scotland collaborate to develop an anti-racist curriculum for Scottish tertiary education - Advance HE Mum slams Free School Meal food parcel as Marcus Rashford says it's 'not good enough' - Mirror Profile: Polly Lovell, Executive principal, UTC Plymouth - FE Week Ministers knew of glitches with online learning for 40 days before Scotland's home-schooling meltdown - Herald Scotland Remote learning: Scottish parents feeling 'overwhelmed' - Herald Scotland Sustainable international recruitment in the post-pandemic world - Wonkhe Government could support lifelong learning, or just launch initiatives - Wonkhe Schools ‘rationing’ places for key worker kids as classrooms are now 60% full amid fears it could ‘undermine lockdown’ - The Sun Now unions call on ministers to shut down nurseries in battle to stop Covid-19 cases soaring - Mail UK universities call for clarity on A-level assessment plan - Times Higher Education | THE School threatens girl for wearing long skirts - Times - New College head tainted by Oxfam scandal to retire - Times - New Covid in Scotland: Plans for examiners to monitor pupils at home over webcam - Times - New Covid in Ireland: Reopen special schools, says charity, while moving services online - Times - New UCET Equalities Sub-group - UCET