News archive for 13th January 2021

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Furlough refused to 71% of UK working mothers while schools shut - survey - Guardian So where is all the free school meals cash going? - Mail Hero teacher gives Tories a lesson in decency by delivering 7,500 meals for kids - Mirror Free school meals: Chartwells to include breakfast after criticism - Mail Scotland: Senior pupils should be considered for early return to schools, says EIS - Scotsman T Levels capital fund - DfE Providing school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak - DfE T Levels capital fund: wave 2 - successful applications - DfE Compass faces ‘critical questions’ on food parcels for children - Financial Times Simon Lebus responds to the Secretary of State’s letter of 13 January 2021 - Ofqual Letter from Gavin Williamson to Simon Lebus - DfE ESFA Update: 13 January 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency £135m boost to support T Level students to succeed - DfE T Level action plan - Education & Skills Funding Agency The rules for keyworkers' children attending school in Wales - Wales Online Marcus Rashford calls for urgent review of free school meals system - Guardian Rashford has Johnson grovelling again – but this time is different - Guardian Devastating impact of lockdown school closures on children laid bare after investigation - Telegraph Senior pupils could be prioritised for return to school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson warns it’s ‘too early to tell’ if schools can reopen after February half-term - The Sun Boris reveals what needs to happen before schools can reopen - Metro Muslim head and her father carried on teaching despite being convicted of running an illegal Islamic school - Mail One in five primary pupils is at school during England lockdown, government data shows - Independent Meagre school food parcels an insult to families, says Boris Johnson - Times - New Williamson new Covid variant claim 'simply not true' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE and A-level students in England could sit exams this year - Financial Times Education sector calls for teachers and education staff to get priority in phase two of COVID vaccinations - AoC | Association of Colleges Parents have been told to bake their own bread with flour in free school meal food parcels - PoliticsHome DfE and Ofqual exchange letters on exam arrangements for 2021 - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges DfE opens free devices scheme to independent providers after backlash - FE Week Two thirds of university students say they’re worried about affording rent as strikes continue at 50 UK campuses - PoliticsHome UCU raises Covid safety fears with England's largest prison education provider - UCU Education unions and employers tell government that education staff must be prioritised in Covid vaccine rollout - UCU ASCL comment on Education Secretary’s exams letter - ASCL ASCL comment on T-level funding - ASCL Prestigious award for Leeds Beckett University professor - Leeds Beckett University Forgotten independent students accuse Gavin Williamson of "toying with their futures" after cancelling exams - PoliticsHome ‘Additional measures’ considered amid concern over REF deadline - Times Higher Education | THE GCSEs 2021: Other schools could mark 'external' tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES 7% of pupils still in schools after lockdown started - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson on 2021 exams - National Education Union Teachers top priority in next vaccine phase - National Education Union Russell Group letter to students in final years of schooling - Russell Group Edenred is back: Free school meals voucher scheme to relaunch Monday - Schools Week Mass testing to be rolled out in primaries despite accuracy warnings - Schools Week Nurseries are on a cliff edge - and we’ve been forgotten - Telegraph Gavin Williamson admits schools could stay shut beyond February half-term - Mail UCU: Concerns over staff safety in England's prisons - Times Educational Supplement | TES Remote learning: 8 key points on inspections and funds - Times Educational Supplement | TES PMQs: Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer spar over free school meals (video) - Guardian Williamson pleads ignorance over new Covid strain ahead of Greenwich decision - Schools Week Majority of primaries had more than a fifth of pupils attend this week, DfE stats show - Schools Week Free School Meal vouchers to return Monday as Rashford calls Boris Johnson over ‘unacceptable’ Chartwells food parcels - The Sun Free school meals supplier Chartwells under fire for meagre food parcels serves up fancy dishes at private schools - The Sun Pupils could be told to sit mini-exams to help teachers calculate A-level and GCSE results - Mail Schools could stay shut after February half term, Gavin Williamson admits - Mirror Schools need government to learn from Covid mistakes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Btecs: Williamson defends cancellation of further exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: Rashford takes on the government – again - Guardian Backtrack part 2: BTECs and other vocational exams cancelled from next month - FE Week Schools could stay shut beyond Feb half term as Gavin Williamson won’t guarantee nurseries will stay open - The Sun Fresh U-turn over free school meals as Labour criticises guidance on parcels - Guardian More Edenred and 5 other things Williamson told MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES No apology from Williamson for ‘last-minute’ decisions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ask teachers if exams are fair, IB is told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted delays return to early years assurance visits and on-site school inspections - Nursery World Kids may sit GCSE & A-Level exam papers after all to help teachers decide on grades - The Sun Learner update: No BTEC external assessments to take place in February or March this year - Pearson Educator update on VTQ assessments - Pearson Rapid coronavirus testing scheme ‘may increase rather than decrease’ cases in schools, experts warn - Independent Cancelled exams: Consultation to probe using 'externally set tasks or papers' to help teacher-assessed grading - SecEd Free laptops: DfE rhetoric at odds with reality in schools over lockdown devices for poorest students - SecEd Live lessons are not the gold standard: Ofsted busts remote learning myths - SecEd Scotland: Employers urged to help keep key worker kids out of schools - Scotsman GCSEs and A-levels likely to be partly assessed by cut-down versions of exams - Guardian Live online lessons are ‘important’, teachers are told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Government pledges £3.8m to support childcare settings to stay open - Nursery World Williamson 'fighting tooth and nail' on teacher vaccine - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Urgent action needed to improve ‘inadequate’ food parcels - Nursery World Free school meal £15 vouchers to start on Monday to replace 'meagre' parcels - Mirror Inspectors to assess remote learning ‘immediately’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES GSA partnership project nominated for WorldSkillsUK Diversity & Inclusion Heroes Award - GSA Students could still sit exams to help work out teacher issued grades - Mirror Mark Rashford's fury over food parcels meant to feed youngsters for 10 days 'unacceptable' - Express Nurseries closure: Williamson confirms 'no plan' to keep toddlers home during new lockdown - Express Free school meals vouchers to be handed out instead of ‘meagre’ hampers - Metro Boss behind free school meals scandal earned £4,700,000 last year - Metro GCSE and A-level students may need to take exams after all, says Gavin Williamson - Telegraph New online lessons allow children to explore music-making opportunities at home - Telegraph A fifth of primary pupils at school during lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school teachers won’t have to Covid test pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students could still sit exams to give backing to teacher-determined grades, says Gavin Williamson - Evening Standard Remote learning: £45m given to schools during lockdown - Herald Scotland Boris Johnson slams 'unacceptable' free school meal hampers in call with Marcus Rashford - Mirror GCSE and A-level pupils could sit mini exams to aid grading - BBC T levels: Government announces £135m capital fund - Times Educational Supplement | TES Firms offering poor free school meals to be named and shamed - Metro Pupils could sit mini exams to help teachers determine grades - Metro GCSEs 2021: In full - Ofqual’s letter on summer grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Btecs: Exams should not go ahead in February and March - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: In full - Williamson's letter to Ofqual - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Grades will be less reliable, Ofqual warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vaccine: Prioritise teachers in phase 2, say leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Teacher judgements won't be second-guessed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sector bodies unite to call for education staff to get Covid vaccinations priority - FE Week Williamson sets out his plan for replacing exams this year - Schools Week GCSEs 2021: Teacher grades may use external papers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson sets out his plan for replacing exams this year - FE Week T Levels: next steps for providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Unintended consequences: How Level 3 reform could damage progression to higher education, including for Nursing - HEPI Why open educational resources are failing to widen access to education - BERA These Scotland university lecturers are experts of 'remote learning' after doing it for decades - Scotsman Cambridge launches foundation year for disadvantaged - BBC Why was Ofsted ready to risk teachers’ Covid safety? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Students struggling to cover rent and bills - Herald Scotland A fresh look at independent study - Wonkhe Are we seeing new cold spots emerge in humanities provision in the UK? - Wonkhe Warning rapid test plan could increase Covid in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson: How has he survived? - BBC Covid-19: Special school staff want jab priority - BBC Cambridge University to offer free foundation year for disadvantaged pupils - Guardian 9:30 a.m. - The Education Committee will hear evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on education and children’s services - Accountability Hearings Disadvantaged students with lower grades offered chance to study at Cambridge - Mail Schools testing strategy could increase Covid in schools - Mail Plan S launches, but will it drive down publisher fees? - Times Higher Education | THE Cambridge launches foundation year for students with BBB grades - Times Higher Education | THE Governance failings are putting UK universities at risk of collapse - Times Higher Education | THE DfE launches £135m capital fund for wave three T Level providers - FE Week Cambridge University to admit students with BBB grades in new diversity drive - Telegraph Laptops for all pupils at only one in ten schools - Times - New Embrace the ‘discomfort’ of Oxbridge, Riz Ahmed tells students - Times - New Coronavirus in Scotland: Weeks until online class issues solved - Times - New Coronavirus in Ireland: Less than 1 in 3 schools requested virus testing from public health teams - Times - New Almost 50 T Level colleges sharing £48.5m to refurbish buildings - FE Week