News archive for 14th January 2021

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UK government pressed to extend free school meals scheme - Financial Times Northern Ireland's schools and hospitals will not run out of food, says the Government - Telegraph 'Trust parents' with cash payments for free school meals, Labour urges - Mirror Food parcels fiasco: How the pandemic exposed free school meals failures…again - Schools Week GCSEs 2021: Teachers to mark exam board questions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Regulator refuses to approve mass daily Covid testing at English schools - Guardian Fresh free school meals row looms as Government says lunches will not be provided during February half-term - Telegraph Experts remain divided over merits of mass Covid tests in schools - Guardian Marcus Rashford leads calls for overhaul of free school meals system - Mirror Headteacher of Marcus Rashford's old school: 'Fed well, children thrive' - Guardian 16 to 19 funding: information for 2021 to 2022 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Industry placements: capacity and delivery fund (CDF) for providers delivering in 2020 to 2021 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Guidance for full opening: special schools and other specialist settings - DfE Review of post-16 qualifications at level 3: second stage - DfE Post-16 study at level 2 and below: call for evidence - DfE Universities and Scotland: Student voices heard at Scottish Affairs Committee round table - UK Parliament Fresh free school meals row as No 10 insists poor families will get food over February half-term - Mail ‘Here we go again,' schools report fresh Edenred issues - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Primary school teacher found with cocaine - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted won't say how many parents have praised schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools told not to provide free school meals vouchers during February half term - The Sun Leicester College shares how it is preparing staff for T Levels during these challenging times - Education & Training Foundation Changes in school attendance by local authority in England over the 2020 autumn term - EPI Myths about poverty must be refuted so that parents are trusted with £20 and not half a pepper - PoliticsHome A Level Economics is a gateway to the economics profession - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS English UK aims for 2019 student volumes by 2022 - PIE News Early Years Census 2021 update from DfE - Early Education UCU response to OfS instructions to universities over latest lockdown - UCU Collab Group announces Bradford College as new member - Collab Group Bolder approach needed to make university admissions fairer - Nuffield Foundation Pedagogy trumps format - Research Schools Network Government urged to fund charity jobs for NEET young people - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Schools must stay shut until all staff vaccinated, teaching union says - Wales Online Rethinking fair admissions - HEPI Government won't fund free school meals in half term - National Education Union The hidden lives of remote learners - Research Schools Network Schools told not to provide free school meals over February half-term - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Project launched to donate old laptops to disadvantaged students - CYPN | Children & Young People Now PVI providers fear consequences of being excluded from Covid home-testing - EYE | Early Years Educator Consider refunds if teaching falls short, regulator tells v-cs - Times Higher Education | THE Government rules out relaxing SEND support rules – for now - Schools Week Schools in England told not to provide free school meals at half-term - Guardian DIY schooling: Furious parents claim teachers are only using Zoom to do the register and read stories - Mail Something rotten when boss of a food scandal firm earns millions as kids go hungry - Express As an A-level teacher, I am a key worker but my daughter can't get a place at her own school - Telegraph The gap between independent and state schools has never looked wider or more shameful - Telegraph GCSE and iGCSE exam divergence risks students’ futures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Holding back of ‘exceptionally low’ attendance data ‘frustrating’, say EPI - Schools Week Food parcel shame of greedy few is hard to stomach - Express Schools told not to give out free school meals during half-term - Metro Scotland: Pupils in P1 and S1 among worst hit by Covid lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is this the best way to minimise 2021 exam unfairness? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Consultation on scrapping quals competing with T Levels to remain open for further two weeks - FE Week School exams: SQA boss opens door to remote invigilation - Herald Scotland Row over half term free school meals plan - BBC AEB procurement at a time of reform – what we now know - FE Week No FSM at half term is 'astonishing', say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Amazon removes Durham University students' theses being sold online - BBC UK snow: Covid testing centres and schools closed in Yorkshire - BBC MPs take fight to save local college to Downing Street - FE Week Keeping nurseries open helps in the fight against inequality but ignores a low-paid and anxious workforce - The Conversation Scotland: Fears over ‘Big Brother’ remote-learning inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils ‘can’t hear or see lessons’ on DfE laptops - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nurseries have 'third fewer children than normal' - survey - Nursery World Coronavirus: Dismay as early years staff told they won't be sent testing kits - Nursery World Top tips for online safeguarding during the pandemic - CYPN | Children & Young People Now PVI childcare workers excluded from home Covid testing programme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scotland: Lobby group accused of asking supporters to secretly film teachers in online lessons - Scotsman Vaccinating teachers is vital, but it can’t be the sole strategy to get children back to school - Telegraph Attendance ‘increased greatly’ this lockdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union takes action over filming of online lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES The government has failed thousands of students in England. They deserve a refund | Sonia Sodha - Guardian Students in Wales handed rent rebates for university halls - Wales Online GCSE resit results day: Grade boundaries revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: Half of English students get grade 4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools may not fully reopen after half term, warns PM - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools in N.Ireland get more time to decide admissions - BBC Lockdown students get to grips with online learning - BBC What's the science behind closing schools? - BBC University students in Wales threaten rent strikes - BBC Microsoft ‘a few weeks away’ from fixing issue affecting Scottish digital learning platform - Public Technology School closures: P1 and P2 pupils among worst affected - Herald Scotland Selective universities are making progress on fairly assessing merit in admissions - Wonkhe Mission possible – an agenda for the future of performing arts in higher education - Wonkhe Student hardship: 25% say Covid had 'major impact' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free school meals row deepens as second caterer accused of 'humiliating' families - Telegraph Four in 10 Muslim staff think Islamophobia ‘normalised’ on campus - Times Higher Education | THE Response to Augar ‘will not resolve HE tensions’ in Covid era - Times Higher Education | THE Servant leaders should not be slaves to their institutions - Times Higher Education | THE Pupils may sit exams to help teachers decide correct grades - Times - New Elite universities told to lower entry grades - Times - New Covid in Scotland: Lockdown ‘allows pupils to cheat on coursework’ - Times - New Ireland: Pupils demand reprieve from Leaving Cert exams - Times - New Coronavirus in Northern Ireland: Grammar school test axed over virus fears - Times - New