News archive for 16th January 2021

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Free school meals farce a new low for serially incompetent and cruel Tories - Mirror UK Children's welfare becoming 'national emergency', health experts warn - Guardian Government criticised over incomplete attempt to get laptops to students - Independent Cancel exams! – but maybe bring them back - Wonkhe GCSE and A-Levels could go ahead with mini-exams assessed by teachers - Express Beating the cheating: The next hurdle for students and schools - Independent Pupils could sit tests at home as evidence for GCSE and A-level grades - Independent Covid-19: Rise in suspected child abuse cases after lockdown - BBC University world news - 17/01/2021 - University World News Remote learner engagement: 3 crucial elements - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prime Minister appoints new Envoy on Girls’ Education - GOV.UK 'Cruelly cast aside': A-level victims say summer debacle must never happen again - Guardian Wellbeing for all - UKEdChat How to be ‘innovative’ in school exam assessment – fewer grades - HEPI 11 annoying moments from remote learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents find all-day Zoom less captivating than they expected - Guardian The government made BTEC students like me feel we didn’t matter - FE Week Jack Monroe on food poverty and fury: 'I just wake up, look at the news, and get angry' - Guardian Us For Them parents group clashes with biggest teaching union over 'recording classes' allegation - Herald Scotland Coronavirus: Scottish schools reopening on ice as pupil infections surge - Herald Scotland Pupils could take GCSE and A-level exams at home and get grades early - Times - New Return to schools next month is a tall order, says Swinney - Times - New Boris Johnson says girls' education key to ending poverty - BBC