UK students: how are you affected by the lockdown in England?

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... rsity-life

Private and state schools bid to kill off GCSEs

A coalition of educators seeks alternative exams after summer algorithm chaos during Covid crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... -off-gcses

Nearly half of teachers in England worried about Covid safety

Calls for new risk assessments to be conducted in schools as second lockdown begins

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ty-schools

Anger as English secondary schools given last-minute rules on face coverings

Head teachers’ union says it ‘beggars belief’ that schools had to wait four days to be told

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... -coverings

Covid: keeping England's schools open 'will lead to another lockdown'
Education unions call for schools to shut and university teaching to move online

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... r-lockdown

Universities have sidelined the science,' says academics' leader

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ics-leader

Children in poorer areas of England missing more schooling – study

Attendance rates at their lowest in high-Covid regions such as north-west and Yorkshire

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ling-study

France orders children aged six and over to wear masks in school

National assembly votes to extend rule to primary schools as national lockdown starts

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... -in-school

Wales qualifications body urges scrapping of next year's exams

Welsh government told there should be no GCSE and AS-level exams, and single paper for A-levels

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... rges-wales

A reply to The Reading Ape: ‘Controlling the text – the dilemma of decodable texts’

https://theliteracyblog.com/2020/10/26/ ... ble-texts/

This is very interesting Jenny and a 'must' read. Thank you.

Free school meals: Johnson under renewed pressure from council leaders
Local authorities attack prime minister’s suggestion £63m could cover needs over half-term and Christmas

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... hool-meals

England's schools to receive fewer laptops for distance learning
Headteachers express anger after change in allocation process

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... e-learning

UK's top universities urged to act on classism and accent prejudice

Investigation finds widespread evidence of students being ridiculed over their backgrounds

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... -prejudice

Support grows for Marcus Rashford's free school meals campaign

Politicians and celebrities of all stripes come out in support of plan rejected by government

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... als-motion