1 HR AGO - Marcus Rashford's campaign is "phenomenal" but not the "right way" to solve the issue, Brandon Lewis says. Collapse

4 HRS AGO - Are teachers more likely to cry in the workplace because they're naturally empathic? Or, says Zoe Enser, is it a reflection on the job itself? Collapse

5 HRS AGO - Sir Keir Starmer tells government its 'not to late to do the right thing' after impact of Marcus Rashford's campaign Collapse

7 HRS AGO - Running a second GCSE English and maths exam series in July would benefit post-16 students, says Jonny Kay Collapse

11 HRS AGO - It is indicative of this government’s attitude to poverty that even the education secretary and the children’s minister approve of sending them into further hardshipIt speaks volumes of the government that it has taken a 22-year-old footballer to step into the vacuum to provide moral and compassionate leadership during a pandemic. Perhaps Boris Johnson thought that giving Marcus Rashford an MBE for his campaign for holiday food vouchers for poor children would muffle his voice. But Rashford has continued to speak truth to power in a way that puts the government to shame. Johnson last week instructed Conservative MPs to vote against a motion to uphold Rashford’s continued calls to extend holiday food vouchers for poor children. Just one Conservative minister, Caroline Ansell, thought this was a resigning matter. The rest of the sorry pack, including education secretary, Gavin Williamson and children’s minister, Vicky Ford, dutifully trooped through the lobby.That vote to deny children Collapse

21 HRS AGO - Academic union seeks legal battle over government’s decision to ignore expert advice to move all non-essential teaching onlineThe government is facing a legal battle with academics over its “unlawful” decision to reopen universities for face-to-face teaching last month.The UK’s largest academic union is seeking a judicial review of the government’s decision to ignore advice from its own Sage committee of experts to move all non-essential university and college teaching online in September. In a pre-action letter, sent to the education secretary Gavin Williamson and shared with the Observer, the University and College Union (UCU) argues the government’s failure to direct universities to move to online teaching this term was unlawful, unfair, unjust and irrational. Continue reading... Collapse

23 HRS AGO - It has been heartening to see small businesses rush to offer help to poor childrenOh dear, Boris Johnson, not another massive public spanking from 22-year-old Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford? Last time, as part of his food poverty activism alongside the charity network FareShare, Rashford, the child of a single mother, forced the government into a climbdown over feeding vulnerable children during the summer holiday and he was made an MBE. This time, the Labour parliamentary motion that he inspired, which proposed feeding disadvantaged children in England during the half-term/Christmas breaks, was defeated by a shameful 322 to 261 votes.However, huge numbers of restaurants, cafes and businesses, most probably having a tough time themselves, backed Rashford’s #EndChildFoodPoverty campaign, offering food and aid, and councils – even some Tory ones – said they would be helping. Rashford’s Twitter feed became a national information centre-cum-mass outpouring of community Collapse

1 DAY AGO - ‘It feels demands keep coming but support is being taken away,’ one school leader tells The Independent Collapse

1 DAY AGO - Disingenuous' email reveals schools getting less than 20% of devices expected just as remote learning law comes in. Heads suspicious of pre-half term timing Collapse