Survey of students in England reveals huge disparities in effects of lockdown and school closures.
Children studying for exams and those from disadvantaged families are the most likely to have suffered severe disruption to their learning and motivation during the pandemic, according to the largest published study of its impact on pupils in England.
Read MoreThe teacher dismissed from Eton over an anti-feminist video could be banned from teaching permanently after the school referred him to the watchdog.
Read MoreA leading head teacher has said that labelling children the Covid generation is “catastrophising” and blighting them.
Read MoreDr Jamie Frost’s tuition website went viral during lockdown, helping millions of pupils around the world with their studies.
A London mathematics teacher has been shortlisted for a $1m (£780,000) international teaching prize after his tuition website went global during lockdown, helping millions of pupils in the UK and around the world to continue their maths studies at home.
Read MoreA survey found that over 50 per cent of teachers with pupils due to take exams next summer felt they were not on track to get the results they should achieve.
Questions surround next year’s GCSE and A-level exams after ministers, unions and private schools raised doubts that they would run as normal.
Read MoreParents are demanding an “unequivocal statement” from John Swinney about the fate of next year’s school exams amid claims that they may be cancelled again due to Covid-19.
Read MorePre-Us, the alternative to A levels created and used by many English public schools, are to be scrapped.
The last Pre-U qualifications will be taken in 2023, with resits in June 2024, Cambridge Assessment International Education said. The small number of pupils taking the qualification had made it unsustainable, the exam board added.
Read MoreItaly is to become the first country in the world to make classes on climate change compulsory in schools, Lorenzo Fioramonti, the education minister, said yesterday.
From September, schoolchildren will dedicate an hour a week to learning about global warming and the possibilities of sustainable development.
Read MoreInterestingly, we have recently had the should we move to California conversation. We love Suki’s new school and are both keen she stays until the end of her A’levels.
Californian children will be able to stay in bed longer in the mornings after the state became the first in the US to delay start times at most public schools.
The new law is a response to scientific research suggesting that a later start to the school day would improve pupils’ health and generate better educational outcomes.
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