7 April 2021
With thousands of teachers reporting symptoms of long-Covid, schools’ sickness policies need to better recognise the often debilitating impact of this little understood phenomenon, the NASUWT has ...
7 April 2021
The chilling and worsening impact of poverty on children and families has been laid bare by a survey of 10,000 teachers. The research also sets out teachers’ priorities post-Covid. Pete Henshaw ...
23 March 2021
School attendance last week was the highest it has been since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic – although Covid absences are rising once again…
17 March 2021
The National Audit Office's report card on ministers' management of education during Covid has sparked a scathing response about some of the DfE's 'missteps' and 'tone-deaf decisions'. There is also ...
17 March 2021
Increasing school and education-related costs have contributed to the financial pressures facing the poorest families this year, with parents reporting stress, guilt and feeling like they are in a ...
16 March 2021
We must reject the catch-up at all costs rhetoric and rebuild a school system that learns the lessons from the pandemic. Pete Henshaw reports from the ASCL annual conference, which set out plans to ...
10 March 2021
Despite confusion over the government’s contradictory Covid testing policy and continuing ambiguity over the face masks in classrooms, the full re-opening of England’s secondaries has gone smoothly ...
3 March 2021
Effective diagnostic assessment and a focus on “recovery over time” should be priorities for schools – rather than an obsession with “catch-up” – the Education Recovery Commissioner has told MPs.
3 March 2021
There is bitter disappointment among school leaders and teachers after the "short-sighted" Budget included no new money to support longer term post-Covid recovery work during this Parliament.
24 February 2021
Boris Johnson’s insistence that all students will return to school on March 8 and the ‘salami-slicing’ of the latest £702m funding for learning recovery have left school leaders and teachers anxious ...
24 February 2021
With two-thirds of SEN students having not engaged effectively with remote education, a research review has sought to offer practical ideas and tips for teaching staff.
17 February 2021
Clear communication from school leaders was one of the biggest factors in both staff and parents feeling confident in handling the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
9 February 2021
The 10,000 primary and secondary schools yet to apply for free government-funded period products are being urged to act now.
9 February 2021
Some of the ‘superficially attractive’ ideas being considered for how we can help pupils’ to recover lost learning are simply not supported by the evidence of what works, despairing school leaders ...
8 February 2021
Improving air quality and ventilation in classroom spaces should be as important as social distancing, mask-wearing and hand-washing, doctors have told schools.
3 February 2021
The £1.5bn so far allocated to lost learning recovery during the Covid-19 pandemic is “highly unlikely to be sufficient” – with a more realistic figure being £30bn.
3 February 2021
The high attendance levels in many schools during the current lockdown gives the government the perfect opportunity to understand infection risks ahead of full re-opening, it has been suggested.
3 February 2021
A third of parents do not know who is in charge of mental health and wellbeing at their children’s school, research has shown.
27 January 2021
A £1 million Help a Child to Learn campaign has launched to supply learning materials for disadvantaged pupils who do not have access to these at home.
27 January 2021
Ofsted has shared some emerging approaches and strategies to boost pupil engagement and motivation during remote education, after identifying this as one of the key barriers to learning during the ...
21 January 2021
Only one in four working class pupils are undertaking at least five hours a day of learning during the current national Covid-19 lockdown, research has found.
20 January 2021
Covid-19 infection rates are notably higher among school teaching and support staff than for the general population, newly published government figures have shown.
20 January 2021
Schools have found the differentiation of remote education for SEN pupils a key challenge during Covid-19, while SENCO workload has gone through the roof, according to new research.
13 January 2021
As a DfE press notice trumpets the number of laptops it has now acquired to support remote learning, research reveals that almost a year into the pandemic only one in five schools have been able to ...
13 January 2021
Ofsted has moved to dispel a number of “myths” about remote education, including that live lessons are the “gold standard” and that the best forms of remote learning are digital.