Boarding school pupils coming from red-list countries will be allowed to swerve hotel quarantine and instead self-isolate on campus.
Following pressure from parents and head teachers, they can quarantine at their school if they travel from the airport in pre-arranged private transport.
The children arriving from countries on the Government's red list to return to school in England had faced quarantining in a hotel for ten days, according to Department for Education guidance.
But the department now says the pupils can quarantine in 'physically self-contained' accommodation at the school.
The change to the rules came after the Boarding Schools' Association wrote to the Government.