Updated / Wednesday, 30 Dec 2020
16:58
A poll suggested 43% of 7,999 British adults surveyed would strongly support keeping schools in England closed for a two further weeks
Hundreds of thousands of pupils in England will not return to schools and colleges as planned due to rising infection rates and the spread of the new Covid-19 variant.
Announcing a U-turn on the planned staggered reopening, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said students in exam years will return to secondary schools a week later than planned, from 11 January.
Other secondary and college students will go back full-time on 18 January, he told the House of Commons.
Primary schools in a small number of areas where Covid-19 infection rates are the highest will not reopen for face-to-face teaching to all pupils as planned next week.
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