LONDON: The government is facing increasing pressure from teaching unions to delay the reopening of all schools in England amid fears over the spread of the new strain of Covid-19.The National.
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Schools in England could remain closed beyond the middle of January, the education secretary, Gavin Williamson, has admitted, as the country’s largest education authority urged its schools to remain closed and headteachers called for next summer’s exams to be reassessed.
Only three days after declaring he was “absolutely confident” all schools would reopen, Williamson said secondary schools within the 60 “contingency areas” named by the government may remain closed to most pupils after 18 January.
“Those in exam years will be educated remotely during the first week of term, and face-to-face beginning on January 11, with other secondary schools and college students returning full time on January 18, in areas where we have not had to apply the contingency framework,” Williamson wrote in the Mail on Sunday.
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Pressure is mounting on the government to keep all of England's schools closed when the new term starts this week amid fears over the spread of COVID-19.