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First travellers taking part in the new UK hotel quarantine scheme arrived this morning at London Heathrow Touched down in the UK from variety of Covid red list countries including the UAE, Zambia and South Africa Comes amid warnings arrivals at Britains busiest airport may have to queue for up to five hours at the border No protocols are in place to segregate passengers from the 33 high-risk countries from lower-risk arrivals  Scotland is applying hotel quarantine scheme to visitors from ever...

Teaching unions have questioned a plan to get all pupils back to school on March 8, asking why minister have abandoned the idea of a phased return of year groups which was used last year.

TEACHERS unions have rejected the Governments plans to reopen schools on March 8, as Boris Johnson prepares to release his roadmap out of lockdown next week.

A set of principles to ensure that students are assessed fairly following the cancellation of exams in England has been...

Appeals over grades should be handled by exam boards rather than schools and colleges, a coalition of education unions and professional bodies has said. Organisations representing school and college leaders, governors and teachers have established a set of principles to ensure students are assessed fairly following the cancellation of GCSE and A-level exams in England. It comes after a consultation by Ofqual and the Department for Education (DfE), on how students will be awarded grades after th...

THE Scottish government is facing questions over the safety of school staff after ministers announced plans for pupils to return to classrooms later this month.  During First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood today, Nicola Sturgeon was told that the reopening of schools must work alongside the vaccination programme to ensure that teachers are safe.  The plans announced on Tuesday provide for certain categories of children to go back to school: pupils in Primary 1 to Primary 3 and those in ...

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‘There is a hostile environment for Black workers today” says Black union boss Dr Patrick Roach While the odds are stacked against black workers, the efforts we put in now to tackle the many injustices we face will see us reap the rewards – and they may come sooner than we might think, says Patrick Roach A SCANDAL: Black workers are three to four times more likely to die at work in the the current COVID-19 pandemic RACISM IS at work and it exists. But, as trade unions, we are committed t...

Johnson plans end of UK lockdown, with terrible loss of life Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government is preparing to end the UK’s national lockdown, with the seven-day average daily death toll at over 1,200 and hospitalisations at over 38,000. More than 29,000 people have died in just the last 28 days. One day after the government announced 100,000 COVID-19 deaths in Britain, Johnson was already announcing plans to sacrifice more lives on the altar of corporate profits. Speak...

Covid: Youngest pupils could be back in school from February 22 The youngest children in Wales could begin returning to school after the February half term, if rates of coronavirus continue to fall, First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced today, January 29. The First Minister confirmed the alert level four lockdown restrictions will remain in place in Wales for the next three weeks, following a review of the measures. He will also provide more details of a £200m package to top-up sup...