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Wales schools and colleges will stay closed until the mid-February half term unless numbers of CCP virus cases drop significantly.

TEACHERS should be a priority group for receiving the coronavirus vaccine, a union has said. The NASUWT teaching union has written to Education Secretary John Swinney urging the Scottish Government to fast-track teacher vaccinations in order to safely reopen schools for all pupils. But First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has again insisted it would be “unethical” to prioritise teachers – or any other profession – before the most vulnerable are vaccinated. Earlier this week she said ...

by Bethany Rielly THE mass roll-out of the Oxford vaccine began with failures yesterday while hospitals teeter on the edge and NHS staff morale plummets.   The first community vaccines in England with the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab were due to take place yesterday at GP surgeries, with jabs being delivered to sites across the country.  However, supplies of the vaccine failed to arrive at a surgery visited by Health Secretary Matt Hancock to promote the jab’s launch, in a scene described by ...

A leading teachers union has called on all education staff to be prioritised for the coronavirus vaccination to help get children back into the classroom as quickly and safely as possible. The NASUWT said it was “in the national interest” for teachers to be at the head of the queue to receive the vaccination. Schools have entered another period of remote learning, with most pupils to receive home schooling until the half term break in February. The Union said it is essential both to help p...

EDUCATION leaders have criticised the Government for the way it has handled whether schools should open or not. On December 30, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced primary schools would return, while secondary schools and colleges would only allow vulnerable children, children of critical workers and exam students to attend. However, at the end of the first day back for those students who returned, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the national lockdown, seeing schools and...

Matt Hancock today insisted teachers have a very strong case to be next in line to receive the coronavirus vaccine.  The Health Secretary told MPs that ministers are currently considering who will get the jab once the top four priority groups of the most vulnerable people have been vaccinated.  Ministers are facing growing pressure to bump teachers up the vaccine priority list so that schools can reopen as soon as possible.  Senior MPs and industry figures have stressed that a speedy return ...

Unions warning as A-level and GCSE results to be decided by teachers instead of algorithm Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has cancelled GCSE and A-levels after shutting down schools as part of the national lockdown to curb the rising cases of coronavirus The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Get the latest North East news and updates delivered straight to your inbox Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information ...

THE government was urged today to take a leaf out of the 2019 Labour manifesto and provide free broadband to families homeschooling children during lockdown. In Parliament Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer asked why the government hadn’t planned for the contingency of closed schools – and why 1.8 million children are still without access to a computer. Under new measures in England, schools, colleges and universities have moved most of their teaching online for the third time since the pande...

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TWO teaching unions in Wales have called for the reopening of schools next week to be delayed due to the new strain of coronavirus.