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Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he is “absolutely confident” there will be no further delays to school reopenings, after soaring coronavirus case rates in December forced the Government into a U-turn in pushing back the start of term for millions of pupils. He moved to reassure teaching staff, pupils and parents the newly rescheduled staggered return dates for England will stay in place, despite concerns about safety and transmission rates among younger people. But teachers sa...

BBC News By Hannah Richardson Published image copyrightPA Media Secondary schools across most of England are to remain closed for an extra two weeks for most pupils, to help regain control of coronavirus. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Commons that exam-year pupils would return a week earlier than their schoolmates in the week of 11 January. In the meantime, schools will have more time to set up mass testing plans. In a few areas with the highest infection rates, primaries would ...

Ministers have said the military will help with mass testing in English schools from January, as it pushes on with plans for pupils to return next month.

But unions call for start of term to be delayed, saying there is not enough time to set up testing.

Invalid Date, BORIS Johnson is poised to delay the return to school of Years 11 and 13 — but allow primaries to go back as ­normal from Monday. The PM was warned yesterday that reopening schools would require tougher lockdown rules forced on the rest of the country. 5 5 Boris Johnson is expected to announce the plan tomorrowCredit: Andrew Parsons Professor Neil Ferguson, the architect of the first Covid lockdown, said that even shutting them and universities may not be enough to regain cont...

Calls have been made for longer school closures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 THE two biggest teaching unions and top scientists have called for schools to be closed during January to try and get a grip on Covid-19. The NEU and NASUWT both wrote to the Government calling a delay in the return of "on-site learning" due to the increasing spread of Covid-19, particularly the new variant, in a space where hundreds of households are mixing on a daily basis. The Scientific Advisory Group fo...

Experts have warned that allowing students to return will put them at risk of catching the new mutant strain of coronavirus.

Keeping schools shut will harm student prospects, ministers are warned Josh White, Glen Keogh And Daniel Martin For The Daily Mail © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Members of the armed forces will be drafted in to help give Covid tests to thousands of school and college students in England. The Ministry of Defence said 1,500 military personnel would be deployed to ensure that testing systems were up and running by the time pupils returned for the new term in January.�...

By Press Association A growing number of education leaders are calling for the Government to pause and reconsider sending secondary pupils back to the classroom PRESSURE is growing on the Government to abandon plans to reopen secondary schools in January amid concerns it could cause further spikes in coronavirus cases. Teaching unions have warned that allowing students to return will put them at risk of catching the new variants of Cov...

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