A leading headteacher is urging ministers to restart the current school year from scratch in September because remote learning is markedly less effective. Katharine Birbalsingh believes pupils should redo the entire year when they can be back in classrooms with teachers who are no longer forced to grapple with Zoom. She warned that teachers were covering as little as 20 per cent of the content they would usually manage in a classroom, meaning pupils preparing for exams were in a 'dire situation'. But her intervention comes only a day after Education Secretary Gavin Williamson hailed remote classrooms as a 'major achievement' and a 'revolution in learning'.