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27 January 2021 - Submitted by Olivia Powell Submitted by Olivia Powell on 27 January 2021 De Vere Cotswold Water Park, part of De Vere’s collection of house estates, hotels and event destinations, has announced that it will be donating laptops to schools in Swindon and Gloucester to support families with home schooling as part of the government's Get Help With Technology scheme. As schools have had to pivot to online learning due to the current lockdown, De Vere Cotswold Water Park is donating ten laptops to the Dorcan Academy, Swindon...

The PM said ministers will be 'looking at the potential of relaxing some measures' with the four most vulnerable groups on track to have been given vaccines by February 15.

Department for Education says: 'We believe this is not widespread' Gareth Corfield Thu 21 Jan 2021 // 17:32 UTC Share Copy Updated A shipment of laptops supplied to British schools by the Department for Education to help kids learn under lockdown came preloaded with malware, The Register can reveal. The affected laptops, distributed to schools under the UK government's Get Help With Technology (GHWT) scheme, which started last year, came bundled with Gamarue – an old remote-access worm from the 2010s. This software nasty doesn't just spread from computer to computer...

Child using a laptop Credit: PA Wire/PA Images An investigation has been launched into reports that some of the laptops handed out to vulnerable children for homeschooling are infected with malware. According to an online forum, teachers from a school in Bradford, Yorkshire noticed the issue and believe it contacts Russian servers. “Upon unboxing and preparing them it was discovered that a number of the laptops are infected with a self-propagating network worm (Gamarue.I),” the forum message says. City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council confirmed to the PA news agency that it alert...

Education secretary Gavin Williamson is under pressure to resign for "shambolic" record throughout the pandemic