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CONCERNS about home-schooling have been raised as pupils continue to work remotely. Following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s lockdown announcement on Monday, schools and colleges were closed, with remote learning to take place until the February half-term. However many pupils are faced with limited access to equipment to allow home-schooling to take place effectively. The situation is also further complicated by the fact Government guidance states pupils without laptops or space to study are eligible to attend school. Sue Vermes, headteacher at Rose Hill Primary School, said: “T...

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 colleges now close, with remote learning to take place until the February half-term. The U-turn h...

A second new strain of COVID spreads fear in Britain as Boris Johnson dithers Melissa Rossi BARCELONA, Spain — On Monday morning, millions of small children across England piled onto buses and headed back from Christmas holidays for their first day of primary school, a move strongly discouraged by the British government’s own scientific advisory board but heartily encouraged by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who on Sunday told BBC News that despite a surge in cases of a new and more contagious variant of coronavirus that “schools are safe” and that “the risk to kids, ...

EDUCATION experts in Oxfordshire have derided the decision to keep secondary schools closed for an extra two weeks. Yesterday, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced that secondary schools across most of England would remain closed for an extra two weeks due to rising cases of Covid-19. Secondary schools and colleges should only allow vulnerable children, children of critical workers and exam students to attend. Remaining students are expected to go back on January 11. Primary schools will return as planned on Monday – aside from those in some London boroughs and areas of ...