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That is the stark message from an Oxford study which looked at data gathered in the Netherlands. However, researchers believe the findings are applicable to the UK and elsewhere. Schools in the Netherlands closed for eight weeks during its first lockdown, with research suggesting primary age students lost a fifth of the progress they would usually make in a year. The study was undertaken by Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. Its authors Per Engzell, and DPhil candidates Arun Frey and Mark Verhagen, say the findings are ‘dire’ and are likely to be reflected int...

Date Time Children learned ‘little or nothing’ during school closures, despite online learning School closures in the last year have led to serious learning losses, with primary-age school pupils making virtually no progress studying at home, according to a new study by researchers at Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, published in Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Learning losses were particularly pronounced in families with low levels of education. The findings come from data gathered in the Netherlands, where schools closed for eight weeks in t...