The pilot will be independently evaluated by NatCen to assess the potential for online tuition to mitigate against the impact of school closures on the attainment gap.

Ofsted will review further education learners’ experience of online learning during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) lockdown.

The Sutton Trust has launched a new online platform to support over 6,000 lower-income students with their university choices and applications this year.

The National Governance Association (NGA) has urged the government to review and drop its plans to have all primary children to return to school for a month before the summer holidays

Parents are eight times more engaged with their children’s studies than they were prior to COVID-19, according to data.

Funding of £159,000 is being invested into the Virtual Nature School programme, which provides training and learning materials to early learning and childcare practitioners.

Teach First has reported that the Covid-19 lockdown has led to more than 1.6 million people in the UK to think about becoming a teacher, despite not considering it before lockdown.

Opening to more pupils in June is considered less feasible for primary schools than secondaries, a report by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has found.

A group of charities is calling on councils to use £280 million of funding for Local Authorities to make the streets near schools safer.

Government guidance says schools can provide children with meals or food parcels for collection or delivery for eligible pupils staying at home during the pandemic.

According to the Office for National Statistics, the number of young people (aged 16 to 24 years) in the UK who were not in education, employment or training (NEET) in January to March 2020 rose by 6,000

Bohunt Education Trust (BET) has launched its own app that allows children to work towards their Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) Award during lockdown.

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