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Nine things we learned from Ofsted’s latest education recovery research

The watchdog found schools struggling with staff shortages, unclear Covid measures and identifying learning gaps

Union demands more ‘robust’ rules as sports event held amid Covid cases

Unions want stricter Covid curbs after one school with 33 cases sent pupils to a sports event while others with fewer cases limited events or sent year groups home

‘Inadequate’ DfE Covid guidance contributing to ‘crisis in school leadership’

Guidance for schools during the Covid-19 pandemic has been “inadequate”, contributing to a “crisis in school leadership”, researchers have warned, after a survey found most heads felt advice had been neither timely nor straightforward. Toby Greany, Pat Thomson and Nick Martindale, from the Universities of Nottingham and Oxford, surveyed around 1,500 members of the NAHT […]

DfE U-turns on masks for pupils travelling to school

The DfE has made a rapid U-turn over plans to relax face covering guidance for pupils on public transport and school buses. Guidance for schools about step four of the relaxation of Covid restrictions was revised on Tuesday, just eight days after it was published and before the changes even take effect next week. The […]