Authors

Labour leader expresses fears about growing inequality between pupils that he says is a result of school shutdowns

Labour’s Rebecca Long-Bailey makes suggestion – echoing election manifesto ‘abolition’ threat – in letter to education secretary

New Labour shadow education secretary calls for action to allow all school staff to be tested for virus and to have access to PPE

Teachers can only do so much, warn unions, saying ‘this is not education as we have known it’

New joint union guidance says schools should not ask teachers to attend full staff meetings, clean cupboards, or take down displays

The consequences of coronavirus for the exams system could stretch well beyond this year’s makeshift solution