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So much has changed over the past 12 months – but the work of the school’s guidance team is more crucial than ever, says Lisa Finnie

The cancellation of exams during the pandemic has raised questions about assessment. Here Tes Scotland publishes two opposing views

While many people involved with schools stayed at home as the pandemic raged, those students and staff who remained in schools had to overcome their anxieties and adjust to new ways of working. But a positive attitude helped to see everyone through the difficult times, finds Zofia Niemtus

With the anniversary of the first Covid lockdown now upon us, Dan Worth takes a look back at the earth-shattering events that marked a year of unprecedented upheaval for the nation’s teachers, staff, pupils and parents

The principal of Oak National Academy talks to Tes about his most memorable teacher, the difficulties he experienced as a gay student in an all-boys secondary and the organisational confusion he believes exists within the state school system

School staff have been on the front line throughout the Covid crisis yet the toll it has taken on them is often dismissed by those outside the profession

Teachers’ anger over the Scottish government’s back-to-school plans is one more chapter in the extraordinary story of the past year, writes Henry Hepburn

The cancellation of GCSE and A-level exams during the coronavirus pandemic was controversial, but it has also led many educators to question whether such exams are an outdated form of assessment. Two academy trust leaders go head to head on whether we should ditch end-of-year exams once and for all

How have those who work in education coped during the Covid pandemic? Researchers Kathryn Asbury and Lisa Kim recorded teachers’ experiences over the past year, including how staff dealt with the huge workload and what they thought of the constantly changing edicts from policymakers

While many children with additional needs have found the past year challenging, for some, the flexibility of remote learning has proved beneficial and should not simply be ditched when we get back to ‘normal’, says Heba Al-Jayoosi

Politicians say students need to catch up on ‘lost learning’ after months of disruption to schools. Tes asks six educationalists whether it is a useful expression to sum up the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on education

The pandemic has taken its toll on school leaders, who have frequently been left to fill in the yawning gaps left by a government they no longer trust, says Vic Goddard