Home education

Coronavirus and schools: Scotland's education secretary, John Swinney, has come under fire over pupils lacking access to online learning

Education secretary under fire over remote learning

26 Jan 2021

'Secretly filming online lessons is breaking the law'

Union takes action over filming of online lessons

14 Jan 2021

The DfE has been warned that a lack of laptops at home risks undermining the national lockdown.

Lack of laptops could undermine lockdown, warn heads

7 Jan 2021

Coronavirus and schools: Gavin Williamson has been accused of taking a ‘cheap shot’ at Scottish education

Williamson takes ‘cheap shot’ at Scottish education

6 Jan 2021

Coronavirus school closures: How to use an Xbox or PlayStation for online learning

How to use an Xbox or PlayStation for online learning

6 Jan 2021

Coronavirus: Primary schools have been told they cannot yet order their allocation of laptops to deliver online learning

Primaries told by DfE they must wait to order laptops

5 Jan 2021

The barriers put up to home education are troubling, writes Alison Preuss

Why the barriers to home education are troubling

9 Dec 2020

Coronavirus and schools: Headteachers have hit out over the allocations of new laptops from the DfE, which they say have been cut massively

Anger at 'massive' DfE cut to school laptop allocations

24 Oct 2020

Coronavirus: How schools can fulfil their new legal obligation to provide remote learning

Remote learning duty: Everything teachers need to know

21 Oct 2020

ASCL have said the new remote learning order being imposed by the government is "draconian" and "unnecessary."

Covid remote lessons law 'draconian' and 'demoralising'

21 Oct 2020

Coronavirus remote teaching: Matt Hood, the principal of the Oak National Academy, says that remote teaching is competing with cats dancing on TikTok for pupils' attention

Remote teaching 'has to beat a cat dancing on TikTok’

15 Oct 2020

Coronavirus: Parents are having to make difficult decisions about sending their children to school

Covid is stressful for teachers – but also for parents

7 Oct 2020