The Covid-19 virus has been impacting on schools all around the globe and governments and schools have been taking a variety of steps to try to ensure that children’s education is interrupted as minimally as possible. This article from The Guardian suggests that these efforts are falling far short in the UK at least.
Half of all UK pupils whose exams were cancelled as a result of the Covid-19 crisis have not been provided with any school work since lockdown began, according to research. A survey by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) found that pupils in years 11 and 13, who should have taken their GCSEs and A-levels this summer, have lost most learning during the pandemic.
The NFER surveyed parents of more than 4,000 UK pupils and found that almost all received some remote learning tasks from their teachers (90%), but when it came to exam-year pupils in years 11 and 13 almost half received no work from their school.
“This means that, come September, many of these pupils will not have engaged with education for up to six months,” the NFER noted. “A return to education may therefore prove challenging for many, especially if it is in a new educational setting, and targeted support may be needed.”
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