An academy chief today cast doubt on ‘optimistic’ plans to get all pupils back into school at the start of March as he warned dates were ‘being pulled out of thin air.’ As the PM faces mounting pressure to send children in England back to school, Downing Street has suggested that all primary and secondary … Read more
Exams must be scrapped for all pupils across England next year because schools ‘can’t guarantee continuity of education’, an academies boss said today. Steve Chalke, head of the Oasis Academies Trust chain, has said going ahead with tests in 2021 would be ‘too big a gamble, playing with young people’s lives’. The 64-year-old, whose chain … Read more
Bosses behind dozens of primary schools in England are backing plans for pupils to return to classrooms, despite strong opposition from teaching unions. The heads of four academy chains – Reach 2, Harris, Oasis and GEP – which teach a quarter of the UK’s children, have all thrown their weight behind government proposals to reopen schools … Read more
The bitter row over Government plans to reopen schools exploded into fresh coronavirus chaos today as a second council said it would defy Government orders to restart classes. Hartlepool in County Durham, joined Liverpool in saying it would ignore the plan to let some primary school pupils back to the school from June 1. Education … Read more