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NEU: ‘Secondary schools must have week-on, week-off after lockdown’

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The UK’s biggest teacher union has demanded that secondary schools only open on a week-on, week-off system after lockdown.  Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) has said the new rotas should be used until the country has a ‘fit for purpose’ Test and Trace system.  The union has already pleaded … Read more

NEU demands reduced content for A-levels and GCSEs in 2021 as students find tests ‘too stressful’

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Education union chiefs have today demanded an overhaul of next year’s GCSE and A-Level exams over fears coronavirus could cut school contact time and called for an emphasis shift away from end-of-year exams – because students find them ‘too stressful’. Bosses at the National Education Union (NEU), the UK’s largest teaching union, have written to … Read more