The Environment Agency has launched new resources, looking at plastic pollution, to help schools take part in World Ocean Day (WOD) on 8 June.

The Inclusion 2020 programme has started 2,170 young people with SEND on their learn-to-swim journey, and supported 9,328 schools with continuing professional development to ensure sport and Physical Education is inclusive to every child.

Morrisons has launched a book donation and exchange station for children – the Morrisons Little Library – which aims to promote reading and literacy in children

A study by the EEF has found that the attainment gap did not widen or shrink during the Autumn 2020 term, suggesting that gaps caused by Covid are unlikely to close without intervention.

46,900 pupils were off last Thursday because of potential contact in-school, up from 25,200 on Thursday 22 April.

BESA has launched a new initiative, the Catch-up Challenge School Support Scheme, which brings together over 50 trusted UK education suppliers who have pledged to offer free advice to schools.

Educational unions, parents and students have written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson to express concern at reported Government plans to stop requiring children to wear face coverings in secondary school classrooms in England from 17 May.  

The Schools Infection Survey suggests a significant reduction in the percentage of secondary school pupils and staff testing positive for COVID-19 infection since schools reopened 

Students who receive a teacher assessed grade this summer will be eligible to take GCSE, AS or A level exams in the same subject in autumn 2021, Ofqual has confirmed.

According to the Independent Adjudicator (OIA)'s annual report, the universities watchdog received 2,604 complaints in 2020, which was a ten per cent rise than in 2019.

62,000 reception-age pupils in 6,672 schools will receive the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) this school year, according to data released by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF).

Providing teachers with a right to high-quality training and development would boost pupil attainment and earnings, a study from the Education Policy Institute has shown.

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