92% off Target for Education Mentor

Less than 8% off Target for Education Mentor Target for the government’s flagship programme of ‘Catch-Up Mentors’ to assist and help students learn through their missed lessons during Covid is currently 92% off, according to the Department for Education. The target from the government was to give extra tuition to 252,000 students throughout the country. […]

Support Stopped during Coronavirus

Support topic during PM questions today, the newly elected leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, asks Boris Johnson about new research, showing the effects of lockdown that showed three quarters of families with disabled children had their care support stopped. Sir Ed Davey asked during PM questions whether he could have a sit-down […]

Universities Online Learning

New guidance from the government has told universities that they should switch to full-time online learning only if there is a local coronavirus outbreak. House parties are also banned due to the ‘Rule of Six,’ only having 6 people in one group at a time. Universities have the control The Department for Education (DfE) have […]

Coronavirus: How Much Learning Has Been Lost?

Lockdown from coronavirus is easing, students will be returning to school in September, how much learning do you think the students of the UK has lost of the last few months? Lost Hours in the Hundreds By the time schools close this month for summer, most pupils will have lost 70 days of normal school; […]

Classroom Cuts Will Destroy Safe Reopenings

Classrooms built as they currently are, are only safe for groups of 12 children, a leading architect has stated. A decision by the former education secretary, Michael Gove, to cut classroom dimensions means that some schools cannot accommodate for current post-lockdown ‘bubbles of children.’ Are classrooms safe? The government has currently recommended that children should […]