Schools across the UK will close on Friday 20 March for the foreseeable future, but in England will still take the children of vital workers—such as NHS, social care, and delivery workers—and those who are vulnerable, the government has announced.Elisabeth Mahase...
As the UK reopened after the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic, crucial questions emerged around the role for ongoing interventions, including test-trace-isolate (TTI) strategies and mandatory masks. Here we assess the importance of masks in secondary schools by evaluating their impact over Sep...
Higher Education (2021) 81:623–641 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00561-y COVID-19 and digital disruption in UK universities: afflictions and affordances of emergency online migration Richard Watermeyer1 & Tom Crick2 & Cathryn Knight2 & Janet Goodall2 Published online: 4 June 2020 # ...
The extent to which the Covid pandemic disrupted the curriculum, drove up leaders’ workload and impeded schools’ ability to support vulnerable pupils has been revealed today. TheCovid-19 school snapshot survey, published today by the Department for Education, gathered views from 997 teachers an...
There will be ample opportunity in the evening for some downtime and being firm on breaks will help to reinforce the value of learning time. If you can co-ordinate this time with other "schools" (families), the children could regain some of the social elements by communic...
With schools close in the UK during the COVID-19 outbreak, most children must now be homeschooled. Parents have found themselves not only having to balance work and having the children at home but also having to try and teach them. How can you keep your children focused while learning?Nic...
Writing in a linked Comment, lead authors Stefan Flasche and John Edwards (who were not involved in the study), from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, note that the partial re-opening of schools during the UK in summer half-term, when COVID-19 levels were low, was reass...
The UK government announced that they will drop mask mandate in the week of January 24th and will look into dropping self-isolation regulations in March or earlier[112]. 18.01 WHO releases a statement that there is currently no evidence that children and adolescent needs COVID-19 boosters[110]...
2.2 Research on remedial measures prior to the COVID-19 pandemic Remedial measures cover a wide range of support for school children, covering for example private tutoring and summer schools. With respect to private tutoring, in view of the fact that parents pay enormous sums of money to suppor...
As coronavirus epidemic was well controlled in China, kindergartens and schools gradually reopened in September. To minimize the risk of coronavirus, a kindergarten in East China's Zhouying Town requested all teachers to be well prepared. What has the kindergarten done to protect children? What ...