bySAGE Publications Credit: CC0 Public Domain There is an urgent need for guidelines on how schools can use ventilation to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the classroom, according to doctors at Imperial College London and the headteacher of a secondary school in Pinner, Middlesex. ...
Several documents presented to the UK government from its scientific advisers analysing how and when it may be safe to reopen schools in England on 1 June have now been released after pressure from experts and trade unions. However, the papers have not reassured unions and experts about the ...
Hungary has closed its borders to foreigners to prevent the so-called second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that is sweeping across Europe. At the same time, its schools are reopening after the summer break, but some parents and teachers are nervous, saying the go...
Even though private government-subsidised schools had comparative advantages, the government provided the same resources for them as for public schools regarding school texts, infrastructure resources and technical support. On the one hand, schools were allowed to select students (e.g., based on ...
Many, however, expressed deep frustration with the lack of notice that preceded new Government guidance, which they often heard about first through televised coronavirus briefings or other public announcements. “Society at large is being given information at the same time as schools,” one head tol...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had dramatic and varying impacts on schools, children, teachers and other school staff, families, and communities around the world. The earliest months of the pandemic brought cautious responses from all levels of government, and most countries and states affected by CO...
(UK Government,2017). Mental well-being is considered to not just reflect the absence of a mental health condition, but also to encompass positive psychological experience (Agteren & Iasiello,2020). Initial evidence has found a significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child mental health...
We commend the Government’s Molecular Diagnostics Lab Team under the leadership of Dr. Carika Weldon for their swift response to support schools in the organization and administering of these saliva tests within a day of a COVID exposure in a school. ...
But despite a range of sanitary measures at universities in France, at least a dozen COVID-19 clusters have emerged since some classrooms re-opened earlier this month. September marks the start of a new academic year and the French government says children and students s...
600 for the preceding three years (HM Government, 2023). While Covid-19 is not the sole cause of the cost of living crisis, it has exacerbated the pressure on students post-Covid. Many HE institutions report the effects of empty classrooms on student learning as they consider new ways of...