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The government has told schools regulatory approval is not needed for a key part of their testing plan aimed at keeping students in classrooms. Under a new scheme, close contacts of a positive coronavirus case can continue going into school and avoid self-isolating, if they choose to take a daily rapid coronavirus test and get a negative result. The Guardian […]
Read moreWith stricter pre-flight Covid testing set to come into force this week, and a concerning drop in tracer app scans over the summer break, details on new infections coming into New Zealand will be released today. The Ministry of Health was due to give the latest Covid update in a statement at 1pm. It comes as concerns mount around contagious […]
Read morePupils are being told how to use their Playstation to log into school from home, as the government faces criticism for a “sluggish” rollout of laptops. Schools have been advising parents and students on how to use games consoles to log into online classes while children are learning at home during England’s coronavirus lockdown, as an alternative to a laptop. […]
Read more“It’s really upsetting because we don’t want to have to do this,” Liam*, a student at the University of Sussex, says. “We want the university to work with us to work with our demands. We aren’t asking for the world.” First-year Liam wants to see changes and, like others at leading universities including Manchester, Bristol, Oxford and Goldsmiths, he is […]
Read moreSecondary schools across England will be closed to most pupils for the first two weeks of term after the Christmas holidays, with schools in areas with particularly high rates of coronavirus remaining online-only for longer, the education secretary, Gavin Williamson, has announced, under new measures introduced to limit the spread of Covid-19. English schools in areas worst hit by Covid […]
Read moreColorado’s education system has endured immense stress this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on school operations and exposed glaring inequities in communities’ access to academic, technological, health, food, and housing resources. Most of the issues facing public education — such as a shortage of substitute teachers and inconsistent WiFi service throughout the state — are not new, say […]
Read moreThe Ministry of Health is giving its last update on the Covid-19 cases in New Zealand before Christmas. There were five new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand on Monday, all in managed isolation. The total number of active cases in New Zealand was 59. Our total number of confirmed cases was 1,765. On Monday the Ministry of Health said […]
Read moreA head-on collision north of Auckland has left six people injured and closed State Highway 1 for several hours. Two people have serious injuries and four moderate injuries from the crash. One person is being airlifted to hospital. Police spokesman Jarred Williamson said the crash was between two vehicles on SH1, south of Wellsford. It was reported just before 4pm. […]
Read moreDame Rachel de Souza has been named as the new children’s commissioner for England – despite the chair of the education select committee saying some MPs were not “wholly convinced” by her vision for the role. The chief executive of a multi-academy trust will take up the post from March 2021, taking over from Anne Longfield OBE, who has held […]
Read more“It’s just not worth risking,” says Hester Grainger, who has decided to keep her daughter out of school for the final few days of term as coronavirus cases rise. She stopped sending her 11-year-old into school last Thursday – exactly a week before English schools are due to break up for Christmas term. The government has insisted schools must remain […]
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