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Anti-vaccine campaigners targeting secondary schools after jabs go-ahead for 12-15s
New figures show that one in 20 young people at secondary school in England are estimated to have had coronavirus last week.
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Freshers week: How students and universities are coping after Covid disruption
We were joined by Professor Peter Slee, the vice chancellor of Leeds Beckett University, and by Stephanie Macaulay, a third year student in the business school at Leeds Beckett.
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Universities reopen their doors after Covid causes worst disruption since WW2
Over the next two weeks in Leeds, more than 70,000 students will arrive at the city’s five separate universities.
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Drive to tackle inequality ‘put off track a bit’ by pandemic, education minister says
We spoke to Education Minister Gillian Keegan and began by asking how much confidence there should be in today’s results.
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GCSE results: Students achieve record number of top grades
Students have won record numbers of top GCSE grades after another year of cancelled exams and disrupted education. Almost a third of students in England and Wales got the highest marks – rising to 40 per cent in Northern Ireland. But the gap in outcomes has widened between state and private schools. Throughout the pandemic,…
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Moments of joy for A-level students from some of the most disadvantaged backgrounds
It’s been A-level results day for students in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, and despite all the disruption caused by the pandemic, record numbers of them have won top grades.
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‘Nobody should be diminishing those results’ A-level students have achieved, says Universities Minister Michelle Donelan
We spoke to the Universities Minister Michelle Donelan, and began by putting it to her that if you can’t compare these results to any other year – as her boss Gavin Williamson said – then doesn’t that defeat the point of the exam system?
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Record high in top grade A-level results
There’s something to celebrate for students whose education has been disrupted for another year by the pandemic – a record number of A and A* grades in A-levels in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
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‘You are sacrificing the children’: Mother implores government to stop self-isolation rules at school
We spoke to Sarah Butler, a mother from Bolton who has 13-year-old and 16-year-old sons, we asked her how their school has been affected by lockdown rules.
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Tens of thousands of students absent as Covid school disruption soars
Ministers have suggested that the current rules, which mean whole bubbles of pupils have to self-isolate if there are cases, might be changed by the autumn.
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‘Politics is a great game of snakes and ladders’ – Andrea Leadsom MP
Andrea talks to Krishnan about her political passions including her experiences being one of the leading advocates for Brexit, why she has chosen to open up about her postnatal depression and whether she would run again for Tory leadership.
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Tory MP hopes education spending plans are ‘starter and not the main course’
Before the news of Sir Kevan Collins’ resignation emerged, we spoke to the Conservative MP and chair of the Commons Education Committee, Robert Halfon, and 15-year-old Thea Roland, a school pupil who has just finished her GCSEs.
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‘Children and young people should be a priority’, says Labour’s Kate Green
We spoke to the Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green.
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England schools catch-up tsar resigns over funding
The man charged with overseeing plans to help children catch up on missed education in England has resigned just four months into the job.
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Revisited: It’s the final lockdown. But is it really?
Does our Covid “roadmap” mean that this could be the final lockdown?