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BBC News - Education and Family
News and features from BBC News - Education and Family
- Wales urged to scrap GCSE exams in favour of assessments
Qualifications Wales urges ministers to scrap written exams for GCSEs, but keep one exam per A-level…
- New college to run degrees without subjects
A new higher education institution will be the first since the 1960s to open with its own degree pow…
- Covid Christmas: Rapid tests could get students home
Covid testing pilot projects are launched in universities - as plans begin to get students home at C…
- More children in England missing school over Covid-19
The percentage of pupils in England's schools fell last week from 89% to 86%, statistics show.
- School meals: Boris Johnson refuses to move on school meal vouchers
The prime minister insists he has the right approach and no child will go hungry this winter.
- Students in Scotland may not be home for Christmas
John Swinney says there is a "realistic possibility" students will be asked to stay away from their…
- 'Generation Covid' hit hard by the pandemic, research reveals
People aged 16-25 were more than twice as likely as older workers to have lost their job
- Covid: Laptop allocation for deprived pupils cut at some schools
One head teacher says he was "flattened" when the 61 laptops he was expecting was cut to 13.
- School meals: Councils promise help after Rashford campaign
Birmingham is among authorities promising help at half-term, as the footballer steps up pressure.
- Covid-19: Schools may need to close to some year groups, scientist warns
Sending some children home may be the only way to control infection rates, Prof Neil Ferguson says.
BBC Newsround
Latest Newsround stories
- Changing Faces calls for the way villains look in movies to change
Charity Changing Faces calls for the way villains look in films to change.
- World Cup: Which Belgium player should England be worried about?
England play their final group match against Belgium, but which star player should England be worrie…
- Smoking: Should it be banned at the school gates?
A group of school children have had enough of adults smoking near school gates, so they decided to d…
- Can you guess which singer this is?
Here's a clue - she's pretty famous!
- Sir David Attenborough: 'I'm astonished' by Blue Planet plastic impact
The wildlife expert says he's been wowed by how much people are doing to tackle plastic in the ocean…