We fact check and explain issues about schools, teacher shortages, childcare, universities, and qualifications.
Education
Comments about A-level results incorrectly attributed to the Education Secretary have been widely shared. Read
Education
Figures given by the Department for Education about the amount of weekly funding for schools do not give the full picture. Read
Education
Barnardo’s has seen a 44% increase in the number of children referred from councils to be placed in foster care during the pandemic. Read
Education
Boris Johnson was wrong to say that 97% of primary schools which report data had kids coming back. The figure on the day he was speaking was 69%. Read
Education
A question at PMQs by Labour MP Stephen Timms suggested this wasn’t the case. Free school meal eligibility has been temporarily extended to some of these children. Read
Education
Teachers were surveyed between 7 and 17 May on whether they thought families would send their children back to school when they reopened. Read
Health
This was the opinion of the Independent SAGE, who are a different group of scientists. Read
Education
Claims that the UK’s favourite books of the last three years include the Modern Kama Sutra and a scratch and sniff book about cannabis are based on limited data. Read
Boris Johnson’s claims about education in Scotland are not all quite right. Read
Education
Research found one in seven parents spend less than 15 minutes a week reading to their young children, but that doesn’t mean one in seven children are read to for less than 15 minutes. Read
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