Decision on delaying England’s 2021 exams ‘very soon’
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Schools Minister Nick Gibb has also been on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, where he was asked about calls from the Labour Party and some teachers to delay next year’s exams in England, giving students more time to prepare.
He said that the education secretary had asked exams regulator Ofqual to consider the issue in July and a decision was due “very soon”.
Gibb also said the government had “nearly 150,000 computers in reserve in those circumstances where there might be a closure” of a school due to an outbreak of the virus. But he said “all schools are open” as term starts.
The survey of teachers about students’ lost learning in lockdown found that a quarter did not have the equipment for remote learning, equating to around two million pupils in England.
About 200,000 laptops were distributed to schools during the lockdown.
-BBC
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