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Teachers and police officers may not be prioritised in vaccine roll-out once all 32million over-50s are jabbed with No10’s advisers expected to sign off today on continuing with age-based approach The JCVI is today expected to sign off its recommendations for the next stage It is likely to recommend continuing to dish out jabs according … Read more
Video of militant teachers boasting of strike threats to keep schools closed fuels fears that unions are plotting to block March 8 return Video of National Education Union trio shows threats delayed school’s reopening Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants pupils to return to schools from March 8 Ex-head Chris McGovern ‘hugely concerned’ unions will torpedo … Read more
Teachers and police officers could start getting Covid vaccines by April, with them expected to be first in line once the over-50s have been jabbed. Britain is on course to have offered first doses to all 15million in the top four priority groups — over-70s, care home residents and staff, NHS workers, and the seriously … Read more
Parents have been left fuming at headteachers who told their children to play in the snow instead of taking online lessons on Zoom. As large parts of the UK were hit with snow from Storm Darcy, some headteachers took it upon themselves to call a ‘snow day’ for home school students, scrapping online lessons and … Read more
Hundreds of teachers in London ‘book Covid vaccine through NHS booking link sent on Whatsapp’ – as parts of the country begin jabbing over-60s Staff member at London school said they were able to book a Covid-19 jab They added they were not in the top priority groups for the vaccines rollout Labour has repeatedly … Read more
A Georgia clinic that flouted the state’s rules for who is eligible to get COVID-19 vaccins and gave teachers shots ahead of their turn has been barred from giving any vaccines for six months. State health officials seized about 470 doses of Pfizer vaccine from the Medical Center of Elberton on Friday, after discovering it … Read more
The Children’s Commissioner today insisted teachers should receive Covid-19 vaccinations after the first on the priority list as calls grow for schools to reopen. Anne Longfield said about 500,000 teachers and 500,000 support staff could all be given the jab ‘in a couple of days’ given recent data on UK vaccination capacity. She added that … Read more
Boris Johnson drops in on a Year 6 virtual Zoom class as he praises teachers and parents for ‘rising to the unique challenges’ of home schooling Prime Minister spoke to year six class from St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School Said answering their questions was more ‘terrifying’ than talking to journalists PM told the youngsters he … Read more
Coronavirus could cause a permanent shift to virtual parents’ evenings after a teaching union described parents physically queueing to talk to teachers about their children as ‘Stalinist’. Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, has suggested online parents’ evenings and governors’ meetings could become the new normal after the pandemic. … Read more
Teachers and school support staff should be given a Covid vaccine at half-term to allow classrooms to open as soon as possible, Sir Keir Starmer said today. The Labour leader called for educationalists to be bumped up the priority list for jabs amid anger at the continued closure. The Government has been sending out mixed … Read more