Birmingham Post

1 in 7 pupils did no school work during lockdown

Cost of Covid to city children laid bare as thousands ‘ghosted’ by education system

- Jonathan Walker Political Editor

THE toll of remote learning on the education of thousands of Birmingham pupils was laid bare this week after a major survey of parents.

Research by the University of Birmingham

discovered 15% of children (one in seven) had not been doing any regular school work amid lockdown last year. More than half received no marks or feedback and a third had been doing just one or two hours of work a day.

Robert Halfon, Tory chairman of the Commons Education Committee, said: “I worry that we are creating a generation of ‘ghosted’ children, lost to our education system.”

A National Audit Office report also revealed schools in richer areas did more for pupils than those in poorer areas.

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