School lessons go online AGAIN - 'Covid-style' remote learning set to replace classrooms as teachers strike across UK

The change is to ensure children across the UK are still able to receive an education as teacher strikes across the country batter the education system.
The change is to ensure children across the UK are still able to receive an education as teacher strikes across the country batter the education system.
Gareth Fuller
George McMillan

By George McMillan


Published: 16/01/2023

- 11:19

Updated: 14/02/2023

- 10:22

Several unions across the UK are threatening to strike over pay and working conditions as the country continues to be battered by industrial action

School lessons are set to go online again as “Covid-style” remote learning is set to replace classroom teaching.

The change is to ensure children across the UK are still able to receive an education as teacher strikes across the country batter the education system.

Euan Stanton, a year 7 pupil at a secondary school in Ashford, Kent, studies at home as many schools switch to online learning following their closure due to the increasing spread of Covid-19.
School lessons are set to go online again as “Covid-style” remote learning is set to replace classroom teaching.
Gareth Fuller

Ministers are also looking into ways in which they can potentially merge schools together and share their resources.

This morning, the general secretary of the National Education Union said she thinks the group will have met the threshold for strike action in their current ballot.

The NEU announcement will be made at 5pm and the union will have to give two weeks’ notice of any industrial action.

More than 300,000 teachers and support staff were asked to vote in the ballot.

Teachers on the picket line outside Pinkie St Peters Primary School in Musselburgh, East Lothian, in a protest over pay. Members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) have walked out in the first national strike over pay for almost 40 years, with the action by teachers expected to close the majority of schools across Scotland. Picture date: Monday January 16, 2023.
The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) said the new strike days are in addition to the previously announced 16-day programme of rolling strike action.
Jane Barlow

The National Association of Head Teachers is also set to announce the results of their strike ballot later today.

The CEO of The White Horse Federation, Paul Smith, told The Independent that if the strikes take place, his organisation “will be introducing Covid-like arrangements so that the most vulnerable students and those from keyworker families have a safe and warm place they can come to during any industrial action”.

Other arrangements include free school meals for those eligible.

Despite this, he urged the Government and unions to come to an agreement so that students’ education would not suffer.

It comes as Children across Scotland are set to miss more days of school as a teaching union has announced 22 additional days of strikes in the ongoing pay dispute.

The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) said the new strike days are in addition to the previously announced 16-day programme of rolling strike action, set to begin in schools across the country next week.

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