The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

Overall A-level pass rate at lowest level for 15 years as government backs decision to return to pre-pandemic grading

Education secretary Gillian Keegan accused of ‘adding insult to injury’ for remarks about significance of exam results

In August 1997, Johan Hultin requested permission to exhume a mass grave in Alaska, hoping to find the recipe for the deadliest virus ever known: the 1918 Spanish flu. Scientists routinely engineer viruses, but need nature to create them first. Jeffery Taubenberger wanted to understand why some flu strains caused…

Headteachers say pupils may be disheartened by their results as pre-pandemic marking process means fewer top grades likely to be awarded

This cohort could face greater disappointment as their inflated GCSE results could leave them with higher expectations, sector leaders say

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has proposed awarding the largest pay raise in decades to Kentucky’s public school personnel

Test results have gone up since the pandemic in both subjects, but math scores are still below 2019 levels and about half of Texas students read below the level appropriate for most children in their grade.

Allison Aules from north-east London took her own life after her ‘mood changed completely during pandemic’

As the pandemic subsides, people aged 50 to 64 are ‘unretiring’ – either through choice or necessity