2m children in UK ‘have done almost no school work in lockdown’

Private school pupils five times as likely to get near-full-time teaching during crisis, study finds

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Private school pupils are five times more likely to get near-full-time teaching online during lockdown as those at state schools, according to research that suggests far less school work is being done at home than previously thought.

The study, by the UCL Institute of Education (IOE), found that 2 million children in the UK – about one in five – had done no school work at all, or managed less than an hour a day while studying at home.

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