School days could get LONGER
Nadhim Zahawi praised "excellent examples" of teachers who keep kids in classes beyond the average 6.5 hours and promised to look at expanding it.Extending the school day has been proposed as a way to help pupils catch up after missing lessonsFears that poor children could fall well behind their peers post-pandemic were put to the new Education Sec today.maths skills by almost a third according to Whitehall stats.
Mr Zahawi replied: "There are some excellent examples... of a longer school day which I'm going to look at. "The average school day now is 6.5 hours and I would like to see everybody move towards that average." He said catching up pupils was a "priority" and pointed to the £5billion pot to bring them up to speed.
It's much lower than the £15billion demanded by former education tsar Sir Kevan Collins who quit at the piecemeal funding offer.
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