Tag: covid-19
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How has Covid-19 Changed our Work and Home Lives?
During the Pandemic our ordinary lives and norms were suspended because of government mandated rules enforcing Lockdowns and other protective measures agains the spread of the virus. And it is precisely when our ordinary daily lives are disrupted or suspended that social norms are illuminated, and the Pandemic highlighted some of these, such as our…
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Covid-19 and Disadvantage Gaps in England 2022
A recent report published by the Education Policy Institute examined the trend in the education disadvantage gap in England over the last decade. It found that the gap for ‘disadvantaged’ pupils (pupils who had been eligible for Free School Meals for one out of the last six years) had decreased over the last decade –…
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Covid-19 and the Increase in Illegal Schools.
Back in 2019 OFSTED estimated that around 6000 pupils were taught in unregistered, illegal schools in England and Wales. The most common type of unregistered schools offer ‘alternative provision’ – 28%, while 25% are general educational schools and 21% are religious (although the media tends to focus primarily on the later!). Since Covid-19 OFSTED have…
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Why the Covid-19 Death Rate might be misleading
The latest figures show that 6% of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 die of the disease. A 6% death rate, and only a 94% survival rate, I don’t fancy those odds! However, writing in The Spectator, Dr John Lee points out that these death rates may be misleading, and that Covid-19 is possibly…
