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New report: Covid-19 catch-up funding must be weighted towards disadvantaged pupils

The £650 million coronavirus catch-up funding must be weighted towards disadvantaged schools and students, researchers have warned.


It comes as new research has revealed yet more evidence of the gaps in lockdown learning experiences between disadvantaged pupils and their peers.

The study has also found that most pupils spent less than three hours a day on remote learning activities during lockdown, with offline provision such as worksheets or recorded videos much more common than live lessons.

The study has been published by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and is based on responses from more than 4,000 parents in late April.

It found variation in the way learning was delivered to pupils and the number of hours they spent learning each day during the Covid-19 lockdown.

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