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Take-up of online lessons increases as Covid disruption forces more pupils to stay off school

Department for Education also asks schools to draw up plans to bring back virus testing sites and reintroduce face masks

Data on WJEC site ‘not displaying correctly’ on deadline day for entering GCSE and A-level grades. Yesterday, OCR’s site crashed

Online GCSEs and A level exams could introduce a wide range of advantages, says Ofqual research director

Is it a fun site to share silly dances, or place where children are putting themselves at risk? Joshua Lowe explores...

Tech companies must be compelled to do more to protect pupils under new online harms law, says NSPCC

Pupils need to be aware of the impact of technology increasingly taking control over our lives, says Aidan Harvey-Craig

Some parts of the media may not be aware of the cutting-edge work being done on some of our Scottish islands – maybe they should be a bit more open-minded, writes Henry Hepburn

DfE official also hints at future government efforts to boost digital access for disadvantaged pupils

Watchdog says exam boards embracing ‘greater use of technology’, as catch-up tsar calls online assessment ‘the future’

A total of 1,313,449 laptops and tablets have been sent to disadvantaged children since the pandemic began

LONG READ: Many are calling for the complete abolition of GCSEs. But the technology already exists to move the exams online, alongside A levels. And, as Catherine Lough reveals, these decades-old qualifications could be a very different proposition on-screen