Education Policy

• Testing and tracing 'key to schools returning', scientists say
  The UK's test and trace schemes are not yet good enough to stop a virus resurgence, scientists say.
• Seven reasons not to give up on poetry
  Poetry will become an optional subject area in GCSE English literature exams next year.
• Scotland's results day: Thousands of pupils have exam grades lowered
  The exam body says it lowered 125,000 grades that had been estimated by teachers to "maintain credibility".
• Coronavirus: GCSE students allowed to drop poetry in 2021 exams
  Other English and history topics will also become optional in England after disruption to lessons.