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Lack of personal interaction with the lecturers, is one of the many ways to miss children

say The vast majority of teachers (90%) that their students do less or much less work, as it is usually at This Time of the year, a study.

The Report of The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), says that principals believe that around a third of the students are not in engagement with the set.

only Limited or no access to technology was a problem for around a quarter (23%) of students, headmaster, said the NFER.

The Government says she has to help in excess of £100m, to learn At Home .

Which is based on the findings from A Survey of 1,233 school Directors and 1,821 teachers in England's state schools, carried out between 7 and 17 Can.

It raises particular concern about the impact of school closures due to Covid 19, on the learning of pupils from The Most disadvantaged areas, student engagement is lower in the schools with the highest deprivation.

secondary schools with the highest number of children reported to free meals in The School , 48% of the students were engaged with learning activities, compared to 66% and 77% of pupils at schools in The Middle and lowest brackets.

teachers, the researchers told found The Following pupils that it is particularly difficult to participate in remote learning, compared to your peers:

the commitment of the parents

to say the teacher is only a little over half (55%) of the students-parents are to learn At Home with their children, The Report said.

But the teachers from The Most disadvantaged schools reporting a lower level of parental involvement, 41%) than those from the least disadvantaged schools, at 62%.

There is concern that many Young People disengagement, without the everyday school life

NFER chief executive Carole Willis said: "There are significant differences in The Levels of student engagement in the remote learning, in particular among The Most disadvantaged pupils. "

There is a risk to widen the achievement gap, as a result of the pandemic, she added, and called for a "comprehensive and long-term strategy to resolve this Problem".

Josh Hillman, Director of education at the Nuffield Foundation , which funded the research, said: "the relocation to The remote control learning during the blocking has the effect that children and Young People unequal access to IT equipment and connectivity-even more. "

Geoff Barton, General Secretary of heads' union ASCL, secured a national plan "to help these children to catch up."

"This analysis shows that children, who already face the biggest challenges, which have suffered the worst impact on their learning during the lockout, and that the Digital Divide is largely to blame. "

A Department For Education spokeswoman said: "We will do what we can to ensure that no child, whatever their background, falls behind as a result of the coronavirus.

"We Are also considering, with a number of partner organizations, what is more necessary to the support of all the students of school closures affected. "

'losing A Generation '

The NFER study comes from the University College London Institute of Education finds that students in the UK study, for an average of 2. 5 hours per day, during lockdown.

This figure is about half, characterized by suggesting that learning losses could be much larger than previously thought.

The UCL research, which examines the data from a UK household longitudinal study of 4,559 children, says a fifth of the students (around two million children in the UK) have no homework or less than one hour per day At Home , while 17% of the jobs in More Than four hours per day.

It is found that the variability of work done in the amount of school, At Home , to add to the existing regional and socio-economic inequality, with students in London, The South -East of England and Northern Ireland , the more offline tasks to watch, such as tasks, worksheets, and videos, as elsewhere in the UK.

In the Southeast, for example, 28% of children received four or more pieces of offline tasks per day, compared with The National average of 20%.

The Report also says, children, you can appear to free meals in The School ", are also at a disadvantage during lockdown", with 15% receiving four or more pieces of offline tasks, compared to 21% of children not eligible for free meals.

Prof Francis Green , who led the research, said that it "painted a bleak picture of lost education, and small amounts of school work At Home ".

"The closure of schools, and their partial re-opening, a potential threat to the educational development of A Generation of children.

"Everyone loses in This Generation , some much More Than others.

"to work Better At Home , school provision, and-better yet-an early safe return to school for as many as possible should now be a top priority for the Government . "

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Source of news: bbc.com