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More than two-thirds of the extra costs facing schools as a result of the coronavirus pandemic will not be covered by the UK government’s support fund, according to a leading education thinktank.
Most schools have had to spend more cash this year in order to operate a “Covid-safe” environment. The government has provided some financial relief through its exceptional costs fund, but research from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) suggests that the majority of schools’ additional costs won’t be met by the fund.
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In the Australian state of New South Wales, where residents are on edge as they await health restrictions – or the easing thereof – amid a new outbreak happening just before Christmas, eight new cases today, down from 15 yesterday.
“Pleasingly we only had eight cases of community transmission,” says premier Gladys Berejiklian.
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