School days could be extended by half an hour - to create a minimum 35-hour week - to help pupils catch-up under an ambitious £15billion Covid bounce back plan, it was reported last night.
The government’s education recovery commissioner, Sir Kevan Collins, has called for all children to receive an extra 100 hours of education per year from 2022, according to a leaked presentation.
It comes after students across Britain were hit by huge disruptions to their education across much of last year and also this year due to Covid.
Schools are likely to be allowed to choose how they accommodate the extra hours, which works out at around 30 minutes extra per day.