Another interesting suggestion I've seen today is that, in order to help students catch up with contact time and teaching/learning the school day could be extended and the school holidays cut. The objective seems eminently sensible and could solve an issue that teachers have been highlighting throughout the pandemic.

I'm not sure how practical the longer hours per day would be but I can only imagine the squawking that will emerge from the teaching fraternity at having to give up some of their annual 16+ weeks holiday!!

And another intriguing thing. For my sins I listen to radio 4/4X - I know it's an age thing! Anyway last week I heard a repeat of a words based quiz from maybe 20 years ago, in which the contestants had to define various obscure seldom used words. One such word was "pandemic" which the panel struggled with but finally worked the meaning out.

Say what you like about education today, but most of the country's crop of 9 year olds could have answered that one correctly.