One in five A-Level students missed more than 20 days of school due to Covid disruption this year, a report warns today.
As pupils brace for their results this month, research by the Sutton Trust showed a third (34%) of teenagers who applied to university missed 11 or more days of school due to the virus - and one in five (21%) missed more than 20 days.
Schools remained open this year but the virus continued to wreak havoc on education, with staff and pupil absences and classes or year groups sometimes sent home for short periods.
