In England there are almost 1.6 million children aged 5-16 who use English as an additional language (EAL). A new report has now found that school closures during the coronavirus pandemic have had a ...

British pupils are suffering because teachers are struggling to cope with an influx of foreign students speaking a total of 300 different languages, a union has said. UK schools are educating a rising ...

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Homeschooling for parents, teachers and pupils has been a big challenge during the lockdown. When the UK brought in measures to combat coronavirus, educators had to prepare for continuing to teach ...

Support for children with English as an additional language (EAL) would be improved with teacher training and assessing English proficiency, says Katehrine Solomon, head of training and resources, The ...

British pupils are suffering because teachers are struggling to cope with an influx of foreign students speaking different languages. Our verdict The proportion of pupils with English as an additional ...

Department for Education figures show that pupils who have English as a second language are more likely to gain the "English Baccalaureate" than native speakers Pupils with English as an additional ...

Many schools have started collecting data on pupils' country of birth, nationality and level of English proficiency through the school census in line with the national population census, to fulfil the ...