The impact of the “educational damage” of Covid on GCSE results will continue “well into the 2030s”, a new study has warned.
The paper said successive pupil cohorts were set for the biggest declines in GCSE results in “at least two decades”.
It also forecasted an “unprecedented widening of the socio-economic gap in GCSE prospects”, in a post-Covid “double whammy”.
Academics from the University of Exeter, the London School of Economics and the University of Strathclyde conducted the research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
