*Article amended with a response from the DfE on 5 January.
Ofqual chair Ian Bauckham has suggested that schools establish ‘emergency timetable changes’ to help with staff shortages caused by the pandemic.
Bauckham states that suspending ‘specialist’ subjects, such as music, PSHE (personal, social, health and economic education), or RSHE (relationships, sex and health education), and moving teachers to other subjects will help with high absence levels predicted this term.
Bauckham, who is also chief executive and director of the Tenax Schools Trust, established his model in a ‘case study’ published on a Department for Education’s (DfE) portal for headteachers, as seen by Tes.
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