How Johnson thinks. One can’t “let in daylight upon magic”.

The Prime Minister seems to be mulling some school re-openings pre-Easter. But how long will it last and who can really be sure?

Chris Skidmore: Thinking, fast and slow. Why we need a long-term Education Recovery Plan.

Too much learning has been lost, and too many children will find their educational outcomes affected, to simply return to business as usual.

Robert Halfon: The levelling-up ladder risks being knocked away by Covid-inspired decisions on education

Children’s opportunities in life will suffer as a result of school closures – and there still hasn’t been much data to explain why they were needed.

WATCH: Halfon presses Williamson on the Government’s pandemic support for teachers and pupils

The Chair of the Education Select Committee presses the Secretary of State on access to technology, assessment, and vaccination for school staff.

Robert Halfon: Who’s up for a Southern Research Group?

There is deprivation and lower educational attainment in the southern new towns, coastal communities, inner cities and rural coldspots.

Robert Halfon: Delivering social justice means feeding children properly. We’re not doing so – and we must.

The Government’s own calculations of welfare payments do not cost in the provision of a healthy diet.

John Bald: Ofqual’s evidence at a Select Committee this week demonstrated why it should be wound up

Dr Meadows said that all sorts of trials had taken place. The point is: why not this one, which would have allowed problems to be identified in advance?

Labour’s hypocrisy over A Level results

Starmer has been scathing about Williamson’s U-turn. But what right does he have to criticise?

Jeannette Towey: Let’s repurpose empty independent schools to support vulnerable children

A number of highly-equipped educational establishments will be out of use until the next academic year. We should use them.

Robert Halfon: The Budget we need today is for social as well as physical infrastructure

Plus: As of writing, I’ve had hardly any communications at all from constituents about the Coronavirus.

Full membership list of select committees

The Exiting the European Union Committee has been renamed. The Conservative MPs elected to it are staunch Brexiteers.

Julian Brazier: Universities in the bottom half of the sector would howl. But here are the reforms we should make to the system.

Surely there is a strong case for capping student applications, not in arbitrary numerical terms, but on the basis of academic achievement at school?

Three takeaways from yesterday’s select committee chairmanship elections

These bodies will play an important role in holding this majority Government to account. What will Downing Street make of the results?

Julian Brazier: Yes, the Conservatives must engage with young people – but challenge their worldview, not concede it

James Kanagasooriam’s recent analysis is powerful, but the suggested solutions are less sure. Simply offering what younger voters want won’t work.

Future of Education 2) Mark Lehain: Now we need full academisation and reformed funding

The second writer in our mini-series says that creating more grammars is a distraction from change that matters.