THE government “got education badly wrong” during the pandemic, but international comparisons show that it didn’t “need to be like this,” National Education Union (NEU) leaders said today. 

Joint general secretaries Kevin Courtney and Dr Mary Bousted addressed the final day of the union’s conference. 

In their joint speech, Mr Courtney said: “What Covid-19 has exposed is the reality that schools and colleges are far more than institutions where children are educated.