Covid bulletin #48: Back to school

Mar 11, 2021 | Sector & policy

This is the 48th of a series of bulletins produced by ISE to update members on key data and policy related to Covid-19. This bulletin covers the period 4th March – 10rd March 2021.

You can access all of the Covid-19 bulletins on ISE insights.

 

Latest Covid-19 data

Data taken from Wikipedia and from the government’s Covid-19 dashboard.

The UK has now had over 4.2 million identified Covid-19 cases and 143,000 deaths (with Covid on the death certificate). The R rate is estimated to be between 0.7 and 0.9 with the daily infection rate shrinking by between 3% and 5%.

The number of cases and the number of death have been falling for eight weeks. The number of new cases is now well below the October average although it is still considerably higher than it was at the end of the summer. The number of deaths has also been dropping for six weeks and is now below the level that it was at in November.

 

Covid news

Data from the government’s Covid-19 dashboard.

 

Education

 

The economy

 

The labour market

From the Office for National Statistics data on unemployment and NEET. From the Office for National Statistics data on unemployment and NEET

 

Changing patterns of work

 

Student recruitment and development

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