One in 12 teachers in England were absent from classrooms in the first week of the spring term, as the Omicron coronavirus variant drove a spike in cases in schools and disrupted education for hundreds of thousands of pupils.
Department for Education figures released on Tuesday showed 8.6 per cent of teachers and school leaders, or 44,000 people, were absent from schools that were open on January 6, compared with 8 per cent on December 16. Some 4.9 per cent of the teaching workforce was absent as a result of Covid, up from 3 per cent on December 16.
When pupils returned to the classroom in September 1 per cent of teachers were off for Covid related reasons, and 3.4 per cent were off in total.
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