Covid has shown that England's schools are desperate for reform | Simon Jenkins

Exams have been cancelled again, and if Gavin Williamson had any sense he wouldn’t bring them back

England’s health service apparently needs a “radical overhaul” due to Covid. That may be so, but then what about England’s education service? If the NHS has a structural cough, secondary schools have the plague. Yet nothing seems to shift them from a structure and a content barely altered in a hundred years. Even now as Whitehall’s cult of only-exams-matter collapses for a second year running, the e...