Gillian Keegan is set to ban smartphones from classrooms both during lessons and in breaktimes
Mobile phones will be banned from state school classrooms, the education secretary will announce today.
Gillian Keegan is set to ban smartphones from classrooms both during lessons and in breaktimes to ensure pupils can concentrate, the Daily Mail reported.
Sources close to the discussions say that Ms Keegan will issue new guidance to schools requiring them to put new measures in place to stop pupils from using their phones.
A source told The Daily Mail: “Gillian believes that mobile phones pose a serious challenge in terms of distraction, disruptive behaviour, and bullying. It is one of the biggest issues that children and teachers have to grapple with so she will set out a way forward to empower teachers to ban mobiles from classrooms.”