国家教育工会（NEU）总干事丹尼尔·凯贝德表示，为帮助学生和教师应对英国日益严重的热浪，学校应考虑调整上学和放学时间、重新安排假期，并将考试从夏季月份移开。
NEU’s Daniel Kebede says earlier start times and longer summer breaks may be needed to help pupils and teachers Schools should consider changing start and finish times, reordering holidays and moving exams from the summer months in an effort to adapt to the UK’s increasingly severe heatwaves, according to the leader of the country’s biggest education union.
他指出，今夏反复出现的极端高温对师生造成毁灭性影响，课堂气温曾升至40摄氏度以上，导致数十万学生被送回家。
Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said this summer’s repeated bouts of extreme heat had a devastating impact on teachers and pupils, as classroom temperatures topped 40C and hundreds of thousands of young people were sent home.