Politics Exclusive Staff say overcrowding hampered bomb scare evacuation at DfE’s Sheffield office Workers warn of ‘disaster waiting to happen’ after incident on day of top civil servant’s visit Freddie Whittaker 11h Freddie Whittaker 11h Schools DfE hiring up to 8 more advisers to oversee attendance push A handful of councils alone have slashed more attendance staff than the DfE plans to recruit Tom Belger 17h Tom Belger 17h Sponsored post Sponsored Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) programme It’s Proven, it’s Effective, it’s EFA! SSAT 21h SSAT 21h Politics Schools bill: Ex-ministers line up to criticise DfE ‘power grab’ Draft law would make Nadhim Zahawi ‘the chief education officer’ for thousands of schools, peers warn Freddie Whittaker 1d Freddie Whittaker 1d Sponsored post Sponsored Tackle hay fever in your school with DfE-approved air purification. Be one of the first 100 schools to join the ‘Clean Air for Schools’ promotion, and receive one of… Dyson 1d Dyson 1d Ofsted Speed read: Ofsted’s guide to a ‘high-quality’ English curriculum ‘More than any other subject, English – and especially reading – is fundamental to pupils’ educational success’ James Carr 2d James Carr 2d Schools Make schools ‘corporate parents’ for looked-after children, says review Landmark MacAlister review warns the relationship between social care and education has become ‘consistently fraught’ Freddie Whittaker 2d Freddie Whittaker 2d News DfE settles with Ambition over £121m Institute of Teaching contract dispute Size of fee paid out to settle case likely to be kept secret, but Ambition was demanding £750k John Dickens 2d John Dickens 2d Sponsored post Sponsored Pitch a Programme: Enter Channel 4’s national competition for secondary schools KS3 students across the UK are being invited to pitch ideas for a new Channel 4 TV programme. 4Schools 2d 4Schools 2d Exams Exclusive AQA to repay another £3.5m for cancelled exams This takes its total refund to £48.5 million Samantha Booth 2d Samantha Booth 2d Schools Exclusive Details of schools’ £1.5m cost-cutting success story withheld School board minutes suggest staff cuts were behind savings James Carr 4d James Carr 4d SATs, Schools Markers locked out of Capita’s SATs webinar The firm has apologised after teachers were left waiting for hours Samantha Booth 4d Samantha Booth 4d 1 2 3 4 5 6 736 Older Must read Covid Exclusive DfE threatened with legal action over ‘unlawful’ Covid attendance rules The government is being threatened with legal action if it fails to update attendance guidance for vulnerable children and… James Carr 9mo James Carr 9mo Covid Academy trusts’ cash stash rises to £3bn despite pandemic pressures Academy trusts boosted their reserves and surpluses last year despite the upheaval of Covid, official figures show. New Department… Tom Belger 11mo Tom Belger 11mo
