Academies Exclusive Academy trust top slicing is on the up (but do schools get better deal?) As two trusts top-slice almost 10%, chiefs say running services in-house saves time and money for heads Jack Dyson 1y Jack Dyson 1y School funding Exclusive ‘Severe hardship’ as thousands of schools get 0.5% funding rise Academy trust body requests emergency funding following government’s reduction in minimum per-pupil funding levels Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Exams Ministers mull scrapping Gove’s Russell Group school metric It follows calls from a House of Lords committee to review destination measures Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y Schools More than 10,000 pupils ‘fall through the cracks’ – de Souza Children’s commissioner makes wide-ranging recommendations to make school system more ‘inclusive’ Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Home education Exclusive Rate of pupils leaving for home education doubles Poorer areas see some of the biggest rises, as more parents withdraw children because of unmet needs Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Teacher pay Unions express ‘frustration and disquiet’ after DfE pay evidence delayed Missed deadline comes after STRB remit letter was issued just days before Christmas Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Schools New legal duty on school staff to report child sexual abuse Home Office outlines new safeguarding requirement – but few details confirmed and no date for introduction yet Lucas Cumiskey 1y Lucas Cumiskey 1y Behaviour de Souza wants to check how many schools ban phones Children’s commissioner tells MPs she’d like to use her statutory powers to get clear picture of practice in schools Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y Schools Pupils share food with classmates amid cost of living crisis Poll for the NEU finds 37% of children know someone who ‘sometimes does not have enough food to eat… Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Exams GCSEs: What ministers said in response to Lords’ reform calls DfE rejects calls to scrap the EBacc and for wider reform, but sets out some of its thinking on… Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y Exams Ex-education secretary to chair OCR curriculum and exams review Exam board boss said they can ‘create something better across education and assessment’ in secondary schools Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y Behaviour School mobile phone ‘ban’ guidance: What you need to know DfE publishes non-statutory guidance it says will give ‘hard-working teachers the tools to take action’ Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Newer 1 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 979 Older
