Wellbeing

DfE breaks its own teacher wellbeing pledge with holiday emails

Analysis reveals government broke wellbeing charter promise on several occasions – including four times last week

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Sponsored post

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Explore new, free STEM resources and careers videos for you to use in your classroom, designed to inspire students…

Shane Mann
Pfizer UK
RAAC

Let us know RAAC impact, says UCAS

Teachers are being advised to tell universities how RAAC disruption has impacted schools and pupils

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
School funding

Hardship funding barely dents school deficits

Analysis of hardship funding shows that the allocation for one county was less than the deficit of just one…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Inside the first ‘education hackathon’

Gillian Keegan is determined artificial intelligence has its place in education. A ‘hackathon’ in London tried it out…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

DfE cost-cutter told ‘unsafe’ school to slash £150k from staff spend

Resource management adviser was sent to school where Ofsted found ‘lack of staff leaves pupils at imminent risk of…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Covid

Covid: ‘Williamson threw schools under the bus’

Inquiry hears former education secretary opposed face masks in schools to avoid ‘surrender’ to unions

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Ofsted

‘Independent’ inquiry’s critical Ofsted poll mostly NEU members

Leaders slam self-selecting sample of union-funded group that is ‘dressed up as independent’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SATs

Key stage 1 SATs paper plan a ‘breathtaking waste of money’

Schools will receive test papers unless they opt out, despite the assessments being non-statutory from this year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

School support staff unions accept £1,925 pay deal

Pay deal will cost schools around £1bn, leaving budgets ‘tight’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Just 1 in 20 severely absent pupils get five good GCSEs, study shows

But those whose absence improves in year 11 go on to get better grades than those who stay away

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Politics

Tory donors leave Education Policy Institute board as election looms

Sir Paul Marshall and Lord Nash will step down as trustees of the think tank, as David Laws moves…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker