Recruitment

DfE ‘assessing’ potential teacher recruitment hit from university marking boycott

Government tells ITT providers it’s ‘assessing the scale and likelihood’ of potential disruption to recruits waiting on degrees amid…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Covid

Covid legacy will ‘damage prospects of a generation’, warn MPs

Committee warns pandemic will ‘entrench disadvantage’ without further intervention from government

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Private schools

Labour’s private school VAT raid sums may be £600m out, says think tank

EDSK says calculations are ‘flawed’, but Labour defends costings of plan to remove charitable status

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Prestigious sixth-form drops ‘sir’ and ‘miss’ over cultural misogyny

The term ‘miss’ conjures up images of Edwardian shop assistants and plays into a ‘gendered view’ of the world,…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Teacher strikes

Unions plan joint school staff meetings to ‘maximise’ strike votes

In ‘almost unprecedented show of solidarity’, unions ask all schools to adopt approach in ‘battle for the very future…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND review

Revealed: The 21 experts to oversee roll-out of SEND reforms

Board members tasked with holding government to account for ‘timely development and improvement’ of SEND system

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Schools

Teacher retention commission: 8 proposals to stem exodus

Report calls for review of teacher hours, retention targets and sabbaticals for headteachers every five years

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Ofsted

NAHT mulls joining campaigners for Ofsted legal action

Whiteman favours ‘single collaborative approach’ over a ‘series of separate legal actions’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

DfE and Ofsted staff offered one-off £1,500 in pay dispute

Offer would apply to all civil servants on grade 6 or below, including inspectors

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

The key trends in 2023 GCSE and A-level entries

Boost in popularity for maths, computing and classical subjects, but language and creative subjects in trouble

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
SATs

Scaled scores for 2023 key stage 1 SATs announced

DfE reveals how many marks pupils will need to reach its ‘expected standard’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Revealed: The five advisers who will support DfE’s sex education review

Panel includes academy bosses, women’s health ambassador, chief social worker and lawyer who liked controversial tweets

Amy Walker
Amy Walker