Politics

‘Voluntary exit’ scheme launched as DfE seeks to lose 10% of staff

Staff without ‘skills the department needs for the future’ to be offered three weeks’s salary per year of service…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

Meet the ministers: DfE confirms briefs (again) of new team

Gibb is back as schools minister while new recruit Coutinho takes on ‘children, families and wellbeing’ brief

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Spielman: Special school crisis leaves primary pupils ‘languishing’ in AP

Places shortage, lengthy waits for EHC plans and no cash means some youngsters stuck in ‘unsuitable’ alternative provision, Ofsted…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Politics

School cuts: Ministers’ seats will be £7.4m worse-off next year

But constituencies of DfE politicians will face a smaller average cut than the rest of England, analysis shows

Donna Ferguson
Donna Ferguson
Politics

Grammar schools? My focus is on those who don’t get in, says Keegan

New education secretary also says ‘the answer to every problem is not more money’, claiming standards have ‘gone up…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Extra May bank holiday will clash with first day of SATs tests

Government said May 8 would be ‘for families and communities’ to celebrate King’s coronation, suggesting schools will close

Amy Walker
Amy Walker


Schools

Barran: Investment firms ‘lecturing’ government on Oak ‘sticks in throat’

Academies minister says quango will not ‘distort’ curriculum and is a ‘strategic investment’ amid Lords questioning

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

20% rise in cost-cutter savings and 6 more ESFA accounts findings

Government agency also admits it paid £2.1m to the wrong organisation – but managed to get the funds back

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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Solutions

The knock on the door: A simple solution to poor attendance?

We visited a school where staff did 4,000 home visits in one year to support pupils

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

DfE reprimanded after pupil data used by gambling firms

Department criticised over ‘serious breach’ of data protection law, but avoids £10m fine from information watchdog

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Inside the battle to shape the Labour party’s education reforms

The party’s latest report has prompted heated debate between so-called ‘progressives’ and ‘traditionalists’

Freddie Whittaker
Donna Ferguson