Schools

Crackdown to ensure schools face ‘rigorous checks’ on ECT training

Investigation revealed mentors were not being given their legal entitlement to time off timetable for training

James Carr
James Carr
Schools

Half of new teachers struggle to balance teaching and training

Government evaluation report also reveals three in four mentors have struggled to spend time on their own training

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

‘Recovery premium’ rolled out for all special school and AP pupils

Catch-up cash will increase for mainstream secondaries, rising to £60k on average, but rates frozen for most primaries

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Tutoring

Randstad tutor routes still two-thirds off promised catch-up

New statistics suggests ministers still way off delivering promised two million tutor courses as pre-exams boom doesn’t materialise

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

‘By schools for schools’: Institute of Teaching winners finally revealed

The academy trust-led institute plans to analyse link between pupil outcomes and teacher development – and share research for…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

£200 grants to encourage small school staff to take NPQs

£22.6m set aside as free scholarships also opened up to private schools

James Carr
James Carr


Academies

DfE plans first step in academy revolution

Work to move to all-academies system will begin later this term

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Council MAT trial next year – but caps on number and size

The DfE will ‘test the concept’ of local authority multi-academy trusts, inviting councils to join a small trial

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Covid

Williamson provided wine and mince pies for DfE lockdown Xmas party

Sue Gray report finds 50 staff were invited to the ‘festive drinks’ – organised days in advance

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Mental health

New ‘extracurricular handbook’ to help schools tackle mental health

But government rejects MPs’ calls for all students to undergo a mental health assessment

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

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
Freddie Whittaker
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
Tom Belger