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 3y Tom Belger 3y 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 3y Samantha Booth 3y 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 3y James Carr 3y 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 3y Samantha Booth 3y Academies DfE plans first step in academy revolution Work to move to all-academies system will begin later this term Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y 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 3y Tom Belger 3y 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 3y Samantha Booth 3y 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 3y Samantha Booth 3y Politics Exclusive 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 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y 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 3y Tom Belger 3y Sponsored post Sponsored Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) programme It’s Proven, it’s Effective, it’s EFA! SSAT 3y SSAT 3y Politics Schools bill: Ex-ministers line up to criticise DfE ‘power grab’ Draft law would make Nadhim Zahawi ‘the chief education officer’ for thousands of schools, peers warn Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y Newer 1 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 979 Older