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
Sponsored post

Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) programme

It’s Proven, it’s Effective, it’s EFA!

SSAT
SSAT
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
Freddie Whittaker


Sponsored post

Remove pollen with Dyson’s latest purifier – it’s DfE approved for education and childcare settings*

Be one of the first 100 schools to join the ‘Clean Air for Schools’ promotion, and receive one of…

Dyson
Dyson
Ofsted

Speed read: Ofsted’s guide to a ‘high-quality’ English curriculum

‘More than any other subject, English – and especially reading – is fundamental to pupils’ educational success’

James Carr
James Carr
Schools

Make schools ‘corporate parents’ for looked-after children, says review

Landmark MacAlister review warns the relationship between social care and education has become ‘consistently fraught’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

DfE settles with Ambition over £121m Institute of Teaching contract dispute

Size of fee paid out to settle case likely to be kept secret, but Ambition was demanding £750k

John Dickens
John Dickens
Sponsored post

Pitch a Programme: Enter Channel 4’s national competition for secondary schools

KS3 students across the UK are being invited to pitch ideas for a new Channel 4 TV programme.

4Schools
4Schools
Exams

AQA to repay another £3.5m for cancelled exams

This takes its total refund to £48.5 million

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth