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
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
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
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
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