Academies, Covid

MATs gain schools and record cash boost amid Covid

Academies boasted record levels of spare cash and continued to expand amid the pandemic, Kreston’s annual benchmarking report shows

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
News, Sponsored post

The Pearson National Teaching Awards: Who Are You Nominating This Year? 

We are fast approaching a special time of the year for everyone working in education, and no, it’s not…

Teaching Awards Trust
Teaching Awards Trust
Schools

DfE trialling ‘real-time’ attendance tracker to cut absences

‘Less burdensome’ automated data collection hailed as ‘first step to more efficient approach’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Catch-up

Heads want tutor money directly after NTP ‘bureaucratic nightmare’

Staff ‘don’t have the capacity’ to sign pupils up to flagship programme

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Schools must publish improvement plans in absence crackdown

The DfE is consulting on more prescriptive absence rules, ordering schools to be ‘proactive’ and councils to use their…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Covid

Record high of 1 in 25 pupils off with Covid as confirmed cases double

A quarter of schools have more than 15 per cent of teachers off – nearly double the rate in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Schools

How schools can reverse Gypsy and Roma under-achievement

MPs are investigating why Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children have the worst exclusion and attainment rates

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Exams

Ministers urged to review exams plan amid covid disruption

School leaders concerned ‘trust in the fairness of exams process will falter’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Ministers ‘consider’ new London RSC as part of wider DfE restructure

The department is taking a ‘purposeful look at how we are organised to deliver’

John Dickens
John Dickens
Covid

DfE rejects 1 in 5 requests for school air-cleaning units

285 schools had bids for government-funded units refused because they ‘did not meet the eligibility criteria’

James Carr
James Carr
Schools

‘Discrimination’: Small trusts denied two-thirds of repairs cash

One school has seen six bids to replace a dilapidated classroom rejected, sparking claims rural schools are at a…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Sponsored post

Behaviour Hubs: A school-tailored approach towards a culture that benefits everyone

Empowering teachers to implement, promote and sustain an effective behaviour culture within schools across England.

Education Development Trust
Education Development Trust