Mental health Special investigation: How collapsing mental health services are failing children Four-month investigation reveals the devastating toll on families and schools Samantha Booth 3y Jess Staufenberg and Samantha Booth 3y Schools Exclusive ‘Elite’ sixth forms have fewer poor students, study finds Ministers want more sixth forms that send pupils to top universities as part of ‘levelling-up’ agenda Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y Academies Exclusive Eight become nine as DfE shakes up RSC regions London to get new RSC and other areas redrawn to align regions with rest of government Tom Belger 3y Tom Belger 3y News EPI blasts government’s ‘decade of failure’ on disadvantage gap Gap for poorest pupils fails to improve since 2011 Samantha Booth 3y Samantha Booth 3y News Exclusive DfE says rising energy costs will have ‘relatively small impact’ on school budgets Government has told leaders they can shoulder ‘cost pressures’ from recent funding rises Samantha Booth 3y Samantha Booth 3y Exams Early GCSE results won’t count in 2022 league tables Qualifications entered early in 2020 and 2021 won’t count towards progress 8 scores of current year 11 cohort Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y Academies Let schools quit trusts and create super-regulator to complete academisation, ministers told Ex-adviser also calls for ‘range of new powers’ for councils under fully-academised system Tom Belger 3y Tom Belger 3y Academies Unions launch legal action against DfE over diocese conversions Unions claim DfE rules have been ‘abused or ignored’ to help the Diocese of Hallam academise all its school Tom Belger 3y Tom Belger 3y Covid Covid pupil absences fall, but 320,000 still off Leaders still facing ‘major headache’ as almost one in ten staff remain absent Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y Academies Academies system has given politicians too much power, says ex-DfE boss Ex-permanent secretary says academisation has left school system ‘more centralised than it should be’ Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y Ofsted Covid used as an excuse by ‘poor attenders’, warns Ofsted Ofsted also found remote education has ‘negatively affected’ some pupils’ perception of the need to be in school James Carr 3y James Carr 3y Covid Remote admissions appeals here to stay as DfE seeks to make Covid changes permanent Hearings would also be allowed to continue with just two panelists if one withdraws Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y Newer 1 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 979 Older
