Schools Health and safety watchdog to inspect schools’ asbestos management DfE data suggests more than eight in 10 schools have the harmful material on their sites Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Ofsted Ofsted job cut inspection warning, plus 9 more annual account findings Plans to slim down the civil service could have ‘implications’ for new inspection work Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Schools ECF teachers outnumber mentors across most of the country Some areas have almost three early-career teachers for every two mentors, with the biggest gaps in the north Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y Schools More ‘requires improvement’ schools boost Ofsted grade post-Covid Over two-thirds of RI secondaries saw their grade boosted this year, up from 42 per cent pre-Covid Amy Walker 4y Amy Walker 4y Schools Pupil numbers to shrink by 12% over the next decade Government revises down 2032 pupil number prediction in the face of ‘notably lower birth projections’ Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Schools Governor vacancies hit six-year high as most boards report unfilled posts The NGA says trusts and schools are struggling to recruit and boards are getting older – with just 1… Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y safeguarding Assess wellbeing risk of strip searches before calling police, schools told DfE updates guidance on searching, screening and confiscation in wake of Child Q scandal Amy Walker 4y Amy Walker and Freddie Whittaker 4y Exams Fine exam boards for GCSE errors, education MPs demand Exams regulator Ofqual will ‘consider regulatory action’ Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Politics Quince appointed schools minister as caretaker roles confirmed Brendan Clarke-Smith gets children’s brief in shake-up following mass resignations Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Academies DfE reveals trust leaders advising on review of academy regulation Two-thirds of the advisory group represent academy trusts, with the DfE planning the regulatory overhaul despite a climbdown over… Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y Exams ‘Stressful and exhausting’: Ofqual report exposes teacher grade woes Survey also shows over half of teachers felt pressured to change their grades last year by either leaders or… Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y SATs SATs: Calls for ‘immediate investigation’ after new claims of wrong results Heads’ union said it has been given ‘no clear answer’ from ministers over latest Capita issues Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Newer 1 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 1,022 Older