Covid

Nearly 10% of year 11s still absent from school as exams loom

Leaders describe new data as ‘extremely worrying’ as exam students remain worst-hit by absences

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

IFS: Most teachers will still be worse off after pay rise

Starting salaries will rise, but more experienced teachers face 5% real-terms pay cut, warns think tank

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Oak academy to move into public hands with ‘no privatisation’ and independence condition

Education secretary will say he’s committed to building on the ‘by teachers, for teachers’ approach behind its launch’

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Catch-up

MPs: Keep tutoring subsidy in poor areas to avoid ‘epidemic of inequality’

Ministers urged to review plans to gradually taper off subsidies for flagship catch-up programme

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher training

DfE challenged over plan to award top trusts £121m Institute of Teaching

Decision could leave department facing another procurement row

John Dickens
John Dickens
Energy costs

Revealed: Schools’ moral dilemma over Russian energy contracts

Trusts explore cutting ties with Gazprom, but face exit fees and ten-times more expensive new contracts

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Schools

Most councils don’t know how many children are ‘missing’ education

Children’s commissioner calls for reform after finding ‘significant weaknesses’ in data held by local authorities

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Covid: Attendance reaches 9-month high, but schools ‘not out of the woods’

More than one in ten schools still report high staff absences

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Energy costs

Ministers explore ‘cutting’ Gazprom from School Switch scheme

But hamstrung councils say it’s ‘immoral’ schools pay Russian firm

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

50 schools sought for £980k girls sport scheme

DfE says ‘Your Time’ programme will offer opportunities for girls to access competitive sport

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Catholic trust pilot in disarray after academy U-turn and pay gaffe

The DfE faces calls to apologise after a legal challenge halted its academisation push with Hallam diocese, whose schools…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
School funding

Save some cash for later to fund teacher pay bill, DfE says

Schools told to plan budgets over multiple years to make best use of ‘frontloaded’ funding settlement

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker