Exams

AQA investigating reports A-level chemistry paper was leaked

Largest exam board said it will take ‘any action necessary’ as integrity team probes allegations

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Schools told to raid own coffers to get pupils to exams during rail strike

DfE says schools are ‘best placed to prioritise their spending to support their pupils and students’ during biggest rail…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Provide apprenticeship careers talks or face legal action, schools told

Consultation launched on new duty to give pupils six opportunities to hear from further education providers

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Sponsored post

Dance Live! The School & College dance event that is taking the country by storm

The exciting competition for KS2-4 and Further Education is expanding to new venues across the South and introducing a…

Dance Live!
Dance Live!
Tutoring

National Tutoring Programme review delayed until autumn

Independent evaluation to be published two years after launch

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Middlesbrough gets help to tackle absences

Tackling persistent absence has become a key priority for ministers after rates soared during the pandemic

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Teacher training

Unis piloting iQTS scheme fail teacher training re-accreditation

Three of six higher education institutions taking part in iQTS pilot did not get through in the first round…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

DfE orders e-registers and sets new thresholds for absence fines

Schools to be told to modernise the way they collect and record attendance data as government plans absence crackdown

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Ofqual chief admits exam board mistakes caused ‘distress’

Chief regulator Jo Saxton also told school leaders handwriting is ‘here to stay’, and warn they face worse results…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
SATs

‘Soul destroying’: SATs markers say pay slashed under Capita

Markers paid as little as 4p for each batch of questions

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Schools now ‘part of the welfare state’ as cost of living crisis deepens

Leaders reveal how even working families are now struggling to feed and clothe their children

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Governance ‘diminished’ in new inspections, Ofsted told

National Governance Association writes to Amanda Spielman to call for ‘more informative’ reports

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker