Schools white paper

Free school charity: All-MAT sector would mean ‘death’ of innovation

Ministers’ favoured institutions won’t be replicated if white paper scraps standalone academies, charity warns

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Watchdog warns of exam board staff ‘burnout’ after Covid chaos

New report sheds light on how boards coped in last two years

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

Ministers fail to reveal tutoring figures despite MP demands

Education committee chair calls for ‘urgent’ public data dashboard

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Ofqual proposes stricter controls on BTECs that survive qualifications cull

Ofqual is consulting on stricter controls over alternatives to A Levels and T Levels, with BTECs and other qualifications…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Augar review: What schools need to know about university shake-up

Ministers have set out their plans for higher education reform

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted declines 1 in 5 deferral requests despite government advice

But data suggests two thirds of schools did not request a deferral

James Carr
James Carr


Schools

Ministers scrap plans for post-qualification admissions

DfE says support for shake-up of university admissions was ‘not strong enough’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

‘Ladder-up not levelling-up’: DfE urged to rethink student loan grade threshold plan

Ministers are considering blocking pupils without certain grades from getting student finance

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Remote learning

No more snow days: Remote lessons keep kids learning during storms

Oak National Academy use also hits near record high as 120,000 pupils log on during closures

James Carr
James Carr
Covid

School attendance at highest since November as Covid absences fall

But staff absence remains high and tens of thousands of pupils still have Covid

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Weekly Covid testing for most school pupils ditched from today

Boris Johnson outlines plan for ‘living with Covid-19’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Vulnerable over-12s to be offered spring Covid vaccine booster

Immunosuppressed people to be offered another dose around six months after their last jab

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker