Exams

A class of their own: T-levels school recruits just one student

Classes half empty as schools’ flagging take-up of flagship courses revealed

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Politics

Zahawi unveils new 17-member ‘attendance alliance’

Academy trust leaders will also form a sub-alliance to identify best practice

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Exams

Ian Bauckham made permanent chair of Ofqual

Academy trust boss has been exams regulator’s interim chair for a year

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Covid reversing maths progress, national reference test shows

But the 2021 NRT suggests a ‘surprising’ lack of Covid impact on English performance

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Covid

Plan B: What does this mean for schools?

No change on face masks, don’t move teaching online and inspections cancelled

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Covid

Ofsted inspections cancelled next week so schools can prepare for Omicron

Schools will only be inspected if there are safeguarding concerns

John Dickens
John Dickens
Covid

Top university places up 28% after record A-level results

Accepted student numbers on competitive courses have soared

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Mental health

MPs want mental health support teams extended to all schools in six years

Committee calls for ‘urgent action’ to prevent services slipping backwards

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Covid

Cabinet secretary to investigate DfE Christmas party, says top civil servant

Acland-Hood also admits she attended December 10 ‘gathering’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Don’t do your own curriculum deep dives, Ofsted urges

Watchdog also warn advice from consultants can be ‘overcomplicated’

James Carr
James Carr
Covid

School leadership supply ‘on the brink’ as headship aspiration ‘plummets’

Over half of deputy heads and middle leaders now say they don’t aspire to headship

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker