Schools Exclusive Councils cut primary school places as baby boom flattens Pupil numbers are expected to fall by around 300,000 over the next five years Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y Mental health Schools pick up the pieces as suicidal kids turned away from CAMHS Teachers are told to ‘keep them safe’ as schools are left to ‘plug the gap’ Samantha Booth 3y Jess Staufenberg and Samantha Booth 3y Mental health Special schools ‘bursting at seams’ – but DfE doesn’t collect the data Heads say the system is ‘completely overwhelmed’ Samantha Booth 3y Samantha Booth 3y Mental health Special investigation: How collapsing mental health services are failing children Four-month investigation reveals the devastating toll on families and schools Samantha Booth 3y Jess Staufenberg and Samantha Booth 3y Schools Exclusive ‘Elite’ sixth forms have fewer poor students, study finds Ministers want more sixth forms that send pupils to top universities as part of ‘levelling-up’ agenda Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y Academies Exclusive Eight become nine as DfE shakes up RSC regions London to get new RSC and other areas redrawn to align regions with rest of government Tom Belger 3y Tom Belger 3y News EPI blasts government’s ‘decade of failure’ on disadvantage gap Gap for poorest pupils fails to improve since 2011 Samantha Booth 3y Samantha Booth 3y News Exclusive DfE says rising energy costs will have ‘relatively small impact’ on school budgets Government has told leaders they can shoulder ‘cost pressures’ from recent funding rises Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Exams Early GCSE results won’t count in 2022 league tables Qualifications entered early in 2020 and 2021 won’t count towards progress 8 scores of current year 11 cohort Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Academies Let schools quit trusts and create super-regulator to complete academisation, ministers told Ex-adviser also calls for ‘range of new powers’ for councils under fully-academised system Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y Academies Unions launch legal action against DfE over diocese conversions Unions claim DfE rules have been ‘abused or ignored’ to help the Diocese of Hallam academise all its school Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y Covid Covid pupil absences fall, but 320,000 still off Leaders still facing ‘major headache’ as almost one in ten staff remain absent Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Newer 1 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 989 Older