Tutoring Exclusive Failure to focus on poorer pupils will widen gap, say tutoring providers Letter urges education secretary to ensure the scheme’s ‘core original focus’ on disadvantaged children is not lost Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Schools Capita pauses SATs marking for nearly two days Firm halted marking to scan more test scripts Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Academies National schools commissioner Dominic Herrington to leave role Departure to Ministry of Justice role comes ahead of shake-up of regional school commissioners group James Carr 4y James Carr 4y Schools 80 winners scoop silver at the 2022 Pearson National Teaching Awards Education secretary praises ‘incredible educators who support our children to achieve their potential’ Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Covid One in four pupils were persistently absent in autumn 2021 Changes to isolation rules reduced Covid-related absence, but illness drove a rise in other absences Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Schools Crackdown to ensure schools face ‘rigorous checks’ on ECT training Investigation revealed mentors were not being given their legal entitlement to time off timetable for training James Carr 4y James Carr 4y Schools Half of new teachers struggle to balance teaching and training Government evaluation report also reveals three in four mentors have struggled to spend time on their own training Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Schools ‘Recovery premium’ rolled out for all special school and AP pupils Catch-up cash will increase for mainstream secondaries, rising to £60k on average, but rates frozen for most primaries Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y Tutoring Randstad tutor routes still two-thirds off promised catch-up New statistics suggests ministers still way off delivering promised two million tutor courses as pre-exams boom doesn’t materialise Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Schools £200 grants to encourage small school staff to take NPQs £22.6m set aside as free scholarships also opened up to private schools James Carr 4y James Carr 4y News ‘By schools for schools’: Institute of Teaching winners finally revealed The academy trust-led institute plans to analyse link between pupil outcomes and teacher development – and share research for… Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Academies DfE plans first step in academy revolution Work to move to all-academies system will begin later this term Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Newer 1 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 1,015 Older