Covid

Schools targeted by scam NHS emails offering Omicron PCR tests

The DfE is urging schools to be vigilant about fake NHS emails urging readers to order tests ‘to avoid…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Teacher training

DfE delays ITT market review reforms for a year

Providers will now have to comply with new requirements from 2024-25

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Female heads £17k worse-off by end of their careers, report finds

Gender pay gap four times larger for headteachers than teachers, according to analysis

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

£4m cost of failed academy trust, and 5 more ESFA accounts findings

The Education and Skills Funding Agency, which distributes £62 billion of education funding, has published its annual accounts for…

John Dickens
John Dickens
Covid

DfE brings back Covid workforce fund as staff absence rises

But schools will have to use their reserves first to be able to claim

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Covid-related absence jumps 60% in a fortnight

More than 200,000 pupils were off because of Covid on November 25

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Politics

Who is Bridget Phillipson? 8 facts about the new shadow education secretary

Labour has a new education lead following a reshuffle

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Council has right to see home educated pupils’ work, court finds

But lawyers warn this shouldn’t be a ‘green light’ for local authorities to become more ‘prescriptive’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
School funding

Education funding squeeze ‘puts brakes on levelling up’, and 3 more IFS findings

A think tank report contrasts heavy education cuts contrast with surging healthcare spending

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Politics

Bridget Phillipson appointed shadow education secretary

Kate Green moved out, as schools minister Peter Kyle given new job

John Dickens
John Dickens
Ofsted

Omicron: Ofsted says inspections will ‘carry on as usual’

Ofsted inspections will go ahead as normal despite the discovery of the new Omicron Covid variant, the watchdog has…

James Carr
James Carr
Covid

Zahawi on school nativities: the show must go on

The education secretary said ‘carry on’ with Christmas events after two years of disruption

Tom Belger
Tom Belger