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 4y Tom Belger 4y News EPI blasts government’s ‘decade of failure’ on disadvantage gap Gap for poorest pupils fails to improve since 2011 Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y 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 Academies Academies system has given politicians too much power, says ex-DfE boss Ex-permanent secretary says academisation has left school system ‘more centralised than it should be’ Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Ofsted Covid used as an excuse by ‘poor attenders’, warns Ofsted Ofsted also found remote education has ‘negatively affected’ some pupils’ perception of the need to be in school James Carr 4y James Carr 4y Covid Remote admissions appeals here to stay as DfE seeks to make Covid changes permanent Hearings would also be allowed to continue with just two panelists if one withdraws Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Exams Only use exam board websites to access advance information, schools told Boards are trying to prevent misinformation spreading online Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Covid Ministers told to beef up waning pupil vaccination rates Calls come as new data shows poorer pupils are the least likely to be vaccinated James Carr 4y James Carr 4y Newer 1 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 1,004 Older
