Cabinet reshuffle

Reshuffle: Nick Gibb sacked as schools minister

DfE stalwart surprise casualty in Boris Johnson’s ‘build back better’ reshuffle

John Dickens
John Dickens
Cabinet reshuffle

Zahawi: I’ll put children and families at centre of ‘building back better’

New education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has signaled that children and their families will be the focus of his new…

John Dickens
John Dickens
Cabinet reshuffle

Nadhim Zahawi: 12 facts about the new education secretary

Downing Street has announced that Nadhim Zahawi is the new education secretary following Boris Johnson’s reshuffle. Here is what…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Cabinet reshuffle

Nadhim Zahawi appointed education secretary in ‘build back better’ reshuffle

Former children’s minister replaces Gavin Williamson

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

DfE launches cyber security scorecard for schools

Schools will be able to access a new cyber security tool for free from tomorrow which measures the robustness…

James Carr
James Carr
Cabinet reshuffle

Confirmed: Williamson sacked as education secretary in reshuffle

Minister confirms his departure from the DfE after over two years

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Covid

Covid vaccines for children: what schools need to know

The government has published guidance today on how the vaccine roll-out in schools for 12- to 15-year-olds will work….

John Dickens
John Dickens
Covid, Ofsted

Schools ‘prioritised’ food parcels over remote learning, and 4 other things we learned from Ofsted

Schools’ focus on making food parcels and visiting disadvantaged pupils in the first lockdown may have affected their “capacity”…

James Carr
James Carr
Covid

Government to scrap power to force school closures

Ministers publish Covid autumn and winter plan

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted to visit more MATs when evaluations restart

Watchdog says smaller and specialist trusts will now face visits

John Dickens
John Dickens
Education Reform

Speed read: ASCL’s blueprint to tackle education’s ‘entrenched injustice’

The school leaders’ union wants wide-ranging reforms, warning studies suggest rich-poor attainment gap ‘may never close’.

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Exams

Drop in A-levels diversity, and 4 more EPI findings

Key findings from the Education Policy Institute’s report into A-level subject choice. 

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth