Covid Covid savings fuel record turnaround in maintained school finances Lower energy and exam costs saved schools millions during lockdowns Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y Teacher pay Zahawi asks STRB for two-year pay plan to help achieve £30k salary pledge Education secretary tells pay review body he wants a ‘significant uplift’ to starting salaries Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Covid DfE worried own catch-up plan ‘insufficient’ to fix learning loss Official documents reveal DfE predicted earlier this year its recovery efforts could fail Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Academies DfE lets Harris and Oasis off the hook for £9.4m academy sponsor contributions The government has written off cash owed as collection efforts have been ‘exhausted’ Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y Politics DfE top boss handed £278k payout to leave after exams fiasco Jonathan Slater had just eight months left in post, but was pushed out in spate of perm sec departures Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y Schools Exclusive 400 schools sign up to take collective action against SIMS However the DfE has given schools the green light to proceed with sign-up James Carr 4y James Carr 4y Covid DfE looks to ex-teachers to fill Covid staffing gaps Leaders also asked to ‘use their own networks to encourage sign-up’ Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y Exams Just 195 of 5.7m teacher grades changed after exam board reviews Just 195 of 5.7 million GCSE and A-level teacher assessed grades (TAGS) were changed after being reviewed by exam… Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Ofsted Attendance a ‘stubborn concern’, and 4 more findings from Ofsted recovery research Many schools have introduced a ‘recovery curriculum’ to aid catch-up James Carr 4y James Carr 4y Covid Fines for school absence plummet by 86 per cent The government wants councils and schools to ramp up enforcement Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y Covid DfE extends Covid workforce fund until Feb half-term The scheme was reintroduced last month amid rising rates James Carr 4y James Carr 4y Teacher training 9 in 10 leaders say ECF reforms creating extra workload NAHT union warns mentors are ‘drowning’ in work Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Newer 1 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 1,004 Older