Schools Rethink ‘flawed’ MFL GCSE reforms, heads and exam boards urge Nine organisations question plan to make students learn a set of up to 1,700 frequently-used words Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Exams Autumn GCSE exam entries drop two thirds Exams organised for pupils unhappy with teacher-assessed grades receive just 5,700 entries Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y School funding Investigate trusts amassing ‘substantial reserves’, watchdog tells DfE A report found mainstream school finances had “held up well” in recent years, despite austerity cuts and other funding… Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y Covid Covid taking bigger toll on school staff wellbeing, study finds This year 62% of school staff said the pandemic contributed to poor mental health, up from 33% in 2020 James Carr 4y James Carr 4y Ofsted Large online educators face £10k bill for Ofsted accreditation visits The watchdog has warned the online education sector is currently ‘completely unregulated’ James Carr 4y James Carr 4y Politics Improve outreach work if you want to charge higher fees, universities told John Blake appointed to help regulator push institutions to improve access and partnership plans Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Home education rises 34%, with Covid most likely to be the reason The number of children withdrawn from school for elective home education soared by 34 per cent last year, with… Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Exams MPs launch inquiry into ‘effectiveness’ of post-16 qualifications A new inquiry into the “effectiveness” of post-16 qualifications like A-levels, T Levels and BTECs has been launched by… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Ofsted ITT providers ‘alarmingly selling specific pedagogies’ as ‘be all and end all’, Ofsted says Some initial teacher training providers inspected under the new Ofsted framework were “misinforming trainees” by teaching them only specific… Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Academies Candidates revealed for RSC advisory board elections Voting is open for regional schools commissioner advisory boards, previously called headteacher boards Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y Academies Exclusive E-ACT chief executive suspended Staff have been told that Jane Millward, chief executive of the 28-school trust, is ‘away from work’ John Dickens 4y John Dickens 4y Covid Anti-vaxxers who threaten schools and pupils ‘will be arrested’ – Zahawi Education secretary says protesters ‘should not be going anywhere near a school’ Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Newer 1 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 1,004 Older