News

Schools can be ‘nominated’ for rebuilding programme

Ministers will also select up to 300 projects at once for the next phase of the scheme

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Behaviour and exclusions consultation: What schools need to know

Don’t use ‘no exclusion’ policies and set out mobile phone use mitigations, government says

James Carr
James Carr
News

Plans for register of home educated children hang on extra funding

Key details – such as how sanctions for non-compliance would work – also still to be ‘worked through’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

Ministers should ‘seriously consider’ revoking Randstad’s NTP contract, says Halfon

Education committee chair makes major intervention over tutor scheme

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Levelling-up white paper: 9 things schools need to know

New ‘UK National Academy’ planned to ‘stretch’ children ‘beyond the curriculum’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted

No need to design your own curriculum, Ofsted tells primaries

Smaller schools can pool their resources when developing curriculum, watchdog says

James Carr
James Carr
Assessment

Swap ‘cliff-edge’ GCSEs for ‘test when ready’, says exams review

Independent Assessment Commission says qualifications are ‘inequitable and unreliable’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

DfE clamps down on loophole allowing fraudsters in classrooms

New banning powers would also apply to ex-teachers and those in online schools

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

55 ‘education investment areas’ named for £3k teacher retention payments

DfE wants 90% of primary pupils to meet ‘expected standard’, but ‘levelling up’ announcement includes no new money

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Police won’t investigate DfE Christmas party, but Sue Gray findings withheld

Party was allegedly instigated by Gavin Williamson to ‘thank staff’ and attended by Susan Acland-Hood

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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KS3 resources for teachers and students to support learning, homework, and revision

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