Assessment

Ministers play down BTECs cull

They have gone as far as to blame the media for fuelling a belief there will be a binary…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

NHS trust delays HPV jabs over Covid vaccine pressure

Vaccines for year 8 pupils in Hertfordshire were due to start this term

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

Pay rises must be met from schools’ core budgets, minister confirms

Robin Walker seeks to reassure leaders spending review settlement will make pressures affordable

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

‘Energy pods’ and bird feeders: Zahawi to set out school climate measures at COP26

Ministers also planning new model science curriculum

James Carr
James Carr
News

‘Significant’ barriers to rollout longer school days, DfE review finds

The government finally publishes promised review

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Covid

CO2 monitors: Almost half of promised devices delivered

But data doesn’t show how many schools are yet to receive deliveries

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Assessment

EBacc target even further off as entries fall again

KS4 data also shows how disadvantage gap has widened according to government’s own metric

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

6 findings from Nadhim Zahawi at education committee

From another SEND review promise to extending the school day – everything you need to know

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

Draft law seeks Parliamentary veto on future school closures

Education committee chair to introduce bill in Parliament which could class schools as ‘essential infrastructure’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

250k Covid absences in week before half term, with south west worst hit

DfE data shows Covid absences nationally rose to 3.2 per cent on October 21

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Zahawi wants all schools to ‘move towards’ 6.5-hour day

Education secretary says he’s looking at ‘excellent examples’ in some academy trusts of a longer school day

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

‘Not a race’ for all schools to join MATs, says Herrington

Dominic Herrington’s comments come amid predictions all schools will convert by 2030, and warnings of resistance from maintained and…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger