News Investigation Inside the government’s plan to take tutoring mainstream As ministers start the hunt for an organisation to run the National Tutoring Programme for its second year, Schools… Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y News School uniforms: No outright ban on ‘sole supplier’ deals, says Gibb The government will not ban controversial sole supplier contracts for school uniforms outright, but will ask leaders to re-tender… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Exclusive DfE sneaks in £25m saving with teaching school hubs switch The government has quietly saved £25 million by switching to a system of teaching school hubs, a Schools Week… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News ‘Not every day has been brilliant’ – Williamson opens up about pandemic challenges Gavin Williamson has opened up about the challenges he’s faced in the pandemic, admitting that “not every day has… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Exclusive School claimed furlough cash then gave £64k payout to head A junior school that claimed nearly £100,000 of furlough cash because of the “dramatic and potentially catastrophic” financial impact… Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y News Exclusive Ofsted monitoring inspections find all schools taking ‘effective action’, but verdict ‘limited’ The first batch of letters published following new remote Ofsted monitoring inspections found that all schools were “taking effective… James Carr 4y James Carr 4y News Investigation Reopening schools: DfE’s ‘illogical’ Covid testing policy puts pupils in isolation The government’s “nonsensical” Covid testing policy that pupils tested on-site must self-isolate without taking confirmatory lab tests has seen… James Carr 4y James Carr 4y News Exams 2021: Leaders fear pressure from parents with ‘pointy elbows and lawyer friends’ School leaders fear the switch to teacher assessment instead of exams this year will lead to pressure to adjust… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Spielman says deprived schools’ lower grades offset by leadership praise Amanda Spielman has claimed Ofsted recognises the ‘relative strength’ of schools in poorer areas by rating their leadership more… James Carr 4y James Carr 4y News DfE proposes school business rates change to cut ‘substantial bureaucracy’ The government is proposing to change the way “complex” school business rates are collected to cut out “substantial bureaucracy”…. Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Pupils ‘expected to know’ up to 1,700 words under reforms to MFL GCSEs Pupils will be “expected to know” up to 1,700 different words under proposed reforms to GCSE modern foreign language… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News DfE doubles down on policy that in-school Covid test positives don’t need confirmatory PCR The government has doubled down on its policy that positive Covid cases identified by tests in school don’t need… James Carr 4y James Carr 4y Newer 1 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 974 Older
