News Festival of Education goes virtual for 2021 This year’s Festival of Education will take place online and will be free to watch. It was hoped that… Schools Week Reporter 4y Schools Week Reporter 4y News Exclusive Williamson pledges to back teachers ‘all the way’ on exam grading The education secretary has pledged to back teachers “all the way” in their efforts to award exam grades this… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Exclusive Schools to get £10m Turing Scheme cash for 5,000 placements Schools will receive £10 million in funding from the government’s Turing Scheme, Schools Week can reveal. £105 million in… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Some students may need to repeat a year if they can’t get a grade, says exam board chief Some pupils may need to repeat a year if they have missed too much learning to be awarded grades… Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y News Just 0.14% of secondary school Covid tests are positive, but concerns over accuracy Around 3,000 positive Covid test results have been recorded by secondary schools since the beginning of the year, with… James Carr 4y James Carr 4y News Narrowing attainment gap stopped being ‘main focus’ of DfE in 2015, says former permanent secretary Efforts to narrow the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their better-off peers ceased to be a “main focus”… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Budget 2021 a ‘missed opportunity’ with no extra funding for schools This year’s budget has been described as a “missed opportunity” for education after it failed to provide additional cash… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Watchdog fears public bodies will avoid statistical models following exam grading backlash Public bodies may be “less willing” to use statistical models to support decisions in future after the system to… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Covid catch-up strategy not ‘integrated’ enough, and 6 other things we learned at education committee Ministers’ catch-up strategy is not “integrated” enough, and “long-term” reform is needed to help pupils in the wake of… Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y News Data reveals huge variation in spring term school attendance across England Attendance in schools has varied hugely across England this term, new data shows, with rates in the week before… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Laptops: DfE on track to meet distribution target as over 1.2 million devices now sent The Department for Education is on track to meet its target of delivering most of the 1.3 million laptops… James Carr 4y James Carr 4y News National funding formula: DfE proposes changes to ‘sparsity factor’ for small remote schools Hundreds more small remote schools could be eligible for extra cash under government proposals to change the national funding… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Newer 1 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 979 Older
