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Where is £3.1bn catch-up cash coming from, MPs ask DfE

MPs have demanded ministers provide answers regarding the £3.1 billion in catch-up funding after the government’s own sums appeared…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

It’s coming home … and they’re staying home!

A school has promised pupils a Monday lie-in so they can stay up late and watch England make history…

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Long-read: The evidence behind the government’s Covid classroom ‘gamble’

A raft of Covid protective measures look set to be removed in schools on “freedom day” later this month….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Education MPs endorse Saxton as new Ofqual boss

The education select committee has endorsed the appointment of Dr Jo Saxton as chief regulator of Ofqual. Saxton, a…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Education Reform

Fair funding reforms won’t be fully rolled out for at least 3 years

Government reforms to make school funding fairer will now not be fully implemented for at least another three years….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Education Reform, ITT

ITT reform ‘hugely risky’ to teacher supply and quality, warns government’s own adviser

Proposed reforms to teacher training could be “hugely risky” to teacher supply and quality, an adviser on the government’s…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Johnson claims catch-up tsar’s evidence for a longer school day ‘not as good as it could have been’

Evidence put forward as part of proposals to extend the school day “was not as good as it could…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Top grammar school rated ‘inadequate’ over sexism ‘hostile environment’

A “pervading culture” of sexism and racism at a leading grammar school created a “hostile environment” leaving pupils feeling…

James Carr
James Carr
News

Covid: Pupils have lost a third of learning time since pandemic began

Pupils in England have lost nearly a third of their learning time since the Covid-19 pandemic started, but fared…

James Carr
James Carr
News

Long-serving DfE adviser Chris Paterson leaves to join EEF

A long-serving policy adviser at the Department for Education is to join the Education Endowment Foundation. The charity has…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

What Step 4 means for schools: Everything you need to know

Masks, bubbles and contact tracing are all set to end for schools when the government moves to step 4…

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Bubbles and masks go at step 4, but isolation rules in place to end of term

Schools will no longer be told to keep pupils in consistent “bubbles” from step four of the government’s roadmap…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker