Tutoring Exclusive Data reveals scale of National Tutoring Programme’s northern challenge New data has revealed big variations in take-up of the government’s National Tutoring Programme across England, with schools in… Samantha Booth 5y Samantha Booth 5y 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 5y Schools Week Reporter 5y 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y 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 5y Samantha Booth 5y 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 5y James Carr 5y 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y 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 5y Samantha Booth 5y 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y 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 5y James Carr 5y Newer 1 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 1,005 Older