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 5y James Carr 5y 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y 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 5y James Carr 5y 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y 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 5y James Carr 5y News Exams 2021: 9 things we learned from Gibb and Ofqual at education committee Schools minister Nick Gibb and officials from exams regulator Ofqual were quizzed this morning over plans to replace formal… Samantha Booth 5y Samantha Booth 5y News Laptops: DfE 50k devices short of 1.3m pledge as schools return The government was still around 50,000 devices short of its pledge to provide 1.3 million laptops and tablets to… James Carr 5y James Carr 5y News Attendance: Almost 1 in 5 pupils were in school the week before reopenings Almost one in five pupils were in school last week, just days before wider reopenings, new attendance data shows…. Freddie Whittaker 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y News 2022 exams may need similar ‘adaptations’ as those proposed for 2021, warns Ofqual chief The government is considering making “adaptations” to exams in 2022 similar to those proposed for this summer’s assessments before… Freddie Whittaker 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y News Government medic warns of school disruption as Covid testing regime beds in Schools may see a “larger number” of children forced to self-isolate during the first weeks of reopening while new… Freddie Whittaker 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y News Majority of schools report 90 per cent of pupils taking on-site Covid tests Nine out of 10 pupils are taking part in on-site Covid testing at the majority of schools and colleges… James Carr 5y James Carr 5y Newer 1 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 1,015 Older
