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 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y News School attendance rises to over 18% after half term School attendance rose to over 18 per cent in the week after half term, with an increase in secondary… Freddie Whittaker 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y News Don’t hand out Covid testing kits to pupils’ families, DfE tells schools Schools should not distribute Covid testing kits to members of their pupils’ households, the Department for Education has said,… James Carr 5y James Carr 5y News DfE cuts early career framework funding rates The government has cut funding rates for the national rollout of its early career framework (ECF), claiming this year’s… Samantha Booth 5y Samantha Booth 5y Newer 1 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 1,015 Older
