News Fewer teachers quit and more return: 10 key workforce findings Data suggests recruitment and retention pressures may be easing Jack Dyson 6mo Jack Dyson 6mo Pupil numbers Pupil numbers fall as system passes demographic tipping-point And for the first time, there are now more academies in England than council-maintained schools Freddie Whittaker 6mo Freddie Whittaker 6mo News National Institute of Teaching gains degree-awarding powers Move means government’s flagship teacher training provider will award its own PGCE to trainees Freddie Whittaker 6mo Jessie Williams 6mo News Free school meals extended to all from universal credit households But schools won’t get more pupil premium funding, and some children to lose eligibility as transitional protections end Freddie Whittaker 6mo Freddie Whittaker 6mo News Ministers mull putting health services in spare primary classrooms Education secretary says government is exploring how to use the school estate for ‘wider family services’ Freddie Whittaker 7mo Freddie Whittaker 7mo News Defence review calls for cadet expansion – despite DfE funding cut Call from the Ministry of Defence comes less than a year after the DfE scrapped its £1.1m contribution to… Freddie Whittaker 7mo Freddie Whittaker 7mo Policy Headteacher appointed as new DfE ‘school leader adviser’ Maintained school headteacher Andrew O’Neill to deliver ‘frontline expertise directly into the heart of policy-making’, government says Schools Week Reporter 7mo Schools Week Reporter 7mo Teacher strikes Striking teachers tell trust to extend lunch break instead of lessons Teachers across 14 Outwood Grange trust schools to strike this week over plans to extend day past 2.30pm Jack Dyson 7mo Jack Dyson 7mo Movers and Shakers MAT names inclusion director as new CEO Incoming Anthem Schools Trust boss set to leave one of England’s biggest MATs for new role Jack Dyson 7mo Jack Dyson 7mo Academies More schools miss out as ‘lottery’ repair grants fall again Just 35 per cent of schools that applied for condition improvement funding get cash Jack Dyson 7mo Jack Dyson 7mo SEND DfE extends neurodiversity support scheme, but with less funding Programme that trains teachers to better identify needs extended into 2025-26 with £9.5m Lydia Chantler-Hicks 7mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 7mo News Child poverty: Schools ‘have no time’ to wait for strategy Unions urge government not to ‘kick the can down the road’ amid reports of delays to flagship Labour strategy Jack Dyson 7mo Jack Dyson 7mo Newer 1 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 1,015 Older
