Sponsored post Sponsored Safeguarding in schools: staying on top of school monitoring in the new academic year With the rise in bullying, vaping, and security threats, each school must act to create a secure environment that… SWAdvertorial 8mo Phoenix 8mo Politics Helen Hayes elected education committee chair SEND reform, child poverty and the school curriculum are on Hayes’s agenda Shane Chowen 8mo Shane Chowen 8mo News ESFA to close as regions group take over school finance oversight Education and Skills Funding Agency bites the dust as regions group take on bigger finance role Schools Week Reporter 8mo Schools Week Reporter 8mo Recruitment and retention EEF projects to probe whether flexible working boosts retention Research projects will also investigate the impact of flexible schemes on pupils Lucas Cumiskey 8mo Lucas Cumiskey 8mo SATs Primary school disadvantage gap narrows But the gap between disadvantaged pupils and their better-off peers remains above pre-pandemic levels Samantha Booth 8mo Samantha Booth 8mo News Revealed: The three candidates for education committee chair Two former children’s minister and disability rights campaigner compete for influential job Freddie Whittaker 8mo Freddie Whittaker 8mo Politics Phillipson faces first education questions from MPs SEND and private VAT plan dominate the schools agenda during Commons exchange Samantha Booth 8mo Samantha Booth 8mo News Schools face ‘long slog’ to resolve enduring Covid challenges ‘Concerted action’ needed as secondaries face reading challenge and primaries battle lack of early development Freddie Whittaker 8mo Freddie Whittaker 8mo Solutions Trusts target sixth formers in recruitment drive Schools turn to homegrown talent in the face of severe teacher shortages and difficulties spending apprenticeship levy funding Lucas Cumiskey 8mo Lucas Cumiskey 8mo SEND SEND: Two in five EHCP decisions took more than 6 months It comes as MPs warn ministers of desperate situations in their constituencies Samantha Booth 8mo Samantha Booth 8mo Ofsted Exclusive Ofsted enlists charities’ help as it plans inclusion ‘criterion’ Leaders welcome focus on inclusion, but warn against creating ‘perverse incentives’ for schools Samantha Booth 8mo Samantha Booth 8mo Recruitment and retention Exclusive Pledge for 6,500 new teachers may not be delivered for years Special unit assembled in DfE to work on Labour’s manifesto commitment, but concern grows over speediness of plan Jack Dyson 8mo Lucas Cumiskey and Jack Dyson 8mo Newer 1 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 970 Older