News Half of schools start GCSEs in year 9, NFER survey suggests Around half of schools start teaching GCSE content when pupils are still in year 9, while some teach the… Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y News Exclusive Treasury claws back £300m in unspent funding from the DfE The Treasury has clawed back more than £300 million in funding from the Department for Education’s budget after money… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News ‘Open sewers and rat traps in rooms’: The ‘appalling’ conditions at England’s illegal schools England’s network of illegal schools is “not just a faith school problem”, an Ofsted director has said, after new… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Hundreds of prospective teachers failed QTS skills test because of marking ‘error’ An error in a mark scheme for a skills test would-be teachers must pass before training has led to… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Attainment falls and absence rises among looked-after pupils GCSE grades among looked-after pupils fell last year and absence rates rose, new data shows. New statistics published this… Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y News Exam appeals on the rise as reforms continue to bed in The number of appeals against GCSE and A-level exam grades rose by more than 40 per cent in 2018,… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Squeeze more cash for schools out of housing developers, DfE tells councils Councils have been issued with new guidance to help them negotiate financial contributions from housing developers when their work… Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y News EPI: School admissions appeals and waiting lists ‘increase social segregation’ The current system for dealing with school place appeals and waiting lists leads to increased social segregation and must… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Government will proceed with £95k public sector pay-off cap A long-awaited £95,000 cap on pay-offs for school staff is to finally be implemented, the government has announced. The… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News DfE confirms it will ‘fully fund’ £830m teacher pension contributions rise next year The government has confirmed it will “fully fund” the estimated £830 million cost of rising pensions contributions for schools… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Let councils ‘scrutinise’ school approaches to exclusions, says Halfon The chair of the parliamentary education committee has demanded extra powers for councils to scrutinise schools’ approach to exclusions…. Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y News Exclusive Ex-prosecutor could step in to mediate LGBT education protests A former leading prosecutor has offered to intervene in a bitter dispute over the teaching of LGBT education in… Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y Newer 1 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 986 Older
