News Ministers turn to musicians to design new ‘model curriculum’ A new model music curriculum for schools will be drawn up by an independent panel of experts, the government… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Exclusive Tory peer’s academy trust seeks unpaid workers An academy trust founded by a Conservative peer is advertising for unpaid volunteers to fill key roles, as plans… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Exclusive DfE to test and ‘quality-mark’ education apps The Department for Education plans to assess and “quality-mark” smartphone and tablet education apps for younger pupils. Officials will… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Exclusive School budgets raided of £22m to replace scrapped ESG funding School budgets have been raided to the tune of tens of millions of pounds by cash-strapped councils scrambling to… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Exclusive The Seldon List: OECD chief and schools minister top trad-dominated education influencers list Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s education chief, Nick Gibb, the schools minister, and Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, have… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Four-fifths of LAs could wipe out school deficits by clawing back ‘excess’ surplus, EPI study finds The Education Policy Institute has published a deeper dive into recently released spending data for local authority schools. The… John Dickens 7y John Dickens 7y News Update us annually on school mental health plan progress, MPs tell ministers MPs want annual updates from the government on its plan to introduce new mental health support teams to work… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Some free schools were always ‘bound to fail’, admits former minister Some free schools were always “bound to fail”, one of the main architects of the programme has admitted. Lord… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Academics accused of ‘unconscious bias’ against grammar schools in controversial HEPI report Academic researchers could be ignoring the benefits of grammar schools because they are politically biased against them and “out… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Poor pupils at grammar schools twice as likely to attend Oxbridge, study claims The country’s most disadvantaged pupils are twice as likely to attend Oxbridge if they live in a region with… John Dickens 7y John Dickens 7y News University of York to run £4.8m languages ‘centre of excellence’ The University of York has been chosen to run the government’s new “centre for excellence” for modern foreign languages…. Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News DfE has ‘long way to go’ to deliver for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils, minister admits The government has a “long way to go” to improve the educational outcomes of children from the Gypsy, Roma… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y Newer 1 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 1,005 Older
