Election 2024

General election 2024: What does it mean for schools?

Promised new school policies likely to be delayed, how teachers will vote and what policies they favour

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Publish STRB report and pay offer ‘immediately’, unions tell Keegan

Ministers will pay ‘heavy political price’ for any ‘continued failure’ to invest, say unions

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Exams: GCSE and A-level prices soar by inflation-busting 6.4%

CPI over the same period was 3.8%, but Ofqual says prices in line with inflation over a longer period

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Protests

Review calls for statutory guidance on school blasphemy rows

Independent adviser on political violence and disruption said there is ‘evidence of aggressive protests targeting schools’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
AI

Ministers plan to appoint edtech evidence checkers

Revealed: Experts to scrutinise classroom impact of technology tools as part of new AI training package for teachers worth…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Curriculum

7 recommendations from MPs report on financial education

Schools find it hard to prioritise the topic, says education committee in new report

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Music

Music hubs reform ‘most torrid time of our careers’, MPs told

Decision to slash hubs from 116 to 43 places some provision at ‘enormous risk’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Mental health

‘Stark gap’ between teacher and leader wellbeing

Survey finds teachers twice as likely as leaders to report feeling ‘physically and mentally’ unwell

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Oak National Academy

LocatED chief to lead ‘independent’ review of Oak academy

Lara Newman will look at quango’s ‘efficacy, governance, accountability and efficiency’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Climate change

1,000 volunteers needed for school climate ambassador scheme

Expanded scheme, first launched two years ago, to help 2,500 education settings with climate action plans

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Computer science

GCSE computer science: Students to learn about ‘impact’ of AI

DfE proposes first changes to ‘outdated’ subject content since 2015

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Long Covid teachers join forces to sue ministers

About 85 teachers in the UK have expressed an interest in joining the action

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey