News Revealed: Primary school floor standards for 2017 The government has revealed the key stage 2 attainment and progress scores schools will have to achieve to avoid falling… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Just three independent schools removed from register in three years Only three private schools have been taken off the independent schools’ register in the past three years, even though Ofsted found more than 200 have… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Schools are ‘ideal places’ to provide holiday meals for poorer pupils The government is under pressure to guarantee free meals for poorer children during the school holidays, and school facilities… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Exclusive DfE launches £100k tender to independently review complaints against Ofsted The Department for Education has this week started the hunt for an organisation to review complaints made against Ofsted…. Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Exclusive First ‘low-cost’ private school delays its opening England’s first “low-cost” private school has delayed its planned opening date in September because the Department for Education has… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Isle of Man bill reopens UK debate on home-schooling The Isle of Man is consulting on plans to force parents who home-school to provide annual reports on their… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Nearly half of year 7 pupils make no progress in English Nearly half of pupils made no progress or dipped in attainment in English in their first year at secondary… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Exclusive Government doubles cash for letters promoting UTCs and studio schools The Department for Education has more than doubled what it pays councils to write letters promoting University Technical Colleges… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Heads scramble to understand GCSE data after trio of problems A trio of changes has left school leaders at a loss when trying to assess their own performance data… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News EBacc grades drop as pupils pushed in from creative subjects GCSE results reveal a spike in the lowest grades in some core EBacc subjects, which experts have said could… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Urgent action needed to save MFL from ‘extinction’, claims expert GCSE entries to modern foreign languages continued to fall this year, in a dropoff that could even see some… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News GCSE results 2017: Exam reform leaves 18-point gap between grades 4 and 5 Half of all grades in the reformed GCSEs were a grade 5 – a “strong pass” – or above,… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y Newer 1 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 984 Older