News Female civil servants in DfE paid 6% less than men Women working in the Department for Education (DfE) are paid on average 6 per cent less than their male… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Top DfE civil servant appointed as new East of England RSC Sue Baldwin, a director at the Department for Education, has been appointed as the new regional schools commissioner for… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Secondary school attainment gap still ‘stubbornly large’, social mobility study finds The attainment gap between poor and wealthy children has remained “stubbornly large” in secondary schools despite billions in targeted… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Mental health funding blunder corrected by government A £200,000 investment in mental health training for school staff will train just 1,000 teachers and only cover the… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Exclusive Police arrests over stolen maths A-level exam papers Police have arrested two men in connection with an investigation into a stolen Maths A-level exam paper offered for… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Schools won’t have budgets cut under funding formula, Greening confirms The government remains committed to ensuring that no school loses money under the new national funding formula, the education… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News May gives £67 per teacher for mental health training A commitment to train secondary teachers to identify and deal with mental health problems in pupils will be funded… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News MATs dodge recruitment challenges by parachuting teachers into needy schools Multi-academy trusts are dodging the recruitment crisis by parachuting teachers into schools that would normally struggle to hire, a… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Academies Enterprise Trust stripped of two more schools The country’s largest academy chain has been stripped of two schools – and is in talks about rebrokering more… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Spielman warns sixth form colleges about drop in Ofsted grades Sixth-form colleges have received worse Ofsted grades this year, meaning that fewer than were first expected will now be… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News DfE u-turn over school fire sprinklers The government are reportedly dropping plans to weaken fire safety standards in new schools. The Observer has learned that… Laura McInerney 8y Laura McInerney 8y News Northern Rocks 2017: What we learned at the annual conference The Northern Rocks conference kicked off with a minute-long round of applause for its co-organiser Emma Hardy, who was… Schools Week Reporter 8y Schools Week Reporter 8y Newer 1 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 724 725 726 979 Older