News Heads back CofE call to ban parents withdrawing children from RE Headteachers have backed Church of England plans to ban parents from withdrawing their pupils from religious education, claiming it… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Open new selective schools in MATs only, urges Carmichael New selective schools should only be allowed within multi-academy trusts so that youngsters can “move around” between vocational and… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Replace bursaries with ‘forgivable fees’ to boost teacher numbers, report claims Teacher training bursaries should be scrapped in place of “forgivable” tuition fees for teaching graduates who stick in the… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Funding system for new schools ‘increasingly incoherent’, say MPs Funding for new schools is delivered through an “increasingly incoherent” system, with the government frequently paying “over the odds” for sites… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Labour pledges to bring back EMA with corporation tax hike Labour will raise corporation tax to fund the re-introduction of the education maintenance allowance, the party has revealed today…. Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News £100k per council would abolish holiday hunger, MPs claim A cross-parliamentary group of MPs have said handing every local authority just over £100,000 a year would end holiday… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Corbyn 4-day bank holiday pledge ‘includes teachers’ A pledge by Jeremy Corbyn to give workers an additional four national holidays per year will reduce the school… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News DfE to underwrite salary for free school ‘heads in waiting’ – and could even employ them in department The Department for Education has published a pledge to support the founding of new free schools by underwriting the… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Ofqual ditches plans to regulate ‘easy’ and ‘hard’ subjects Exams regulator Ofqual is no longer seeking to harmonise the number of pupils achieving top grades across different subjects… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News RSC Tim Coulson resigns to head Samuel Ward Academy Trust Regional schools commissioner Tim Coulson is stepping down from the role to head up a multi-academy trust – leaving… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Corbyn promises to halt rise of ‘super-size’ classes in latest Labour schools pledge Jeremy Corbyn has claimed that children are being “crammed in classrooms like sardines” and pledged to keep class sizes down… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Phonics boosts reading accuracy, study finds Phonics has a “dramatic impact” on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension, researchers have claimed. A study, published… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y Newer 1 736 737 738 739 740 741 742 743 744 745 746 982 Older