News EEF: Debate-style teaching boosts pupils’ progress The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has released the findings from four programmes aimed at improving pupil grades – with… Jess Staufenberg 9y Jess Staufenberg 9y News Exclusive Ofsted gives 700 sponsored academies a fresh start The Ofsted ratings of more than 700 schools have been wiped clean after becoming an academy or rebrokering, a… Billy Camden 9y Billy Camden 9y News Exclusive Ministers finally set to shut down Perry Beeches The controversial Perry Beeches academy trust in Birmingham is finally set to be disbanded, with its five schools handed… John Dickens 9y John Dickens 9y News Exclusive Home education doubles, with schools left to ‘pick up pieces’ when it fails The number of pupils leaving school to be educated at home has almost doubled over the past six years,… Jess Staufenberg 9y Jess Staufenberg 9y News Just one in 10 returner teachers under government scheme secure jobs Just one in ten returner teachers recruited under a government scheme to boost ailing numbers of maths and physics… John Dickens 9y John Dickens 9y News Teachers turn to think tanks over DfE for schools research School leaders and teachers are more likely to rely on think tanks for research to help them improve schools,… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y News English schools to join pilot of PISA tests for 5 year olds Schools in England will take part in a pilot of tablet-based tests for five-year-olds, the Department for Education has announced…. Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y News Charity wants to bin exams at 16 for five-year ‘phase’ “Cliff-edge” GCSE exams at 16 should be scrapped in favour of a 14 to 19 “phase” where pupils complete… Billy Camden 9y Billy Camden 9y News Extra £1.3 billion needed to plug hole in school budgets, EPI warns The government needs to find an additional £1.3 billion to compensate for inflation pressures faced by schools and protect… Billy Camden 9y Billy Camden 9y News Minister confirms U-turn on plans to scrap universal infant lunches Universal infant free school meals are here to stay, the schools minister Nick Gibb has announced today, confirming a… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y News Former education ministers to run for select committee chair Former education ministers Robert Halfon and Tim Loughton are to stand for election to chair the House of Commons… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y News Key stage 2 SATs results: 61% achieve ‘expected standard’ Sixty one per cent of pupils achieved the government’s “expected standard” in reading, writing and maths in this year’s… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y Newer 1 755 756 757 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 765 1,021 Older