News Exclusive Investigation: Schools lose access to police officers as cuts bite Schools are beginning to lose their access to dedicated police officers as cuts bite, with new figures obtained by… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News NUT staff at London school to strike outside DfE Teachers and parents are set to strike on a picket line outside the Department for Education’s (DfE) London offices… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Calls for IT qualification to be saved as computing take-up stalls A key group behind the government’s computing reforms has urged ministers to reinstate a “reformed” IT GCSE after new… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News INVESTIGATION: Only 1 in 3 new schools has sprinklers – and ‘expectation’ to fit them due to be removed from DfE policy The proportion of new schools being built with fire-preventing sprinklers has halved to just 35 per cent since 2010,… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Exclusive Teacher interventions in pupil fights cost thousands in compensation Teachers injured while breaking up fights between pupils are claiming tens of thousands of pounds each in compensation –… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Racial hate crimes in schools surge in wake of Brexit Schools across the country have experienced a surge in racial hate crimes in the aftermath of Brexit, new figures… Billy Camden 9y Billy Camden 9y News More than half of MPs educated in state comprehensives More than half of the country’s MPs are comprehensively-educated for the first time, in a shift academics say is… Jess Staufenberg 9y Jess Staufenberg 9y News Meet the teachers elected as MPs A new generation of teachers-turned-MPs have vowed to fight school funding cuts after an election which saw education issues… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y News Education graduates earn more than lawyers, figures show School career advisors are being asked to talk up the earning potential of teaching after new government figures suggested… John Dickens 9y John Dickens 9y News Former DfE boss knighted and school leaders recognised in Queen’s birthday honours Chris Wormald, the former Department for Education boss once criticised for letting his staff play with party hats in… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y News Free school championed by Gibb rated outstanding across the board A free school championed by schools minister Nick Gibb, and whose founder has previously said she would ban Ofsted,… John Dickens 9y John Dickens 9y News Purdah is over, but it has paralysed DfE for 6 months in 2 years The government has been affected by pre-election rules preventing civil servants from talking to the press for more than… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y Newer 1 755 756 757 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 765 1,015 Older