News Fund set up to improve learning for English as additional language pupils A two million pound fund has been set up to find the best way of improving learning for pupils… Sophie Scott 11y Sophie Scott 11y News Convicted criminals want to work in schools, records show Murderers, paedophiles and heroin dealers are among thousands of convicted criminals who have applied to work in classrooms across… Nicky Phillips 11y Nicky Phillips 11y News Updated Ofqual list: GCSEs and A-levels that will begin in 2017 Ofqual has today released an update for which qualifications will be reformed from September 2017. The qualifications regulator released an initial… Sophie Scott 11y Sophie Scott 11y News Ofsted chief and “superheads” on the top 100 list of most influential Catholics Chief inspector of schools Sir Michael Wilshaw and “superheads” Dame Rachel de Souza and Martin Tissot are included on… Sophie Scott 11y Sophie Scott 11y News Number of children calling ChildLine about exam stress rises by 200 per cent Calls about exam stress to telephone counselling service ChildLine rose by 200 per cent in the last academic year,… Sophie Scott 11y Sophie Scott 11y News Prince Charles challenged teachers as “facilitators”, letters reveal A private letter sent by Prince Charles to then Labour education secretary Charles Clarke described how the heir to… Sophie Scott 11y Sophie Scott 11y News New DfE minister u-turns over teachers being ‘forced’ to teach same-sex marriage A Conservative MP who once expressed concerns that same-sex marriage legislation would force teachers to teach against their “religious… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Familiar faces head up the DfE as reshuffle leaves department relatively untouched David Cameron’s ministerial reshuffle has left the top team at the Department for Education relatively untouched. Nicky Morgan, Nick… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Interim executive board finds £1m deficit in Lewisham school’s accounts Leaders parachuted in to a school embroiled in a campaign to prevent it from becoming an academy have found… Sophie Scott 11y Sophie Scott 11y News Teacher banned after telling pupils “Muslims worship the devil” in history lesson A supply teacher has been banned from the classroom after telling an AS level class that “Muslims worship the… Sophie Scott 11y Sophie Scott 11y News Gender gaps in A-level subjects: The full list New figures have revealed stark gender gaps in pupils taking AS and A-level subjects including physics, computing and psychology. Ofsted has today published the… Sophie Scott 11y Sophie Scott 11y News Jack, Chloe or Smith? The most popular names for school children The Department for Education today released a list of the 1,000 most popular names of school pupils according to… Sophie Scott 11y Sophie Scott 11y Newer 1 971 972 973 974 975 976 977 978 979 980 981 1,033 Older