Schools

Political impartiality guidance: What schools need to know

DfE says new document will help schools meet their existing legal duties

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

All 5 to 11-year-olds to be offered Covid vaccine

Javid accepts JCVI recommendation of 'non-urgent offer' of paediatric dose to all primary-aged pupils

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

DfE publishes ESFA review and reorganisation plans

Government confirms move to nine RSC regions and for a new 'dedicated' schools group at the DfE

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Schools face Progress 8 drop as early entries left out of league tables

Leaders renew calls for league tables to be scrapped this year after DfE says results from early entries won't...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Councils cut primary school places as baby boom flattens

Pupil numbers are expected to fall by around 300,000 over the next five years

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

‘Elite’ sixth forms have fewer poor students, study finds

Ministers want more sixth forms that send pupils to top universities as part of 'levelling-up' agenda

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Early GCSE results won’t count in 2022 league tables

Qualifications entered early in 2020 and 2021 won't count towards progress 8 scores of current year 11 cohort

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Covid pupil absences fall, but 320,000 still off

Leaders still facing 'major headache' as almost one in ten staff remain absent

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Academies system has given politicians too much power, says ex-DfE boss

Ex-permanent secretary says academisation has left school system 'more centralised than it should be'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker