Grammar school ordered to pay back £1.5m in overclaimed maintenance cash Single-academy trust ‘knowingly took decisions to utilise funding on works beyond the scope of the approved bids’, probe finds
Treasury to claw back ‘staggering’ £100m+ of unspent tutoring cash Underspend could equate to a sixth of catch-up cash last year, as DfE survey shows falling subsidies put schools off
Nicky Morgan joins Careers and Enterprise Company as chair Former education secretary to help lead organisation she set up whilst at the DfE
Meet the ministers: DfE confirms briefs (again) of new team Gibb is back as schools minister while new recruit Coutinho takes on ‘children, families and wellbeing’ brief
Grammar schools? My focus is on those who don’t get in, says Keegan New education secretary also says ‘the answer to every problem is not more money’, claiming standards have ‘gone up massively’ despite funding crisis
DfE reprimanded after pupil data used by gambling firms Department criticised over ‘serious breach’ of data protection law, but avoids £10m fine from information watchdog
Inside the battle to shape the Labour party’s education reforms The party’s latest report has prompted heated debate between so-called ‘progressives’ and ‘traditionalists’
Revealed: DfE’s ‘cluster takeover’ plan to boost big academy trusts Officials draw up proposals to help leading trusts expand into new regions
Oak considers letting private firms sell on its lessons Curriculum quango says it is considering whether to allow commercial use of its resources