Politics

Improve outreach work if you want to charge higher fees, universities told

John Blake appointed to help regulator push institutions to improve access and partnership plans

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Anti-vaxxers who threaten schools and pupils ‘will be arrested’ – Zahawi

Education secretary says protesters 'should not be going anywhere near a school'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

New uniform guidance: What schools need to know

DfE publishes statutory school uniform guidance for the first time

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

Final ITT review ‘more implementable’, says DfE adviser

Professor Sam Twiselton, who criticised review, says final proposals are 'more flexible, more doable', and hints at implementation delay

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

DfE director Jonathan Duff to become east of England RSC

Current postholder Sue Baldwin steps down next year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Tutoring

DfE widens eligibility criteria for academic mentors scheme

All schools with more than 30% of pupils on pupil premium can access the programme

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

£1.1m anti-bullying support for schools, after old scheme axed

Announcement comes over a year after predecessor scheme was quietly shelved

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Covid absence halves after half term, but 130,000 pupils still off

DfE data suggests Covid absence fell to 1.6 per cent last week

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Health bosses given more leeway to bring back masks in school corridors

Government changes language on face coverings in contingency framework guidance

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker