Covid

Covid: Schools ‘picking up the pieces’ amid lack of support services

Schools shouldered 'significant responsibilities within networks of support that have themselves fragmented' - UCL report

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Academy CEOs earn £127k on average, and men get £15k more

New benchmarking tool sheds more light on executive pay in the academies sector

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

£184m NPQs funding now available to all schools after DfE U-turn

Funding for four of six qualifications was previously due to be limited to staff in deprived schools

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Zahawi won’t set ‘arbitrary deadline’ for academy ambition

Education secretary faces calls for clarity over academies plans

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Zahawi pledges to put wellbeing ‘at the centre of everything we do in schools’

Education secretary to address heads in first speech to sector today

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Experts challenge ministers over £3k ‘levelling up premium’

Details are scarce on policy rehashed from retention scheme scrapped in 2020

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

State V private school funding gap widens

IfS analysis finds average private school fees are now 92 per cent higher than state funding

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Schools can seek Ofsted deferral for vaccine clashes

DfE tells heads vaccine rollout 'should take priority'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

2021 autumn A-level ‘resit’ entries plummet 56%

Ofqual reveals just 8,880 entries have been made for autumn A-level exams, down from 20,100 in 2020

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker