Covid: 1 in 12 secondary school pupils test positive ONS data shows rising infection rates among older pupils, as heads warn they are struggling with absences
Achievement for All charity goes into administration Organisation cites ‘double impact of the pandemic and current pressures on school budgets’ as it calls in administrators
How do you solve a problem like academies? Ministers face difficult choices as they seek to move more schools into academy trusts
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
Academy CEOs earn £127k on average, and men get £15k more New benchmarking tool sheds more light on executive pay in the academies sector
£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
Zahawi won’t set ‘arbitrary deadline’ for academy ambition Education secretary faces calls for clarity over academies plans
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
Experts challenge ministers over £3k ‘levelling up premium’ Details are scarce on policy rehashed from retention scheme scrapped in 2020