Recruitment and retention

Teacher appraisal guidance: What you need to know

The process should be supportive, reduce workload and discuss working hours

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

SEND system ‘very likely’ to become unsustainable, warns DfE

Risk that councils' financial challenges will impede essential support services now 'critical'

Freddie Whittaker
Samantha Booth and Jack Dyson
Teacher pay

Teacher pay 2024: Everything you need to know

Is it really ‘fully funded’? Can schools afford it? And what else has been announced?

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

Reeves accepts 5.5% teacher pay recommendation

DfE confirms it will hand schools £1.2bn to help pay for staff rises, but they'll have to contribute £600m...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Starmer adviser Peter Hyman won’t join Downing Street team

School founder and former Blair speechwriter had played key role in drawing up PM's core 'missions'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Curriculum review must avoid ‘soft bigotry of low expectations’ – Barran

Ex-minister invokes Gove as she says curriculum review should 'scale best practice'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Recruitment

Trainee teacher drop-out rate doubles in four years

But of those who do qualify, a higher proportion end up teaching

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Tutoring

Over 4 in 10 schools snub tutoring in final year of subsidies

Course starts likely halved in last year of subsidies for flagship catch-up programme

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
BTECs

DfE pauses post-16 qualifications review and BTECs defunding

New education secretary announces 'short pause and review' of previous government's approach

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker