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
Pupil data

School reprimanded over illegal use of facial recognition technology

Essex secondary failed to get pupils' consent and did not assess impact of new cashless catering tech in advance

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

What is happening with teacher pay?

Chancellor says announcements will come 'later this month' and government will 'make sure that the sums add up'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Eight things we learned from Ofsted’s annual accounts

Inspectorate has had a 'difficult' year and faces 'significant' financial challenges, documents warn

Freddie Whittaker
Lucas Cumiskey and Samantha Booth
Falling rolls

DfE revises up pupils forecast – but numbers still due to plummet

Government estimates there will be 260,000 more pupils than previously predicted in state schools by 2028

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exclusions

Exclusions higher than pre-Covid as suspensions rise again

New education minister slams 'shocking' figures as suspensions rates remain are record high

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker