School funding

Funding mistake won’t rip up DfE staff reward voucher scheme

Department says it would be 'unfair to penalise junior staff' for funding gaffe

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

Hardship funding barely dents school deficits

Analysis of hardship funding shows that the allocation for one county was less than the deficit of just one...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Inside the first ‘education hackathon’

Gillian Keegan is determined artificial intelligence has its place in education. A ‘hackathon’ in London tried it out…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SATs

Key stage 1 SATs paper plan a ‘breathtaking waste of money’

Schools will receive test papers unless they opt out, despite the assessments being non-statutory from this year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

School support staff unions accept £1,925 pay deal

Pay deal will cost schools around £1bn, leaving budgets 'tight'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Sir Ian Bauckham appointed interim Ofqual chief

Current chair of the regulator to serve for 12 month period from January after Dr Jo Saxton departs for...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Tory donors leave Education Policy Institute board as election looms

Sir Paul Marshall and Lord Nash will step down as trustees of the think tank, as David Laws moves...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Home education

Councils urged to create ‘voluntary’ home education registers

DfE also recommends data-sharing with police and GPs as plans for a compulsory register remain in the long grass

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

Labour would scrap minimum service levels for schools

Bridget Phillipson says 'attack on the rights of working people' is an 'admission of failure' over last year's pay...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker