School funding

Prominent accountant to review £370m school funding gaffe

Peter Wyman to lead review of DfE quality assurance process for the national funding formula for schools

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

Pay scales for teachers and leaders in England from September 2023

DfE confirms pay scales following offer of 6.5% for teachers and leaders

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Tell us how you will fix recruitment, Labour told

Analysis shows gaps in the workforce already outstrip party's ambition for 6,500 more teachers

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

School funding: Unions want £370m back as heads cut ‘nice-to-haves’

'Hope has disappeared because somebody made a mistake'

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Freddie Whittaker and Amy Walker
News

Oliver formally confirmed as next Ofsted chief inspector

Academy boss pledges to be 'empathetic, compassionate and understanding of the challenges that those of us working in education...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

Almost 1 in 10 secondary pupils off as sickness absence rises

The proportion of pupils missing school because of illness has doubled in two weeks

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SATs

Improvement in final KS1 SATs, but still below pre-pandemic

The DfE has published results data from last year's SATs, the last before they were made non-statutory

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Call for funding reform and reception SEND check to close disadvantage gap

‘Persistently disadvantaged' pupils end secondary schools almost two years behind their peers

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Bridget Phillipson: Full text of Labour conference 2023 speech

Labour activists heard from the shadow education secretary at the party’s annual conference this morning. Here is what she...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker