School funding

£2bn school funding boost ‘didn’t go far enough’, admits Keegan

Education secretary also wants to 'streamline' teacher pay and school budgeting process, admitting current system is 'not ideal'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

DfE delays 32.5-hour week expectation to 2024

End-of-term announcement made 'in recognition of the pressures facing schools'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Governance

4 in 5 governors fear for the financial future of their schools

One in ten will set deficit budget or go cap-in-hand to the ESFA to balance income and expenditure, finds...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

Teacher pay: What schools need to know about the 6.5% offer

Your questions answered after DfE accepts STRB reccomendation on pay for 2023-24

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

Use of agency workers to cover strikes quashed in High Court

Government's approach found to be 'so unfair as to be unlawful and, indeed, irrational'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

STRB report: 6.5% teacher pay rise, but DfE will only fund 3%

Unions will recommend their members accept 'properly funded' pay deal

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SATs

DfE won’t publish primary progress data in 2024 or 2025

Lack of 'robust alternative baseline' following Covid SATs cancellations, government concludes

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

NFER: Extend ‘levelling-up’ retention payments to all deprived schools

Report also warns 6.5% pay rise won't solve teacher recruitment and retention woes on its own

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SATs

Key stage 2 SATs: Overall results same as 2022, but reading falls

59% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths again this year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker