Rising costs risk pledge to restore school funding to 2010 levels IFS predicts school purchasing power will actually be 3% lower than in 2010 by next year
Sunak to replace A-levels with ‘Advanced British standard’ PM wants to merge A-levels and T-levels into new single qualification for sixth formers to study five subjects including ‘some form’ of English and maths
Ofsted has gone from ‘critical friend to just critic’ says children’s tsar Dame Rachel de Souza likens incoming chief inspector to a ‘new Pope’, who can ‘fix what went wrong’
School mobile phone ‘ban’ won’t be statutory But Gillian Keegan warned government will consider introducing new law if schools don’t follow advice
One in ten cash-strapped councils under government monitoring FOI reveals 17 councils have so far been ordered to submit ‘action plans’ to cut deficits to the ESFA this year
Fact check: Could state schools deal with ‘influx’ of private kids? Changing demographics help Labour’s argument that its policy won’t negatively affect the state sector
Government SEND savings plan will barely dent council deficits ‘It can’t solve financial concerns. And in practice, it’ll just heap more risk downwards’
EBacc: DfE plans league table shake-up to ‘incentivise’ take-up Government to ‘explore making changes to the headline EBacc attainment measure’
Liberal Democrats’ schools plans could cost more than £9bn The party set out its stall at its conference last weekend. But do its sums add up?