Tutoring

Treasury to claw back ‘staggering’ £100m+ of unspent tutoring cash

Underspend could equate to a sixth of catch-up cash last year, as DfE survey shows falling subsidies put schools...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Nicky Morgan joins Careers and Enterprise Company as chair

Former education secretary to help lead organisation she set up whilst at the DfE

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Meet the ministers: DfE confirms briefs (again) of new team

Gibb is back as schools minister while new recruit Coutinho takes on 'children, families and wellbeing' brief

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Grammar schools? My focus is on those who don’t get in, says Keegan

New education secretary also says ‘the answer to every problem is not more money’, claiming standards have ‘gone up...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

DfE reprimanded after pupil data used by gambling firms

Department criticised over 'serious breach' of data protection law, but avoids £10m fine from information watchdog

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Inside the battle to shape the Labour party’s education reforms

The party's latest report has prompted heated debate between so-called 'progressives' and 'traditionalists'

Freddie Whittaker
Donna Ferguson
Academies

Revealed: DfE’s ‘cluster takeover’ plan to boost big academy trusts

Officials draw up proposals to help leading trusts expand into new regions

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Oak considers letting private firms sell on its lessons

Curriculum quango says it is considering whether to allow commercial use of its resources

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

DfE says Oak quango needed to break ‘cycle’ of curriculum weakness

Everything you need to know about the government's case for creating a new arms-length curriculum body

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker