News

Just 2% of promised CO2 monitors delivered to schools

But education secretary says deliveries will 'ramp up' in November

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Politics

£3k ‘level up premium’ to send ‘best’ teachers to in-need areas

Johnson reannounces retention policy that his government scrapped last year

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Academy trusts

New framework to set out the purpose of academy trust CEOs

The work will also set ethics expectations for academy bosses

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Ofsted

Ofsted to visit more MATs when evaluations restart

Watchdog says smaller and specialist trusts will now face visits

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Covid

Covid vaccines for children: what schools need to know

The government has published guidance today on how the vaccine roll-out in schools for 12- to 15-year-olds will work....

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Cabinet reshuffle

Zahawi: I’ll put children and families at centre of ‘building back better’

New education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has signaled that children and their families will be the focus of his new...

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Cabinet reshuffle

Reshuffle: Nick Gibb sacked as schools minister

DfE stalwart surprise casualty in Boris Johnson's 'build back better' reshuffle

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Cabinet reshuffle

‘If you believe in what you’re doing, why would you bend?’

Love him or loathe him, Nick Gibb was made for the job of schools minister, says Jonathan Simons

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SATs

Year 6 SATs don’t make children unhappy, says study

Researcher says findings counter 'conventional narratives', but critics question research based on 2012 data

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