Schools

DfE pushes ahead with unregistered AP time limits

Government confirms plans for 'voluntary' standards, but will make them mandatory 'when parliamentary time allows'

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Pensions

Handover of £233m teachers’ pensions contract to Tata delayed

Capita's handover of contract it ran for almost 30 years postponed from October to next summer

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Schools

Influencers may be behind boom in career-focused subjects, says exams chief

Economics and business studies see rise in entrants as exam board boss suggests 'entreprenurial' students want to emulate social...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Schools

£22.5m announced for after-school clubs to help ‘isolated’ kids

Up to 400 schools will get a share of the three-year investment to boost extra-curricular activities

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Ofsted

Inspectors criticise Ofsted’s ‘ridiculous’ training regime

'It just creates the sense that everything is rushed'

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Ofsted

Ofsted inspectors to get four days of online training ahead of new framework

'Underpinning skills programme' comes on top of planned in-person and live online training, and inspectors also expected to spend...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Ofsted

Missed inspection targets and 5 more findings from Ofsted’s annual report

Ofsted's staff are also less happy this year, and turnover rates remain above civil service targets, a new report...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Schools

Schools say they need more funding to hit 2030 tech target

One-third of schools say they will be unable to hit new technology targets in the next five years

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Exams

Ofqual probe finds exam extra time figures wrong for years

Statistics withdrawn after regulator review finds they 'significantly overstated' the number of access arrangements

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks