Tutoring

Heads bemused over tutoring cash clawback

Tutoring providers warn they are having to fundraise to give cash-strapped schools a discount

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

School leaders warn ministers over ‘robbed’ SEND funding

Investigations have revealed how some councils seized millions of pounds in previous funding boosts

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND review

Ministers abandon pledge to decide SEND reforms this year

Labour calls for clarity as timelines ditched from ministerial statements

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

What you need to know about the first times tables test results

Schools minister says maths skills will help pupils calculate mortgage rate increases and find supermarket bargains

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Dr Michelle Meadows, former Ofqual deputy chief regulator

Dr Michelle Meadows was second-in-command at Ofqual during the 2020 exams fiasco, a grading disaster that will echo in...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

Troubleshooters to keep an eye on struggling tutoring programme

The Department for Education has set up a 'strategic tutoring advisory group'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Councils seize millions earmarked for special schools

Special schools are being starved of extra cash that instead is being passed on to their mainstream counterparts

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Onscreen exams can’t ‘experiment with pupils’ futures’ – Ofqual chair

Tech in exams 'a case of when not if', but regulator's job is not to be 'evangelist of technology',...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

‘Remarkable’ improvement in ethnic minorities’ GCSEs, but some fall further behind

But researchers warn educational success has 'not yet translated' in earnings

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth