Solutions

The knock on the door: A simple solution to poor attendance?

We visited a school where staff did 4,000 home visits in one year to support pupils

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Covid

‘Don’t call us ghost children’: The vulnerable families who fear school return

Push to get children back to the classroom leaves families with severe health conditions feeling their needs are not...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

1 in 10 schools shun tutor scheme, as workload woes revealed

More than nine in 10 senior school leaders say their workload increased with the National Tutoring Programme, a new...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

Schools ‘don’t really know’ if tutoring is working, Ofsted finds

School inspectorate says most schools had not been assessing tuition effectively

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

Major Labour review wants creative curriculum and less exams focus

Labour's skills report will inform the party's manifesto: Here are the proposed schools policies

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

‘Omnishambles’: Schools suffer another chaotic week in government

Conservatives play politics as schools hit by soaring deficits, growing attainment gaps, strikes on the horizon and reforms in...

Samantha Booth
Freddie Whittaker and Samantha Booth
Exams

The return of school league tables: 7 key findings

Languages hold back EBacc, gender gap narrows and SEND pupils fall further behind

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Secondary school disadvantage gap widens to largest in 10 years

Social mobility expert says government needs 'to step up to the challenge immediately. There is no time to lose'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

Tutoring scheme ‘failed’ in aim to help poorest pupils, study finds

National Tutoring Programme helped boost results, but long-awaited evaluation found most catch-up done in lesson time

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth