Tutoring

Zahawi accused of breaking own wellbeing pledge with tutoring letter

Heads' unions say bank holiday memo also contravenes the DfE's own workload commitments

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Ofqual’s 3-year plan for exams: need to know

The exams watchdog wants to support the use of 'innovative technology'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Ban primary exclusions, and 5 more recommendations from ex-children’s tsar

Anne Longfield's Commission on Young Lives calls for end to 'exclusions culture'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

£11k canapes help guests swallow Zahawi’s climate strategy

Civil servants were barred from the buffet at Natural History Museum launch event

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

Ministers plan to publish school-level tutoring take-up – and Ofsted will check

Government wants to 'improve transparency' and boost take-up, but sector leaders fight the plans

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

SEND review consultation may be extended as accessible versions delayed

BSL and easy-read versions of the green paper were promised almost a month ago

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

Pupils with special needs travel hundreds of miles to school

At least 3,000 children travel 20 miles or more away from home

Samantha Booth
Gareth Davies
SEND

No place to go: Special schools’ capacity crisis revealed

Leaders convert staffrooms and therapy spaces amid surge in pupils with special needs

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

Revealed: The spiralling cost of a broken SEND system

Three-quarters of councils now have high needs financial blackholes, with many rejecting large numbers of requests for special needs...

Samantha Booth
Gareth Davies and Samantha Booth