Mental health

Special schools ‘bursting at seams’ – but DfE doesn’t collect the data

Heads say the system is 'completely overwhelmed'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

EPI blasts government’s ‘decade of failure’ on disadvantage gap

Gap for poorest pupils fails to improve since 2011

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

DfE says rising energy costs will have ‘relatively small impact’ on school budgets

Government has told leaders they can shoulder 'cost pressures' from recent funding rises

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Only use exam board websites to access advance information, schools told

Boards are trying to prevent misinformation spreading online

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Schools can be ‘nominated’ for rebuilding programme

Ministers will also select up to 300 projects at once for the next phase of the scheme

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Plans for register of home educated children hang on extra funding

Key details - such as how sanctions for non-compliance would work - also still to be 'worked through'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

Ministers should ‘seriously consider’ revoking Randstad’s NTP contract, says Halfon

Education committee chair makes major intervention over tutor scheme

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Swap ‘cliff-edge’ GCSEs for ‘test when ready’, says exams review

Independent Assessment Commission says qualifications are 'inequitable and unreliable'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Ofqual to research impact of advance information to inform ‘future years’

Dr Jo Saxton says the measure was 'really exciting'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth