Schools Exclusive £5.4m scheme to boost maths skills in early years settings DfE seeking organisation to deliver programme ‘to at least 5,000 settings’ Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6mins Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6mins MIS Exclusive DfE looks to reduce MIS ‘legal risk’ amid £200m turf war Officials have launched a consultation on how they can simplify the process of buying the software Jack Dyson 3h Jack Dyson 3h Home education Exclusive Home education: Children forced to travel miles to sit exams Analysis shows at least 10 centres have closed to private candidates in the past year Ruth Lucas 5h Ruth Lucas 5h Ofsted Exclusive Ofsted slammed over consultation analysis method (and still keeps it secret) Experts warn of ‘risk’ decision-makers at inspectorate were not ‘provided with the relevant information’ Lydia Chantler-Hicks 10h Lydia Chantler-Hicks 10h Pensions Exclusive Thousands of retired teachers die before pensions row settled New data reveals the scale of the backlog in remedy cases facing the Teachers’ Pension Scheme’s embattled administrators Capita Freddie Whittaker 10h Bill Curtis and Freddie Whittaker 10h SEND Schools at ‘breaking point’ over SEND pressure as admission gap grows The National Foundation for Educational Research has investigated the characteristics behind “high-SEND” schools – here’s the key findings Samantha Booth 2d Samantha Booth 2d News AI to set minimum attendance targets for all schools Schools will be issued with ‘attendance baseline improvement expectations’ from this month Ruth Lucas 3d Ruth Lucas 3d News Government school readiness target ‘risky’, say experts Experts fear an over-focus on those ‘closest to the line’ as ministers impose 75% school readiness aim Ruth Lucas 3d Ruth Lucas 3d post-16 Ministers launch investigation into rising NEETs The review will be led by former social mobility commissioner Alan Milburn Billy Camden 4d Billy Camden 4d Academies Exclusive ‘The best-kept secret in education’: Hobby on his new TKAT vocation Halfway through his tour of the trust’s 45 schools, Hobby reveals what challenges await him in his new role Jack Dyson 4d Jack Dyson 4d Funding Exclusive ‘Savings platform’ plan to help schools get better reserve returns Government thinks vision will ease school funding woes by ‘unlocking’ the sector’s ‘substantial reserves’ Jack Dyson 4d Jack Dyson 4d News Watch: Becky Francis answers reader questions in review webinar Under the CAR Bonnet: Review chair covers EBacc language concerns, progress 8 reforms, RE consensus and more Schools Week Reporter 1w Schools Week Reporter 1w 1 2 3 4 5 6 1,008 Older