Academies Exclusive Ormiston trust gives up founding school The academy chain plans to hand the school over to a trust ‘with strong local presence and capacity’ Jack Dyson 12h Jack Dyson 12h early years Exclusive Ministers urge primaries to consider childminders on site Schools without space for full nursery told to consider teaming up with childminder to provide early years provision Freddie Whittaker 12h Freddie Whittaker 12h News Sara Sharif: Home education check was made at wrong address the day before her murder Review finds there ‘can now be no doubt that Sara’s father and stepmother used home education to keep Sara… Ruth Lucas 24h Ruth Lucas 24h Exams New British Sign Language GCSE rules confirmed, but will exam boards offer it? Charities welcome ‘landmark’ step in establishing British Sign Language GCSE, but next step rests with exam boards Lydia Chantler-Hicks 1d Lydia Chantler-Hicks 1d 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 1d Lydia Chantler-Hicks 1d 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 1d Jack Dyson 1d 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 1d Ruth Lucas 1d 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 2d Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2d 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 2d Bill Curtis and Freddie Whittaker 2d 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 3d Samantha Booth 3d News AI to set minimum attendance targets for all schools Schools will be issued with ‘attendance baseline improvement expectations’ from this month Ruth Lucas 4d Ruth Lucas 4d 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 4d Ruth Lucas 4d 1 2 3 4 5 6 1,008 Older
