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 2h Ruth Lucas 2h 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 3h Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3h 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 4h Lydia Chantler-Hicks 4h 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 7h Jack Dyson 7h 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 9h Ruth Lucas 9h 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 14h Lydia Chantler-Hicks 14h 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 14h Bill Curtis and Freddie Whittaker 14h 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 5d Jack Dyson 5d 1 2 3 4 5 6 1,008 Older
