Edition 164 Simon Kay More on this theme Budget 2021 a ‘missed opportunity’ with no extra funding for schools Watchdog fears public bodies will avoid statistical models following exam grading backlash Covid catch-up strategy not ‘integrated’ enough, and 6 other things we learned at education committee Data reveals huge variation in spring term school attendance across England Laptops: DfE on track to meet distribution target as over 1.2 million devices now sent National funding formula: DfE proposes changes to ‘sparsity factor’ for small remote schools School attendance rises to over 18% after half term Profile: Richard Gerver, School Libraries Association president Comments are closed for this post.