New uniform guidance: What schools need to know DfE publishes statutory school uniform guidance for the first time
Schools told to hold off on three-year MIS contract ‘Serious concerns’ after supplier announces it is scrapping one-year rolling contracts
‘No one will be able to say I hid away in the Ofqual attic’ New exams chief Dr Jo Saxton says she likes a challenge. Just as well, as she faces having to restore confidence in what many see as a shattered system
Academies minister asks top LA schools to ‘share the love’ Baroness Barran speaks to Schools Week in first interview since taking the job
DfE to provide 1,000 air cleaning units for AP and special schools Unions said all schools should receive air cleaning units based on need, rather than only ones that could afford them
Final ITT review ‘more implementable’, says DfE adviser Professor Sam Twiselton, who criticised review, says final proposals are ‘more flexible, more doable’, and hints at implementation delay
DfE widens eligibility criteria for academic mentors scheme All schools with more than 30% of pupils on pupil premium can access the programme
‘It’s the right time’: Amanda Spielman defends inspecting Covid-hit schools The chief inspector came under fire from school leaders at an event who called routine Ofsted inspections mid-Covid “profoundly wrong”
Kevan Collins: Government ‘abdicating responsibility’ to lead recovery The former recovery tsar also said tech could spark the biggest learning transformation since the Victorian era