Ministers quietly abandon promised teacher retention policies Sabbaticals pilot among schemes pledged in recruitment and retention strategy which have been dropped
Treasury to claw back ‘staggering’ £100m+ of unspent tutoring cash Underspend could equate to a sixth of catch-up cash last year, as DfE survey shows falling subsidies put schools off
One in four DfE staff could join civil service strike Ofsted employees also vote to walk out as PCS union vows ‘major industrial action’
DfE academy troubleshooter banned from teaching for ‘bullying’ staff Teaching Regulation Agency panel finds Sarah Gillett ‘engineered’ redundancy ‘in retaliation’ for grievance
Half of academy trusts could be in deficit in two years Confederation of School Trusts calls for multi-year spending plans after analysis reveals reality of unfunded pay offers and spiralling costs
Nicky Morgan joins Careers and Enterprise Company as chair Former education secretary to help lead organisation she set up whilst at the DfE
Meet the ministers: DfE confirms briefs (again) of new team Gibb is back as schools minister while new recruit Coutinho takes on ‘children, families and wellbeing’ brief
School cuts: Ministers’ seats will be £7.4m worse-off next year But constituencies of DfE politicians will face a smaller average cut than the rest of England, analysis shows
Grammar schools? My focus is on those who don’t get in, says Keegan New education secretary also says ‘the answer to every problem is not more money’, claiming standards have ‘gone up massively’ despite funding crisis