Behaviour

Four more leaders wanted for behaviour hubs expansion

DfE seeks 'school partnership leads' for project aimed at supporting 500 schools

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

New shadow education secretary to push Zahawi on Omicron plans

Bridget Phillipson speaks to Schools Week in first interview since her appointment

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Heads blast ministers as Covid thwarts nativities again

Prime minister Boris Johnson urged schools not to cancel nativity plays this week

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher training

DfE misses secondary teacher recruitment target as Covid boom crashes

Just 22 per cent of physics teachers needed were recruited this year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

SEND review has ‘taken too long’, and comms ‘regrettable’ – minister

Will Quince tells MPs DfE 'could have done better' in its engagement with stakeholders

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Schools targeted by scam NHS emails offering Omicron PCR tests

The DfE is urging schools to be vigilant about fake NHS emails urging readers to order tests 'to avoid...

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Covid

DfE brings back Covid workforce fund as staff absence rises

But schools will have to use their reserves first to be able to claim

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Covid-related absence jumps 60% in a fortnight

More than 200,000 pupils were off because of Covid on November 25

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Omicron: Ofsted says inspections will ‘carry on as usual’

Ofsted inspections will go ahead as normal despite the discovery of the new Omicron Covid variant, the watchdog has...

James Carr
James Carr