Tutoring

DfE widens eligibility criteria for academic mentors scheme

All schools with more than 30% of pupils on pupil premium can access the programme

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

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

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Academies

Academisation rate ‘unlikely to increase’ without new policies, DfE study finds

The rate of academy conversions in the next three years will be “limited to a steady rate” and is...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

£1.1m anti-bullying support for schools, after old scheme axed

Announcement comes over a year after predecessor scheme was quietly shelved

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Covid absence halves after half term, but 130,000 pupils still off

DfE data suggests Covid absence fell to 1.6 per cent last week

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

Six more ITT providers downgraded under new Ofsted framework

10 out of 22 inspected providers are now below 'good'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Covid

Health bosses given more leeway to bring back masks in school corridors

Government changes language on face coverings in contingency framework guidance

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
BTECs

Zahawi announces slowing-down of BTECs cull

Education secretary says he has 'decided to allow an extra year before our reform timetable is implemented'

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Covid

16 and 17-year-olds to be offered second Covid vaccine dose

Javid also confirms boosters for those aged 40 and over

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker