Covid

Council urges immediate stricter Covid controls across all schools

Staffordshire is believed to be the first local authority to recommend bringing back such wide-ranging measures

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Covid

DfE U-turns on move to weekly school attendance collection

Last-minute change means schools must continue reporting data daily from tomorrow

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

School admission appeals flexibilities extended again to September 2022

Changes to the way appeals process works extended for another year, albeit with slightly different wording

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

2022 exams: Adaptations and grading plan finally confirmed

Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi says 'fairness at the heart' of plans

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Covid

Government to scrap power to force school closures

Ministers publish Covid autumn and winter plan

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid, Ofsted

Schools ‘prioritised’ food parcels over remote learning, and 4 other things we learned from Ofsted

Schools’ focus on making food parcels and visiting disadvantaged pupils in the first lockdown may have affected their “capacity”...

James Carr
James Carr
Cabinet reshuffle

Williamson reportedly out in Boris’s ‘build back better’ reshuffle

The education secretary has already said goodbye to DfE staff, according to sources

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Cabinet reshuffle

Nadhim Zahawi: 12 facts about the new education secretary

Downing Street has announced that Nadhim Zahawi is the new education secretary following Boris Johnson’s reshuffle. Here is what...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Cabinet reshuffle

Robin Walker: 9 facts about the new schools minister

Robin Walker has confirmed he is the new schools minister. He replaces Nick Gibb who was sacked yesterday after...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth