Schools

Consider sell-on clauses when flogging school land, leaders told

Department for Education's property arm publishes new guidance to help schools 'unlock potential' in estates

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Department for Education

‘Utter farce’: DfE says sorry for funding email gaffe

Trusts given 'false hope' they would no longer have to bid for repairs cash

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
ITT

Revealed: the experts advising ministers on teacher training reforms review

Academy bosses and Oak chief sit on new panel to 'challenge' government over ECF and ITT reviews

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND review

Sluggish SEND review risks leaving kids ‘stuck in vicious cycle’, says de Souza

'We have two more years of children being fed into this cycle with commensurate poor outcomes that has necessitated...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Another UTC to close after failing to attract students

The Watford UTC will be the 13th university technical college to shut, in a fresh blow for the programme

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Schools

Evidence not needed for short mental health absence, says DfE

Government says GPs are 'unlikely to be able to offer such evidence to support one-off absences related to mental...

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Politics

More than 500 staff apply for DfE ‘voluntary exit’ scheme

Staff 'who don't have the skills' needed for the future offered pay-outs to leave by May

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Sir Gav’s £17k golden goodbye, and 6 other things we learned from the DfE’s accounts

Bumper payouts for sacked ministers, staff retention issues and fears over SEND performance all revealed in annual accounts

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Academies

DfE loses £10.3m in unclaimed free school VAT refunds

Department admits tax was not claimed back for nine trusts' free school projects by the HMRC deadline

Tom Belger
Tom Belger