Schools

Leaders warn against sudden changes as Lords call to scrap EBacc

Schools sector 'prone to swinging from one end of the pendulum to another', peers warned after report calls for...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
School funding

Deprived schools have faced double the budget cuts, study warns

Extra funding for disadvantaged pupils has shrunk over the last decade

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Schools sound warning over vaping devices laced with drugs

Concerns follow reports that pupils from at least two schools were rushed to hospital after inhaling vapes laced with...

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
School buildings

Government contractors signed off on unsafe £45m schools

DfE admits technical advisers who rubber-stamped buildings now facing demolition were its own contractors

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Amy Walker
Schools

Schools to get advice on selling off land to fund vital rebuilds

DfE property arm LocatED plans guidance but land disposals fall to four-year low

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

DfE’s using ‘influencers’ to boost school attendance

The Department for Education also revealed in its response to MPs that the attendance data collection will become mandatory...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Recruitment

Just half of secondary teacher recruitment target met

The secondary target has been missed 10 out of the last 11 years

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Home education register plan ‘blocked’ from King’s Speech

Top DfE boss suggests long-promised plans for register of children not in school were put forward to become law...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
RAAC

Keegan won’t set RAAC eradication deadline until the new year

Education secretary says she won't give 'definitive date' until all schools have been made safe, as number affected increases...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker