Careers

Fund careers advisers directly to ease burden on schools, DfE told

Leaving schools to foot the bill is creating 'significant disparities' in provision, says committee

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
ITT

Teach First offers £2k cost-of-living payment to trainees

Grant will be paid to 150 recruits who need to relocate under a pilot starting in September

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
School buildings

700k pupils in schools needing major repair work

Critical National Audit Office report reveals £2bn-a-year capital funding shortfall

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Flexible working: DfE announces new list of school ambassadors

But only three of the original participant schools and trusts are part of the new programme

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Politics

‘Complain, don’t withdraw kids’ over RSHE concerns, says Gibb

Minister says parents don't have a 'veto' over relationships and sex education content but urges use of complaints procedure

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

£85m quietly slashed from school climate change scheme

Spending watchdog says DfE has 'no plan in place' to meet government decarbonisation targets

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Capita loses out on £233m Teachers’ Pension Scheme contract to Indian IT firm

Outsourcing firm has run the pension scheme for 27 years, but also recently pulled out of teacher training contract

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

School uniform rules have limited impact, poll suggests

Calls for further action as The Children's Society survey shows rising uniform costs and branded items still rife

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Ofsted

Gender row school: Badenoch ‘grandstanding’ over inspection demand

Minister's intervention in gender controversy branded 'unnecessary and unhelpful' by union

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson