Education Endowment Foundation

Ofsted enlists charities’ help as it plans inclusion ‘criterion’

Leaders welcome focus on inclusion, but warn against creating ‘perverse incentives’ for schools

Teacher training framework changes will only be ‘moderate’, DfE says

It follows a review of the evidence underpinning the initial teacher training and early career frameworks

EEF study to investigate impact of London’s free school meal roll-out

Independent evaluation would look at whether giving all primary pupils free meals boosts exam results, wellbeing and attendance

Covid delays release of long-awaited phonics study

Important £1m trial study now due in 2023

NTP was a rough ride (and January didn’t help), says Francis

Running the government’s flagship National Tutoring Programme (NTP) for its inaugural year was “a bit bumpier” than expected, but there are no regrets, says Professor Becky Francis. The chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) said “serious disruption” caused by Covid impacted the scheme. Although the programme met its 250,000-pupil enrolment target, just 205,538 […]

Long-serving DfE adviser Chris Paterson leaves to join EEF

A long-serving policy adviser at the Department for Education is to join the Education Endowment Foundation. The charity has announced that Chris Paterson is to become its director of impact, overseeing its “knowledge mobilisation and regional delivery partnerships, communications, policy and evidence synthesis functions”. Paterson is currently a senior policy adviser to education secretary Gavin […]

‘The stakes are high’: how a Dutch HR firm landed the flagship tutoring contract

Standing at the despatch box yesterday shadow education secretary Kate Green took her opposite number to task over the flagship National Tutoring Programme “being taken out of the hands of experts”. Citing an i newspaper report that the £62 million contract to run year two of the NTP is to be handed to Dutch outsourcing […]

New Covid study finds no reading loss, but confirms maths drop

Interim findings from another study into Covid lost learning have been published today. This one, funded by the Education Endowment Foundation and carried out by FFT Education, investigates whether Covid has widened the attainment gap. Here’s what it found. 1. Gap widens in maths, but not reading… The study found the attainment gap between […]

Schools face new checks to ensure pupil premium spending ‘backed by evidence’

Schools will have to show their pupil premium spending is “backed by evidence” under new requirements announced by the Department for Education. The DfE confirmed schools face new conditions attached to the £2.5bn expected in funding to support disadvantaged pupils for the next academic year. Grants now depend on pupil premium spending strategies being published […]