Covid

Catch-up mentors used as teaching cover, report reveals

Mentors redeployed during periods of 'particularly high' staff absences

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Zahawi unveils new 17-member ‘attendance alliance’

Academy trust leaders will also form a sub-alliance to identify best practice

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

A class of their own: T-levels school recruits just one student

Classes half empty as schools’ flagging take-up of flagship courses revealed

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Covid

Cabinet secretary to investigate DfE Christmas party, says top civil servant

Acland-Hood also admits she attended December 10 'gathering'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Don’t do your own curriculum deep dives, Ofsted urges

Watchdog also warn advice from consultants can be 'overcomplicated'

James Carr
James Carr
Tutoring

Charities contemplate challenging Randstad for NTP contract

Tutor Trust CEO says Zahawi should 'look seriously' at whether to use break clause

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Spielman: Achievements ‘disappointingly small’ after year of ‘hokey-cokey’ education

Chief inspector warns that 'misery became endemic among the young'

James Carr
James Carr
Ofsted

Ofsted annual report 2020-21: 8 things we learned

Ofsted has lost sight of more primary pupils and says reintegration of AP children 'not a reality'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Tutoring

Ministers step in to ‘step up’ tutoring scheme uptake

Walker flags participation issues as DfE claims releasing official figures will create 'unclear public messages' on programme's reach

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker