Schools

NFER: Extend ‘levelling-up’ retention payments to all deprived schools

Report also warns 6.5% pay rise won't solve teacher recruitment and retention woes on its own

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SATs

Key stage 2 SATs: Overall results same as 2022, but reading falls

59% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths again this year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SATs

Scaled scores for 2023 key stage 2 SATs announced

DfE publishes marks pupils need to meet the 'expected' standard

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

IfS: Labour private schools plan could boost public purse by £1.3bn

Think tank predicts only 'small movement' of pupils into state schools if Starmer enacts VAT plan

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

How hostile immigration policies are ‘piling misery on to children’

Thousands of traumatised Afghan children, displaced by the Taliban, face educational disruptions and funding shortfalls in the UK.

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Academies

Rotherham academies thought LA was in charge of admissions

Heads believed council was their admission authority – despite academies being in control of entry to their schools

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Ofsted

Ofsted CPD warning over non-specialist maths teachers

But report due to find 'dramatic improvements' in maths teaching

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Academies

Ministers urged to add ‘depth’ to trust accountability assessments

Leaders sound caution over using 'quantitative measures' to compare chains

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Teacher training

Teacher training ditched by unis with 90 years’ experience

Four providers unsuccessful in the DfE's market review to close PGCE courses

Amy Walker
Amy Walker