Covid funding data reveals £124m summer schools underspend Breakdown published by DfE shows schools received almost £300m in Covid grants
3,000 don’t complete courses as Covid disrupts teacher training Impact of decision to allow trainees affected by Covid to extend their courses begins to show
Teachers back digital exams in principle, but school tech not yet up to scratch Research by exam board AQA finds substantial barriers to digitising exams in England, despite support for the model
Truss V Sunak for PM: What they have promised on schools From new grammar schools to workplace skills curriculum reform, all the education policies the PM hopefuls have pledged
School-led tutoring ‘undermined’ NTP as much as Randstad ‘failures’, report claims Charity which founded tutor scheme says ministers should ditch 6m courses target in favour of higher quality provision
DfE ditches 7-year plan to legislate on summer-born admissions Ministers have been promising a law change on the issue since 2015, but say they will no longer pursue it
Schools can only use DfE-approved tutoring firms from September Leaders wanting to spend school-led tutoring cash on external agencies must draw from government list
Key stage 1 SATs will be scrapped from 2023-24, STA confirms But a ‘full programme’ of tests will go ahead next academic year because new year 2s did not sit a baseline test
Supreme Court holiday pay ruling could ‘open the floodgates’ for claims Music teacher’s victory will have big ramifications for schools using permanent term-time-only contracts