Education | Schools Week

How to catch-up after Covid

In the second of a three-part series on bridging Covid-related learning gaps, Phil Roberts, Director from SIMS at ParentPay Group shares the strategies teachers are using to get children’s learning back on track.

Where the legacy of Covid remains

96% of school leaders report post-pandemic learning gaps still affecting pupils

Preparing for post 16 reform – come what may

OCR launches new Cambridge Advanced Nationals for 16-19 year olds and explains its response to post 16 reform at a time of uncertainty

Why I love IRIS Ed:gen

David Houghton, Chief Operating Officer at Kernow Learning, explains why he loves IRIS Ed:gen – the cloud-native, data-driven, all-in-one MIS.

Why Bring Video-Game Development To Education?

Level-up! How teaching game design gives students a voice and helps create more engaged, STEM-loving classrooms.

Starmer demands taskforce to close attainment gap

A national taskforce run by an independent body like the children’s commissioner should be set up to plan a national strategy to close the attainment gap, Sir Keir Starmer has said. The Labour leader told the party’s “Connected” online conference this morning that the country needs “a national strategy with clear targets to close the […]

Heads enticed with conference tickets to attend ‘hosted meetings’

A major new education conference is offering free tickets and expenses of up to £750 in return for headteachers having two hours of meetings with event sponsors and partners such as Google. Learnit conference, backed by the organisers of the established BETT education technology show, said the offer – which included tickets worth £550 – […]

The Seldon List: OECD chief and schools minister top trad-dominated education influencers list

Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s education chief, Nick Gibb, the schools minister, and Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, have topped a new list of the most influential people in education. The list, drawn up by Sir Anthony Seldon with the help of a panel of 20 educationists, is likely to be controversial as it dominated […]

Thousands of children without EHCPs by government deadline

Almost 4,000 children with now-defunct statements of special educational needs were still waiting to transfer to the new education, health and care plans (EHCPs) system after the April 1 deadline, the government has admitted. Data collected in early April but only released today shows that although 232,352 pupils, 98.4 per cent of those who previously had […]