Exams

Covid outcomes squeeze ‘waning’, but disadvantage gap widens

Union boss calls for 'renewed focus on low-attainment and disadvantage gap', after release of NFER report

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
SEND

NFER: MATs should create ‘director of SEND’ role

SEND leaders are playing a 'crucial role' in fostering collaboration and assisting individual schools, researchers find

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Teach First: 7 findings revealing its impact on schools

NFER research shows marginal GCSE boost under Teach First teachers, but they are also more likely to leave the...

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Tutoring

Tutoring still not ‘sustainable’, NFER report finds

As the flagship scheme heads for its final year, education researchers warn funding, concerns on tuition supply and administration...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

DfE on course to recruit less than half of required secondary teachers

Analysis of new government recruitment targets shows teacher supply is 'spiralling out of control'

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
School funding

More heads cut school trips amid funding crisis

Sutton Trust research finds steep rises in schools cutting back on teaching assistants and IT equipment

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

7 NFER stats revealing how abysmal teacher recruitment is getting worse

New report shows primary applications have plunged, with 14 of 17 secondary subjects on track to underrecruit

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Five key findings from NFER’s teacher retention and recruitment dashboard

New service lays bare the supply crisis facing schools in England, with some areas losing up to a third...

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Tutoring

National Tutoring Programme review delayed until autumn

Independent evaluation to be published two years after launch

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth