Covid
The DfE is offering schools and trusts improvement support to deal with Covid problems

All schools and trusts offered improvement help to tackle Covid woes

The trust and school improvement offer, including support from NLEs, is no longer limited to RI schools

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
inspection, Ofsted
Ofsted

Ofsted back to business as usual from end of January

The watchdog will have its full team of inspectors back in schools from January 31

James Carr
James Carr
Schools

Academics want reform of ‘narrow’ phonics focus

Study claims teaching reading in England has been 'less successful' under new approach

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools
11-plus

Poorer pupil progress ‘increasingly difficult’ to measure

Leaders demand 'urgent review' after study finds poorer disadvantaged pupils' outcomes are becoming harder to measure

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Ombudsman wants to intervene over academy admission disputes

LGSCO role does not currently cover academies

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools
Gavin Williamson
Exclusive

Plan to remove teachers’ hours cap ditched from white paper

New DfE team shelves policies drawn up by former education secretary Gavin Williamson

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid
breakfast clubs

DfE to pay 100% of breakfast clubs costs until August in partial U-turn

Government delays plan to make schools pay 25% of breakfast costs and expands eligibility 'in light of Covid'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Schools cut music and PE, and 7 other findings from DfE recovery research

Report looks at how schools coped with the impact of Covid in 2020-21

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Profile: Stephen Morgan

Stephen Morgan is the fifth shadow schools minister in two years, and he wants the sector to know he’s...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker