No ‘minimum safety levels’ for school strikes (just yet) Exclusive: Schools Week understands new guidance will be issued shortly to help heads deal with looming strikes
2,200 primaries in poor areas to get careers help under £2.6m scheme DfE says teachers will get training from Teach First to deliver careers programmes
Sunak outlines maths to 18 ‘ambition’…but not before 2025 Labour says ‘reheated’ pledge is ’empty without more maths teachers’
Arise, Sir Ian: Knighthood for MAT boss and DfE adviser Bauckham EEF boss Professor Becky Francis, ex-national schools commissioner Dominic Herrington and MAT leader Rob Tarn also recognised
Keegan claims teachers are among ‘top 10% of earners’ Education secretary incorrectly claims teacher pay is ‘a lot higher’ than average, and inflates the average head’s salary by £20k
DfE loses £10.3m in unclaimed free school VAT refunds Department admits tax was not claimed back for nine trusts’ free school projects by the HMRC deadline
To parents, thriving children are more important than the academies debate ‘Most of the parents we spoke to were not only uninterested, but frankly unaware of what academisation means’
Unions get green-light to challenge ‘strike-breaking’ law in court Judicial reviews brought by the TUC, NASUWT and Unison will be heard in March
Ofsted annual report 2021-22: 11 things we learned Watchdog issues warnings over uninspected schools, part-time timetables and its lack of powers over ‘chaotic’ and ‘unsafe’ illegal schools