DfE plans language hubs expansion with £14.9m funding A new ‘centre of excellence’ will be established to work with up to 25 ‘hub’ schools
UTC chief eyes new institutions and wants ‘sleeves’ in secondary schools ‘The latest evidence points to us going in the right direction’
Swedish for-profit free school experiment fails to make grade Provider of state-funded private schools that inspired Michael Gove withdraws from UK market and its only school in England
Grammar school ordered to pay back £1.5m in overclaimed maintenance cash Single-academy trust ‘knowingly took decisions to utilise funding on works beyond the scope of the approved bids’, probe finds
Guidance on supporting trans children in schools: 7 key findings Unofficial guidance from unions and sector bodies aims to help schools meet their legal duties while supporting trans children
Ministers quietly abandon promised teacher retention policies Sabbaticals pilot among schemes pledged in recruitment and retention strategy which have been dropped
Treasury to claw back ‘staggering’ £100m+ of unspent tutoring cash Underspend could equate to a sixth of catch-up cash last year, as DfE survey shows falling subsidies put schools off
One in four DfE staff could join civil service strike Ofsted employees also vote to walk out as PCS union vows ‘major industrial action’
DfE academy troubleshooter banned from teaching for ‘bullying’ staff Teaching Regulation Agency panel finds Sarah Gillett ‘engineered’ redundancy ‘in retaliation’ for grievance