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Half of academy trusts could be in deficit in two years

Confederation of School Trusts calls for multi-year spending plans after analysis reveals reality of unfunded pay offers and spiralling costs

Nicky Morgan joins Careers and Enterprise Company as chair

Former education secretary to help lead organisation she set up whilst at the DfE

Meet the ministers: DfE confirms briefs (again) of new team

Gibb is back as schools minister while new recruit Coutinho takes on ‘children, families and wellbeing’ brief

School cuts: Ministers’ seats will be £7.4m worse-off next year

But constituencies of DfE politicians will face a smaller average cut than the rest of England, analysis shows

Grammar schools? My focus is on those who don’t get in, says Keegan

New education secretary also says ‘the answer to every problem is not more money’, claiming standards have ‘gone up massively’ despite funding crisis

The knock on the door: A simple solution to poor attendance?

We visited a school where staff did 4,000 home visits in one year to support pupils

Lee Elliot Major, professor of social mobility, University of Exeter

Lee Elliot Major gave up a dream job to become the UK’s first professor of social mobility. Donna Ferguson finds out why he made the move to academia – and his latest plans to improve the life chances for our poorest pupils. Lee Elliot Major recently confessed to a group of headteachers that he’d just […]

DfE reprimanded after pupil data used by gambling firms

Department criticised over ‘serious breach’ of data protection law, but avoids £10m fine from information watchdog

Inside the battle to shape the Labour party’s education reforms

The party’s latest report has prompted heated debate between so-called ‘progressives’ and ‘traditionalists’